Schemes In Antiques 古董局中局

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Miss Kido from Japan is about to return to China the head of a Tang-dynasty Buddha statue from Wu Zetian's Mingtang, but she insists that it be received by a descendant of the Xu family of the Baizi school under the "Five Veins," an authoritative organization in the antiquities world.
The Xu descendant — Xu Yuan — has an innate gift for appraising antiquities but no grand ambitions. The appearance of the Buddha head upends his life: the commission from Huang Yan-Yan, granddaughter of the Five Veins' leader, his father's mysterious death, the pressure from the Five Veins' genius Yao Bu-Ran, the pursuit by his grandfather's old friend Fu Gui and the mysterious Lao Chao-Feng — Xu Yuan must, amid the entanglement of all these forces, uncover the truth behind the Buddha head.