She was supposed to be the “daughter of a criminal,” yet she returned drenched in blood under the name of her enemy!
As a child, Shen Zhiwei watched her birth mother, Concubine Su, strangled to death with a white silk cord by the household’s matriarch, Madam Wang. Shen Zhiwei herself was branded a “bastard” and targeted for elimination!
A loyal servant protected her with their life. She concealed her identity and honed her skills in poison.
Ten years later, “the gentle cousin Lin Wei” entered the Shen estate, and her face was exactly the same as Concubine Su’s, who had died years ago!
Madam Wang was terrified, Concubine Liu concealed murderous intent, her legitimate older sister made things difficult for her at every turn, and her imposing father’s gaze was impossible to read.
Within the sprawling mansion, beneath lavish banquets, poisoned soup simmered and one false accusation followed another!
She retreated to advance, used others to kill her enemies, and tore their claws out by the roots through one deadly trap after another.
At the birthday banquet, she presented her “gift” before everyone: her birth mother’s bloodstained farewell letter! The evidence was irrefutable, and the hypocritical matriarch was ruined!
But when the flames of revenge had burned out, what remained was an even more piercing chill:
Her father sneered. “Your mother was the daughter of a traitor who colluded with the enemy! She had to die for the Shen family to survive!”
At the height of her power, Concubine Liu and her son watched her like hawks. Then a mysterious person sent a bloodstained letter: “The last survivors of the Su clan will perish together with their enemies!”
Looking in the mirror, she was startled to realize she had begun to take on the same coldness as her enemies!
When the death warrant for embroidering tribute for the royal family arrived, a faded bead hairpin left behind by her birth mother dropped a fragmentary map pointing to a “way out”!
As flames blazed into the sky, she set fire to the ancestral hall that symbolized the Shen family’s glory with her own hands. Crawling out through a dog hole, she buried “Shen Zhiwei” alongside the mansion’s bones!
Ahead of her lay a new identity: Su Jinshu.
Using her enemy’s name, she would stitch her way through the world, one thread at a time, and embroider a path home in blood!
Beautiful years are fragile, and a great house is an abyss.
Once the bloodshed is over, can she embroider a new life amid her enemies’ relentless pursuit and the surging tides of the times?
