Peony and Code on Cheongsam

Grandma's old cheongsam was burned in the New York fire, leaving only half of the skirt. Lin Wei inherited the blood of Shanghai's old tailors, but used AI algorithms to simulate the peony pattern under her grandmother's needles. Her grandmother angrily accused her of blaspheming tradition: "What does a machine know about flower souls?" When the algorithm-generated "New Peony" caused controversy at the Paris haute couture show, Lin Wei received an anonymous package. Inside is the other half of the lapel of my grandmother's cheongsam, embroidered with a secret that my grandmother has never shown: a rebellious peony in her youth, sketched using Western sketching techniques. The AI ​​scan revealed a deeper code - the unspoken farewell between my grandmother and a foreign lover.