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JuuHachi · Sep 6, 2019

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After returning from the first transmigration film "The Republic Circus",

MC is told by Director Chen (aka the fanboy asshole who is so in love with her mother's acting that he wants to crush MC just because he think's she's a stain on her mother's legendary history",

Director Chen tells her she's acting in a human version of Little Mermaid, where a blind man is rescued by a beautiful young woman, and when he asks her what she looks like she jokingly says she is ugly. When the woman leaves, he is discovered by an ugly rich girl who takes him home. When his eyesight recovers he sees the ugly girl and assume's she is the original rescuer because of the jokingly said "im ugly" and pursues marriage, the ugly girl accepts.

Cut to the scene where the man finds out the truth and condemns and punishes the ugly girl for "tricking him" when it was his own assumption. MC overwhelmed by the spirit of the deformed daughter in the Republic Circus film is hysterical, screaming "when did I hurt you, why are you calling me ugly, I've only been good to you and treated you well!", and seeks protection from her sole source of protection in life: her loving father, when she calls for her father to save her she suddenly stops and realizes- .. oh, that's right, he's dead.., and the life goes out of her and instead her face twists into an sinister ugly snarl and she swears an oath to curse them upon her death.

Director Chen is shook by her acting but feels it's got to be a fluke based on her mother recently passing away = experience on the topic of seeking parent/ mourning parent death part of her act.

Since his goal is to have her act horribly and crush her esteem instead of promote her growth in the industry, he suddenly decides to have her act in The Phantom Opera instead of it (Ugly Girl Play), so she can be forced to reveal flaws in such a complex and difficult to act role.

MC as a result makes the decision to revisit the Life Theatre in order to further hone her acting skills, but this time she has no ticket, and she is unable to purchase a ticket since they don't sell any! At this time, an elderly woman shows up early to enter the Life Theatre as well, as tonight "the abandoned son" is playing at the Theatre and she has waited 15 years for this film to play again! The woman however suffer's a stroke and MC calls an ambulance and accompanies her to the hospital where she dies, but not before she hands MC the ticket. MC pays for her funeral as the woman's asshole brother hangs up on the doctors when he hears that she has died.

Before the woman dies she agitatedly cries about needing to save someone, and 1998 1998 1998!

When MC goes to the theatre with the ticket in hand, she learns this Ticket has a special time designation value where she can select the time when she enters this story, thinking of how the dead woman and had said 1998 so anguishedly, MC chooses 1997 to give her ample time to prepare. She asks the gatekeeper if there are any hints for her, and he says he cannot say, but adds as an afterthought "stay away from the main character".

When the movie begins she blacks out and she find's herself with the same name as the woman who died at the hospital (and gave her the ticket). She transmigrates to a scene where she is at a funeral of her widowed sister who had died in an accident where she fell down the stairs, leaving her young, mute from shock, son behind.

When they are deciding which relative can now care for the child, the child steps towards her but MC rebuffs him, telling everyone not to expect her to care for the child because she can barely support herself income-wise and she has no parenting ability. After arguing amongst themselves, it's decided that another relative who already has 3 kids will take the boy along, albeit unwillingly.

MC goes home and spends her days job hunting, and rebuffing her ex who keeps trying to mooch off her, additionally phantom of the opera is playing at the theatre locally, so she auditions there, until one day she hears of another tragedy, the relative family who had taken in her nephew from the funeral had all died of poisoning with the only survivor being her little mute nephew.

MC goes to pick him up, but still cannot properly care for him and tells him so, she goes hunting around for people to adopt him, and settles on a man who cant have kids, the man cares for the boy and takes the kid to work at a restaurant, when MC hears the news that a cook at the restaurant had accidentally left a fire on in the kitchen burning the building down and the man was trapped in it, leaving the nephew without a guardian again.

MC seeks a third adopter and gives him to a sweet lady, but she brings him back one day and states she can't help this child, MC gets angry that kids aren't kittens you can just try out and decide to bring back, but the teacher lady shrugs and asks.. have you seen the images he draws?? When MC asks for what he drew she doesn't respond and just leaves, she later goes missing and her body is fished out of the ocean. She goes to her nephew and asks to see the painting but he hides it behind him and refuses to show it, sighing she decides to keep him with her, asking him if he's okay to stay with her even though she's struggling to make ends meet and would likely not make a good parent, the kid hesitantly agrees to stay.

At this point her brother wanders over and asks to care for the child, saying he can take the kid on and hasn't she heard all the horrible rumours that the kid is followed by death in every home he's been into? MC snorts and says she doesn't believe in that stuff and that she is fine to keep him at her home which stuns her brother, and he disagrees but is unable to change her mind to get rid of the boy.

At the Phantom Opera that she has auditioned at she is asked to play the role of a ghost by Director Chen! (the same director who oppresses her irl but younger, he has a slightly different mindset at this age and she reasons it's because this is the fake transmigration story version of Director Chen).

TLDR Phantom of the Opera backstory: Ghost haunting a theatre loves a mediocre actor in the theatre, creates opportunities for him by killing off his rivals, and teaching him to sing better from the shadows.

In this act she is the ghost and a pretty actress is playing the role of Girlfriend to the Ghost's Love INterest. The actress asks whose there?! and runs up to catch the "ghost" MC in order to make MC look bad because what kind of "Ghost" gets chased and caught by a human instead of the other way around? MC improvises and dodges running away, making the actress think she's won, but she keeps stopping just out of reach as a way to taunt the actress into following her further and further, eventually she tricks the actress into walking into a cellar and knocks her into a coffin from behind and shuts the coffin lid on her. MC sit's on the coffin and claps singing children songs, and that's how Director Chen and company find them both when they catch up. The director is inpsired and calls CUT, and immediately tells everyone to scram and reassemble later as he needs the silence to write down the inspiration that has suddenly come to him.

At this point MC is actually shaken because at some point during the act she was possessed by the daughter of the Republic Circus act who is childishly malevolent and sings the wooden box of animal songs. She regains control of her senses and tries to make a point to maintain control and expel the ugly daughter begging that her act is over and she shouldn't still be such a big shadow in the MC's life. (I feel like this is less a possession and more a form of PTSD/Engraving of that life on MC, since there are times when realities are too real and feel overlapped.

She starts bringing her nephew to work but he is unsociable and stays in the cellar of the theatre all day, away from people, and generally creeps all the staff out, so the staff are eager to persuade her to pawn the child off on her brother since he offered to care for him, but she disagrees saying the kid is fine, but one day the pretty actress snatches the kids painting and turns it over to see it, she is later found dead in the theatre. People now suspect MC has the motive of jealousy to kill the popular actress.

The kid decides to up and leave with her brother, and she's heart broken and chases them begging him to stay with her, and he just passes her a note saying "I don't want to stay with you because you don't make much money and cant support us both, and you get mad a lot and aren't a mature parent".

She returns home sadly to find the painting that he always carries around and refuses to show people, it depicts in childish drawing his mother dead at the bottom of the stairs, while her brother stands at the top (he has skinny tall distinct features), and a skinny man standing over a dead fat man in flames (the kitchen incident), and she realizes the plot, the child leaves with the killer in order to spare his Aunt's life. In horror she runs out into the rain to find them, while around her there's a party nearby where people are singing advertising a 1998 planning party, singing 1998 1998 (honestly the correct date is probably 1988 lol, im misremembering the exact date), and she realizes the woman on the deathbed hadn't been saying a year of importance, she had been anguishedly remembering this awful scene.

She finds her brother holding the child at knife point and begs him to release the child promising not to tell authorities, the brother laments that he's obviously not a killer but this child has made him kill so many innocents, (first death of the kids mom was an accident, later he tried to poison the kid to rid the witness, but the family ate the poisoned food he gifted the kid, without sharing any to the unwanted kid out of spite, thus sparing his life but ending theirs, then he meant to burn the kid in the kitchen fire but unexpectedly someone else was in the kitchen and the kid wasn't, the kid showed the painting to the third adopter, so he killed the third adopter and threw her in the ocean).

The brother agrees to let the kid go and when she grabs the kid and hugs him, he stabs her! No way would he trust his own sister when he's already attempted to kill his nephew so many times just bc he "suspected" wasn't even sure at first that the kid actually saw him push his mom.

Authorities are alterted and the dying MC tells the nephew to be a good kid and assures him he is fine and that he brought light and warmth to her otherwise "living only to survive" lifestyle. MC has altered the original ending to her dying to save the nephew instead of nephew sacrificing himself so she survives (what should've happened).

The Movie Ends and the MC wakes up in Life Theatre to find that the title of the Movie had changed from Abandoned Son to another title related to phantoms, and she is confused but doesn't think much of it. Gatekeeper says "i told you you should've stayed away from the protagonist :/

Later irl when she researches the background history of the Phantom of the Opera she comes across some old news of Wen Ning (ish) whose death boosted the hype of the show and lended to it's popularity and how Director Chen had not stated her innocence regarding the murder of the popular actress until After the shows were done. MC is shook because WEN NING is the old lady who gave her the ticket and died, and her grave no longer exists bc instead of dying of old age, she dies to her brother's knife in 1988! This is when MC realizes she isn't wearing a "story character", she is wearing the skin of actual people in time and it has an impact in her life's history. (That and the dick director she met in the second film who took advantage of the murders to make media hype, is actually the same fanboy director in her current life, just she met him in a different persons body at a different time period of his life).

MC passes out and is taken to the family doc and is discovered to have a similar health issue has her mother. This triggers a situation where the doctor was instructed that if one day MC has same health situation as the Mom, he should give the MC the key to mom's secret apartment.

In Mom's apartment, mom isn't really sure of much either regarding the Life Cinema, but requests the MC to use 3 of the Moms life tickets to see her mom's life (one is also a general ticket) before she lives and invents her own Life Theatre, and she leaves information she knows:

Don't change someones timelines more than 2 times
Don't accept a movie ticket from a masked staff member
Don't run past staff and sneak into the theatre without a ticket (ticket evasion)
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Can't believe that fucking director has been trash right from the start :/ he should be eaten alive by the life theater

Tachi Works · Sep 6, 2019

JuuHachi said: ↑

Can't believe that fucking director has been trash right from the start :/ he should be eaten alive by the life theater
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Yup, no regard for his wife, his son, for people’s reputations lifes and pains, his only obsession is with making movies.

JuuHachi · Sep 6, 2019

Tachi Works said: ↑

Yup, no regard for his wife, his son, for people’s reputations lifes and pains, his only obsession is with making movies.
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I hope his entire career gets ruined i feel so bad for their universe having a trash like that

pandaqueen · Sep 17, 2019

I havent even read them spoilers but. All hail @Tachi Works for all the hard work

Thanks for them spoilers
*goes off to read em*

BORED123 · Jan 11, 2020

Who's the ml?

Sapphire-Saph · Jan 13, 2020

Help please. I'm trying to find the raws that I can mtl, but all the websites I found only have anti-theft chapters after ~120-ish chapters

wendy · Jan 21, 2020

What’s the ending? Is it happy ending?

starbella · Jan 31, 2020

Sapphire-Saph said: ↑

Help please. I'm trying to find the raws that I can mtl, but all the websites I found only have anti-theft chapters after ~120-ish chapters
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U can read it here on mtlnovel.com
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mtlnovel.com/ive-transmigrated-into-this-movie-before/

JimmyFalcon · Feb 7, 2020

Tachi Works said: ↑

Don't change someones timelines more than 2 times
Don't accept a movie ticket from a masked staff member
Don't run past staff and sneak into the theatre without a ticket (ticket evasion)
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What happens when these rules are broken? And has she ever broken any one of these or have gone close to breaking one?

Tachi Works · Feb 8, 2020

JimmyFalcon said: ↑

What happens when these rules are broken? And has she ever broken any one of these or have gone close to breaking one?
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If the rules are broken they are tricked into becoming masked staff at the theatre. These staff only get 1 transmigration/movie ticket and they cannot fix their life/movie themselves, they need to trick or ask someone else (a visiting movie watcher) to use their ticket and alter their life/movie for them. If they break rules even more while being Masked Staff they lose their bodies and become masks on a wall in one room and wait for a couple hundred years before they can gain bodies again.

JimmyFalcon · Feb 25, 2020

Tachi Works said: ↑

If the rules are broken they are tricked into becoming masked staff at the theatre. These staff only get 1 transmigration/movie ticket and they cannot fix their life/movie themselves, they need to trick or ask someone else (a visiting movie watcher) to use their ticket and alter their life/movie for them. If they break rules even more while being Masked Staff they lose their bodies and become masks on a wall in one room and wait for a couple hundred years before they can gain bodies again.
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Oh my God that's messed up asf. Thanks for reply

Lilylam · Apr 29, 2020

This story has successfully scared me. I'm still not over the first story's summary description. This story is interesting but also freaks the f out of me.

Tully · Apr 29, 2020

I think the male lead is Shi Zhong Tang, the main lead in Painting Comes To Life, who dies from suicide. It's tagged tragedy so I think he'd commit suicide so the MC would not have to takemthe consequences. It seems to me that without knowing Ning Ning fell in love. Im torrrrn it hurts.

waraa · May 4, 2020

I want to MTL this novel, can someone please tell me if this has a happy ending??

Tachi Works · May 13, 2020

waraa said: ↑

I want to MTL this novel, can someone please tell me if this has a happy ending??
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It has a happy ending. A little bit bargained but happy.

imawitch · May 23, 2020

If anyone finish please spoil the ending. This is such a good novel, it both scares and bring tears to the eyes.

peanutbutter_J · Jan 23, 2022

Tachi Works said: ↑

It has a happy ending. A little bit bargained but happy.
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How many movies MC acted on?
And will MC died like her mother?
Also how can MC n ML unite in the end when ML basically bound to the cinema, does MC help him to set free, or MC bcame the staff and live forever with ML since you said it was kinda HE with bargain.
Thank youuu for the spoilers btw

reiin · Jul 13, 2020

Tachi Works said: ↑

It has a happy ending. A little bit bargained but happy.
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I'm so hooked to this novel and would like to have more spoilers on her relationship with Shi Zhong Tang. He seems to really care about her up to chapter 71.
Thanks for the spoilers anyway.

Lisarra · Jul 23, 2020

Tachi Works said: ↑

It has a happy ending. A little bit bargained but happy.
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I mtled the novel and the ending left me confused... So as the original poster, Ning Ning at the end can enter the life cinema through the app and can stay with Shi Zhong Tang??? I am soooo confused. And who is Ning Ning's father at the end? Pei Xuan???

I loved the novel. Just the ending left me baffled.

Heungbo · Sep 24, 2020

Lisarra said: ↑

I mtled the novel and the ending left me confused... So as the original poster, Ning Ning at the end can enter the life cinema through the app and can stay with Shi Zhong Tang??? I am soooo confused. And who is Ning Ning's father at the end? Pei Xuan???

I loved the novel. Just the ending left me baffled.
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I'm even more confused with this comment

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