Shen Zhiyi, the daughter of a Jiangnan silk merchant, knew from birth that she was a "commodity" - she was carefully cultivated by her family just to marry into a high family in exchange for shelter.
At the age of her hair, she was promised to the son of Huang Shang as she wished. On the day of the wedding, the sedan chair came to the door, but what was waiting was a divorce note and ridicule from all over the city: the Shen family's fleet sank, the family was in decline, and her "chess piece" instantly became an abandoned piece.
Faced with a desperate situation, Shen Zhiyi tore up the letter of divorce, took off his phoenix crown in public, and said loudly: "Today's humiliation will be repaid a hundred times better in the future."
Starting from pawning a pearl hairpin, she returned to the silk industry. Use the beautiful thoughts learned in the boudoir to weave the strange situation in the shopping mall. She opened a weaving workshop, opened a sea route, established a business name, and sold Jiangnan Yunjin brocade all over the world. She also single-handedly created the "Jinyi" to transmit information, invisibly weaving a huge information network.
When the imperial merchants who regretted their marriage in the past, the old clan who suppressed her, and even the emperor on the dragon throne all began to rush to buy a piece of "Shen's Cloud Brocade", Shen Zhiyi stood on the top of the brocade and whispered with a smile:
"Everyone knows that the sharpest blade in the world is never a sword, but a strand of beautiful silk thread that can cut mountains and rivers and bind dragon veins."
Purpose: This is a novel that uses the shell of ancient proverbs about business war to explore "how women construct their own subjectivity in systemic dilemmas" and "how business civilization reshapes social relations." On the surface, it is a refreshing article about "slap in the face and counterattack", but at its core, it is a modern reflection on traditional gender narratives, business ethics, and the path to social advancement.