At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Suzhou's brocade industry was monopolized by the government and wealthy gentry. Because Su Wan's family refused to join the powerful, the weaving workshop was set on fire and her father was unjustly imprisoned. In order to save her father and revive the family business, Su Wan relied on the family's "cloud silk weaving method" and decided to weave the "Hundred Birds Worshiping the Phoenix Brocade" and used the tribute as an opportunity to meet with the Queen Mother to redress her grievances. On the way, she ran into Lu Jingyuan, an anti-Yuan strategist disguised as a businessman, and the two became allies because of their common enemy. Su Wan used brocade as a blade to hide anti-Yuan intelligence; Lu Jingyuan used a sword as a shield to protect her from the pursuit of the wealthy gentry. Going through hardships along the way, Su Wan not only improved her weaving skills in desperate situations, but also connected weavers in the south of the Yangtze River with stitches and threads, and finally succeeded in overturning her father's case and spreading the "cloud silk weaving method" to the people.
