My Years of Bargain Hunting Overseas

When Bai Wangwan was eight, he rescued a blue-eyed, blond foreign old man deep in the mountains near his hometown.

The old man spoke strange Chinese: "I'll give you a pair of discerning eyes, so you can see this world clearly, just as it really is."

Precocious Bai Wangwan replied, "You don't need to thank me with a gift. Just say thanks. And let's not start changing song lyrics out of nowhere."

Before leaving, the old man gave him a pendant, saying it would clear the clouds and help him recognize genuine treasures.

Later, Bai Wangwan studied archaeology. It had nothing to do with the old man, it was purely a personal interest.

He'd once dreamed the pendant might be some kind of cheat item, but after walking around Panjiayuan eight hundred times, it still hadn't reacted once.

Bai Wangwan wasn't disappointed. After all, the usual setup for an adventure-story protagonist was "an abusive dad, a crazy mom, a disabled brother, and a broken-hearted me." Someone like him, whose life had always been peaceful and smooth, wasn't cut out for that.

The economy slumped, and Bai Wangwan graduated straight into unemployment. Luckily, his family was fairly well-off, so he decided to get an easy master's degree abroad and work part-time as a travel streamer.

When he arrived in Sam's country, a local Chinese friend invited him to a customs warehouse auction.

Unclaimed shipping containers that had been sitting around for a long time would be auctioned off by number. Buyers could learn basic information about each container and inspect it from the outside before bidding. They had to bear the risk themselves.

The bidders had mixed fortunes, and Bai Wangwan was quite interested in watching.

But as he was about to leave, he passed auction container number 16, and the necklace around his neck suddenly grew scorching hot.

Bai Wangwan: ???

So this pendant really was a cheat item? Was its power only available overseas?

Zhu Xianqi, the only son of a jewelry magnate in Sam's country.

With no room left to expand his business empire, he decided to branch out into antiques.

His venture got off to a rough start. The so-called experts on his staff bought a fake on their very first acquisition.

Zhu Xianqi was sitting in a cafe when he heard the news. He yelled into the phone, "Even if I sold you, I couldn't cover the losses!" In his anger, he misspoke: "Why don't you sell me instead?"

A handsome young man sat down in front of him and said with a righteous expression, "Life is long. Don't act on impulse, or you'll regret it when you look back."

Later, Zhu Xianqi became the young man's sidekick. He got a salary, commission, and plenty of concern and attention.

Everything was great, except that the young man thought his backstory was "an abusive dad, a crazy mom, a disabled brother, and a broken-hearted me."

Then one day, he took a day off to represent his family at a Sotheby's auction.

They ran into each other at the auction, and the young man stared at the handmade brooch on his bespoke suit with a complicated expression.

It was the first gift the young man had ever given him: a handmade panda brooch from a DIY craft store that cost twenty yuan.

Theme: Hone your skills and work hard to get rich.