Reincarnated with a Character Template, Why Am I Just a Background Character?

This is a world of myth, home to gods, demons, spirits, and the uncanny. Zhao Shi arrives in this world and suddenly discovers that he can reincarnate once every day. Each time he breaks through his limits in a new life, he receives a reward. But why are his reincarnations so useless? One time he’s a child who won’t live past the age of three because his family is poor. Another time he’s a chicken with a knife at its throat, about to be slaughtered... Zhao Huan is at his wit’s end. How is he supposed to play this game? Then he discovers that he can receive a template when he reincarnates, and the template is assigned at random. Common templates, elite templates... Until one day, he receives a mythic template and realizes that this world is nothing special after all...