The Thorn King

Beautiful, powerful, and tragic heroine x quiet, devoted guard dog "When you dare tell me your real name, come talk to me about love." "When the light breaks through the darkness, when the rain has washed away the blood buried beneath the earth." * Twenty years ago, eight-year-old Zhou Yi was separated from her twin sister, Shen Zhaowen, who had lost her memory. Twenty years later, Zhou Yi worked alone as a bodyguard abroad, while her sister had become a huge star. Then one day, disaster struck her sister. First, scandalous photos ruined her reputation. Then she became a vegetable. To uncover the truth, Zhou Yi decided to disguise herself as her sister and enter the entertainment industry. * For the first half of his life, Xu Yanzhou was cool and restrained, indifferent to love and desire, and even more aloof and controlled in all worldly affairs. Until he met Zhou Yi. One glance was enough to leave him lost in a dream, his heart rippling with emotion he could barely contain. Everyone else saw her as bold and uninhibited, her smile shining like an eternal spark. Only he had seen her at the cemetery, where solemn white doves danced and played a hero's lament. Hidden in the darkness, she saluted, her back lonely yet resolute. He knew she wasn't Shen Zhaowen. Yet even as bright red seeped through her black clothes, staining them dark, she smiled calmly. "Wait a little longer, and I'll tell you." He lowered his head in silence and kissed the terrible wound on her body, worshiping his goddess with his lips. "All right. I'll wait." * [It doesn't matter if I'm the only one who remembers who I am. I will tear out every black vine that has burrowed underground, clinging like a parasite to the bone.] [Thorns tear through the dawn. She is a king riding in on the moonlight, meant to soar like a falcon. I will be like an ancient bell, standing still and waiting.] "Love startles the birds into flight, and its traces are everywhere." * 1v1, both leads' first and only love, happy ending. Includes a woman disguising herself as a man and an undercover agent's death. The plot takes center stage; little focus on the entertainment industry. The heroine is a bking who takes the plot-driven route; the hero follows the romance route. [In one sentence: Solving a case while picking up a man for fun.] Theme: Though the road ahead is treacherous, we must still make the song of justice ring out.