I’ll Crown You Upon the Ruins

[Mutual devotion | Secret love comes true | Rekindled love | Heroine’s comeback | Healing] Lin Wanxing was once the darling of her school, admired by everyone. Then a fire destroyed her family and disfigured her face. Now she survives by working at a private club, always wearing a mask. At a class reunion, her former “friends” publicly demand that she take off her mask for their amusement. Amid the jeers and humiliation, a man slowly rises from his seat by the private room’s entrance. Lu Jin. The taciturn, gloomy boy from back then is now a powerful rising star in the business world. His gaze sweeps across the room like a blade. “How dare you think you’re worthy of seeing her face?” He pushes an outrageously lucrative contract toward her. “I want your face to become the center of the world again.” She thinks it’s just a transaction, but gradually she begins to realize that the umbrellas that appeared out of nowhere, the gloves no one ever claimed, and his lingering gaze in their graduation photo were all part of this boy’s silent, seven-year-long unrequited love. “What do you want from me?” she asks, her voice trembling. He takes off his glasses, revealing the obsession he has kept hidden. “You. I’ve wanted you since I was seventeen.” Later, she wins Best Actress for her “aesthetics of scars.” At the awards ceremony, the malice resurfaces: “She’s just a pathetic nobody who made it by relying on her looks.” He kneels on one knee and places a crown of stars on her head, declaring to the whole world: “The right to define beauty has never belonged to the mediocre.” “And from the moment she is crowned, ” “It belongs to every day, every moment, every heartbeat that I love her.” “Don’t be afraid to fall into the dust, my princess.” “I’ll polish your crown for you.”