Author's statement: This story is purely fictitious and any similarity is purely random writing.
An Liuyu, the fifteenth prince of Dahua, went south to investigate a huge corruption case of 70 million taels in Yangzhou. On his way back to Beijing, he was intercepted and killed one after another. Behind the scenes was the shocking plan of the four princes to covet the imperial power.
Ning Ruxue, the daughter of the loyal cloth merchant Ning Zhongguo, met the prince during a crisis and secretly made love to her. However, her own cloth shop was monopolized dyes and maliciously blocked by the fourth prince's confidants, and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
The counselor hides his identity as a time traveler from Chong, possesses advanced weaving and dyeing skills, and can see through all the opponent's plots at a glance; the enemy Du Zhong is also a visitor from another world, and the two time travelers compete for power and business.
The party struggle in the court and the business war in the market go hand in hand. As the prince purges the traitor and the Ning family breaks through the predicament, two people from another world take their own positions and use the cinnabar brocade as a guide to stir up the ups and downs of the entire capital.
