The Fake Hunter

Name: The Fake Hunter
ISBN: 9787510895524

柳下挥Jiuzhou Press2021

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Word count: 804.2K words
Chapters: 40
ISBN: 9787510895524

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Summary

The Fake Hunter is an urban novel about cultural relics by the web novelist Liu Xiahui. Serialized on Qidian since 2019, it runs to about 800,000 characters and was published in print by Jiuzhou Press in 2021 in three volumes. The story begins at the Shangmei Museum's autumn special exhibition of Tang and Song porcelain, "Great National Treasures": a Southern Song Guan ware boy-playing-with-a-vase water vessel is accidentally broken in transit, and Lin Chuyi, president of an auction house, brings in the young but astonishingly skilled restorer Jiang Lai to save the exhibition. Jiang Lai is the son of Jiang Xingzhou, the "Jiang Ghost Hand" of a restoration dynasty, and the sole heir of the "adding flowers to brocade" craft. He can restore ancient books and paintings, ceramics and jade, bronzes and murals, and has trained an eye that can tell true from false at a glance. But his return this time carries a secret purpose: to clear up an old matter for his father and find his enemy. Bound by this feud, the two test and guard against each other, pulled back and forth between truth and falsehood, love and hate. As the investigation deepens, the international relic-smuggling and forgery ring "Jurassic" and its leader "Bat" surface, and Jiang Lai discovers that "Bat" is inextricably linked to the Lin family. The novel is divided into three volumes—"Plum Wife Crane Son," "Bronze Head," and "White Jade, Blue Fly"—interweaving knowledge of ancient paintings, Song porcelain, and bronzes with three threads: treasure appraisal and restoration, suspenseful investigation, and urban romance.

Editor's review

“修最珍贵的文物，猎最高明的赝品，破最揪心的悬案，谈最甜蜜的恋爱。”这是柳下挥为《猎赝》写下的自我定位，也是这部书最直白的推荐语。它诞生于纪录片《我在故宫修文物》带来的热潮——作者看了纪录片，又花了两三年做准备：翻阅文物修复与鉴定的专业书籍，收集修复案例，采访故宫博物院、中国国家博物馆等机构的修复师与民间非遗传承人，还走进敦煌莫高窟未开放区域，现场观摩师傅修复壁画，为写“青铜人头”一卷专程飞往成都看金沙遗址与三星堆博物馆。这些功课落到书里，就成了“千波刀”“粘碗盏法”“随形补缺法”等手艺细节，以及唐三彩三足炉、磁州窑枕、八大山人画作等真实文物的影子。当然，这毕竟是一部网络小说：男主光环耀眼、情节节奏明快、爱情线占比不小，专业考据服务于故事而非教科书。纸书全三册，另附展览门票、藏书票等设计，适合当作一次“看故事认识文物”的轻松入口。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢都市悬疑、鉴宝破案题材的网络文学读者
对文物修复、古董鉴定与传统文化感兴趣的读者
看过《我在故宫修文物》并被修复师职业打动的人
习惯快节奏、带感情线的长篇故事的读者

Not a good fit for

需要严格学术考据、专业修复教程的从业者
不喜欢“男女主各藏身份互相试探”设定的读者
偏好纯文学慢节奏、排斥网文套路的读者

Reading tips

可把三卷（梅妻鹤子、青铜人头、白璧青蝇）视为三个叙事单元，每卷读完稍作停顿，梳理人物关系。
读到具体文物与修复技艺时不妨顺手检索，分清哪些真实存在、哪些是作者虚构。
先读剧情、后读知识；不必为硬啃古董术语放慢速度，术语不影响主线理解。
如果对修复师这个职业产生兴趣，可接着看《我在故宫修文物》纪录片或相关口述资料。

About the publisher

Jiuzhou Press China · Founded in 1993

Jiuzhou Press is a comprehensive publisher with humanities, social sciences, and classic works as important publishing directions, maintaining a sustained focus on philosophy, history, literature, and social culture. Its catalogue includes works by modern literary masters such as Xiao Hong and Lu Xun, as well as intellectual and art history works by Xu Fuguan, including A History of Chinese Theories of Human Nature: Pre-Qin Volume, A History of Han Thought, and The Spirit of Chinese Art: A Study of Shitao. It also translates and introduces overseas academic works such as Peter H. Wilson's The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy and Peter Suber's The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, and covers cross-cultural exchange themes such as From Dunhuang to Samarkand. Its publishing character lies in balancing the organization of original texts with academic translation, forming relatively stable author and title resources in categories including philosophy, military affairs, theory, and social culture. More complete information about the press's publishing history and plans is limited in publicly available sources; this summary is based only on the titles in the catalogue.

Volume One Plum Wife Crane Son
Chapter 1 A Cool Breeze from the Sleeve
Chapter 2 The Book Doctor
Chapter 3 One Leaf Blocks the Eye
Chapter 4 The Stuck-Bowl Method
Chapter 5 The Bearing of a Master
Chapter 6 Into the Trap
Chapter 7 In Search of the Bat
Chapter 8 Shape-Following Patch
Chapter 9 One Arrow, Three Hawks
Chapter 10 An Enemy for Life
Chapter 11 The Pool Looks Shallow When Clear
Chapter 12 Treasures in Flowers and Leaves
Chapter 13 Maintaining Deterrence
Chapter 14 The Hongmen Banquet
Chapter 15 Mysterious Pursuit
Chapter 16 Luring the Snake from Its Hole
Chapter 17 Plum Wife Crane Son
Chapter 18 Blind or Slapped in the Face
Chapter 19 Suspending the Auction
Chapter 20 Preparing the Counterattack
Chapter 21 The Story Within the Story
Volume Two Bronze Head
Chapter 22 I Fear Deception
Chapter 23 Another Version of the Story
Chapter 24 Auction Storms
Chapter 25 Pawns
Chapter 26 The Hunter and the Prey
Chapter 27 No Sun, No Light
Chapter 28 I Will Judge You
Chapter 29 Hard to Tell Anyone
Chapter 30 Thank Heaven You're Here
Chapter 31 The Bronze Head... Has No Head
Chapter 32 Blood-Red Pupils
Chapter 33 Evil Cannot Prevail
Chapter 34 No One Can Resist Such a Temptation
Chapter 35 The Peach Blossom Incident
Chapter 36 Overreaching
Chapter 37 Seizing Power
Chapter 38 Casting Bait to Fish

FAQ

《猎赝》是真实存在的文物修复故事吗？

不是纪实作品，而是以文物修复与古董走私为背景的虚构长篇小说。书中部分文物确实存在（如唐三彩三足炉、磁州窑文字纹枕），也有作者虚构或艺术化处理的器物与技艺，需分别看待。

没读过柳下挥其他作品能直接看吗？

可以。《猎赝》是独立成篇的故事，与《天才医生》《同桌凶猛》等作品没有情节关联，不需要前置阅读。

这本书和《我在故宫修文物》是什么关系？

作者柳下挥受这部纪录片启发而创作，并把它视作致敬之作；书中修复师的专业细节多有采访与实地考察依据，但故事本身完全虚构。

纸书出了几册，内容完整吗？

2021年九州出版社出版的全三册收录了网络连载的完整故事，共三卷、约80万字，网络版已于2020年完结。

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Liu Xiahui is a Chinese web novelist known for urban-themed fiction. Public information about him is limited, and reliable sources have yet to record details such as his birthplace, education, or writing career. Judging from the four works included in the collection, his writing centers on two categories: social fiction and time-travel/alternate-world fiction. The Genius Doctor revolves around a medical practitioner and carries a clear professional flavor, while Ni Lin and Hot Star: The Superstar Who Walked Out of Prison lean toward urban legend, often following characters who rise from marginal circumstances. His plots move at a brisk pace, with concentrated conflict, and he is skilled at using identity contrasts and come-from-behind reversals to create narrative tension. Overall, Liu Xiahui's works stay close to contemporary urban life, combining genre-driven excitement with a measure of social observation, and suit readers who prefer light, fluid storytelling.