Lin Zhixia, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, tore up her marriage contract three times and vowed not to be a pawn in the family marriage. Trapped in a boudoir, after spying on the conspiracy between her father and powerful officials, she used chess games to deliver secret messages, used account books to expose her stepmother's conspiracy, used embroidery to build an intelligence network, and quietly laid out the plan amidst heavy shackles. When she faked her death and escaped, she transformed into "Su Tang", the daughter of a merchant, and met Lu Zhao, the banker in the market, and a women's awakening movement that subverted the era began.
She opened a rouge shop and secretly built an intelligence base, studied the law to regain dowries for women, improved embroidery methods to monopolize the capital market, and promoted the imperial court to hold the first female official examination. Pei Yan, her childhood sweetheart, paranoidly tried to restrain her with old feelings and family secrets, but Lu Zhao always overcame obstacles for her as an equal. In fierce court debates with conservative forces and life-and-death battles with foreign collaborators, Lin Zhixia led thousands of women to break through the shackles of the "three obediences and four virtues" and burnt the old rule that "a woman's lack of talent is a virtue."
From the boudoir embroidery building to the Golden Palace, from commercial wars to diplomatic affairs, let's see how the resourceful Lin Zhixia rewrites the script of fate, breaks the millennium shackles, and carves out a sky of her own for women in a male-dominated world. Together with Lu Zhao, who walks hand in hand, they write an equal and passionate legend.
Purpose: Women should not be restrained