The Qing Dynasty Imperial Weaving Bureau: A Nimble Hand Embroiders the World

Beneath the Hall of Golden Chimes in the Forbidden City lies another empire: the Imperial Weaving Bureau.

It forges no weapons, yet oversees the royal family’s prestige and the economic lifeblood of the empire.

Su Jinshu, daughter of the Suzhou textile commissioner, is forced to enter this splendid battlefield.

Amid the stormy struggle among nine princes for the throne, armed with a ledger no one else can decipher and a flower-embroidered needle,

she seeks a way to survive in the narrow space between imperial power, ministers, and family, and to break a deadly impasse.

A single thread can embroider mountains and rivers, or bind a life.

Su Jinshu only wants to be an ordinary embroiderer, but her peerless needlework earns her a place in the palace.

She thinks the struggles of the inner palace are nothing more than undercurrents beneath the embroidery needle.

It is only when her own family is falsely accused that she realizes the imperial city is a man-eating snare.

If that is the case, she will wield her needle as a sword and use her thread to plot.

Amid splendid brocades, she will weave a game of life and death of her own.