Greed's Deadly Tail

A young antiquities appraiser, obsessed with the Han Dynasty case of Zhang Shizhi and the stolen jade ring, uncovers a contemporary conspiracy when he authenticates a ring that once belonged to Gaozu's temple. Branded delusional and forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital by a powerful real-estate clan, he endures electric shocks and psychoactive drugs, fighting to prove his sanity to the sole sympathetic attending physician. As he pieces together the truth inside the asylum's locked wards, he realizes that the ring is a key to a hidden ancestral vault—and that the monstrous greed driving his tormentors is not just a personal flaw, but a lethal evolutionary inheritance humanity can never shed.