After We Broke Up, I Used an Intangible Cultural Heritage Umbrella to Make Him Lose Miserably

After suffering betrayal in both her career and her relationship, cultural relic restorer Song Zhiyi returns to an ancient town in Jiangnan, heartbroken, only to be forced to take over her family's century-old umbrella workshop, drowning in debt.

Her former lover, Lu Jingchuan, has become a sharp blade in the hands of a business tycoon. He returns with a flawless acquisition plan and a warm smile that hides his true intentions. "Sell Tingzhuxuan to me. It's the best solution."

With a family traitor lurking nearby, raw materials cut off, artisans poached, and the workshop mysteriously set ablaze, the business is pushed to the brink.

Then Song Zhiyi deciphers her mother's unfinished manuscript and creates an umbrella that defies expectations: a "photosynthetic umbrella" that can glow in sunlight and even charge itself.

At the ancient town's festival, the whole event is livestreamed.

She opens the umbrella, bringing a century-old piece of intangible cultural heritage back to life with the light of technology.

She reveals the evidence, exposing the conspiracy between the people inside and outside the family in broad daylight.

Facing the cameras and her ex-boyfriend's icy stare, she says, word by word:

"Director Lu, tell me, which is worth more now: the worthless old sign you wanted to acquire, or the 'spark' in my hands that can light up the future?"

This is the ultimate wager between tradition and capital, craftsmanship and scheming.

After their breakup, he thought all she had left was a shattered past. But with one umbrella, she won back her world.