Summary: Jian Jinzhao till the last moment of his life could not comprehend that he was betrayed by his closest people. One is a friend with whom they shared the career troubles and another is a friend with whom he was acquainted since childhood. But these people pushed him as a scapegoat and pulled him down from the altar with accusations of money laundering. Their life was fine, the company was fine, they even found someone similar to Jian Jinzhao to take over, but Jian Jinzhao was devastated. The next moment he was reborn two years prior the accident.
It's a double-rebirth novel. MC and ML are both reborn.
Also it is well-crafted, easy to digest content. There is nothing super outstanding or new tbh, but it doesn't mean it's a bad novel. After all it's a seasoned author and now they can pull up a good story. I've read it almost in one seating, so it's very easy-going instead of thrilling drama. There are ups and downs, but they are easily solved not to make readers wait for too long and feel devastated.
JJZ was reborn for a week at the beginning of the novel, he was still in a bad state of mind and was tortured by nightmares every night. When he had a meeting with one of the perpetrators of his previous life, TV drama actor Qin Ye, he announced his withdrawal from their common company and setting up a new one. The reason wasn't given too clearly at first and the other party thought JJZ had a temper fit, but JJZ did what he promised, terminated contract with the company, sold his shares and fired his agent. His agent under the name of JJZ found and pimed newcomers, but since JJZ had no evidence he did not tear up completely and just left. As you can guess the company tried to bring troubles to JJZ's new company but it was in vain.
After that meeting with Qin Ye JJZ met with Yu Yan in the hotel, a young and promising actor in his previous life who seemed to be plotted during the wine bureau, he decided to help and this became the beginning of their relationship. Yu Yan is the ML and he is 9 years younger. Because JJZ knew that Yu Yan will become prosperous he did not object to him joining his new company.
JJZ and his first and former agent Ji Jia established the new comany and hired several newcomers from professional background with the idea of training and development. Yu Yan was more experienced and won his first role in the audition of the recently returned director Wen. In his previous life Yu Yan also played in the movie 'Mud' and became a household name as the youngest best actor.
For the company to be on track and gain a strong foothold and be a "clean" it came through several purgings, you can also consider them the ups and downs of the story. Like for example newcomer Qi Zhou who wanted to take shortcuts, but was shot down in the revelations. The previous company who took many attempt in muddying water also came defeated in the online confrontation several times. And since the previous company of JJZ was involved in money laundering some story behind it was also revealed. By "clean" company we can compare the two. For this we also need to have the insight into who is JJZ and his "friends". JJZ's parents are scholary family, his dad is a professor and his mother is into caligraphy, he always had bottom line and principles in the entertainment industry, so he may not be liked by capital due to his principles (thus the conflict with those who wanted to launder money). On the contrary Qin Ye came from the average background and had a bit of inferiority comlex, he was ready for sacrifice unlike JJZ thus he was involved in transactions. His childhood friend Lang always wanted to compete with JJZ, thus he joined the company and was in the upper management, but he always protected his own interests (thus he betrayed JJZ in the previous life rather quickly). Since JJZ is a principled person he wanted his staff and those he wanted to bring to have integrity of an artist and they went through several tribulations to finallize who went and who stayed. So the clash of the JJZ and the big capital is the main final conflict you could say. But JJZ in this life is not alone.
Yu Yan came with a purpose, since he was reborn he was happy that JJZ was still there and he changed his course of actions from previous life and joined JJZ's company, he also openly came to chase people and proclaimed love, which slowly made JJZ warm up to these feelings. For Yu Yan JJZ is an emotional support and not only a lover, so the story is more like double-healing. The reason for it is simple, Yu Yan is a product of love between two famous people in the entertainment circle, but the happy life didn't last long, the feelings on the screen could not be applied in real life and cohabitation, plus both were having their careers as their priority, in the end Yu Yan was nothing more but a left-behind child who was cared by a nanny. Although his material things never lacked, but he lacked love. Although his nanny cared for him and he grew up with nanny's son, but when he became sensible he did not have much affection for a reason. In his own opinion the nanny got paid and her son, whom she indulged, actually was vain and used everything Yu Yan used and created the image of a rich person and never clarified. This nanny's son is none other than Song Yu, the person who was found to replace JJZ. This is a bit of a spoiler, but it is revealed when he appears on the scene anyway. Song Yu is the basic green tea character, but it's a good thing he did not matter in the story much and his parading in front of MC and ML did not bring any success and everyone treated him as a fake and a joke. After all no matter how he emphasized on their "close" relationship, there was not much sincerity in his actions. On the contrary it was JJZ on the screen who brought Yu Yan to his senses and he fell in love with this person and he decided to join entertainment world to join hands with the person he cares about and this time he promised everything to keep the person he loved safe. Thus we have the double-healing process, JJZ slowly comes out of the shadow of his previous life, finally gains confidense, slowly warms up with Yu Yan and walks bravely towards the future.
PS: The cover was drawn beautifully, completely represents the image of JJZ in the novel, he always wears glasses (chain glasses included).
RATE: 4/5. Simply good-looking and well-crafted. Very fast-paced. Does not dwell on things and at times there might be an impression that there is not enough depth, but it can only be applied to some events or conflicts, the characters themselves got enough space to showcase what they are.
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