After Rebirth, I Returned to Miaojiang to Inherit My Family Business Chapter Completed Discussion

I loved the story up until chapter 200 and I would have given it 5 stars- if not for the ending. It just spiralled out of control; if I didn't read it throughout, I would have thought it was two completely different novels.

Wu Rong, the protagonist had reasonable power-ups in the beginning.Spoiler

He got a contract with what he thought was a ghost king when he fell off the cliff. While that definitely reeks of plot armour and golden fingers, it's not unheard of.

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When he went to the Miao village, he obtained the Gu he needed.

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Which turned out to be useless in the long run. The tarantula spider wasn't mentioned at all in the later chapters. And his primary Gu, which took an unreasonable amount of time to hatch considering he had all the resources ready, was a Maria butterfly. This long-awaited Gu was useful for all of one chapter.

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Wu Rong's secret identity, the power he continuously got from 'the depths of his soul' was

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him being 'Order'- the concept opposite of Chaos.

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It was ridiculous. Why couldn't the author make him some other form of a higher existence? Even some sort of God would make more sense. How can a 'concept' gain feelings? And why did he have a human form in the first place? All the plot holes and and unanswered questions made it feel like I was hallucinating.

The villain turned out to be Spoiler

Tong Fuyuan, the university professor. Like the MC, his identity kept getting wilder and wilder. From a shady professor, he turned into a high-up member of the Holy Wedge Society, to somebody who seemingly had a different soul in him that somehow previously knew Wu Rong, to finally the the guardian of the Celestial Clan who made a contract with 'Chaos'.

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It felt like the author was trying to foreshadow and throw in a couple of plot twists. It was highly ineffective; it felt like a mish-mash of a bunch of random different ideas.

There are a lot more things I could mention, like seemingly important side characters like Wu Rong's yellow-haired friend, Spoiler

who was one of his most important right-hand men in his previous life as a ghost king,

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having no use to the overall plot at all.

It was also confusing distinguishing between the MC and his grand-aunt, who both had the name 'Wu Rong' when I MTL'd it.

Overall, a really disappointing ending that ruined the whole story. I didn't even bother reading the extras. Even 3/5 stars is me being generous, in my opinion.