As the heir to a family renowned for Su embroidery, Shen Yuxiu shoulders responsibility for the family garment factory after her mother passes away. But fortune is against her: skyrocketing shipping costs weigh like a mountain on the business, pushing it to the brink of collapse. On the night she decides to return to custom embroidery work so she can pay her employees in full, an unexpected visitor knocks at her door.
The visitor is strangely dressed, and his words and manner are even more unsettling. He asks for no wages, only a meal and a place to sleep. Shen Yuxiu initially assumes he is mentally ill, but soon realizes that perhaps she is the one who is truly "abnormal."
Overnight, the broad, smooth, eight-meter-wide asphalt road outside her home mysteriously transforms into a Republican-era street steeped in the spirit of its time...
