This Villain Has Quiet Stitches

Jinyan is pinning fresh ribbons to the morning bouquets when the first wrong thing happens. A customer asks for white lilies for a hospital bed, and she sees at once that the stems were cut by shaking hands. That kind of detail keeps her alive. It also feeds the needlework she has practiced since childhood, the calm female method that turns thread, breath, and exact touch into power. She has pushed that method farther than her school ever meant it to go, and now her stitches start carrying messages no one else can read. When the team at the safehouse begins to fracture, Jinyan becomes the one person who can still hide a warning inside cloth. But her careful habits hide a deep crack. She left...