Sunflowers in Coffee Stains

Sunflowers in Coffee Stains When artistic murder and forbidden love quietly bloom in coffee stains, art designer Su Xiaoqing finds a strange sunflower spreading across a yellowed sheet of paper on her first day at Chenguang Group. The group’s logo at its center and a rose brooch hidden in a paint box bind her fate tightly to Lin Ruoxi, a genius painter who disappeared twenty years ago. The star-shaped earring dangling from CEO Gu Yichen’s earlobe glitters in the moonlight, while the pale mark left by the wedding ring he removed from his ring finger conceals a secret. Whenever a sunflower emerges from a coffee stain, his amber eyes shift into Lin Ruoxi’s madness. Paint mixed with bodily fluids flows beneath the moonlight in an underground gallery. Faces seeping through cracks in the canvases begin to reveal the truth behind the fire at an art salon twenty years ago. The burn scar on Su Xiaoqing’s wrist is uncannily identical to one in Lin Ruoxi’s archived photograph. The “living dead” in the psychiatric hospital keep repeating the words “twin stars.” When a coffee stain outlines an escape code on a stormy night, Su Xiaoqing discovers that Gu Yichen’s dissociative identity disorder houses both the self who deeply loves Lin Ruoxi and the demon who crazily wants to possess her. Caught in a whirlpool of paint and conspiracy, Su Xiaoqing must decipher the Morse code hidden in the sunflower’s spiral pattern and use coffee stains to draw a star chart that will lead to the truth. When the last jar of 199 special-mix paint flows beneath the moonlight, the artworks that devoured Lin Ruoxi’s soul finally speak, telling of despair and redemption entwined with love. This is an artistic murder that transcends life and death, and a forbidden romance spent searching for the truth in sunflowers blooming from coffee stains.