Rebirth After Divorce Chapter 35 Discussion

The story was all over the place.

The first chapter started well, nothing new or groundbreaking, but interesting enough. In summary, the MC’s boyfriend cheated on him with a family member, and the same family member kills the MC, who then wakes up in his childhood body determined to change his fate.

It goes downhill from there. As with a few of these novels, the author didn't seem to plan out the plot or the characters and is making this up as they go along, leading to plot holes and inconsistencies.

Below are just a few of the things that made me drop this novel:

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The MC states that he lost contact with his childhood friends because he prioritized his relationship with his boyfriend, but a few chapters later, MC is on a hike with one of those friends a month before he dies and is reborn.

Then, there was the issue of a 30-year-old man admitting he had feelings for a 12-year-old boy. The author tries to ease the wrongness in the reader's mind by tacking on a sentence that the MC will wait until they are in college to start a relationship if the ML still has feelings for him. No. Just no. Why would a grown man have feelings for a boy? Just on the basis that he treats him well? That’s it?

Said 12-year-old, the ML, is ten when he decides to pursue the MC faithfully. For unknown reason, just whoops, you appeared in front of me and were better looking and more special than anyone else, so it's me and you until the end of time. The odd references to the ML’s grandfather's advice to chase his wife come across as creepy, not cute. The author's excuse of the ML being a mature genius was flimsy at best.

The MC also displays one of my biggest pet peeves in rebirth stories. He acts like a child, but to make it worse, he has moments of maturity that make those childish moments stand out, making it clear it’s only for plot purposes why he’s behaving immaturely in that moment.

I stopped as the story entered the middle school arc because I couldn't be bothered to sit through the obligatory misunderstanding and face-slapping as the story went nowhere in particular.

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