Best Actors Life: Take-Two

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The Golden Horse Award winner for best actor, Yuan Mu, was murdered but his soul was trapped in a young and handsome body. The place of rebirth unexpectedly is the bed of his enemy, Huo Yi! And Huo Yi is his breadwinner?! While dealing with this fickle breadwinner, he is also trying to take down the man who killed him. Spending time with Huo Yi, Yuan Mu seems to have gradually fallen in love with the man he once hated the most?

Original Manhua:
AC.QQ, BiliBili, Dongman

Official Translations:
English, Indonesian

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Manhua

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Best Actors Life: Take Two

Film Emperor's Reincarnation Script

Kelahiran Kembali Superstar

Yingdi Chongsheng Juben

影帝重生剧本

影帝重生剧本 Re:Action

리액션

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Status in Country of Origin

150 Chapters (Complete)

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Average: 7.4 / 10.0 (36 votes)

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Last Updated

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Comedy Drama Shounen Ai
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Original Publisher

AC.QQ (2019)

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Yes

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HoToon

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Cheesy…

by Nyxie4649
3 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

It was kinda fun to read, but super cheesy and unbelievable for the most part.

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Slow burn. Unlikely to reread.

by likalaruku1
4 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

This is a popular premium title on Webcomics, the younger Gen Z fujoshis love it, but I'm a jaded manga veterin who has been reading BL since they were in diapers. Nothing is new to me, so I call it like I see it.

Not gonna lie, it took almost 10 chapters for it to get interesting. The introductory chapter was sloppy, the first 5 chapters were confusing. Huo has a wooden personality & barely constitues as a secondary character let alone a romantic lead. He doesn't really engage, rather he is reactionary to Mu/Jiamu, who feels like the sole protagonist in what is supposed to be a romance. The story isn't entirely unique either, as so many Lezhin BL titles did body swapping in the late 2010s.

I'm glad I read this on a day I won a free pass, because I would not have spent premium currency or got a subscription just for this one.

So the real story is about Xiao Mu or Yuan Mu, depending on the translator, who dies & wakes up in the body of Jiamu, an acting student 11 years his junior. He reconsiles with his sister & gets the chance to go to school again, as he had dropped out to support his sister. The series covers topics like
very real issue of sexual harassment & sabotage behind the scenes.

The story absolutely fails to deliver on the rivalry angle presented early in the story. It was completely one-sided because Mu was salty & jealous of Huo, plus Huo quits the acting business before Mu meets him as Jiamu.

Huo is obnoxiously territorial & suspicious, so the Mastiff nickname suits him. His unwarrented distrust & disdain for Mu's sister Taotao makes him a bit insufferable. He won't let Mu have any friends either. His possesiveness is honestly unbecoming & the foundation of a healthy relationship in built on trust. He's paranoid that his gay (not bi) love interest will hook up with the first woman he stands too close to. & even though Mu had made it clear that he dislikes being emasculated, Huo gives him the nickname "Wifey." What an ass. Dude won't even let Mu fight his own battles & treats him like a helpless simpering princess.

Mu is not without faults, & the fault is that he ticks off far to many boxes in a Gary Stu litmus test. Everything about his career goes too perfectly, the story revolves around him completely, & anyone who doesn't like him becomes a washed up shamed actor.

The author does little audience polls where she lets them dictate by vote the direction the story will go in. This resulted in a perfectly nice secondary character named Zi Peng doing a total 180 & becoming a villain out of nowhere. Letting teenagers dictate is a terrible idea. They are tasteless, terrible at writing, & put their hormones before logic & characterization.

There's a decent sized group of people who conspire to end Jiamu's career through rumors. They are defeated swiftly & too easily, which is boring, & on top of that Huo does it all, instead of letting Jiamu fight his own battles like a real man.

There are also visual annoyances to, like the way Huo's hair keeps changing color between chapters.

This is however like a superior story to Yu-Ael's 그와 만나다 Meeting Him, where an emperor travels Sliders style into an alternate dimension & falls for this univese's version of his dead lover. That story had a murder mystery & a conspiracy that the author ignored entirely to just focus on pure romantic fluff, while this story tackles them head-on even if they are resolved far too easily. So it earns points with me there.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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I somehow remember other novel because of the settings

by Mongmong
5 years ago

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I read the manhua, but it always remind me of return of superstar novel. They have different story but how the plot revolve around actor and how they revived in another body to restart their live and finding about their death. Regardless of that, the manhua is great. More or less can potrayed how the industry work and dark secret they hold. I enjoyed the manhua so much.

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