Nobody in Lu Qing’s village expects much from life.
The village sits deep in the mountains, far from prosperous cities and busy trade routes. People grow what they can, hunt when they have to, and hope the weather doesn’t ruin months of hard work. Most are born there, live there, and die there without ever seeing what lies beyond the surrounding peaks.
Lu Qing should have ended up the same way.
Instead, he discovers that he can see things other people cannot. A glance at a wild plant tells him whether it is useful or worthless. Objects, animals, and resources reveal details that remain hidden to everyone else. What others ignore, Lu Qing learns to pay attention to.
The ability doesn’t turn Lu Qing into a master overnight, but it gives him something valuable: information. While others rely on experience, luck, or rumors, he can judge the worth of things for himself. Over time, that small advantage begins to add up.
The mountains that surround the village are familiar to everyone, yet most people never look at them twice. Lu Qing does. The more he explores, the more unusual things he finds. Some places seem untouched for years. Others hide resources that nobody in the village knows exist. Every discovery leaves him with new questions.
At some point, simple curiosity becomes difficult to suppress.
What exactly is hidden in these mountains? Who left those traces behind? And how much of the world remains unknown to a farmer from a remote village?
The answers are nowhere nearby, but Lu Qing has no intention of staying where he is forever. As his knowledge grows and new opportunities appear, he starts looking beyond the life that once seemed inevitable.
