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In Song-dynasty Suzhou, a bankrupt embroidery widow turns ten brothers into a corporate empire — one shoe at a time.

Su Jinxiu inherits a bankrupt shoe workshop and a craft that no one remembers how to value. Her secret weapon is double-sided color-shift embroidery. Her business plan is to ally with the ten Shen brothers: a bodyguard, a tea-merchant, a banker, a courier captain. Within two years she is supplying the imperial court. Within five, she is rewriting the imperial regulations on craftsmanship.