The Real Heiress Has an Appraisal System

"That’s right."

"Then you can do that at the scrap market, too! You can hunt for treasures anywhere. Everything here is stuff the owners didn’t want. Who knows if it’s real or fake? You might actually find something good."

Gu Shengsheng nodded, but the viewers in the stream chat thought it was impossible.

"No way. I’ve been a cleaner for ten years, and I’ve never found anything valuable. There’s no way the streamer can score a find here!"

"Whoa, the streamer’s fanbase covers a wide age range!"

"But I agree. What kind of good stuff could be in a scrap market? This old guy is just talking nonsense, but the streamer is just as stubborn."

"This is killing me! Because the streamer scored a find yesterday, Pan Garden is packed with people now. By the time she gets there, she won’t even get the scraps, let alone a taste of the real prize."

But Gu Shengsheng just said to the old man, "I’m just browsing. Finding a real treasure is probably unrealistic. But I’ve never been here before, so I wanted to take a look."

The old man chuckled. "Alright, alright, go ahead and look around!"

"Ask me if there’s anything you don’t understand. Oh, right, the scrap metal is over there. It’s about 20 yuan a pound! Scrap metal is the most expensive thing here right now."

"Okay."

The market was surrounded by piles of old books. There weren’t many people, just various vendors coming and going—some buying, and of course, some selling.

Gu Shengsheng walked over to a pile of old sheet metal, some old teapots, and various pieces of furniture.

An uncle on a rocking chair nearby handed her a pair of disposable gloves. "Don’t get your hands dirty! You’re such a clean-cut young lady. What are you doing digging through trash!"

Gu Shengsheng said, "Just looking around."

She then wandered about, touching anything that looked strange.

As expected of a recycling market, almost everything was unusable.

There were even teapots so caked with grime from use that their bases were completely shot, covered in limescale. You could tell they belonged to someone very frugal.

Back home, her grandmother was the same way. She couldn’t bear to throw away any old thing. Only when an item was truly beyond use would she save it to sell to the scrap metal collector when he came by.

Even stray hairs were saved up to trade for steamed corn buns and spun sugar candy.

Those days were difficult, but when Gu Shengsheng thought back on them now, they still felt sweet.

She had been in contact with her neighbors recently and knew her grandmother was doing well back in the village. Gu Shengsheng had also given the neighbor auntie some money to help look after her.

Just as her mind wandered, Gu Shengsheng felt something on her status panel suddenly change.

’Was that... the number ten million?’

’Strange. With so many zeros, I couldn’t have misread it.’

She had been picking through things for a while without finding anything good, yet the status panel kept jumping.

Now that she’d encountered something like this, never mind anyone else, even Gu Shengsheng herself was curious.

’What on earth is this thing?’

Then, her fingers paused and came to rest on an iron cage, not just rusted but covered in rust spots.

’Wait... this is familiar. I think I handled one in my past life. It looks like a bird cage.’

Item: Enamel Bird Cage

Era: Ming Dynasty

Description: Exquisite workmanship, a top-quality piece. Commissioned by Prince Liang and crafted by a Palace Attendant. Recommended for artifact restoration and collection.

Market Value: 15,000,000 (post-restoration)

System Price: 14,800,000

Note: The art of cloisonné enameling. The host mastered this exquisite skill in her previous life. Therefore, this System has automatically unlocked this function, no Emotion Value exchange required.

Gu Shengsheng: "..."

’Isn’t that the truth? Even without the System, I’d recognize this thing on my own.’

’So this System is tailor-made?’

[System]: Host, Little Sys is specially tailored just for you.

Gu Shengsheng ignored it.

At first glance, the object wasn’t the least bit appealing. It looked even more like "scrap metal" than the other discarded junk.

Gu Shengsheng was a little surprised. She never expected this thing to be worth 15 million.

Gu Shengsheng already knew about cloisonné enameling. She knew that many vases and various crafts made with this technique fetched very high prices.

Even an item like a Jingtai Blue piece, which is rarely seen nowadays, could probably be worth tens of millions.

But this bird cage was so far gone you could no longer see its original appearance.

It was rusted to an extreme degree. Even though Gu Shengsheng had studied artifacts extensively before she transmigrated, she knew this would be difficult to restore.

But when she picked it up for a closer look, she froze. ’This thing... it might actually be restorable.’

She had even already figured out what she would use to restore it.

The viewers followed Gu Shengsheng’s gaze, which had also fallen on the bird cage.

Everyone was speechless:

"It’s over. Other streamers get flamed for being love-struck, but ours has a trash-brain!"

"Why isn’t she doing something productive instead of picking through junk here? I’m at a loss. Collecting so much junk is completely useless."

"Streamer, don’t tell me you’re actually going to take that bird cage home?"

"Yeah, this is just too absurd. We know you can find hidden gems, but you haven’t found anything in three days. This is scary."

Gu Shengsheng explained, "Don’t worry, I have my reasons for taking it."

With that, she carried the bird cage over to the old man.

"Sir, I’ll take this."

"..." The old man looked at her as if she were insane.

He was speechless. "Are you on something? Did you just break out of a mental hospital today? Don’t you know how things work?"

"That old fossil over there said you were here to buy something usable. This thing? Is it usable?"

"It is," Gu Shengsheng said with confidence and certainty.

Seeing how insistent she was, the old man knew this young lady had to be a fool.

But whatever. The one thing he hated most was meddling in other people’s business.

"Fine! I wouldn’t even take ten yuan for this thing. You can have it for five." It was a piece of scrap iron that even he found disgusting.

When it came to selling by weight, even the factory recyclers would reject it.

A piece of junk that had been rejected by countless people and left here to rot had actually been chosen by a young girl like her.

What else could be said about something like this?

There was no other explanation except that the girl was an idiot.

Gu Shengsheng handed him five yuan. After thanking him, she headed for the exit of the scrap market. "I’m going to go buy some things to restore it."

"Wait, streamer, at least explain to us why you’re doing this! We never thought you were this kind of person!"

"Streamer, I don’t get it. What did you buy that thing for?"

Gu Shengsheng smiled and said, "Don’t be hasty. Have any of you heard of Prince Liang, Zhu Zhanji’s younger brother?"

"Prince Liang had a wife, Princess Wei, whom he loved for his entire life. Prince Liang wasn’t as capable as his older brother, nor did he possess his father’s genius. But his love story is quite famous. There’s a legend about him and Princess Liang."

"The two were in love for 4,000 days, so he gave her 4,000 gifts. Prince Liang gave her one every single day, without fail."

Gu Shengsheng held up the bird cage. "This is one of them, and a rather fine one at that. When they were betrothed, Princess Wei gave him a bird cage just like this, with a little sparrow inside."

"It represented her willingness to marry him and become his ’caged bird.’"

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