Shen Zhiwei, the daughter of the owner of an embroidery workshop in Jiangnan, was falsely accused of "collaborating with the enemy" because of her family. In order to ask the emperor to review the case, she entered the palace as an "embroidery girl". In the harem, the high-ranking concubines regarded her as a pawn, and the palace maids and eunuchs avoided her. Only Liu Shi, the abandoned concubine in the cold palace, came to her aid. Shen Zhiwei hides the desperate situation in embroidery: using "double-sided embroidery" to hide evidence of the family's innocence, using the density of gold threads in "plate gold embroidery" to convey information about connections in the palace, and using the particle arrangement of "seed embroidery" to mark the source of poison. When she embroidered the queen's dress, she embroidered clues to the murder of the wise concubine in the cloud patterns; when she embroidered the screen for the queen mother, she used different-colored silk threads to point out the hidden dangers in the prince's diet; she even embroidered key evidence patterns on the emperor's royal clothes. In the end, she not only cleared the family's grievances, but also used the ability of "embroidering needles to resolve right and wrong" to give the harem a new possibility of "standing on the throne without sleeping", becoming the unique "embroidered female official" in the palace.
