Kesi Embers

In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, Shanghai was in turmoil and undercurrents were surging. The Shen family, the top Kesi family in the south of the Yangtze River, was wiped out overnight. All their skills and secret books were missing. Only the legitimate daughter Shen Zhiwei escaped by chance and disappeared from the world. Three years later, Shen Zhiwei changed her name and returned to Shanghai as an ordinary embroiderer. She hid in the Linglong Embroidery Workshop in the old city, held a shuttle at her fingertips, and resumed the old art of Kesi. She seems to be low-key and tolerant, but in fact she is studying half of the fragments left by her family day and night, looking for clues to the tragedy of her family's annihilation from the tapestry patterns. At this time, bizarre murders occurred one after another in Shanghai: many wealthy businessmen who had possession of ancient embroidery cultural relics died mysteriously, and the rare embroidery items disappeared from their homes. There was a trace of blood-stained tapestry silk thread next to the deceased. Chief Inspector Lu Yanci of the patrol room was ordered to investigate the serial murder case thoroughly. All clues pointed to the long-lost Shen family's silk tapestry skills, which also led to an unexpected encounter between him and Shen Zhiwei. One is an orphaned girl who seeks revenge and possesses unique skills, and the other is a detective who firmly solves the case and cares about his family and country. When they first met, they were full of wariness and temptation. They were suspicious of each other but had to join forces. As the investigation deepens, the murder case in the embroidery workshop, the smuggling of cultural relics, family secrets, and the truth about the family's extermination are intertwined. Gu Mingshan's mask of hypocrisy is gradually torn away, Shen Zhiwei's true identity is in danger, and Lu Yanci is also caught in the dilemma between good and evil and love. In the ups and downs of troubled times, tapestry serves as a guide and bloody cases serve as threads. The two stood side by side in life and death crises, from guarding each other to loving each other. Shen Zhiwei solved the mystery with the silk tapestry at her fingertips, and Lu Yanci protected her with all his courage, and finally joined forces to expose the truth.