Novels like The Urban Appraiser
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Urban Appraiser, best match first.
- 1 The Genius Collector 天才收藏家 Fang Ming, a country boy, inherits the legacy of Pixiu, the wealth beast that eats without excreting. His right hand can appraise treasures: porcelain worth ten thousand in gold, wondrous ancient bronze artifacts, incredible finds picked up by chance, and beauties as precious as pearls and 0Votes14.3kRecs50.9kFans
- 2 Treasure Hunter 玩宝 An ancient painting before the desk surpasses the powerful and noble, while the priceless jade at one's waist is worth a whole city! A deliberate conspiracy left Yang Kang, once the pampered young master of a wealthy family, with nothing. Even his loving father died of depression. By a twist of fate, a Taiyin Treasure Mirror he had worn since childhood turned his luck around and opened the door to a different life of treasure collecting. Famous porcelain, fine jade, ancient paintings, and bronze 0Votes59.5kRecs46.7kFans
- 3 The Antiquing Life of Jia Sidao 贾似道的古玩人生 When an ordinary young man from the bottom of society suddenly gains an extraordinary sense in his left hand and enters the world of collecting, everything begins to change. The wonder of stone gambling, exquisite ceramics, and ancient bronzeware are revealed one by one. The descriptions of antiques in this book are written and read for entertainment. Don't take them as gospel. Suggestion: Unless you have Jia Sidao's special ability, don't try to break into this industry lightly. 1Votes112.6kRecs270.6kFans
- 4 The World of Collectibles 文玩天下 I recommend reading this book on the Qidian app, where you can see the illustrations. Every one of them was made with great care. Yang Ping is an ordinary man who loves antiques and collectibles, with dreams as rich as his imagination. But the harsh realities of life leave him to seek solace in his collection: jade seed material, walnuts, prayer beads... Can an extraordinary encounter change the life of a henpecked husband? An unforgettable meeting, you say? Have you asked my poor, frail kidneys 0Votes71.8kRecs27.2kFans
- 5 Master of Antiques Appraisal 鉴宝大师 A magical spirit-appraisal card will take you on a journey through the world of famous paintings, ancient porcelain, pearls, and precious jades, helping an ordinary college student become a master appraiser. A magical tuber of Chinese fleeceflower can promote the growth of all things. From now on, I can grow flowers and raise fish, and all those golden empresses in the imperial harem, red arowanas, lionheads, and bubble-eyes will be mine! I’m no good at writing introductions. Just read th 0Votes165.8kRecs159.2kFans
- 6 The Master Appraiser 大鉴定师 An antiques shop apprentice unexpectedly acquires an Appraisal System, giving him the ability to appraise everything under the sun. There’s nothing he can’t find a bargain on in the antiques world, and he eventually rises from apprentice to become a great collector. 0Votes129.7kRecs179.2kFans
- 7 The Master Connoisseur 大鉴赏家 Zhao Tianming is down on his luck: his girlfriend ran off with someone else, and he’s lost his job. By chance, he gets his hands on a mysterious ancient mirror. The mirror can expend a person’s mental energy to probe the true nature of anything, appraise all kinds of treasures, and send its owner detailed information about whatever it examines. With the mysterious mirror, nothing can escape his notice, whether it’s an austere bronze vessel, translucent jade, exquisitely painted porcelain, or anc 0Votes71kRecs104kFans
- 8 The Super Golden Hand 超级黄金手 On Christmas Eve, Li Yang, an intern at a jewelry company, saves a little boy and is unexpectedly promoted to full-time employee. From thrilling stone gambling and elegant, noble blue-and-white porcelain to sweet, adorable college students, dashing female police officers, and beautiful, haughty subordinates, Li Yang gains a special ability and begins a life unlike any other. 0Votes300.6kRecs246.6kFans
- 9 America's Warehouse Treasure Hunter 美利坚仓储淘宝王 The protagonist, Yang Yong, gets into a jealous spat with someone at a bar and develops a mutant supernatural ability: he can see the spectrums emitted by different metals. Every day in the United States, thousands of abandoned storage units go up for auction. Using the special ability of his left eye, Yang Yong digs valuable items out of the junk, including gold and silver coins, cars, antiques, guns, and all sorts of other things. As his treasure hunting business grows, he moves from auctionin 0Votes80.1kRecs118.9kFans
- 10 The Treasure Appraisal Manual 宝鉴 One game can pacify the world, but the human heart is impossible to fathom! The Three Teachings, the Nine Schools, the Five Elements, and the Three Houses: all are revealed in the Treasure Mirror! 6Votes1.3MRecs574.5kFans
- 11 An Antique Dealer’s Treasure-Hunting Journey 古董商的寻宝之旅 An antique dealer and collector with decades of professional experience returned to the mid-1980s, when he was young. Then he discovered that finding high-quality collectibles was surprisingly easy. As for getting rich? Sorry, that still had to happen one step at a time… QQ group number: 424089826. Everyone is welcome to join. (Six years after Blood Bat's The Soviet Hero, I'm back. I've been running an antiques business on the side all these years, so this book is relatively close to realit 1Votes1.2MRecs346.5kFans
- 12 Divine Treasures 神藏 In the blink of an eye, seas turn to fields. Dayan takes you into the world of antiques!!! 7Votes3MRecs742.7kFans
- 13 The Treasure Hunter 捡宝王 P.S. I’ve started a new book, The Taoist Priest, Times Have Changed. Please check it out. I love gold and silver, but I love glittering gemstones even more. Guns, jewelry, and precious metals: how could a collector’s world be complete without antiques? Warehouse auctions, secondhand deals, buying and selling real estate, prospecting and mining for gold, but when it comes to making money, searching for legendary treasures is really the way to go. At my command are a tiger cat, a gray wolf, a 0Votes1.3MRecs443.8kFans
- 14 Golden Eyes 黄金瞳 The TV drama The Golden Eyes, starring Zhang Yixing, premiered to great fanfare on February 26, 2019! Zhuang Rui, a junior employee at a pawnshop, undergoes a strange change in his eyes after an accident. Exquisite porcelain, ancient and elegant bronze vessels, and thrilling stone-gambling adventures come one after another, turning his life upside down... 7Votes1.8MRecs1.5MFans
