Liu Sanniang’s life goals are simple: keep her little embroidery shop, save money, enjoy her retirement, and be a happy, wealthy single woman. But things don’t go as planned. A gang of thugs has just moved into the eastern part of town. Today they demand protection money, tomorrow they harass the young embroiderers, and the day after that they might as well carve “I run this neighborhood” into their foreheads. Report them? The constables are in league with them. Put up with it? They’ll only get worse. Liu Sanniang takes a deep breath, quietly digs out the savings she’s put away for three years, grits her teeth and stamps her foot...
Then she joins the shabbiest martial arts school on the neighboring street, the Iron Fist School.
From then on, Liu Sanniang leads a bizarre double life, wielding a needle by day and throwing punches by night.
By day, she’s the gentle and charming Boss Liu, who can embroider a double-sided koi design in different colors on each side.
By night, she’s a rookie student holding a horse stance while her master whips her with a rattan switch until she grimaces in pain.
Xie, the capital’s most notorious spoiled young lord, has recently become obsessed with the embroidery from the Yunjin Embroidery Shop. He drops by every few days, hoping to win the beautiful, nimble-fingered proprietress’s heart.
He thinks she’s a delicate flower, as frail as a willow, in need of his protection.
Until one day, he sees with his own eyes that his helpless little flower narrows her eyes and, with one swift shoulder throw, slams a burly troublemaker who came to cause a scene right in front of him.
The brute foams at the mouth. Liu Sanniang dusts off her hands, turns to him with a sweet smile, and says, “Oh dear, Young Master Xie. Sorry, my hand slipped.”
Young Master Xie: “...”
Help! My delicate little flower looks like she could punch a bull to death!
