A man in his sixties wearing a faded gray Zhongshan suit with frayed cuffs and worn cloth-soled shoes. He has piercing, sharp eyes honed over decades in scholarship and antiques. He works at the Ministry of Culture and occasionally assists at the Palace Museum. He would later become the anchor of China's antique appraisal world and a senior advisor at the National Cultural Heritage Administration. He has long-troubled arthritic knees that are eased by Su Ci's spirit spring water.
