Since It Has Come to This, I'll Choose the Cannon Fodder Junior Brother

He Qiuxin transmigrated into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder character.

He appeared in no more than three lines in the whole novel, since he didn't survive past chapter three.

The protagonist gong and shou were the latest popular type of villains. When their love reached its peak, they slaughtered everyone in sight, from individuals to entire towns and cities. After wreaking havoc across the cultivation world, they ascended in glory.

Good news: He'd arrived at the beginning of the story, before he'd had a chance to meet the protagonist gong and shou.

Bad news: He belonged to the same sect as them, so there was a 100% chance they'd cross paths.

Given the protagonists' personalities, if they met, he'd either become their dog or end up dead beneath their swords.

He Qiuxin wanted to be neither.

Just as He Qiuxin was at a loss about what to do, he turned around and thought his junior sect brother looked awfully familiar.

After taking a closer look, He Qiuxin slapped his forehead. His junior sect brother was another cannon-fodder character!

Born into a prestigious family and blessed with extraordinary talent, he should have enjoyed the ultimate overpowered-protagonist life. But when he faced the protagonist shou in the tournament, the protagonist gong arranged for him to be poisoned the day before the competition.

Because he was too proud to back down, he forced himself to compete the next day. Then the protagonist shou falsely accused him of trying to kill him during the match.

Since the protagonist gong and shou were the leads, nothing happened to them after all this.

Only the cannon-fodder junior sect brother had his spiritual root destroyed after the match and was expelled from the sect. His family later abandoned him, and after wandering in a foreign land for decades, he died in some unknown corner.

The tournament was still six months away.

Cannon fodder, help cannon fodder. Looking at his junior sect brother, He Qiuxin decided they should stick together for warmth.

Though with his lazy nature and cannon-fodder status, he would probably be the one clinging to his junior sect brother for warmth, hoping to stay alive a few more days.

And so

While everyone praised the protagonist shou, he cheered every time his junior sect brother made progress.

While everyone presented treasures to the protagonist gong, he handed his junior sect brother a hard-won spirit herb.

After the tournament, when everyone said his junior sect brother was in the wrong, he stood up and said it wasn't like that.

In a tiny, unnoticed corner of the cultivation world, the two of them relied on each other to survive.

"You are my protagonist."

He did all this, and in the end, he really said those words to his junior sect brother.

Much later, after a long separation and reunion, his junior sect brother had become more powerful than the protagonist gong and shou, the foremost of the younger generation. When he remembered those words, his eyes shone as brightly as they had the first time he heard them.

He tugged at the edge of He Qiuxin's sleeve, his ears faintly red and his eyes bright. Carefully, word by word, he said, "I don't want to be your protagonist anymore, Senior Brother."

"I want to be your cultivation partner. Will you let me?"

A laid-back, sweet-tempered beauty of a senior brother bottom × an overpowered hero to everyone else, but a little white rabbit who devours his senior brother in private top

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one, both leads have only ever been with each other, happy ending

Theme: Love life, love yourself.