Xi Siyao × Yun Zhi | Nine-year age gap
Fake, pitiful, handsome prince and uncle × black-hearted master weaver
Both reborn | Mutual salvation | Court intrigue and the fate of the realm
In brocade steeped in the misty rain of Jiangnan lies half a bloodstained kingdom.
The heavy snow of their past life was the frost that crushed loyal souls amid a change of imperial power.
Yun Zhi, daughter of Jiangnan's foremost imperial merchant, was born into a family of weavers. Dressed in gorgeous brocade, she died on a snowy night.
The thousand lotus lanterns they had released together could not illuminate the schemes between childhood sweethearts. At Cangwu Mountain, a sword lifted her bridal veil and pulled her into an even deeper abyss.
Childhood affection and marital vows alike became offerings to bloody political schemes.
Reborn, she would become the sharpest shuttle in Jiangnan brocade.
She would hide poisoned silver needles in her childhood sweetheart's purse and embroider death-summoning patterns on the wedding clothes she made for the faithless man.
Then she began to unravel the “Star Loom Weaving Manual” her mother had left behind.
The former dynasty's edict, hidden away in “concealed embroidery” by her mother, Shen Tan, emerged at last. The throne that rightfully belonged to Prince Yan, Xi Siyao, had been stolen by a forged edict for ten years.
The Ninth Prince, Xi Siyao, was a sinister prince and uncle nine years her senior. Shen Tan had once helped him with all her might, and he was also the final blade of the old dynasty.
She came with the edict through a trail of blood, joining him to weave a plan that would set the world ablaze.
As the looms of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau wept blood night after night, and an imperial wedding decree was embroidered into an edict transferring the throne, Yun Zhi stood atop the palace and gazed upon the flames of war she had woven with her own hands:
Those who used love as bait were ultimately strangled by its threads;
Those who tried to pluck the stars became the warp and weft of her splendid kingdom.
