Scars and Ashes

Revenge-Seeking Heiress with a New Face ✖️ Dark, Cunning Young Master

Five years ago, Song Xinran protected him and was left with a permanent knife scar on her right leg. The two promised to register their marriage and spend their lives together.

But their happiness came to an abrupt end. The night before they were to register, she suddenly learned that her sister had died unjustly in a foreign country, with hidden clues pointing to the Jin family. To uncover the truth and avenge her sister, she painfully severed every tie, left for overseas that very night, underwent complete plastic surgery, concealed her identity, and vanished without a trace.

After five years in hiding, she returns, reborn.

To use the Jin family’s power to investigate the old case, she carefully lays her plans and agrees to a business marriage with Jin Yu, the eldest son of the Jin family.

Everyone envies her for marrying a good man. Only she knows the truth: from beginning to end, this engagement is just a transaction.

But she never imagined that the man she loved five years ago would tear through every disguise at their engagement banquet, recognizing her by that one identical old scar.

He sees through her restraint, her schemes, and every reason she came back. Her abrupt departure five years ago wasn’t a betrayal; she had been forced to flee.

From then on, Jin Yan stays in the shadows, shielding her from danger, facing blades head-on, and risking his life for her. Five years of longing become nothing but devotion and protection, his love unwavering.

She is bent on revenge, her heart frozen against love. All she wants is justice for her sister, and to spend the rest of her life alone and unattached.

But when the layers of conspiracy are peeled back, the family’s parasites are exposed, and the wrongful conviction is finally overturned, she looks back on all the storms she has weathered and sees the truth at last:

One man has always weighed every choice with a clear head, all to settle old scores;

Another has crossed five years, waiting only for her return.

A face can be changed, an old scar cannot be erased, and deep love cannot be hidden.