Antiques Spill Secrets to Me Every Day

Ever since Jiang Xi inherited an old antique shop, she had acquired two secrets: 1. She could hear some antiques speak. 2. She had obtained an antique catalogue that needed to be filled in. To fill the catalogue, Jiang Xi began searching everywhere for antiques and historical relics. At an antique market. The owner secretly showed Jiang Xi a little bronze wine cup. “Take a look. This is from the Shang or Zhou dynasty...” The little cup rolled its eyes. “That's right, I'm from last week! That unremarkable lump of wood beside me is over two hundred years old.” Jiang Xi smiled and patted it, then took both it and the lump of wood home. At an antique collectors' gathering. A nouveau riche man showed Jiang Xi a well-preserved piece of makeup silk that he'd bought for a fortune. “They say this was Emperor Kangxi's face towel. It even smells of dragon's breath incense...” The makeup silk looked disgusted. “Face towel, my ass! I was an old eunuch's ass rag. The one you rejected because it looked gray and shabby was Emperor Yongzheng's hand towel.” Jiang Xi wanted to gag, but forced herself to buy it and ask where the hand towel was. On an antiques appraisal show. A celebrity brought out a porcelain pillow passed down in his family. “Legend has it that Empress Wu used this pillow before she married. Could you help identify it?” The porcelain pillow, gentle yet irritable, cursed him out: “You know I was the precious pillow Empress Wu used, and you make me watch you cheat, hold orgies, and do drugs every day. Disgusting! What bad luck!” Jiang Xi quietly reported him and learned from the pillow where its best friend, the golden mandarin-duck pillow, was. Afterward, Jiang Xi used her ability to hear antiques to learn all sorts of stories about them, as well as where to find many more. She worked hard to recover every antique and collectible listed in her catalogue. Later, her shop became the antique store with the largest collection and the best stories. Also known as: Twelve Bridges Proper version of the blurb: Not written. ┭┮﹏┭┮ [Set in a fictional world. Please don't compare it to reality.] Recommended upcoming novel: The Monster's Eatery A Jiu has a knife. With it, she once slaughtered birds that set fires for miles, and carved up flood dragons that stirred up trouble in rivers and seas. Later, she turned it into a kitchen knife, opened an eatery, and served meals day after day, season after season. *I thought I was slaying evil, but I became evil myself. If I could choose again, I would want to be a good chef.* Theme: When people invest antiques with their hopes and emotions, they come to life.