Novels like Treasures Kept Under Lock and Key
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- 101 Imperial Green Jade in One Hand, a Beauty at My Side 左手帝王绿，右手美人腰 Urban Fantasy + Stone Gambling + Crown Prince + Politics + Revenge + Schemes + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Mature Heroine A man needs unexpected riches to get rich, and a horse needs extra feed at night to grow fat. A priceless dragon-stone imperial-green Pixiu handpiece arrives by express delivery, and a bank text alerts Ye Qing that two hundred million yuan has landed in his account. But Ye Qing feels no excitement at this windfall from the heavens, because it is his master calling for help. To 63.9kReads9.3Score2.8k14d adds
- 102 With X-Ray Vision, I Conquer the Antiques World Through Appraisal 透视后，我靠鉴宝称霸古玩界 After his family's business went bankrupt, Li Jin went overnight from a rich second-generation heir to a down-on-his-luck young master, learning the true nature of human relationships. A six-eyed dzi bead that his friends had conned him into buying at an exorbitant price turned out to be a wondrous artifact. It introduced Li Jin to the Ancestral Shaman Scripture and gave him the power to see through things. From then on, Li Jin began a legendary life. He spent his free time hunting for bargains 6.5kReads8.8Score89814d adds
- 103 You Have X-Ray Vision, So Why Are You Still Gambling on Stones? 透视不赌石，你又在乱看 [Underdog's rise + stone gambling + treasure appraisal + finding hidden bargains + satisfying read + golden finger: X-ray vision] Gao Yang is an ordinary office worker who accidentally discovers that his girlfriend, whom he is about to marry, has been sleeping with his best friend. Enraged, he rides his bike recklessly across the road and gets hit by a car, landing in the hospital. By a stroke of luck, he gains X-ray vision. From then on, his fate changes and his life takes a new course. Finding 13.8kReads8.9Score1.5k14d adds
- 104 The Young Stone Gambler 赌石小子 A boy of noble birth grows up in the mountains on the southwestern frontier, where he becomes the disciple of a mysterious master and learns ancient skills. Watch how he grows, how he amasses a fortune beyond measure, and how he wins the heart of a beauty... Love, hate, and passion all await within. No cheats, just a realistic story. Please don't complain if it's not your thing. 18.6kReads9.4Score2.4k14d adds
- 105 The Ultimate Salvage King 极品打捞王 71% of Earth's surface is surrounded by oceans, and at least three million sunken ships lie quietly on the seafloor, waiting to be discovered! What does that mean? Wealth? Fame? No! No! No! In the eyes of Xiao Peng, the King of Salvage, that's all garbage! As a cleaner of the ocean, every one of these shipwrecks... IS! MINE! 19.1kReads8.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 106 I Found a Treasure on Antique Street: From the Start, a Hundred-Thousandfold Profit 我在古玩街捡漏，开局十万倍利润 At the end of the Ming dynasty, the mysterious Mohist school vanished from the world. Chen Han, a university student majoring in cultural relics, activates the Mohist legacy by a stroke of luck. The Mohist school’s divine techniques, lost for more than four hundred years, return to the world and astonish everyone. His appraisal skills are terrifying, his talent for restoring antiques is unheard of, and he can perform mysterious mechanical arts and techniques, as well as counter-heavenly feats of 20.1kReads9.0Score2.6k14d adds
- 107 Why Are You Looking Around with Those X-Ray Eyes Instead of Gambling on Jade? 透视眼不去赌石，乱看什么呢 [X-ray vision + stone gambling + scratch-off tickets + antique appraisal + bargain hunting + tycoon + farming + livestreaming + rags-to-riches comeback] On his way to take out a loan, he was sent flying when a woman driver slammed on the gas and hit him. By sheer luck, he gained X-ray vision. From then on, A stunningly beautiful rich woman chased after him, eager to get close. The campus belle won his heart through his stomach with her cooking, and a breathtakingly beautiful CEO wanted to hand h 5.7kReads8.3Score70914d adds
- 108 Live Appraisal: Buddy, You’re in for It Now 直播鉴宝：宝友你可真刑啊 [Livestreaming + Antiques Appraisal + System] Qin bricks and Han tiles, Warring States jade, Tang sabers and Song paintings, Yuan blue-and-white porcelain, and Ming and Qing imperial tombs lined up in a row! Vast and glorious Xia has a history of five thousand years, as immense as the sea and enduring through the ages. The six-hundred-year-old Forbidden City is brimming with treasures! One day, master appraiser Ye Ling transmigrated and activated the livestream antiques appraisal System, setting 6.1kReads9.1Score48314d adds
- 109 At Middle Age, I Turn My Life Around with Jade and Become the World's Richest Man 人到中年，赌石翻身成世界首富 [Stone gambling + bargain hunting + X-ray vision + tycoon + everyday life + feel-good story + underdog comeback] After his divorce, Lin Fan awakens the ability to see through things and sets his sights on the stone gambling market. With precision, he makes his moves, and the jade he cuts out shocks the industry. Wealth, status, and beautiful women come flocking, leaving his former wife, who once betrayed him, far behind. 314Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 110 The Master of Jade Gambling With X-Ray Vision 透视赌石高手 [Stone gambling + antique appraisal + casinos + an ordinary man's rise + multiple heroines + scratch cards + farming + everyday life] At a company team-building event, he accidentally spots his stunning female boss using the restroom in a small grove. By a twist of fate, he awakens the power of X-ray vision. From then on, he uses his X-ray vision to appraise antiques and find hidden treasures, win big with scratch cards, dominate the casinos, discover valuable antiques and paintings, and gamble 787Reads6.3Score10314d adds
- 111 From Jade Cutter to Lord of Jadeite 从也木西到翡翠之主 A rising young star on the verge of becoming a second-tier celebrity is ambushed. At death's door, he unexpectedly gains an incredible supernatural ability and a mysterious space. Starting out as a rough laborer in a jade mining district, he enters the stone gambling business, turns his fate 7.7kReads8.3Score84114d adds
- 112 X-Ray Eyes: Appraising Treasures and Gambling on Jade 透视眼鉴宝赌石 [Underdog comeback + X-ray vision + treasure appraisal + stone gambling + satisfying wish fulfillment + bargain hunting + tomb raiding] Zhang Wei is a miserable low-level wage worker. Unable to pay his rent, he works for his landlord in lieu of payment. While fixing the landlord’s faucet, the landlord’s husband comes home. Zhang Wei hides in a closet and accidentally cuts his finger on a nail, awakening his X-ray vision. From then on, his life takes off. Money, beautiful women, luxury cars, mans 351Reads7.8Score13214d adds
- 113 Divorced in Middle Age, I Strike It Rich Through Stone Gambling, and My Ex-Wife Regrets It 中年离婚，赌石暴富，前妻后悔 [Stone Gambling + Antiques Appraisal + Underdog’s Rise + X-Ray Vision + Tycoon + Farming + Everyday Urban Life + No Harem] Unable to bear their frugal, impoverished life any longer, he decided to take a chance for his family. He used years of savings to open a hot pot restaurant with a friend, only to get cheated by that friend, lose everything, and end up owing a huge amount in loan-shark debt. When a gang boss came to collect, his wife immediately asked for a divorce, and he left with nothing. 1.7kReads7.6Score18214d adds
- 114 Stone Gambling and Antique Appraisal 赌石鉴宝 Wang Ming, an apprentice at an antiques shop, happened to gain X-ray vision while fighting a few punks one night, which also earned him the wrath of a mob boss. From then on, he ruled the underworld. Wealth, beautiful women, luxury cars, mansions, everything a man could want was his! This is a feel-good story about an ordinary man rising to the top, and it’s well worth a read! 446Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 115 Use Your X-Ray Vision to Gamble on Stones, Not to Peek Around 让你用透视眼赌石，别乱看啊 [Stone gambling + antiques appraisal + farming + wealthy protagonist + livestreaming] The day he gains X-ray vision, he moves in with the campus belle. His stunning senior also starts looking at him with admiration. But all he wants is to make money quietly by gambling on stones and appraising antiques, becoming an utterly ordinary tycoon. 31.8kReads9.3Score4.3k14d adds
- 116 Stone Gambling!! 赌石！！ This book has been adapted into the short drama Through the Eye, Not the Treasure: I Turn the Tables. Lin Xiaochuan, an exploited wage slave at an antique shop, was accidentally hit and sent flying by a beautiful woman driving a car. As a result, he gained X-ray vision. From then on, his life went into overdrive, and he rose to the top. 1.7kReads7.5Score15814d adds
- 117 King of X-Ray Vision 透视之王 After a deliberate frame-up gets Fang Yi expelled from school, he is abandoned by everyone and left destitute. Then, for no apparent reason, someone stabs him with a needle on the street, and he gains the ability to see through things. From then on, he pays his rent by winning scratch-off lotteries, makes money gambling on jade stones, starts a company, and steadily rises to the pinnacle of success! 9.8kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 118 Luxury Goods Counterfeiter: From the Start, I Have Fake Socialites Wrapped Around My Finger 奢侈品贩子复制，开局拿捏假名媛 Liu Jin and his uncle run a luxury goods resale shop in Hangcheng, with Liu Jin as the new shop owner. His everyday customers include music teachers, beautiful internet celebrities, fake socialites, wealthy men, and wealthy women. He awakens a Replication System. Whenever a deal goes through, he can duplicate luxury goods and antiques! "Jin, could you raise the offer a little? I really need the money. Just add two thousand!" Faced with the music teacher's coaxing, Liu Jin is unmoved. "It's not e 14.8kReads8.1Score6.5k14d adds
- 119 Treasure-Hunting Livestream: Everywhere I Look, I See Hidden Treasures 直播捡漏：我眼中到处是宝藏 A sudden accident leaves Xiao Ran in an impossible predicament, but also grants him an unbelievable superpower. With this miraculous ability, Xiao Ran sets out on an extraordinary treasure-hunting adventure in a foreign land, finding hidden bargains along the way. This book is also known as "Live-Streaming Treasure Finds: Clearing Out the West's Wealth", "Finding a Bargain Feels Great, and Finding Bargains Forever Feels Even Better", "Scammed by Americans: My Revenge with X-Ray Vision", "Live-St 41.9kReads9.0Score3.2k14d adds
- 120 Heavenly Eye: King of Stone Gambling 透视天眼：赌石王 [Jade gambling] [Power fantasy] In a single night, his family was ruined, his company went bankrupt, and his father died with a grudge in his heart. He fell from the heights of success and became a lowly apprentice in the jade market, struggling amid endless mockery and despair. Then the jade pendant passed down through his family merged with his eye, unexpectedly granting him the power to see through everything and discern the glow of treasures! From then on, no flawed jade or hidden treasure c 793Reads6.8Score10214d adds
- 121 Beast Taming: I Can Combine Without Limits 御兽：我能无限合成 [Beast taming + comedy + System + transmigration + satisfying read + no female lead] After transmigrating to a parallel world inhabited by cultivators, Chi Anlin obtains a Pet Fusion System. [Iron Soldier Ant Queen] + [Termite Queen] = an army-producing wonder? [Hamster] + [Lucky Cat] + [Gold] = a lucky treasure-hunting mouse? [Icefire Dragon Wolf] + [Solar Core] / [Lunar Core] = the Lunar Youying and Solar Zhuzhao? “The ant colony has incorporated the art of war, the wolf beasts have learned ma 4.2kReads8.9Score48114d adds
- 122 The Antiquities Restorer 做旧师 [Entirely handmade, with no AI whatsoever + Behind-the-scenes industry secrets + Authentic antique identification with images and text + National vendettas and family feuds] If you want to truly understand the antiques trade, start by making fake antiques! Start by learning to age forgeries! My name is Mei Jiu. I was just a temporary odd-jobber on a film crew, but after I helped them repair a broken bowl, I was promoted to assistant prop master. I fix props, so why are they asking me to make fak 40.4kReads9.2Score4.9k14d adds
- 123 The King of Jade Gambling 赌石王 [Stone gambling + multiple female leads] On his way to work on his electric scooter, Mo Yu crashes into a BMW. The bad news: He crashed into a BMW! The good news: It belongs to his boss. Beautiful boss: “What the hell? Who dares hit my BMW!” Taking a closer look: “Oh, it’s just my workhorse!” Afterward, Mo Yu does odd jobs for his beautiful boss after work every day to pay for the repairs, and accidentally gains X-ray vision and a pocket dimension... From then on, his life is one lucky break aft 3.3kReads7.7Score42514d adds
- 124 The Celestial Craftsman 天工 Su Jin, a top-tier cultural relic restoration expert, was reborn in a new world. Restoring the Forbidden City, restoring the Leshan Giant Buddha, restoring the Dunhuang murals... He came to change this world. 360Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 125 Finding Treasures in Republican-Era China: From the Start, a Millionfold Profit 我在民国捡漏，开局百万倍利润 Cao Zijian obtains a dual-world travel System. He can travel back and forth between the Republic of China era and the modern world. Using his knowledge of antiques, Cao Zijian makes one incredible find after another in the Republic of China era. Countless dazzling cultural relics are brought by Cao Zijian back to the modern world. Among them are priceless treasures lost to the passage of history, such as Wu Daozi's The Emperor Ming Receiving the Seal, Wang Xizhi's Letter on Looking at the Scener 19.1kReads8.6Score1.6k14d adds
- 126 The Human Emperor's Bloodline, Five Senses Ascended 人皇血，五感升 (X-Ray Vision, Bargain Hunting, Jade Gambling, Miracle Doctor, Underdog’s Rise) Betrayed, heartbroken, caught in a sudden car accident... Courier Lin Yixian is cheated on by his girlfriend, then hit by her lover’s car! At death’s door, he unexpectedly gains extraordinary abilities, including X-ray vision and mind reading! Lin Yi first uses his X-ray vision to clean out lottery shops and earn his first fortune. Then he finds hidden treasures in the antiques market and wins a beauty’s heart. After 1.6kReads7.2Score16414d adds
- 127 After Quitting My Job, I Turned My Life Around with an Intelligence System 离职后，我靠情报系统逆袭人生 A great book let down by its title! [System + X-ray vision + jade gambling + antique appraisal + multiple female leads + wish fulfillment] Poor kid Zhang Xiao is first fired from his company, then swindled out of a scratch-off ticket worth 100,000 yuan by his girlfriend. With nowhere left to turn, he unexpectedly acquires an intelligence System and uses it to earn his first fortune. Then, after nearly dying in an accident, he awakens a physique System through a twist of fate, gaining supernatur 625Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 128 I Told You to Pan for Gold! Do You Even Know What That Means? Why Are You Hauling It Away by Car? 让你淘金，淘金懂吗！你用车拉？ A financial crisis sent wages plummeting, and newly graduated students fought tooth and nail for jobs paying just 1,200 yuan. Fresh graduate Chen Feng couldn’t take the disappointment. He stayed home, hanging around doing nothing, smoking and drinking every day. Luckily, he awakened the Gold Prospector System. With a metal detect 19.5kReads9.0Score1.5k14d adds
- 129 Reborn in the 1980s 重生于80年代 (Period drama, no System, no golden finger, an alternate modern history, revelations drawn from authentic historical records and events) Moral standards vary with money! If you’re already this rich, why repeat the miserable life you had in your previous one? Every regret must be made right! Following the passage of time and based on the facts, the story looks back at this period of history through the protagonist’s eyes. The reborn story of an ordinary man, rising from humble beginnings to becom 39.6kReads8.8Score2.3k14d adds
- 130 Dragon-Elephant Body Tempering Art 龙象淬体诀 Dragon-Elephant Body Tempering Art 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 The Art of the Steal 捡漏 One glance spans a hundred years, and I am reborn in the modern city. A golden age of art, a world of antique collecting. Qin Dynasty steles and Zhou Dynasty ritual vessels, ancient inscriptions and paintings. Bronze and blue-and-white porcelain, jadeite and precious gems. Every rare treasure under heaven is in my hands. Reborn in the modern city, Jin Feng relies on his peerless eye for antiques to rise, step by step, to the top. He will carry forward the nation’s most time-honored culture and p 16.7kReads9.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 132 A Beauty Bodyguard Transmigrates into a Book as Pan Jinlian 美女保镖穿书潘金莲 A Beautiful Bodyguard Transmigrates into the Story of Pan Jinlian 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Transmigrate with a Rainbow Spirit Root 穿越七彩灵根 Transmigrated with Seven-Color Spirit Roots 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Playing the Ancient Immortal Path 玩古仙途 Ancient artifacts conceal strange secrets, and ordinary mortals dare knock on the gates of immortality. Young Fang Chen seeks out mysterious relics buried by time, and comes across a jade pendant with its own space. Through the struggles of the apocalypse, he parts layer upon layer of mist. Is the world a prison, or a game? Wherever he looks, a road lies ahead! He cultivates immortality all the way, and in the end, the young man attains the Great Dao! 1.9kReads6.2Score13714d adds
- 135 The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局 [Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra 99.7kReads9.4Score18.4k14d adds
- 136 Transmigrated Into the Nineties: The Villainous Big Shots Are All My Kids 穿书九零：反派大佬们都是我的崽 After Wang Qi died in a car accident, she transmigrated into a romance novel called The Overbearing CEO Falls for Me. By an unfortunate twist of fate, she became the male lead’s stepmother and the mother of three future villainous powerhouses. But Wang Qi transmigrated to the 1990s, five years before the novel’s story began. The original heroine had yet to be reborn, and the plot had not started. The eldest son, one of the future villains, was only fourteen, while the other two hadn’t even been 191.2kReads9.4Score24.1k14d adds
- 137 Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘 [Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets] Even an ordinary person can encounter great opportunities. A country boy carrying the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda is captured by an evil cultivator and forced to serve as a test subject. But a misfortune turns into a blessing, setting him on a bizarre and arduous path to immortality. From then on, he uses the pagoda to grow spirit herbs, raise immortal beasts, refine pills, craft talismans, and cultivate forbidd 126.3kReads9.2Score14.5k14d adds
- 138 Li Chengdao 李承道 Special forces soldier Li Chengdao unexpectedly transmigrates to a strange valley. He transforms the valley and makes his way out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he builds his own Heavenly Dao Group in the world of immortal cultivation. He establishes the Li Family Medical Hall and heals the sick. He makes his fortune with spiritual-root wine, branches into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes a free Heavenly Dao Academy and cultivates a great 1kReads9.2Score25114d adds
- 139 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 938.4kReads9.6Score113.5k14d adds
