Nanjing Central Shopping Mall is a symbol of "modern" consumerism in the Republic of China. In order to cater to new women, Baoqing Silver House launched the "Twelve Hairpins" series - twelve styles of gold jewelry named after characters in "A Dream of Red Mansions", one released every month. Shaodongjia is responsible for the design, but is trapped in the contradiction between business and art. After closing one night, he discovered that a woman was stealing the drawings of the "Daiyu Burial Flower" hairpin - she was the only daughter of a well-known embroidery family in Zhenhu, Suzhou. She fled to Nanjing to escape an arranged marriage and made a living by imitating embroidered handkerchiefs. She stole the drawings to confirm that Baoqing Yinlou's latest series copied her family's ancestral "double-sided embroidery" pattern, which was the last work left by her mother before she committed suicide. The two reached an agreement: he would help her find out the chain of plagiarism, and she would teach him the true meaning of traditional patterns. During the twelve-month, twelve-model jewelry release cycle, they gradually discovered that behind the "plagiarism" was a family feud that spanned twenty years, and that the drawings of the "Daiyu Hairpin" contained the real last words left by her mother - a code about the inheritance of women's skills.
