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Cheng Jianjun's imprisonment immediately became the hottest news around. Not only did the neighbors talk about it, but so did the antiques market. It made its way onto Legal Report, onto newspaper pages, under headlines that read: "Jingcheng Police Crack Major Antique Forgery and Fraud Case"...

The neighbors did not react too strongly. None of them were fools. Ever since they had learned how Cheng Jianjun had gotten rich so quickly, and considered his previous criminal record, nobody had had anything nice to say about him. Now, it had merely been confirmed. On the other hand, they truly admired him as well. That kid had really been capable of stirring things up. Self-taught, and in just a few years, he had learned to forge antiques and swindle people out of money.

They all moved in the same social circle, after all, so they also knew that although Cheng's original large elevator apartment had been seized and auctioned off, his parents had gone and bought another home afterward. Naturally, everyone understood that it had been bought with money Cheng Jianjun had scammed from others.

Some of them even began musing over whether getting hold of several hundred thousand yuan would be worth spending a few decades in prison. Of course, none of them truly wanted to commit crimes. It was just the sort of hypothetical nonsense they talked about when they gathered together with nothing better to do.

The greatest impact was on the antiques market. Cheng Jianjun's crimes involved an enormous sum, and he had done it all in barely three years. But ever since the antiques market had become active in the nineties, how many people with even more advanced forgery skills had there been? Thus, after Cheng Jianjun was sentenced, the antiques market went through a period of