Embroiderer's Escape

Lin Shuilian, a talented embroiderer from Shu, sells herself to become the contract mother of the Third Master of the Pei Mansion, Pei Yan, to save her mother. After giving birth to her son Yuan Ge'er, she thought she could secure her freedom with the money, but instead gets dragged into the Pei Mansion's sinister plot to 'leave the mother and keep the child' and Pei Yan's obsessive possession. After five years of enduring, escaping, and scheming, she rebirths in Yuanzhou using her embroidery skills, only to be forcibly kidnapped back to the capital by Pei Yan. In the end, Lin Shuilian resolutely defies him, flees alone on a boat into the river mist, breaks free from the golden cage, and rushes toward her own freedom.