Shen Huaijin, a top modern manicurist, travels to the Forbidden City in the late Qing Dynasty and transforms into a maid of Empress Dowager Cixi because of her ancestral jade pendant. She combined the dotted jade craftsmanship with modern techniques to create stunning armor arts such as "Fengqi Wutong" and "Haiyan Heqing". She hid a world map and reform poetry on the armor surface, quietly stirring up the court. When the exposure of her personal space caused a crisis, she took advantage of the protection of Princess Rongshou to avert the danger. She also turned her manicure into a code to convey new ideas. Between the Sino-Japanese War of 1898 and the Reform Movement of 1898, she used square-inch nail patterns to outline the ripples that changed history. A game of time and space on your fingertips begins in the intersection of gilt armor and neon manicure.
