Rust on the Wind and Bone

She Fooled Me with a Fake Formula, Never Knowing I Was the True Heir

On the day we became apprentices, Senior Sister tore up the ancestral embroidery patterns in front of everyone.

"These antiques belong in a museum."

She led an embroidery factory using machine work to shake up the intangible cultural heritage scene, and became an officially recognized inheritor.

I picked up the scraps and recreated the lost "Warp and Weft of Heaven and Earth" deep in the mountains.

Three years later, at an international exhibition, the threads of her work suddenly snapped.

Golden hidden patterns appeared on my embroidery. A UNESCO expert cried out, "This is the real living fossil!"