The Embroidered Shoes by the Road

The Embroidered Shoes by the Road Plot:

Lin Xiaoman, an old object restorer, picks up a pair of red embroidered shoes with twin lotuses late at night when closing her stall—the uppers are pilled, but the toe is mended with a new plum blossom in gold thread. Following a half-torn old love letter tucked in the shoe, she stumbles into the “time maze” of an Alzheimer’s elderly woman: the old lady clutches the shoes and sobs, “This is what I wore on my wedding day,” yet the name of her husband, missing for fifty years, matches the childhood nickname of Xiaoman’s late grandfather exactly. When Xiaoman uses her restoration skills to reveal the hidden patterns inside the shoes, a secret buried for half a century finally surfaces—this pair of shoes is an “unfinished promise” spanning two generations.