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I do not understand why is this so highly rated. This novel attempts multiple things yet it succeeds at none of them.The descriptions are surface level no scene or person is truly given time to develop. They're given a mostly irrelevant one-liner and the story moves on assuming you to fill the rest of the gaps.It also suffers from the fact that the prologue/ chapter 0 already starts in the middle of the plot so the first tens of chapters are just rushing through random events that led him to continuously get promoted, except it doesn't actually tell you why he became a civil servant at the start.MC comes pre packaged with baggage you are just assumed to understand, the girl is a 'tyrant' in the original work, Apparently that is all you need to know to stake your life and do anything to get away from that situation. What part of her makes her a tyrant? Why does he actively avoid the princess? Because shes the future tyrant of course, that book from my last life said it, so dont question more. Its like an incredibly shallow worldview.Instead of using the opportunity to make it show that the MC is skilled but intentionally trying so hard to fail at his job that he succeeds instead, he just gets deus ex machina levels of luck to 'fail upwards'. Hes not trying to do good despite being in a bad situation. He's trying to do bad and just by sheer luck he does good. He supports an orphanage because he has an ulterior motive to get closer to the 'protagonist' of the story. He doesnt side with a good person thats a reformist because he 'knows' the reformist will succeed but die in the process.This is not a person with ideals or rather anything, its some random witless coward doing what he thinks in his shallow mind is the path to living. Except even that part isnt written properly. When this future tyrant insists on being his assistant he doesnt see that as an opportunity to change the future but instead as a death flag. Not that any of this is explained properly because its like the book leaves more than half of the 'content' out.Just skip this. Its not worth reading. A 5 out of 10 at best, aggressively mediocre with an empty feeling.