Treasure Appraisal Begins with the Memory of Seeing Antiques

His father was ruined for "exchanging fakes for real" and died in a suspicious car accident. Twelve years later, Gu Heng, a down-and-out cultural relic restorer, discovered that as long as he touched an old object that had been subject to intense possession and competition, he could see the afterimages left by its three major recent changes of hands. A Republic of China painting box containing bloodstains and scraps of banknotes involved him in an eight-million-dollar ancient painting subcontracting case: genuine inscriptions and postscripts, fake painting cores, covered surveillance cameras, and the jade ring finger that was always hidden in the afterimage. But the echo won't tell him his name, and it can't be used as evidence. Every trace back may make his ears ring, bleed, or even confuse reality. He can only use the incomplete past to find direction, and then use restoration technology and real evidence to reveal the fakes, restore the lost items, and reopen the truth about his father who had been buried for twelve years. Old things don't lie. People who lie are always human.