After Rebirth, The Prime Minister Just Wants to Call It Quits Chapter 11 Discussion

TLDR at the end

Okay, I stopped at ch 11 so my review may not be that accurate, but... The MC really talks. Like a lot. It'd be fine if it was actually smart dialogue, but it's mostly the author telling us it is, while in actuality, he just sounds like he doesn't know when to speak and when to keep shut.

That's all fine however, what really pisses me off is just how dumb he is. Yet they still try to portray him as smart. For instance, when

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MC proposed pretending to burn the forest to Mo QI.

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The way the author described it, you'd have thought he directly cured cancer or something. Another instance is when

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He asked his Grandfather to go out when his brothers were about to have an exam, in front of everyone. He could literally waited to ask him in private, or asked him another day, but he was in such a hurry ig? Ofc your grandfather would be stubborn when you humiliated him like that. Then he read the ledger and we're supposed to be in awe or something?

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These inconsistencies in his character are really dizzying. The author wants us to think he was so smart he was able to control the country, but also doesn't know basic things? Not to mention the second hand embarrassment I kept getting from this guy. It was so bad I had to put my phone down at times, esp at

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the gambling house where

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he bragged about how he never lost, only to lose the next second

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Not to mention the ML. The standard, "cold with a paralyzed face" ML that I hate. The author will use 300 words to describe his beauty but I still don't know what color his hair is. Might be on me though cause I skip over all the glazing they do for this man. And trust me, it's a LOT. Still, if I wanted a cardboard cutout I'd just order one online. Is it really so hard to give our male leads some PERSONALITY?

But the last straw for me was when, up to that point, the author had made it seem like he was embarrassed about his identity as an obsessed gay man and was interested in marrying a woman. I get he had a new identity, but what did he think he was going to gain by proclaiming his love for the general, in public? At least until he travels out, he's still "Lin Xiaohu". Amnesia would've been the perfect chance to wipe that clean and apologise for his untoward behaviour, but in order to "embarrass" Rong, he just started yapping in the street. I still don't know how idle the people in the capital are, to stand and watch people argue

[collapse] Not to mention that I had to skip over almost the entire chapter because it was just paragraphs on paragraphs of praise for the general. It was so boring goddd. Author took "show, not tell as a suggestion.

Sorry my thoughts are incoherent, this is more of a rand than an actual review

TLDR ; Arrogant and annoying MC who is sometimes so s*upid it hurts, and other times has average intelligence, but the author tries to make us think he's a genius x Cold, paralyzed face, cardboard ML. The comedy is hit or miss (mostly miss), with Iots of Second hand embarrassment