Thrown out by her husband's family, seamstress Lin Qiaoyun can hear what old clothes remember. From a street-side mending stall she restyles cast-offs into the county's most coveted fashions — until the family that discarded her kneels at her shop, begging her to sew a wedding dress. A complete 100-chapter 1980s comeback story.
被夫家扫地出门的裁缝媳妇,靠一双能“读出衣服心事”的手,从街边改裤脚的摊子做起,把一件件旧衣裳改成全县城抢着穿的爆款,最后让当初休她的婆家跪着来求她做嫁衣。
Chapters Chapter 1: Waking in the Woodshed Chapter 2: A Worn-Out Jacket Chapter 3: Words Inside the Thimble Chapter 4: The First Alteration Fee Chapter 5: The Wool Overcoat Chapter 6: The Unworn Wedding Dress Chapter 7: Private Work Goes Public Chapter 8: The Cloth Supply Cut Off Chapter 9: The Qipao's Owner Chapter 10: The Man Who Came to Inspect Chapter 11: Gossip at the Street Corner Chapter 12: The Sewing Machine Chapter 13: The Smiling Tiger Chapter 14: Two Hundred School Uniforms Chapter 15: Who Threw the Water Chapter 16: Finished in One Night Chapter 17: The Thousand-Piece Threshold Chapter 18: Snatching the Order Chapter 19: The Missing Sample Chapter 20: Stitches That Speak Chapter 21: Half a Shop Chapter 22: Rules Set Over Taken-Apart Clothes Chapter 23: The Late Mother's Qipao Chapter 24: Backstock Turned Bestseller Chapter 25: Three Cartloads of Old Clothes Chapter 26: Old Clothes Sold Out Chapter 27: Boiling Cloth in the Street Chapter 28: Skill Keeps People Chapter 29: The Smiling Tiger Comes Calling Chapter 30: The License on the Wall Chapter 31: Two Hundred Pieces Stolen Away Chapter 32: Disdain Read at a Touch Chapter 33: A Wedding Dress from the Bottom of the Chest Chapter 34: The Unlicensed Tailor Chapter 35: Auntie Zhou's Conditions Chapter 36: The Department Store's Trial Order Chapter 37: Xiaoman's Trouble Chapter 38: A Pair of Mandarin Ducks Chapter 39: A Dead Person's Clothes Chapter 40: Three Hundred Pieces Chapter 41: The Department Store Viewing Chapter 42: Ten Orders Become Twenty Chapter 43: One Stitch Exposes the Fake Chapter 44: First Order from the Ladies' Circle Chapter 45: Auntie Zhou Inspects the Work Chapter 46: A Win-Win Order Chapter 47: The Split That Broke the Table Chapter 48: Xiaoman Enters the Red Star Factory Chapter 49: Three Patterns Missing Chapter 50: The Copycat Sign at the Door Chapter 51: Shen Yan Suspended Chapter 52: Slipping into the Red Star Workshop Chapter 53: A Complaint Letter and a Wave of Cancellations Chapter 54: A Forged Seal Chapter 55: A Base Order Wins Hearts Chapter 56: The Way to Return Cloth Chapter 57: The Night Before the Trade Fair Chapter 58: Trying It On in Public Chapter 59: The Smiling Tiger Begs Chapter 60: The Branch Shop Opens Chapter 61: Clothes from the Prefecture City Chapter 62: A Ten-Day Deadline Chapter 63: One Person, One Needle, One Bundle Chapter 64: The Shop Under the Stairs Chapter 65: The Lady Returning Clothes Chapter 66: The Stairwell Shop Makes Its Name Chapter 67: The Smiling Tiger's Web Chapter 68: The Cloth Cut-Off Chapter 69: The Buyer's Dilemma Chapter 70: The Patchwork-Flower Robe Chapter 71: The Sealing-Up Scare Chapter 72: Half a Warehouse Missing Chapter 73: The Mole Chapter 74: Inspecting the Goods Chapter 75: The Sign Goes Up Chapter 76: A Lawyer's Letter Chapter 77: The Old Embroidress Chapter 78: Stitches in Court Chapter 79: The Night Before the Counter Opens Chapter 80: The Patterns Leak Out Chapter 81: The Smiling Tiger Returns to Town Chapter 82: The Brand Name Snatched Chapter 83: Counterfeits Split at the Seams Chapter 84: Cutting Cloth by Moonlight Chapter 85: A Seal on the Shop Door Chapter 86: Xiaoman Infiltrates the Rival Factory Chapter 87: Auntie Zhou Slaps Down the Sign Chapter 88: Turning the Tables at the Trade Fair Chapter 89: Auntie Zhou's Test Chapter 90: Poaching at Midnight Chapter 91: Two Identical Cotton Jackets Chapter 92: A Business License Chapter 93: The Threshold of the Sample Viewing Chapter 94: Three Days and Nights for One Garment Chapter 95: Intercepted on the Steps Chapter 96: The Sample Garment Swapped Chapter 97: Tearing Apart the Counterfeit in Public Chapter 98: The Fifty-Piece Pact Chapter 99: Bitten Back at the Accountability Hearing Chapter 100: One Cut Reveals the Truth