Silken threads at her fingertips can weave brocade, or become blades.
Yun Zhi, a modern inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, transmigrates overnight into the Yeting Palace in the depths of the Yin Dynasty, becoming a condemned slave waiting to die. All her former glory lies in ruins. All that remains is her family's blood feud, born of a wrongful accusation, and the icy threat closing in around her.
In this desperate situation, she discovers she can sense the memories of all things through embroidery. This forbidden power, known as “Memory Touch,” is her only path to survival, yet it is also a shackle dragging her into an even deeper whirlpool. Forced into an alliance with Xiao Zhi, a regent who wields power over the court and has a heart of ice, she lends him her gift to unravel mysteries and investigate the late emperor's assassination and the collapse of the border defenses. In return, she uses his influence to lie low and survive, quietly weaving a web of revenge.
From then on, deep within the palace, sharp edges hide beneath every embroidery needle. In her hands, the embroidery frame is also a chessboard; the threads she guides create both splendor and killing traps. She treads carefully as she navigates an emperor whose thoughts are impossible to read, political rivals who hide daggers behind their smiles, and old cases shrouded in layers of mystery.
This is a solitary, audacious game, with the heart as its brocade and embroidery as its blade. Watch as she pierces false masks, stitches a bloodstained land into being, and distinguishes light from shadow amid the clatter of countless looms. At last, she will overturn the injustice that brought down her family, take her fate into her own hands, and, atop the nine-tiered palace, embroider a whole new world!
