In her past life, she was the lowliest concubine maid in the Gu household. Her husband treated her like a plaything, and in the end, she burned the handkerchief her childhood sweetheart had given her and walked into despair.
In this life, she is reborn as a girl with congenital heart disease. When she wakes, the cold light of the operating room has barely faded. Her name is Su Yunzhi. She has frail hands and a lost embroidery art etched into her soul.
At the final of an international Chinese-style fashion design competition, she demonstrates the long-lost gold couching embroidery, lost to history for a hundred years. Golden thread flows beneath her fingertips, and butterflies spread their wings across the silk. After a stunned silence, the hall erupts in thunderous applause.
But Gu Yanze, heir to the Gu Group, challenges her from the judges’ table: “Where exactly did you learn this technique?”
She looks at the face identical to that of her husband in her past life and smiles.
“Mr. Gu, are you sure you really want to know the answer?”
What she doesn’t know is that the archaeology professor at the far left of the judges’ table, the one who just knocked over his teacup, is the boy who gave her the handkerchief in her past life. He doesn’t remember her, but he recognizes her stitches.
He says, “I’ve studied ancient textile history for ten years, and I’ve never seen a living ‘needle-bearer.’”
Once, she knelt and begged to survive. Now she stands, reborn.
Family, friendship, love, and career: this time, she’ll embroider it all back, stitch by stitch.
And it’s time someone revealed the secret behind the Gu family’s “century-old brand.”
