Only then did Su Shan realize that the patterns she had embroidered on her handkerchiefs were never lucky motifs at all. They were spells that awakened the bloodline of an ancient witch.
With fabric as her medium and stitches as her incantations, she could make anyone who touched her embroidery speak the truth, and sense whether a person was good or evil through a single handkerchief. More terrifying still, when she embroidered a gu pattern beneath the moon, silver-thread-like spirit gu crawled from her sleeve to gnaw through her shackles and bite apart conspiracies.
