The Cannon Fodder at Noble Academy: Wasteland Mary Sue

[A touch of being adored by everyone + strong female lead who grows over time + reborn + rival men competing for her + starts at an elite academy, then shifts to a Dune-inspired wasteland]

As the firing squad executed her, Shi Yun saw the truth about this world: it was an old-fashioned Mary Sue novel dressed up as a wasteland story.

She was nothing more than a cannon-fodder character mentioned in passing.

Her suffering, her endurance, everything she had been through was merely there to serve the plot.

The prayers of the poor in the Lower City, desperate amid poverty and chaos, and the struggles of the people in the wasteland against mutants and yellow sands were nothing more than entertainment for the Upper City’s nobles as they drowned themselves in indulgence.

Given another life, should she keep her head down or face the challenge head-on?

They said it was fate.

But what is fate? Shi Yun refuses to believe in it!

Her ideals are no longer fantasies. As Meksidike, she will create a Mary Sue story of her own.

What does trouble Shi Yun a little is why the four male leads, who were supposed to be entangled with the heroine, have all gathered around her instead.

And Chi Xun, who was also reborn, has been acting increasingly strange in certain ways...

Shi Yun never imagined that even after reaching the very top, she’d still have to deal with the chaotic everyday business of keeping a few men in line:

Curly-haired puppy: “Big Sis, I’ll be a good boy!”

Cold, celibate heartthrob: (quietly undoing a button) “Xiaoyun, why does it feel so hot today?”

Gentle student council president, looking troubled: “It seems a lot of people like our Xiaoyun.”

A peacock showing off: “That’s right. No one can resist my charm. So, Xiaoyun, when are you going to look at me?”

Someone constantly on guard against being stolen from: “Another day spent thinking about how to kill those damn pests.”