During the Yonghe period of Dajing, Shen Zhaohua, the owner of an embroidery workshop in the south of the Yangtze River, accidentally picked up a piece of scrap paper with the inscription "The flowers are blooming on the street, and you can return home slowly." She was moved by the meaning of the writing, so she used an embroidery needle to engrave the writing on the brocade, and sent a caravan to the capital to find its owner. From this, she developed a deep relationship with Gu Yan, the son of the imperial censor.
Shen Zhaohua saved money for three years of embroidery work, and planned to go to Beijing to meet Gu Yanshen on his birthday with the "Hundred Fortune Brocade" embroidered by himself, and express his feelings hidden in the brocade book. But before she left, she received the last piece of brocade written by Gu Yanshen entrusted by the caravan - the handwriting was scrawled, the ink was mixed with dark red, and only the words "Mountains are high and the water is far away, don't read it" were left. The unfinished orchid stitches in the brocade corner suddenly broke.
She didn't know that Gu Yanshen was demoted for impeaching a powerful man and was seriously injured when he wrote this last letter. Gu Yanshen also didn't know that Shen Zhaohua held the broken brocade and guarded it in front of the embroidery workshop window for ten years, embroidering the spring and autumn of Jiangnan into the unsent brocade book. Later, someone brought him from Yazhou
