What is rebirth?

Answer 1

The so-called rebirth, the standard model was for the protagonist to return to a few years ago, with the memories of these years, to become a younger version of himself. And these memories, these life experiences, naturally became his strongest cheat.
If the system style was gradually overused in recent years, the rebirth style had been overused for more than ten years. Moreover, unlike the initial acceptance threshold of the system style, the concept of rebirth could be understood at a glance, and there was no difficulty in accepting it.
Times had changed. Over the years, under the influence of countless followers, not only were rebirth novels not novel, but they could even be said to be extremely old-fashioned. Even so, choosing the theme of rebirth was still not an unwise move. Even if it no longer had the spirit of sweeping everything in the past, at least it would not be a minus. In other words, the readers had read for more than ten years and countless rebirth novels, but they were still not completely bored.
The power of this theme was evident. Then, what was so strong about the Rebirth Literature?
Similarly, he would talk about the unimportant first. First of all, Rebirth was an all-rounded cheat that was so strong that he had no friends.
It didn't matter if the protagonist had no money. He knew how to make money that no one knew yet. He knew what to do to make money. He even knew where to find money. It didn't matter if the protagonist had no ability. He knew what abilities would be useful and useless in the future. He knew where to learn real skills and who to find to learn skills. He had even learned these skills and used them countless times. It didn't matter if the protagonist had a low EQ and didn't know how to read people. He knew who would be good to him and who would harm him in the future. He knew who was a hypocrite and who was a true hero. He knew who was talented and who was Zhong Yong...
In short, after rebirth, the protagonist could have anything he wanted and could be all-rounded and all-knowing. Even though in reality, even if I were to be reborn, I would probably be a good-for-nothing when I returned, in novels, the main character could call the wind and summon the rain, and he could do anything. Everything was reasonable.
However, this cheat did not seem to be that powerful. It did not require the protagonist to be talented or have the identity of the God of Creation. Even if he had no ability or wealth after his rebirth and started everything from scratch, even if he had wasted half his life in Guangying Media before his rebirth and was a good-for-nothing, it would not hinder his various fantasies after his rebirth.
It could be said that this was a perfect cheat. The reason why it wasn't important was that it could be replaced. There were many powerful and practical cheat codes, and it wasn't necessary to be reborn, especially now that rebirth literature was already rampant. If one only looked at the cheat code, choosing another one would have a greater advantage.
Then did the rebirth text have its own unique advantage?
Of course there was. There were two main areas.
First, the Rebirth Literature naturally had a plot that did not require much description, but it was a reality. In other words, the Rebirth Literature naturally hid the plot that was used to pave the way for the first half of the book, allowing the readers to start reading from the middle climax without any discomfort.
Thinking about it carefully, this could bring many benefits. First of all, as mentioned above, it could skip the boring foreshadowing and start from the exciting part, which was fascinating.
At the same time, because there was a " hidden " half of the book, and it was usually the protagonist's failed life, there would naturally be all kinds of regrets in it. This could easily arouse the readers 'mentality of making up for their regrets. This was more obvious in the urban rebirth novel.
The old man couldn't be more filial when he was alive, the goddess of his dreams was not fated with him, he bought the wrong number in the lottery, he didn't study hard and missed a famous university...
In our lives, there are more or less all kinds of regrets. They are destined to be irreparable, but through reading novels and putting ourselves in the protagonist's shoes, we can obtain a special sense of pleasure from making up for our regrets. This is something that other types of works can't replace.
Other than making up for regrets, there was also a natural advantage in creating conflicts in the rebirth novel. That was the reduction of the plot mentioned above.
Take hatred as an example. In a normal novel, one would have to spend a lot of time weaving plot after plot, making the villain do all kinds of evil things, bully the protagonist, kill his parents, and kill his teacher…Without these plots, the protagonist would not have enough reason to hate. However, with too many such plots, it would be depressing and boring to read.
There was no such trouble when writing a novel about rebirth because the prologue did not need to be described in detail. All it needed was one sentence. The protagonist would see this person, think of all the evil deeds he had done before his rebirth, and hate him to the extreme. Then, it would be over.
From the perspective of stirring up emotions, the hatred that the readers felt was not as good as the usual descriptions. But in fact, this was not important. What was really important was the subsequent outburst of the main character and the pleasure of revenge. The hatred description in the beginning was just to provide the main character with a reason to explode. Therefore, in general, the rebirth literature still had an obvious advantage in this aspect.

In the second area, rebirth novels had the most advantage when setting up the " suspense without suspense ".
In web novels, the concept and use of suspense were quite different from traditional novels. Many times, the readers knew exactly how the plot would develop.
For example, before the 98 World Cup finals, everyone bet on Brazil to win, but the protagonist had to bet all his money on France. Therefore, his family and friends advised him, and others mocked him. As for the subsequent plot, there was actually no suspense. It was just that France won the championship with a surprising score of 3:0, and the protagonist made a fortune, which made others either surprised or envious.
However, the lack of suspense didn't mean that the readers would lose interest in reading. On the contrary, they would continue reading with even more interest, looking forward to the day of the finals, even though everyone knew what would happen on that day.
This kind of attraction was stronger than the suspense of conventional concepts, and it was often much stronger. When it came to creating this kind of suspense, the advantages of rebirth novels were obvious, especially urban rebirth novels. They were simply born to serve this purpose, including some branches of urban rebirth novels, such as plagiarism or entertainment novels. They could simply rely on this trick to be used repeatedly until the end of time, and the readers would never get tired of it.
Other types of rebirth novels were not as convenient, but they also had a huge advantage. The so-called inconvenience was only relative to urban rebirth. As long as the main character knew how this person and this thing would be in the future, it would immediately become the truth. No matter what other people in the book thought at that time, the readers would definitely believe that the main character was right.
In a sense, this was the greatest advantage of the rebirth literature. Of course, the reduction of foreshadowing could also be considered one of them.
If we were to choose the theme of rebirth, we would have to make use of this advantage as much as possible. If we didn't know how to make use of it and just wrote it as an ordinary cheat, then there was no need to choose it.