I've Transmigrated Into This Movie Before

Chapter 1

“<I Am a Big Beauty> has stayed at rock bottom since its opening, box office numbers are not expected to even reach 3 million.”

“Curse of the second generation of stars! Formally legendary movie empress’s daughter is bound to not amount to much!”

“Shocking revelation! Ning Ning reveals in private: As long as it pays, I’ll shoot any film!”

In the span of a night, critics overwhelmed her. Standing within the midst of criticism, Ning Ning arrived at the hospital. Slowly, she pushed open the door of the ward, and saw her mother lying on her side in bed with a phone placed beside her pillow. It was currently playing the bad movie in which she was the lead actress <I Am a Big Beauty>.

“Ah, Mummy.” Ning Ning sighed whilst walking over and kneeling down beside the bed. Leaning her forehead against her mother’s hand, she softly said,”I’m sorry, don’t watch it anymore.”

Sorry, I shouldn’t have picked this bad film.

Yet if she had not done so, she would not have sufficient money for her mum’s hospital bills.

In the past, she had still held on to some hope that she could be like her mum – shining like the moon and oh so eye-catching despite starring in a bad movie. But the facts proved she had overestimated herself. Legends are one because they are hard to come by– she had only inherited her mum’s face, not her talent.

“I’m sorry.” Ning Ning could not hold back her overflowing tears, “I’m sorry mummy, I have no talent…”

“Who says you have no talent?” Ning Yuren laughed, “You are exactly like me, exactly the same, look.”

As Ning Ning lifted up her head, reddened eyes could be seen. Following Ning Yuren’s hand, she saw herself with wide opened eyes filled with anger on the phone’s screen, rushing towards the male lead and shouting like an enraged bear, “Why won’t you look at me when I am so pretty! Look at me! Look at me!”

Ning Ning shut her eyes in dismay, speaking with a shaky voice, “Mummy, can we not look at this anymore? I feel like I am going to puke.”

“I was the same when I acted in my first movie, worst yet, I splattered the male lead with a whole face of saliva.” Ning Yuren watched in enjoyment, “The male lead then refused to continue acting, saying how he wanted to open an umbrella whenever he saw me.”

“Then what happened?” Ning Ning asked.

Ning Yuren slightly rolled her shoulders to relax them. “Then I got replaced.”

Ning Ning looked at Ning Yuren in shock, unable to believe that the legendary movie empress had such a history. Because before Ning Yuren was given the title ‘Legendary Movie Empress’, she had another title – inborn actor. Countless great directors have named Ning Yuren as an actor who was the most talented– no matter if she was playing the role of an imperial concubine, a village girl, a cunning spy, a passionate singer, or even a male. She could be immersed into her role, so much so that no one could tell the slightest difference from the real thing.

No, as a matter of fact, it could not even be described as there not being the slightest difference.

In the last movie she  acted in before retiring, a war movie on spies directed by Chen Guanchao, he praised her during the press conference, “There will never be another actor greater than Ning Yuren. If I were to play a clip of another actor’s scene, you would be able to tell that they were acting, even if the scene was played repeatedly. But if I played one of hers, you would only think that it was part of a documentary no matter how many times you saw it.”