I stumbled into 'Prince of Rebirth' during a long flight last year, and figuring out the order was genuinely confusing at first. The main novels—'Prince of Rebirth: The AFK Chronicles' and 'Prince of Rebirth: Reawakened'—feel like two halves of a larger arc, but the online serials and side stories published on various web platforms have a chronological sequence that's not immediately obvious.
If you want the full, deep-lore experience, start with the webnovel 'Prince of Rebirth: The AFK Chronicles'. It establishes the core time-loop mechanics and the protagonist's baseline desperation. Immediately after, dive into 'Prince of Rebirth: Reawakened', which picks up right where the loop stabilizes and the real political maneuvering begins. Don't skip the anthology 'Echoes of a Fallen Crown' between them, even though it's technically a side story collection; it introduces minor characters who become major players later. The reading order gets messier with the manhua adaptation, which condenses and reorders some events, so I'd treat that as a separate, supplementary thing after the main novels. Honestly, I read 'Reawakened' first by accident and had to backtrack, and it still mostly worked, but the emotional payoff of the finale hits harder if you've slogged through the initial hopelessness of 'Chronicles'.