A Suzhou embroidery heir on the brink of bankruptcy × a mysterious antiques tycoon who spends lavishly
Traditional craftsmanship makes a comeback against all odds × livestream face-slapping takes the internet by storm
Su Jinse guards the Splendid Embroidery Pavilion, left to her by her grandmother, but her landlord drives her into a corner when she can’t pay the rent. Just when she’s run out of options, a bloodstained Manual of Heavenly Crafts suddenly awakens. Its long-lost “Wandering Dragon Stitch” lets her embroider a sachet with a fish that looks alive. Her best friend Lin Xiaoyue slaps her thigh and says, “Start livestreaming! Let everyone see what real intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship looks like!”
On the first day, her livestream is so dead she’s ready to despair.
The mysterious user “Guan Gu” spends a fortune, then delivers a cutting critique: “Your stitches are incomplete, not even a third as good as the ancients’.”
When she restores a national treasure screen, the whole internet mocks her.
She dyes her own thread using a lost technique, her needle flying like a butterfly, and leaves the experts stunned. “Is this craft some antique that’s come back from the dead?!”
At an international competition, her gown is ruined.
She transforms the wreckage into a masterpiece, embroidering Splendor Woven by Heaven. The foreign judges exclaim, “Eastern magic!”
But behind her sudden fame lurk dangers at every turn.
The owner of a neighboring embroidery shop hires an online smear campaign. An international luxury brand accuses her of “plagiarism,” and even a “distant cousin” shows up with a fake embroidery manual to fight over the family fortune...
Even more shocking, the mysterious “Guan Gu,” who keeps spending lavishly in her livestream, turns out to be Qin Yizhen, a top-tier star investor in real life.
He bankrolls her career and stands up for her: “Suzhou embroidery shouldn’t be confined to museums.”
She breaks through every obstacle with her needle: “I’ll make the whole world line up to buy what our ancestors left us!”
This novel is entirely fictional. I don’t have an embroidery manual, okay!
