The Nation’s Secret Treasures

[Antique appraisal + eerie mysteries + underworld adventures] Sold into a life as a beggar, I used several years' savings to buy a birthday cake and give it to a pretty girl selling pancakes. In return, she held a knife to my throat: “Find what's wrong with the corpse, or die.” By then, the beggar chief who had terrorized the area was already lying on the ground, killed by a sinister jade ring.

After that, I took her as my master. It took eight years of training before I entered the underworld, a vast land concealing countless secrets. Priceless treasures arise from disasters and misfortune, and most who obtain them die young. But with the skills I learned, I can seize treasures, set traps, and roam unchecked, turning danger to safety and misfortune to good fortune.