Also, the way the movies Xiao Yu stared in were clearly used as foreshadowing was a genius move! It was such a nice detail!!

First, while I think the relationship between the main character and his body’s original soul was unique and pretty interesting, the transmigration plot could’ve been explored better — or at least more in depth. There were some inconsistencies that made me question the reasoning behind the whole concept. For example: We know Yi Chenyan was probably reincarnated, as shown through his constant nightmares and the fact he has the same appearance as the general. But in Yang Anyu’s case, there are two separate souls sharing the same appearance and name. Are they the same person, or fragments of the same soul? How does YAY gain the original soul’s memories, when the original soul does not gain his? Or was it that while they were together, he came to know every thing about the original soul’s life, and when he transmigrated into his body the memories he was regaining were in truth the knowledge he had gained while he was with the original soul?

Another thing that made me feel really sad was that the original soul was clearly distressed and had been driven to a wall. He was suffering so much psychologically and really needed professional help, and yet never got it. When he suffered from the accident, no one cared about him and he wasn’t even visited in the hospital. His half-brother, his “family”, his husband, no one even looked his way. He was completely alone. I thought that, as the story progressed, the other characters would slowly come to regret it, but what happened was the complete opposite... Both the half-brother and the general, who later realise the current Xiao Yu is a different person from the original one, actually have the nerve to say they prefer the current one and hope the other one won’t return... I can understand it to a certain extent, but why didn’t they ever try to empathise with the original soul? Argh.

The third thing that disappointed me a bit is that we never see Xiao Yu and Yi Chenyan talk about their past lives. Xiao Yu knows Yi Chenyan is the general, and Yi Chenyan has reoccurring dreams about Xiao Yu as his bodyguard, and yet they never confess to each other that they are aware of it. It would have been so satisfying if Xiao Yu had clearly told him all abouth it...

1. Reading so many showbiz novel before, I feel this one a bit lacking in so many ways. The MC is a 16-year old who studied martial art previously. Okay that he was good with that and be double-stunt or so, but then after? It wasn’t explained clearly too of how good the acting was. Just suddenly that despite everything, suddenly MC is good at acting.

2. Time skip. Too many time skips that it makes the story lack the depths and the connection. Suddenly out of nowhere it was cut off like that. I even felt like, “Oh what? We changed place already?”

3. The building of the story for the film/movie etc is too much details when the author is not going to let us see how MC portrayed it...

4. I hate ML. I dislike how he was such a s*um to marry Da Yu (OGMC) knowing the other love him. He even said clearly to ML that he liked the face. Apparently ML somehow had a piece of past memory so maybe that was why he was okay with the marriage. But come on, the OGMC was young? And when he tried to kill himself 3 times, it’s not that you agreed to the marriage? GO FIND A PSYCHIATRIST Psychologist!!! (Sorry I put both cause I’m not sure). It’s not like OGMC is any good but I can relate to his depression more. Btw there’s thing called indifference there’s this thing called s*um and tr*sh. ML is more s*um and tr*sh to me than any other.

5. Everyone is gay, nice. Then every girl is fujoshi. Yeah cool, but like too many side characters that are mentioned and thrown. Like that Gu Xin’s older brother etc etc.

6. The finalization? Such a turn off. Everything is so anticlimatic to the point that I just skipped everything. I’m only giving it extra star (it should be 2) mostly cause there’s extra for OGMC, I wish that he’s now happier eventho the extra is not too much anyway.

MC confessed about not being the original goods, but didn't tell that they knew each other in a past life and that that's were his affection (initially platonic) sprouted. Also they kept referencing the ML remembering MC's death scene in his dream, which in turn is why he married the OG for his looks despite hating his personality and his family. It doesn't really go anywhere though!! MC never says the truth (since ML knows he's different but not the past) nor does ML tell about his dream, I kept expecting him to remember his past life and for them to reunite considering his past life probably loved MC.

The original goods has such a pitiful backstory, he's an illegitimate child who's mom died and his dad doesn't feel anything but guilt. The guy is just an awful father in general to both sons, good thing he's dead. OG fell in love at first sight but it didn't help at all since it was unreciprocated. He was just very sad, he does get a happy ending in the extras though I wasn't really satisfied if I'm honest.

There's just a few things that annoyed me here's some but not all. Like how did they know it was MC was the stuntman, did the editors somehow mess up and leave a long shot of MC's face when it should have the actor?? Also the author isn't very clear on time, at one point I thought they dropped a plotline and skipped two year because of how she phrased it (or maybe that the translation). The stuff I mentioned in the spoilers leads to MC acting strangely yet it's never really addressed and was more to stimulate the reader, I just wish it had a clearer resolution. The final villain was a bait and switch but you kinda expected it. Like there was hints but for the most part the cannon fodder villain had more to do than the actual main villain. I just hated that almost all the villainous characters basically got away with what they did and some even got on friendly terms with MC & his friends, like work hard for it at least! Only two actually did work for it.

One last note yes there are a bunch of side pairings, some more flesh out than others, I did like them. You see some character growth for them. There's just one possible CP that annoyed me. Like the author could have let the guy be a single dog and not just throw him a pity date. I almost felt insulted on his behalf and I didn't even like his character.