The Legend of Embroiderers in the Qing Dynasty

The towering red wall cannot lock away the tenacity hidden in the embroidery needle. The Shen Mansion, a well-known weaving family in the south of the Yangtze River, was destroyed overnight. A young girl, Shen Yunzhi, carried half of a dragon-patterned jade pendant and her family's embroidery book, and escaped into Xinzhe's Treasury in the Forbidden City under the name of the sin slave "Shen Aman". The hands that once embroidered flowers are now struggling to survive amid frostbite and bloodstains. She uses thread as a blade and cloth as a strategy: when Concubine Hui's cloak was destroyed, she shocked everyone with her "double-sided different-color embroidery" technique; in the undercurrent of palace fighting, she used herbal sachets and "gossamer embroidery" to convey secret messages. The personal jade pendant is a blood connection, and the embroidery on the jacket contains the secrets of subverting the court. Deep in the palace, she met the gentle Yinhu on a snowy night, and her hazy emotions were involved in the vortex of fighting for the right to inherit the throne; she embroidered the "Farming and Weaving Picture" for Kangxi as a metaphor for the national policy, and the emperor's eyes were intertwined with admiration and suspicion. The Sumala family secretly protected her, and Concubine Hui pressed hard. The culprit in the old case wanted to eliminate the root cause, pushing her into a power chess game. When the jade pendant and blood-embroidered scroll revealed the truth, she set off huge waves with her bare hands. Should he choose the favor of the emperor, the protection of the prince, or bid farewell to the palace and let Su Xiu return to the south of the Yangtze River? From Xin Zheku's embroidered bones to Fengyun's embroidered lady, Shen Yunzhi used needle and thread as a sword and wisdom as a shield to embroider a life of blood and tears amid love, hate and intrigue. Inside and outside the red walls, hidden under the beauty, is an unparalleled legend of revenge, growth and redemption.