This is the English translation of the Chinese danmei novel “Reborn: I Mistook My Movie Emperor Ex for My Enemy”.
Original name: 反诈影帝[重生]
Author: 晒豆酱
Genre: Rebirth, Entertainment Industry, Fantasy, Romance, Yaoi
Year: 2025
Upload Status: 105 main chapters + 12 extra
Story tags: Double Rebirth, Betrayal, Complex Family Relationships, Family Conflict, Character Growth, Actors, Enemies Become Lovers, Handsome Male Lead, Second Chance, Black Belly, Mental Illness, Modern Day, Age Gap, Younger Gong, Older Shou.
Disclaimer: this novel contains mentions of child abuse, animal death, mental illness, and trauma
Reborn: I Mistook My Movie Emperor Ex for My Enemy synopsis: Lin Fanxing was a second-tier actor on the verge of sudden fame when he died in a car accident. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to two years in the past.
He was still an eighteen-tier nobody surviving in the entertainment industry on his looks alone, and still secretly involved with Qin Xin, the so much younger Movie Emperor he once dated in secret.
In his previous life, Qin Xin was cold, manipulative, and cruel. He used him, gaslighted him, cheated on him, and even borrowed money without returning it.
And when Lin Fanxing begged him for help, Qin Xin only smiled and said:
“No way. Dating you is my humiliating loss.”
This time, Lin Fanxing decides to stay far away from him, but fate pushes him back into the entertainment circle and straight into Qin Xin’s arms again.
“Go and get familiar with Qin Xin,” his manager tells him.
Lin Fanxing walks up to him, sits down, and says coldly:
“This chair is mine. Move.”
The manager freezes, but Qin Xin only looks up, revealing a faint smile and small tiger teeth.
“Brother Fanxing?”
From that moment on, Lin Fanxing fully embraces chaos.
If Qin Xin serves food, he turns the table away.
If Qin Xin pours water, he refuses to drink.
If Qin Xin sings karaoke, he changes the song.
If Qin Xin invests in a film, he demands a role and becomes the second male lead.
Everyone thinks Lin Fanxing is deliberately provoking the Movie Emperor.
On-screen, he clings to Qin Xin, crying through emotionally charged scenes… but inside, he is laughing coldly:
Good. Let’s see how long you can endure this humiliation!
But half a year later, everything collapses when a fraud case breaks out in the industry: a man has been arrested for impersonating Qin Xin, scamming people using fake chat logs, AI-generated videos, and voice recordings.
Lin Fanxing freezes.
The evidence… looks familiar.
*******
Meanwhile, Qin Xin has never been normal.
At eighteen, he developed a mental illness. At eighteen, he also fell in love with Lin Fanxing.
To everyone else, Lin Fanxing was just a rising star, but to him, he was his entire universe, his entire canopy of “stars.”
When Lin Fanxing never once looked at him, Qin Xin learned to watch quietly. And when he heard of Lin Fanxing’s death, he jumped from the 35th floor without hesitation.
But he woke up again.
This time, he refused to lose him.
Even if it means wrapping himself around him like a poisonous snake until he can no longer escape.
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