Title: Great at Acting, Now I'm Reborn Author: 偏翩 Translation Status: Ongoing (as of January 30, 2021) NovelUpdates: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/great-at-acting-now-im-reborn/ Description: Zhou Yuhe had a bad temper, but he didn’t care. When he was young, his stunning beauty in his youth made him never lack in resources in his industry. Until after a fire, his face was destroyed; Zhou Yuhe wasn’t good at acting, but he didn’t care. When he was young, the popularity of tens of thousands of fans allowed him choose among the most popular scripts; Until 15 years later, he acted with Liu Xiaosheng in the remake of his drama; Someone ruined his acting career with a big fire, Fifteen years later, he was killed by the same fire. It was a pity that he shouldn’t have died. Zhou Yuhe returned to before the big fire with super high acting skills that he had cultivated for fifteen years.
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Characters: MC — Zhou Yuhe (ZY) ML — Xiao Yifeng (XY) MC's ex-lover — Ji Chen (JC) MC's friend — Cao Qiyue (CQ) Plot Summary: Spoiler: Chapter 1 (brief glimpse of the past) ZY, a popular actor, and JC, the president of the biggest entertainment (agency) company, were previously lovers. ZY was extremely popular before but a fire broke out, destroying his face and acting career. The two broke up after this incident. Fifteen years later, ZY found out that JC was the one who set up the fire and confronted him. JC planned to kill ZY but ended up to be the one bound and helpless, in the mercy of ZY. They both died in the fire that ZY set up. Before ZY died, he remembered Xie Yifeng, a friend who supported and lent him a hand in recovering his acting career, despite the fact that he already lost his peerlessly handsome face. I might go add another spoiler later.
The summary is confusing. Is MC got into fire twice or once? So, after he died from fire, he went world hopping for 15 years? Then, returned to his original world, is he rebirthed or what?
To be more precise, fire incidents that destroyed MC occurred twice: First, when ML#2 (his ex-lover, JC) planned to kill him, but only got to destroy his face. Fifteen years later, the second fire incident happened when MC killed ML#2, together with himself. Spoiler: Part I After killing himself and JC in a fire incident, MC goes back to the past, around 20 years back (I already forgot), when he was just 19 and only about to enter the entertainment industry. He woke up in an audition where he first met ML, an esteemed actor and the initial first male lead in the youth drama. At this time, MC was dating another newcomer guy who's only dating him for his resources. Prior to the audition, this newcomer guy and MC made a deal that he will audition for the 2nd male lead of the youth drama while MC will only audition for the role of the school bully. However, when audition came, the reborn MC—knowing that this drama will be a classic in the future and the first and second male leads will be unforgettable characters— he grabbed the chance he once let slip in his last life and made an outstanding performance and awed the ML, director, and scriptwriter with his acting skills. MC got accepted, the newcomer guy got mad and threatened to break up with MC. MC didn't care and drove him out of his apartment. So prior to filming this youth drama, MC and his manager went to a shooting location where he met his ex-lover in his last life, suppressing his fellow actor under the same manager in a scene of a spy-action movie series.
Damn. 15years to live with his disfigured face and received humiliation. 15years to fond out that his (ex)lover was a scumbag. MC didnt have any family, sibling or friends?
This novel is actually kinda heavy. MC's parents were only mentioned, they have no appearance in the novel, as I remember correctly, MC did not obey them and ran away from home to enter entertainment industry. In his last life, MC had a friend, a talented singer and composer, Cao Qiyue. They dated back in high school but when they found out about their sexual orientations, they decided to just be friends. Uhm, so CQ fell in love with an entertainment industry princess— the daughter of CQ's entertainment company's president. As homosexuality is looked down upon, CQ and this green tea bitch princess broke up. To drive CQ out of the company, her company framed a plagiarism scandal, ruining her career. She quit from the circle while believing that her lover, her white moonlight, was also just forced and pressured. Unable to publish and promote songs, she only became a lowkey bar singer. Years later, she committed suicide and left a letter to her white moonlight, the green tea bitch entertainment industry princess. MC discovered her corpse and the letter. He was utterly devastated. He gave it to her "white moonlight," believing back then that she's kind. He then saw this moonlight in an interview/press conference, reading the private letter to the public while crying for the lost love, while CQ's previous company—this princess' family company— who drove her out and destroyed her career released her old recorded songs. The public were touched for such sincere but forbidden love, and buys the late CQ's album— hitting all the top music charts and became a legendary music figure without her knowing. Only then did MC realized that this moonlight is actually a green tea bitch. Both he and his beloved friend got fooled, used, and abandoned. Okay, so pretty much during his disfiguration, aside from the time he spent with the ML, he was pretty miserable.