The Splendid Land of the Ming Dynasty

Lin Siwei, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Suzhou embroidery, had only just transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty when she became the daughter of a convicted minister. Her family was confiscated and she was registered as a lowly commoner. But she wielded her needle like a blade, rising from the very bottom to become a first-rank Madam Xiu'an, embroidering the vast mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty...