I Became a Celestial Master by Snapping Up Bargains

Hu Xin had been fired, swindled out of all his savings, and reduced to selling things by day and sleeping in a ruined temple by night. Then an iron seal bearing a gecko changed his fate.

From then on, he repeatedly found gold and silver in junk thrown by the pound at recycling yards and sold in heaps at street stalls. He could identify their purity, edition, patina, and signs of artificial aging at a glance.

Yet a fortune-teller pronounced his fate hopeless: no family to rely on, parents long estranged, and a life carefully rigged by others.

The woman from the Yan family smiled and told him the seal was hers, and so was his fate.

He could see through the quality of gold and silver. This scheme, he'd dismantle.