Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121 - Portrait Of Titus (2)
Chapter 122 - Visitor From The Desert (1)
Chapter 123 - Visitor From The Desert (2)
Chapter 124 - Visitor From The Desert (3)
Chapter 125 - Visitor From The Desert (4)
Chapter 126 - Rookie Of Boston Red Sox (1)
Chapter 127 - Rookie Of Boston Red Sox (2)
Chapter 128 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (1)
Chapter 129 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (2)
Chapter 130 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (3)
Chapter 131 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (1)
Chapter 132 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (2)
Chapter 133 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (3)
Chapter 134 - Enemies Are Everywhere (1)
Chapter 135 - Enemies Are Everywhere (2)
Chapter 136 - More Paintings (1)
Chapter 137 - More Paintings (2)
Chapter 138 - To Florence, Italy… (1)
Chapter 139 - To Florence, Italy… (2)
Chapter 140 - To Florence, Italy… (3)
Chapter 141 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (1)
Chapter 142 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (2)
Chapter 143 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (3)
Chapter 144 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (1)
Chapter 145 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (2)
Chapter 146 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (3)
Chapter 147 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (4)
Chapter 148 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (5)
Chapter 149 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (1)
Chapter 150 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (2)
Chapter 151 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (3)
Chapter 152 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (4)
Chapter 153 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (5)
Chapter 154 - Now, To London… (1)
Chapter 155 - Now, To London… (2)
Chapter 156 - Now, To London… (3)
Chapter 157 - Now, To London… (4)
Chapter 158 - Seeing The Light Again (1)
Chapter 159 - Seeing The Light Again (2)
Chapter 160 - Seeing The Light Again (3)
Chapter 161 - Seeing The Light Again (4)
Chapter 162 - Uninvited Guest (1)
Chapter 163 - Uninvited Guest (2)
Chapter 164 - Uninvited Guest (3)
Chapter 165 - Uninvited Guest (4)
Chapter 166 - Dark Shadow (1)
Chapter 167 - Dark Shadow (2)
Chapter 168 - Dark Shadow (3)
Chapter 169 - Change And Progress (1)
Chapter 170 - Change, And Progress (2)
Chapter 171 - Change, And Progress (3)
Chapter 172 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (1)
Chapter 173 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (2)
Chapter 174 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (3)
Chapter 175 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (4)
Chapter 176 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (5)
Chapter 177 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (1)
Chapter 178 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (2)
Chapter 179 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (3)
Chapter 180 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (4)
Chapter 181 - Star Appraiser (1)
Chapter 182 - Star Appraiser (2)
Chapter 183 - Star Appraiser (3)
Chapter 184 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (1)
Chapter 185 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (2)
Chapter 186 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (3)
Chapter 187 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (4)
Chapter 188 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (5)
Chapter 189 - Artifact From North Korea (1)
Chapter 190 - Artifact From North Korea (2)
Chapter 191 - Artifact Match (1)
Chapter 192 - Artifact Match (2)
Chapter 193 - Artifact Match (3)
Chapter 194 - Artifact Match (4)
Chapter 195 - Artifact Match (5)
Chapter 196 - What Happened In Austria (1)
Chapter 197 - What Happened In Austria (2)
Chapter 198 - What Happened In Austria (3)
Chapter 199 - What Happened In Austria (4)
Chapter 200 - Bait To Catch The Big Fish (1)
Chapter 201 - Bait To Catch The Big Fish (2)
Chapter 202 - What The Depressed Man Left (1)
Chapter 203 - What The Depressed Man Left (2)
Chapter 204 - Where The Faith Leads Him To (1)
Chapter 205 - Add Painting To Painting (1)
Chapter 206 - Add Painting To Painting (2)
Chapter 207 - Add Painting To Painting (3)
Chapter 208 - Finally, To There… (1)
Chapter 209 - Finally, In There… (2)
Chapter 210 (End) - Epilogue
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Chapter 94: Artifacts the Father Left (2)
“Something to show me?”
“Just wait.”
Seungho ran into his container and didn’t come out for a while. Haejin couldn’t understand why he
was leaving the box that was worth 100 million, but he just waited. Seungho looked a little excited as
he came out.
“Why did you leave this box here?”
“Why not? This place has CCTVs. Your car has been recorded. Why should I worry.”
“I guess you’re right.”
“Plus, I wasn’t going to give you this if you run away.”
Surprisingly, there was a gold bracelet in Seungho’s hand.
“This is…”
“Although I sold the other things, I didn’t sell this. Do you know why?”
How could Haejin know? He shook his head.
“I don’t know.”
“Unlike my father, I don’t know much about these antiques. Shit… what’s the difference between an
art dealer and a junk shop owner? We both get old stuff and sell them. The only difference is that I
earn much less. However, this looked like something valuable even to me.”
The bracelet looked beautiful. It had been made very delicately.
“I understand.”
“I knew this is precious, so it was even more important for me to not sell. As for the other things, when
someone told me, ‘this is worth this much’, I could just think, ‘I guess so’ and sell it, but as this is
made of gold, I couldn’t buy anyone’s word about this. They all looked like frauds, so I couldn’t sell it
even if I wanted to.”
“Actually, that’s how others feel too. You can sell antique so easily only in two cases: you clearly know
its value or know very little about it.”
Seungho stared at the bracelet in his hand.
“If I had wanted a few tens of millions, I would have sold it long ago. But look, you think ten million
won can change my life?”
Although ten million is big, it is not at all enough to open a shop or buy a home. Even tens of millions
are not enough.
“That’s not how things work in this country.”
“Yeah, you talk well. Things do not work like that in this country. But as you are willing to buy this box
at 100 million, I think this is the time for me to sell it.”
“However, there might be someone who will give you more.”
Seungho sat down and stroked the box.
“It’s been more than 10 years. I wanted to get rid of all these, but I couldn’t because I couldn’t sell that
bracelet… but I think I can move on.”
“Hmm… okay. I must tell you again, I’m not the one who will pay you the most.”
“Whatever. If I had known who that was, I would have gone to him and begged him to buy it when my
father died. Anyway, what is this bracelet?”
Haejin raised the bracelet and started to explain.
“Its decorative bumps are the style used in the 6 th century.”
“6 th century? When is that?”
“The Three Kingdoms period. I think this is from Shinra.”
“Huh… this is from Shinra?”
Seungho’s jaw dropped. He examined the bracelet again.
“Its shape is a dragon biting its own tail to form a circle. It is very delicately made, so I’m sure it is very
rare. It is good enough to be a treasure.”
“Then… how much can I get?”
“I’ll give you 700 million.”
At that moment, Seungho started to cough.
“Are you okay?”
“Oh, yes. Cough! I’m okay. Cough! It’s just… cough!”
He coughed for some more time and finally managed to calm down.
“That’s worth 700 million? Really?”
“As I told you, there’s no guarantee that there isn’t someone who’ll pay you more. But I must tell you
that this is the most I can give you.”
“Okay, it’s your best price… then okay. What should we do now? Am I supposed to just give these
and get the money?”
“We should write a contract. Then, I’ll send you the money immediately.”
“Khmm… okay. 800 million at once? Huh… I suddenly won the lottery after breaking up with my wife
and sending my child away.”
However, although he was saying he had won the lottery, he didn’t look happy. He wasn’t trying to
hide his feelings. He really wasn’t happy.
They went back into the container and wrote the contract on white paper.
Haejin wanted to take Seungho to his museum and use the form he had made, but as Seungho could
change his mind at any time, he just finished it quickly.
Seungho shed tears when he got the money in his bank account. Then, he carefully wrapped the box
so that Haejin could take it away.
He took out the wrapper and even tied a ribbon. He put such care into it that Haejin couldn’t stop him.
Haejin took the two artifacts and arrived at his museum. Eunhae then ran out.
“What is going on? Why did you need 800 million transferred?”
Haejin had brought someone to manage his museum instead of him. He couldn’t just spend 800
million on his own.
Of course, he had called Eunhae and asked her to send the money. Although she didn’t even know
what kind of artifacts Haejin was buying, she sent the money.
So, she had been thinking about what kind of artifacts Haejin had bought until he arrived.
“Let’s go in first.”
They went into the office and Haejin carefully put it down on the table. Eunhae frowned.
“This is it?”
Of course, she thought it was strange. The thing wrapped with that childish gift wrapper was worth
800 million?
“Pretty, isn’t it?”
“Yes, but…”
Eunhae frowned even harder. Haejin laughed.
“Hahaha! Don’t get disappointed. Don’t you know that things with a great appearance have something
poor inside?”
“At least I know that in this field, things with a splendid appearance are expensive.”
“You’ll make a huge mistake one day if you think like this. Appraisal is about seeing the true meaning.”
“Okay. Stop bragging and unwrap it. I am just watching because I don’t want to touch it and get
scolded.”
Eunhae was pouting. It looked beautiful, but Haejin cleared his throat and started to unwrap it.
“Khmm, okay.”
As the wrapper was revealed, a dark brown box appeared.
“Oh… this is Jagae!”
Jagae means cutting out thin slices of the inner side of the shells like abalone or conch and cutting
them is shapes to decorate.
“Yes. It has a peony vine pattern very delicately attached with gold. As you can see, there are
hundreds of peonies cut and inlaid.”
“Wow… this is great craftsmanship, and so elaborate.”
“As it is quite big, I think this was for storing scriptures rather than for jewelry or accessories.”
“This is impressive. And I guess this is from Goryeo?”
Eunhae had her own knowledge. She presumed when the box had been made based on its pattern
and technique used to make it. It was only possible because she had studied a lot.
“Yes. I think it was used to store Buddhist scriptures in the Goryeo period.”
“You’ve found a precious artifact. There are only a few lacquerwares inlaid with mother of pearls left…
now we have even more artifacts to promote.”
In Goryeo, the aristocratic class made political decisions. As a result, a luxurious culture for their taste
was created, and crafting reached its peak.
Jagae represents the art of Goryeo along with celadons and Buddhistic paintings, its artistic value is
still appreciated greatly. However, there are only about 20 Jagae artifacts from Goryeo left.
Others have been stolen and destroyed in the countless wars.
“I have another thing.”
“What is it?”
Eunhae already knew that there was something more. Although the box was precious, it wasn’t worth
800 million.
Haejin opened the box and took out the bracelet.
“Oh…”
The smile disappeared from Eunhae’s face. She exclaimed and carefully took the bracelet.
“700 out of 800 million was spent on them.”
“Please explain. I can see this is magnificent, but I want to know more.”
She sounded urgent, her eyes were full of curiosity.
“That is from Shinra. There are only a few Shinra bracelets with the shape of such a delicate dragon,
so it would be even rarer and more valuable. And this part is…”
Haejin added the detailed explanation he had told Seungho. Eunhae smiled with satisfaction.
“Good. For these artifacts, you were right to spend 800 million won.”
“Right?”
Haejin looked at Eunhae proudly.
She then spoke softly, “But you know the museum is running out of money, right?”
Haejin had been using the money he had earned before, but he had spent a lot on the opening of the
museum, buying artifacts, paying taxes, and paying the staff and only a small portion of that money
was now left. Eunhae was pointing that out.
“Oh… I know, of course.”
“If you run out of fund once, then hell awaits from there. I won’t be able to sleep, worrying about not
having money to pay our staff… what if I start to lose my hair because of the stress?”
Haejin felt Eunhae was complaining rather than warning him.
“Khmm… okay. Then, shall we sell something? But we don’t have anything to sell…”
“Why don’t we do a special exhibition with the incense burner you found and the other artifacts of the
Three Kingdoms and do a contemporary art exhibition after that?”
“Contemporary art?”
“Yes. We should invite paintings of promising artists, exhibit them, and sell them. If the paintings are
good, we can earn a lot, a lot more than you think.”
“Hmm… that’s a good idea. Let’s go that.”
Although Haejin wasn’t that fond of contemporary art, he knew that he couldn’t keep his museum if he
kept ignoring the financial factors.
Eunhae realized Haejin didn’t look that happy about it. She tilted her head and looked at him.
“Why? You don’t like contemporary art?”
“Umm… honestly, I really can’t understand contemporary art based on Dadaism.”
“That can happen. It’s difficult, and it can be seen as strange.”
“Just being difficult wouldn’t be a problem to me, but there are so many pieces that even experts
cannot discern if they are works of masters or works of 4-year-old children. They say they put in very
profound meaning in their paintings, but it looks to me that they paint first and only then try to add
meanings… anyway, please take care of it. It’s not like you need an appraiser, so you won’t need my
help, right?”
“Of course. Let me handle it, and I’ll fill the account with money. Haha!”
They spent time chatting like that, but then someone knocked on the door.
“Come in.”
The door was opened, and an employee came in.
“You have a visitor. Her name is Song Yaerin, and she is with, umm… a woman who appears to be a
VIP.”
Haejin could guess who that VIP was. He was about to tell her to let them in, but Eunhae raised her
hand.
“Tell them that he is busy, and they should wait or come back later.”
“Huh? Why?”
Haejin couldn’t understand that. Eunhae winked and spoke.
“You’re the best appraiser in this country. You shouldn’t let people meet you so easily. Okay?”
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