The Jingde Beauty Is Framed in Public

At the end of the Qing dynasty, the kilns of Jingdezhen blazed so fiercely they could produce the priceless Cui Mao Blue, yet hid filthy schemes that devoured lives! A leading scholar of ceramics opens her eyes to find herself in the body of Han Yaoniang, a fourteen-year-old girl from a poor pottery-making family in Imperial Kiln Alley. Her family is a complete mess: her father has gambled away their fortune, her sister-in-law bullies and exploits her every day, her fiancé has died unexpectedly, and her enemies are even forcing her to die with him to repay a debt! The original Han Yaoniang was timid and easily bullied. But she has a complete set of lost glaze recipes, exceptional expertise in appraising porcelain, and half of a secret glaze manual left behind by her grandfather. As she grinds porcelain clay and mixes blue pigment, she single-handedly restores the long-lost Cui Mao Blue, dazzling the entire kiln alley. But that draws countless plots against her: kiln managers frame her with malicious accusations, unscrupulous merchants lay deadly traps, and the old injustice that drove her grandfather away in disgrace begins to emerge, layer by layer, with each shade of glaze. Someone in the shadows secretly swaps her blue pigment to ruin her porcelain. Her fellow artisans publicly stage a fake accident to accuse her of stealing their recipe. Wolves from every side take turns trying to crush the livelihood of one woman. Clay and fire for her bones, glaze for her blade! Han Yaoniang will no longer suffer in silence. With her unparalleled porcelain-making skills, she tears through every conspiracy, exposes the mastermind, clears her ancestors' names after decades of injustice, and makes the Cui Mao Blue, lost for a hundred years, famous throughout the land. So what if every kiln worker on the streets is a man? Even as a seemingly frail woman, she will fire a world of her own in Jingdezhen's porcelain empire!