Xu Jiaojiao's Rebirth Identity Revelation is the turning point at which Xu Jiaojiao's strange intensity toward Shen Tang becomes intelligible. What first appears to be fanatic admiration is revealed as the emotional residue of another life: Shen Tang once saved Xu Jiaojiao from exploitation, while Xu Jiaojiao later joined Shen Tang's enemies and helped harm the very person she regarded as a benefactor. By admitting her reincarnation and exposing the history behind her attachment, Xu Jiaojiao converts suspicion into shared knowledge and turns a damaged friendship into an opportunity for atonement.

Suspicion and Direct Confrontation

Shen Tang notices that Xu JiaoJiao does not look at her with ordinary affection. The gaze seems almost fanatical, leaving Shen Tang uneasy rather than flattered. After trying to dismiss the impression as a misunderstanding, she decides that continued speculation is pointless and goes directly to Xu JiaoJiao's door. The knock and the greeting that follows establish the revelation as an intimate confrontation rather than a public discovery: Shen Tang seeks an explanation face to face, and Xu JiaoJiao must answer the person whose presence has unsettled her.

The scene's first value shift is from uncertainty to deliberate inquiry. Shen Tang does not yet know whether Xu JiaoJiao is an ally, an admirer, or a threat, but she refuses to let the ambiguity grow unchecked. Her decision to ask directly gives the event its investigative structure and makes the eventual disclosure a consequence of Shen Tang's agency. It also prepares the larger metaphysical question of the novel, in which identity cannot be explained solely by the visible life currently being lived.

Xu JiaoJiao's Reincarnation Confession

Xu JiaoJiao initially doubts that Shen Tang will believe her, then states that she has reincarnated. She is not entirely certain whether the experience should be called reincarnation or an unusually vivid dream; its reality was too complete to dismiss, yet she lacks absolute certainty about the mechanism. Shen Tang accepts the claim without ridicule. Because Shen Tang herself has crossed into a book, another person's return from a previous life does not seem impossible to her.

Shen Tang also recognizes the practical importance of the disclosure. She cannot tell whether Xu JiaoJiao reincarnated in the first cycle, before Shen Tang crossed into the book, or in the second cycle, after that crossing. If Xu JiaoJiao's memories belong to the later cycle, they might contain knowledge of what is still to come. The confession therefore carries two simultaneous meanings: it is an emotional explanation for Xu JiaoJiao's behavior and a possible source of information about the future. The event expands the story's reality beyond a single linear timeline, placing Shen Tang's transmigration beside Xu JiaoJiao's uncertain rebirth.

The Previous Life and the Rescue

In her previous life, Xu JiaoJiao was a minor celebrity without resources or influential connections. After acting in a drama, she gained popularity, but that success exposed her to a more dangerous professional environment. An investor took an interest in her, and her company began sending her to drink and entertain clients. Xu JiaoJiao tried to maintain her principles, yet she could not prevent men from taking liberties with her.

The crisis reaches its most immediate point when she has drunk enough to suffer nausea, stomach cramps, and dizziness, while a man attempts to force more alcohol on her. Shen Tang intervenes. In her muddled state, Xu JiaoJiao sees Shen Tang beat the man and take her to the hospital, where her stomach is pumped. To Shen Tang, the intervention may have seemed like a small act of protection; to Xu JiaoJiao, it becomes life-changing. She believes that without Shen Tang, much worse could have happened, consequences she cannot bear to imagine.

That memory explains why Xu JiaoJiao's present attachment is so intense. Shen Tang did not merely assist her career or offer casual companionship. In Xu JiaoJiao's recollection, Shen Tang arrived at the moment when her dignity and safety were being threatened, acted decisively, and stayed with her through medical treatment. Gratitude, dependence, admiration, and emotional indebtedness become fused together, so that what Shen Tang reads as fanaticism is actually the afterimage of a rescue that defined Xu JiaoJiao's life.

Betrayal, Guilt, and the Attempt at Redemption

When Shen Tang asks whether the rescue is the reason Xu JiaoJiao came to like her, Xu JiaoJiao confirms it. She remembers that they later became best friends: she learned Shen Tang's preferences, while Shen Tang helped clear a path for her. The recollection makes Xu JiaoJiao cry, and she explains that she is relieved. Her relief is not merely happiness at seeing Shen Tang again. It comes from realizing that the catastrophe of the previous life has not yet occurred and that she still has the chance to begin again.

Xu JiaoJiao's inner confession reveals the darker half of the memory. In the previous life, she became blinded and plotted with Shen Tang's enemies to harm Shen Tang. She remembers a specific moment in which Shen Tang tightly gripped a wine glass and sincerely asked whether Xu JiaoJiao really wanted her to drink it. After Xu JiaoJiao nodded, Shen Tang drank everything in one gulp, even as a tear slipped from the corner of her eye. Although nothing ultimately happened to Shen Tang, Xu JiaoJiao could not forgive herself, and the friendship ended.

The revelation therefore does not present rebirth as a clean escape from the past. Xu JiaoJiao carries both the memory of being saved and the memory of betraying her savior. Her embrace of Shen Tang becomes a physical pledge that, in this life, she will redeem herself properly. The act of holding on contrasts with the earlier separation: the previous life culminated in a friendship broken by complicity, while the present life begins its repair through confession, remorse, and a decision to act differently before the fatal pattern repeats.

Narrative Significance and Aftermath

The event changes Shen Tang's understanding of Xu JiaoJiao without resolving every uncertainty about rebirth. The exact cycle in which Xu JiaoJiao returned remains unclear, and Xu JiaoJiao herself cannot fully distinguish reincarnation from a dream. Yet the emotional truth of her memories is sufficient to explain her behavior. Shen Tang's willingness to believe her creates a rare point of solidarity between two people whose lives are shaped by departures from ordinary reality: Shen Tang has entered a fictional world, while Xu JiaoJiao remembers another life within it.

The disclosure also establishes accountability as the meaningful consequence of supernatural second chances. Xu JiaoJiao is not absolved simply because she has returned. She names the rescue, remembers the betrayal, accepts that the friendship ended because of her actions, and commits herself to making amends. The past remains active, but it no longer has to dictate the future. Once Shen Tang understands the source of her doubts, she sleeps well that night, suggesting that knowledge—not a magical erasure of danger—has restored immediate trust and emotional calm.

Placed near the end of filming, when the production is approaching its wrap, the revelation arrives at a threshold. One phase of the characters' shared life is closing just as Xu JiaoJiao's hidden history opens. Its function is consequently larger than a twist: it reframes a relationship, confirms that the novel's temporal order is unstable, and turns a potentially threatening intensity into a moral promise. Xu JiaoJiao's rebirth matters because it gives her another life, but the scene insists that the real test of rebirth is whether remembered harm can produce changed conduct.