just super baffled at all these very normal things? Not everyone can afford to play around in sets or just say no to money if they get kicked out from their drama team? Wanting to make a good life for yourself--with your own talent and hard work.. Is cunning?? Trying to be friendly to everyone is ambitious?? Should he let people slap him and reject things he is entitled to just for dumb honour? Should he just keep silent and just never make friends in an industry where connection matters more than anything?

IDK if it's because it's a book, but everyone is missing a screw in their head. His family also thought of him as cunning when he enrolled in finance degree, thinking he's coveting the heir position and he's unworthy. 1. He's their blood brother so he definitely has claim in that pie. 2. Why does he need to learn business if he just wants the money? Just make a scandal or kill everyone in the family, that'll do it! Maybe they already hate him when he drove their darling baby protagonist out of the house.

He doesn't raise to villain's provocations this time, but everyone still think the worse of him.

It's as if I was possessed by something when reading this book.. I can't put it down!

It's satisfying, the message is nice, even though it bashes it on you often

There's so much nationalism and soldier/gov worship, which is like fine until you have the manager of we/ibo and ce/nsor/ship department also chatting with MC. OK if you wanna make them seem human and have their own quirks and biases. But Wbo is just not that kind of small intimate indie corporation x'D.

The head of Cen/sor/ship department is so emotional. He acts like everyone should grovel over his team and his country, and it rubs me the wrong way. Gov officials are just not supposed to use their authority as a weapon! Policies and laws should not be vague, it should be clear what they want to punish. I know they're humans, but they are not meat bun vendor on the side of the street who will give you more or less meat depending on how much they like you. What is the value that the gov wants there? It seems like it's purposely vague so it can go along with anything they come up with later. If the gov is like that, who's free from jail? Fortunately we've seen other distorted minds in the book like Shen Yu and Cheng Baodong so it's not a dealbreaker.

When the head of CD rants, he fully lectures MC and h/ong/ko/ng directors on how to behave, fully believing he's in the right. Here's what he said:

• If they want to get their movies in our country, why don't they adjust it to our culture values? They do that for Eu and US market! They don't understand our culture at all.

There's a difference between the market itself not responding to the movie's different culture to the gov dictating what can and cannot appear on tv/media. IF it's because of different culture, your people won't be interested to spend money for it. Then, without having to censor anything, the box office result will be disappointing. That's what happens to asian movies abroad. And if you think it's too radical, then just limit it to adults! That will also cut their box office. Censoring and changing plotlines is too much involvement.

No matter how much you think your policy is flexible and can push 'creativity', it limits what ending people can and cannot show. Frankly, the new ending for that HK movie is rubbish. Why would I go to movies when I know my gov will make everything end pretty much the same, good guys win, bad guys lose?

The story presents these rants like it wants us to understand the POV of the gov, only barely saved by MC not fully agreeing with the Head. But, HK ppl don't have different cultures in their movies, they're not as different as going to europe market or hollywood market. And they are the one needing HK directors to make movies that can touch global audience. Their movies are soulless! HK movies may be underpaid and weird, but it at least has something to say.

I like it when the villain got 'banned' but it also made me think. Do they have to ban everything even past and future works? What about the other 99.9% of the crew who didn't do anything? If your gov posts lose to entertainment gossip, then you're not doing media coverage right. Reminded me of "Crash Landing on You", not allowing people to use Skor stuff. It doesn't reflect well for a country to be so emotional and whimsical, and have no tolerance for its opposition. It just feels like dictatorship, controlling people's life and choices. That's probably why jp gov that has weaker image is more well-received.

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had to go through so many chapters to get to the meat of the story. Tao Mu has so many businesses that he is not very focused on acting. The entertainment element feels more like a background for this novel, the films aren't that extraordinary.

MC is OP, but it's all explained. He went through several life times struggling with the villain, so his skill and instincts are honed to the sharpest point. Even if he only remembers his last life, I think he has vague memory of the other lives. Children sometimes mysteriously inherit their parents' talent, not to mention someone who actually lived through so many lifetimes. I like the idea that found family can be just as fulfilling as blood family, and that MC didn't accept his original family after they regained their memories.

ML is cute, he takes the initiative to be the 'little wife' outside and often sticks to MC like he's a delicate young wifey who'll be bullied without MC. &Lt;<<--- Figurative! He just likes to use words that young married woman usually use

MC also proposes and he is like, will you be my wife?/will you enter my family? And MC is the one providing the house in their relationship (men usually does this in relationships). He is the shou, but the ball is very much on his court. ML is persistent, understanding, sweet, and knows how important acting is for MC. He's very mature and their relationship is based on mutual care and active communication.

Shen Yu is the original Tao Mu (disliking the name, he changes it to a more affectionate Mumu, so that he can tell himself everyone calling him likes him).

Tao Mu is the original Shen Yu.

All that people say about Tao Mu being scheming is the original him, who would go up to MC and his family and intrude on a family reunion just because I'm so pitiful, it's my birthday too but I'm alone wuwu. It's not okay to be biased to orphaned children, but I don't want to defend him, he's disgusting.

Not too sure if people saying MC is vicious and scheming is because their prejudice on orphans, or because of the halo and original Tao Mumu's influence, seems to be the latter.

All that people say about Shen Yu being lovable, cheeky, innocent and pure, is the original MC. MC used to be a sheltered young master who loves acting and would run off doing acting on his breaks. He's fully focused on this point, and he'd do pretty much anything to get a high quality work out. He'd do his stunts, redo scenes, maintain crew harmony, scold his family if they make trouble on set. He's also not tight with money for his friends/own people. Just our MC, before he had to rely on himself to make connections and had to learn the ways of the world (that you sometimes have to smile to rude and mean people).

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From this point their names are switched:

Tao Mumu is originally the orphaned one, and he happened to work at Shen Yu's set. He gets jealous that 'Shen Yu' is loved and pampered by everyone, various things happen in the middle, and he finally decides to do dark magic to 'change his life/fate'. How? By taking MC's 'good luck' ofc.

The first time he succeeded, he got an award and got popular while Shen Yu (MC) 's dad and brother got into fatal accident. His mom and sister blames him for it, and he is kicked out of the family.

Shen Yu rises up a bit and his life gets better, he met Li Xiaoheng (ML) and was about to succeed in his revenge, then Tao Mumu does it again.

This time Shen Yu's mom was stabbed and his bloodied sister curses at him. He chased after the perpetrator only to mutually kill each other. And died before he can say yes to ML.

Tao Mumu then also died because of ML's retaliations. They are then locked in this loop where either Shen Yu will die and his family wakes up from the sorcery, then retaliates on Tao Mumu--or Tao Mumu dies and Shen Yu will face the retaliation of his own family.

Many ab*se later, his affection for his family is spent, the resetter Tao Mumu had also lost all of his emotions and brains to keep resetting their lives. All that is left is his delusional thoughts and is insatiable greed. That is our current timeline.

As long as MC (shen yu) wants to snatch back his family, he'll go against Tao Mumu who also has his Halo/fate. Only one can survive but no matter what, the Shen family will go down because that's how it was originally. The world keeps its balance.

This time, Shen Yu no longer wants to fight for his family, so he doesn't fight against the protagonist halo. Instead, Tao Mumu who had lost his smarts and had a halo too heavy for him to handle is now a walking bad luck. He is obsessed with Shen Yu and wants to pull him close to himself and his family. But it no longer works, Shen Yu now is free from the halo influence and regained his own bright life.

In the end, everyone remembers everything that happened, when Tao Mumu realises he is not loved as 'Shen Yu' and everyone still loves Shen Yu -who is now the vicious lowly and mean 'Tao Mu'- more. ML then captured Tao Mumu and kept him in a secure facility so that he won't die and will keep watching Shen Yu --Now Tao Mu's brilliant new life.

The original karma between Zhuo Yan and Shen Chen (who ruined Zhuo Yan's family in his first project) keeps torturing them. Very happy about this. Shen Chen should suffer. All of Shen family should, particularly the mom and the sister. Even better if they'd slap Tao Mumu/Shen Yu --now Tan Yu at least once a day. Pity we don't see him suffer more.

completely unrelated to the original novel too; this is okay but, he just came out of nowhere! He's a great guy but for a novel with a lot of face slapping, getting together what that ML was not a face slap to anyone.

suddenly he's a financial advisor and then suddenly a programmer and then an owner of a company? And all of that while he was still in college? I mean, technically he was an adult with a lot of experiences but the novel really didn't make it easy for me to deny reality-- seriously, he made a website in under a month? As a programmer, I couldn't accept it hahaha!

he said everyone who shen yu hate will have bad ending, but the time shen yu get abandoned by the shen family ppl start bully him.. Like oh cmon where the halo protagonist that you mentioned earlier lol.

It's said if Shen Yu is the protagonist in that world and Tao mu just a villain, but what I see here is just all brainless characters except Tao mu and ppl that good to him.

Yes, the brother Shen and Daddy know something wrong when they near Shen Yu, thanks but still.. What about ppl in the world that not meet him even once and still on his side in hard mode in everything Shen Yu done eventho it's wrong zzz

And the Shen sister, bruh you already 23 yo and can't even know what is wrong and what is right, she is the characters I hate the most here.

Actually there 2 part that I hate

1. Like I mentioned before, the daddy and brother Shen know if there something wrong with Shen Yu, and what they do after that? Dad used Shen Yu ability (that can make ppl s*upid if it's about him) to make way more easy for him.

2. The time Shen Yu get abandoned, like oh my, he not even do anything wrong and all ppl start ignoring him it's hurt me. Well actually I like him a bit since he siding with Tao Mu in some time, he even remember Tao Mu birthday and give him prize (and it's when Shen Yu get ignored by all ppl and no one remember his b'day), and what he get after that? Ignored again bcs Tao Mu hold his "anger" bcs he will think as "villain" when near Shen Yu, it's make my mood down.

if you think that Shen Yu is too spoiled and deserves this treatment, blame the daddy first, he didn't teach etiquette in the first place and spoiled him in purpose, and thanks for that he made shen yu naive and has a brainless daughter.

the older brother realized very quickly that as soon as he moved away from shen yu he thought differently

later he tells his father and they stay away

then when there is a problem they come back to support or use shen yu... this is very silly because yes business and contracts go well as soon as the opponents meet shen yu, but isn't that weird ?!

because it is not a rebirth, but hundreds of rebirths...

moreover shen yu has always had a black heart and that is why he took the place of tao mu...

in fact shen yu is the real tao mu, but since his life was "horrible" he decided to become shen yu to have everything better...

but in the end even being shen yu, our MC tao mu managed to be happier, so the revenge and the black heart of "shen yu" are never satisfied.

luckily ML has always looked for MC, and this is the only life he hasn't found him too late.

When MC was reborn, he heard voices and dreamt about his previous life. He assumes to be living in a book because of those voices and he is the Canon fodder villain affected by the heroes plot halo.

The truth revealed in the end is:

In the very first life the MC was Shen Yu and he never got switched out on birth. His life way crossed the path of Tao Mu, which was a weakling kind of guy. He envied Shen Yus life, that all those people liked him and blabla. He used "magic" to steal Shen Yus luck and his own luck and career really thrivedwhile MC lost his luck. His lost betrayed him and basically killed all his family. Later he met ML and fell in love but it was too late and he was already on his way to doom and early death. Later Tao Mu was pressured by ML, and he killed himself while doing some kind of magic ritual. From then on they entered a rebirth cycle. They got reborn countless times. In every reincarnation the babies got switched and the former Tao Mu became the little prince Shen Yu. Loved by all. Throughout the rebirth cycle in every life either MC died at age 28 or Shen Yu did. Every life either MC or Shen Yu remembered and they switched the "revange" position.

So in this last life now, MC finally met his love (ML) again and he was immune to the plot halo. Thanks to all those rebirth and that in every rebirth the Shen Family hated him, he finally broke out of his obsession to get their recognition and let go. So the cycle broke. Oh the Shen Familyhated him because of the first life. He was responsible for letting in the wolfe that killed their family. Aka lying Boyfriend.

I mean I don't like Shen Yu but I feel pity for him. He has no one to teach him. And you know I don't like that character but I feel like they are all blaming him. It feels too complicated. The MC and ML do well.

The scene with the water hose is completely ridiculous, I can just treat it as the author's ignorance.

if any of us found ourselves in the past knowing how influential Facebook or Google would become you're telling me you wouldn't try to start something similar? He starts the basic website and later on hires actual experts to run and improve it. It makes sense.

As for his job as an investment advisor, he simply uses his memories of what happened in the past. Since he was assisting his brother in the company it makes sense he'll know some things. And he states several times that he worries what will happen once he no longer has foreknowledge. So he's well aware he's no genius.

This is an alternate China where marriage between men is legal, and things like the cctv is used only for the most noble of causes, fighting crime. The censorship department is just doing its job to protect the people. It's hard to read all this if you are somewhat aware of the realities.

We're told that though with each reincarnation they restart anew but the MC and the antagonist become less and more obsessed with their target respectfully. So there is a change that happens with each new life. However while the MC managed to break free non of the others succeeded, they're still stuck, even though they had the same chance. His family and ex bf are still obsessed with themselves above all else, his ex lover is still obsessed with revenge, and to see them still stuck in that circle at the end I believe is the best punishment for them. The MC moves on.