Shen Zhiyu is a modern embroidery restorer. After a sudden transformation, she became the little embroiderer who was despised by everyone in the embroidery workshop in Suzhou during the Republic of China. She was being designed to marry a widower, but she amazed everyone with her acupuncture skills that spanned the ages. Not only did she break off the engagement, she was also spotted by Pei Licheng, the second master of the Pei family in Peking. Pei Licheng, who is also the antiquities appraisal committee member of the Forbidden City, is cold, self-denying and unkind, but he makes an exception for her and invites her to Beijing to restore the national treasure.
Troubled times are approaching, and the Japanese army is approaching. The road to move the cultural relics of the Forbidden City southward is also the road to protect the treasures. Shen Zhiyu used a needle as a blade to decipher the thousand-year code hidden in the embroidery; Pei Licheng stayed with her with his life, but in order to protect her at the critical moment of life and death, he denied the engagement in public, saying that she was just a "hired embroiderer". She left in despair, only to find out that he was dead and began a clumsy and long journey to chase his wife.
From the misty rain in Suzhou to the night rain in Bashan, from the secret battle in the embroidered pavilion to the beacon smoke on the battlefield, a seamless brocade hides the continuous context and protects the old friends of the mountains and rivers.
