The Xie family, a well-known embroidery family in the south of the Yangtze River, wants to betroth the most talented embroiderer from the branch, Shen Zhiyun, to Tong Fan, the boss of the local government, as Xuxian in order to cling to the powerful. Shen Zhiyun accepted it meekly on the surface, but secretly used the embroidery work of a "serious illness and collapse" to expose the scandal of the owner's shoddy goods and embezzlement of ink tributes. He used this as a bargaining chip in exchange for the opportunity to enter the family embroidery workshop and establish a female household on her own. With her superb "double-sided and three different embroidery" skills, she became a sensation in the Beijing Embroidery Competition, won back the family's reputation, and expanded the family business from silk and satin in the inner house to palace tributes and ocean-going merchant ships. In the process, she and Xie Linyuan, the young master who is regarded as the family's "waste game" and only knows how to fight cockfighting lackeys, use each other and are suspicious of each other, and then jointly fight against the corrupt forces within the family (suppression by the aunt, scheming by uncles, coveting by relatives) and external business rivals. Shen Zhiyun not only used business wisdom to revitalize the Xie family's industry, but also promoted technological innovation, founded a women's weaver school, and trained a group of female backbones in the handicraft industry. In the end, she joined hands with Xie Linyuan, who had wiped out his reputation and demonstrated his true business and strategic talents, to completely reform the family's shortcomings and transform the Xie family from the outdated position of "noble plaything" to a Jiangnan handicraft giant with leading technology and outstanding reputation. She herself also grew from a manipulated "brocade weaver" to a "head of the family" who truly holds power and defines value.
