[Two powerful men in the Republic of China disguise their strange love | A suspenseful elegy for family and country in troubled times]
In 1925, the year of the Beiyang Separatism, in Linshui Town, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, everyone knew that there was a meek and pitiful blind embroiderer named Shen Tinglan in the Shen family embroidery workshop.
No one knows that during the year that Bai Ling covered her eyes, she relied on her extraordinary hearing and memory to collect evidence of crime under the eyes of the enemy who killed her father. The embroidery needle on the fingertips is not only a craft to make a living, but also a sharp tool to seal one's throat. Under the soft skin is the loneliness and cruelty that has been endured for a year.
In an accident, she rescued Huo Qi, a down-and-out businessman who was covered in blood, and a contract marriage began with each person having their own plans. She thought she had an innocent chess piece, and he thought he had found a perfect cover for his identity, until they both had a showdown on their wedding night - she was an orphan from the chamber of commerce who avenged her father, and he was the young marshal of the Huo family army who was betrayed and faked his death.
The two were shocked to realize that the foreign arms smuggling network they were tracking each other pointed to the same mastermind. From using each other to walking side by side, the embroidery needle and Browning tore apart layers of conspiracies in the war of troubled times, protecting not only the precarious home and country, but also each other.
