Ten years of love shattered by a single divorce letter. The reason was only five words: “No heirs, a disgrace to the Lu family.”
Shen Jinshu knelt outside the Lu estate all night, bowing three times before severing all ties. Everyone thought she would die. She didn’t.
With three needles and four colors of thread, she made her way to the capital. From a discarded wife trampled underfoot to the “Greatest Embroiderer Under Heaven,” famous throughout the capital, she used a single needle to stitch herself into someone he could never reach again.
Later, he came to beg for forgiveness.
She simply said, “The red thread is broken. It can’t be mended.”
