Chu Ci's Hidden Embroidery

Chu Ling, a socially anxious inheritor of Han embroidery, takes on an antique wedding dress from the Qing Dynasty. But when she unpicks the lining, she discovers three layers of hidden embroidery: Qing Dynasty gold-thread couching, encrypted double-sided embroidery from the late Ming and early Qing, and character-hiding openwork locking stitch from the Warring States period. When her fingertips touch the ancient locking stitch, she sees a vision of Jing Heng, a Chu State embroiderer from two thousand years ago, weeping blood as she sews. After a villain burns and cripples Chu Ling's right hand, she switches to blind embroidery with her left and joins forces with criminal investigation captain Jiang Xun to crack the coded variants of the Nine Songs and fight Pei Yunjin, a genius embroiderer consumed by hatred born of love. One wedding dress, embroidery techniques from three dynasties, a thousand years of cultural heritage. The thread must not break.