Su Qingyan is one of the last descendants of Suzhou Kesi. In order to raise money to repair her ancestral embroidery workshop, she accidentally entered the "Wenyuan Pavilion" in the capital as an apprentice, responsible for repairing the embroidery patterns in ancient paintings - and her master was Lu Jingxing, the famous "Living King of Hell".
He is a master of restoration who comes from a family of cultural relics and can trace an era for three hundred years with a single silk thread. He is so demanding on his apprentices that "if he misses a stitch, he will have to dismantle and re-embroider for three days." In the first confrontation, she was scolded by him for being "disrespectful to cultural relics" and hid in the warehouse to twist the embroidery threads to pieces; the second time, he discovered that she could reproduce the lost "seed embroidery" in ancient embroidery with her eyes closed, and silently pushed her treasured embroidery fabric to the In front of her, a broken silk fan unearthed in Dunhuang was repaired to the key points. The two of them stayed up for three days and three nights in front of the microscope. She was so tired that she fell asleep on the table. He wrapped her in his robe and gently brushed away the silk threads in her hair with his fingertips. Later, someone questioned her that "folk craftsmanship cannot reach the level of elegance." He stood at the cultural relics appraisal meeting, holding up the embroidery she restored and said: "The soul of cultural relics is in the craftsmanship, and her stitching is the best inheritance."
