Lin Jinxi is a descendant of the Shu embroidery family during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. An accident caused her to travel through time and space and fall into Chengdu in the 21st century. When she opened her eyes, she found that she was a college student majoring in embroidery who came from a poor family and was about to drop out of school.
Amid the roar of modern industry, Shu embroidery, a thousand-year-old skill, is facing the crisis of being lost. Machine embroidery is rampant, and fewer and fewer people are willing to devote themselves to learning embroidery. Lin Jinxi's modern identity is a "waste" student who was abandoned by her tutor and ridiculed by her classmates, bearing the label of "no talent".
But when she held the embroidery needle, she seemed to hold the entire past life. Double-sided embroidery, different-color embroidery, special-shaped embroidery... Those long-lost stitches are resurrected at her fingertips. The koi she embroidered can "swim", the peonies she embroidered can "scent", and the panda she embroidered is so naive that it seems to roll off the silk cloth.
From the blockbuster success of the campus embroidery exhibition to the stunning appearance at the Shu Embroidery Cultural Festival; from being questioned for "plagiarizing ancient methods" to using her strength to prove that she is a "living inheritance"; from the gold medal at the domestic intangible cultural heritage expo to becoming a cultural ambassador representing China to the world - Lin Jinxi used an embroidery needle to embroider her own inheritance path in modern society.
On this road, she met Gu Yanzhi, an intangible cultural heritage protection expert with a cold appearance but a hot heart. He initially questioned her origins, but was impressed by her skills; he witnessed every breakthrough she made and protected her from the world. Two souls who also love traditional skills embroidered the most beautiful love between stitches and threads.
