After graduating, fashion designer Ouyang Yu joined Yunjinji, spending every day revising designs and running around fabric markets like a cog in a machine. At a university reunion, she wore a modified qipao she'd made herself, its cuffs sewn with the dates of her final exams over four years. No one noticed. When Zhang Xiaofeng arrived late, she recognized the stitching on his trench coat at a glance: it was a stitch from a practice design she'd thrown away in her junior year. He had become the founder of the emerging brand Nili, and their two companies were locked in a fierce dispute over plagiarism. Sent to his store to gather evidence, she was exposed in the fitting room when he said, "You always leave a 0.5-centimeter seam allowance in the lining." As it turned out, he had known her far longer than she ever imagined. Two vintage qipaos, two generations of grudges, and a fashion week destined to decide a winner and a loser pushed them to opposite shores, then brought them together. As the truth slowly came to light, she finally understood: for four years, he had never sat in the back row to look at the blackboard.
