Jiang Shuyue's fingers touched the golden thread as thin as hair on the embroidery fabric, and the six embroidery needles trembled in the morning light, creating afterimages. Two hundred thousand people in the live broadcast room watched with bated breath as she embroidered the last half-inch of "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" using the lost "Eighteen Changes of Back Stitch".
This is a life-and-death bet between her and Xue Haoran, the president of "Dark Blue Jewelry" - if successful, he promises to reveal the truth about her mother's disappearance; if failed, she will personally hand over the red sandalwood sewing box that has been inherited by the family for three hundred years.
Xue Haoran stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and his watch reflected the glass dome of Jiangcheng Museum.
He should have seen through this farce: The Jiang family has been famous for counterfeiting cultural relics for generations, and the jade safety buttons on her cuffs clearly contained the micro-engraved coordinates of her mother's posthumous work "Weaving Clouds".
Until one rainy night when there was a power outage, he saw her huddled in front of an antique mirror, using her six fingers to embroider a mysterious mandarin duck pattern on the mirror - the stitching method actually matched the code in her mother's notes.
Fragments of the marriage certificate from a hundred years ago emerged from the mirror, and Jiang Shuyue finally understood her mother's last words of blood and tears: "Embroidery as a betrothal, life in exchange for a letter."
And Xue Haoran tremblingly put on the mechanical prosthesis that she had sewn by herself. The "Fu of the Goddess of the Goddess" embroidered with nano-ink danced in the cold titanium alloy.
When the live broadcast camera scanned her blood-stained fingertips, millions of viewers witnessed a "needle-making" marriage proposal that spanned a century - Su embroidery skills and cultural relics codes were melted into an eternal love affair at this moment.
