Treasure Appraisal: The Qi Eye Sees Nine Dragons at the Start

Lin Fan, a poor student, set up a shabby stall in the antique market to raise money for his sister's surgery—his sign was a piece of cardboard picked from a trash bin outside a bun shop, with crooked writing: "Ancestral physiognomy, no charge if inaccurate." On the first day, he encountered a rich fool. A nouveau riche showed off a "Ming Dynasty jade Buddha," with the vice president of the city antique association by his side, insisting it was worth three million. Lin Fan took one look, pulled out a lighter, and held it to the Buddha. The jade Buddha melted. The crowd erupted. But a man with gold-rimmed glasses, who had been watching coldly, smiled. He handed Lin Fan a black business card, with a vertical pupil engraved on the back, surrounded by nine dragons. From that day on, Lin Fan found himself changed. He could see treasures buried underground at a glance, touch antiques to trace back a thousand years, and ordinary feng shui killing formations were as clear as the lines on his palm. This ability was called the "Qi Eye." And the man named Qin Mo was wrapped in a thick, blood-like aura of evil. He represented a world hidden behind human civilization for three thousand years. With zero errors in appraisal and accurate fortune-telling, Lin Fan planned to earn 300,000 and quit, but he stepped into a whirlpool of antique world intrigue and hidden grudges. Who can hold the mandate of heaven? Who is the unmatched physiognomist? — Description from novelcodex.org