The Ladder of Old Clothes

Name: The Ladder of Old Clothes
Author: Drinking Alone by Moonlight

旧衣天梯

by Drinking Alone by Moonlight (月光下独酌)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 633k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Workplace & Marriage
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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At twenty-eight, Shen Zhi went from design director at an international fashion brand to an outcast in the industry. She refused to plagiarize and exposed the company’s dirty secrets, only to face a multimillion-yuan lawsuit and betrayal by her boyfriend. In a rental room in an urban village, an old-clothes recycling bin and a pair of ripped jeans sparked a makeover video that went viral overnight. Her cousin arrived with a suitcase. Laid-off garment workers came, then a senior from college quit her job to join them. In a run-down warehouse, a veteran tailor from Shaoxing used twenty-seven pairs of old jeans to develop the first multicolored recycled fabric. They built an industrial park, raised a wall of rebirth, won an international lawsuit, and turned their old-clothes recycling standards into international standards. From an urban village to the United Nations, from being told, “You don’t belong,” to telling everyone, “You do”, the needle never stopped, and the light is still being woven.

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