The Broken Cannon Fodder

[Everyone's Favorite + Alluring Beauty + Cannon Fodder Conquest + Imperfect Actor Bottom + Love Rivals + Split-Self Crematorium]

A few tips before reading: The first three worlds have angst, so if you don't like angst, you can start with the fourth. The small worlds have bad endings, but the overall ending is happy.

As an insignificant extra in every story and a mere foil to the main cast, Jiang Ran finally awakened after dying unexpectedly again and again.

It turned out he was just cannon fodder in these stories, either an unnamed nobody who got killed or a vicious male supporting character who helped the protagonists' romance along. The only thing they all had in common was that he died every time.

To live out a peaceful lifetime and get a chance to change his fate, Jiang Ran used every trick in the book to get along with the chosen protagonists in each world, hoping to keep himself alive.

But gradually, he began to realize that something was off about the people surrounding him.