In the late years of the Nanliang Dynasty, when the war started, the Tao Family Embroidery Workshop next to Taoye Ferry in Jinling City was the only elegant place in the city. Tao Qing, the owner of the workshop, is seventeen years old. Her double-sided embroidery skills are unparalleled in the south of the Yangtze River. The peach blossoms she embroiders can attract butterflies and koi fish swim in the water. What is even more rare is that she has studied classics and history with her grandfather since she was a child.
During the Lantern Festival, in order to deliver embroidery for her grandfather, Tao Qing accidentally entered the Forbidden Army's martial arts field and met the young general Shen Yanzhi unexpectedly. Shen Yanzhi was born into a poor family, and was appreciated by the prince for his martial arts skills. Although he showed his talents in the beginning, he was repeatedly ostracized by the family. Tao Qing used an embroidery needle as a pen to embroider a breastplate bag with a military formation embedded in it for him; Shen Yanzhi held a sword as a shield and stood up when she was being made trouble by the dandy. The peach blossoms in Taoyedu bloomed and fell, and the two secretly fell in love. Shen Yanzhi accepted a silver peach leaf hairpin forged by himself and promised to marry her when the border was settled.
However, the imperial edict suddenly arrived, and Shen Yanzhi was ordered to lead troops to help the northern border. Before leaving, he said goodbye to Tao Qing at Taoye Crossing. The long river flowed away, carrying the promise. In the years that followed, Tao Qing kept her embroidery workshop and her promise, exchanging embroidery for food and rice to help the refugees, and secretly conveyed the military situation in the north through embroidery patterns - she embroidered the enemy's defenses into brocade handkerchiefs, and passed them to the prince's cronies through merchants.
