Three years ago, she was a brilliant rising star in design, betrayed by her closest friend. Her graduation project was stolen, her reputation ruined, and she was forced to leave home. Three years later, she returns in force with a masterpiece that represents the pinnacle of Eastern aesthetics, setting her sights on the chief designer position at the Xie Group and vowing to reclaim everything that belongs to her.
Ruan Xingzhu thought talent alone would be enough to pierce the gloom, but she never expected Gu Nian, the vicious rival, to keep hounding her. From deliberate sabotage at the final review to underhanded attacks after she joins the company, from malicious interference at Paris Fashion Week to a devastating blow in an international business battle, Gu Nian uses her family’s influence to close in step by step, determined to drag her back into the abyss.
But Ruan Xingzhu is no longer the pushover everyone could walk all over. With Su embroidery as her blade and craftsmanship as her armor, she exposes accusations of plagiarism, fights back against quality-control traps, roots out a traitor in the workplace, and dazzles the world with Eastern design on the international stage.
And Xie Zhaoye, the Xie family’s aloof and ruthless head, as the rumors describe him, repeatedly stands up for her. From pushing her into the chief designer role against all opposition to weathering business storms at her side, he goes from a partner in perfect sync with her to a man swept up in love, becoming her strongest support.
“Go ahead and charge forward. I’ll block every arrow aimed at you.”
“My designs have never feared a challenge, and no one gets to dictate how I live my life.”
A battle between good and evil that runs from beginning to end, and a love story between two formidable equals that begins at each other’s side. When a design genius meets a business tycoon, and traditional aesthetics collide with modern fashion, watch Ruan Xingzhu wield her Starblade, expose falsehoods, and forge ahead as she carves out a brilliant path of her own in both the fashion world and matters of the heart!
