The first world is complete. Feel free to dive in.
A cannon fodder character is a brick in the story, moved wherever needed.
Xu Nianhe is that brick.
He can be a minor character who dies early and helps the protagonist discover the truth, or the protagonist’s shadow, supporting them as they grow.
A stepping stone for the protagonist, the protagonist’s love rival: he can play any of these roles.
Xu Nianhe likes this job. After all, who wouldn’t want a job with so few scenes?
He has no dreams of being the protagonist.
It’s just that Xu Nianhe always lives to a ripe old age, and now he looks helplessly at the people around him. This isn’t his scene! He doesn’t want to work overtime!
World One:
Xu Nianhe is a country bumpkin who has lived in the countryside for eighteen years. His mother takes him to live with her wealthy stepfamily.
Everyone thinks he’s a sparrow turned phoenix, but they don’t know he’s walked into a trap. He’s meant to take the place of the An family’s real young master and die in his stead.
Then, after a series of events...
The evil spirit ends up being recruited into the government along with him.
World Two:
Xu Nianhe is the young son of a duke’s household, but after a divination by the Imperial Preceptor, he has to be raised as a girl from childhood, or he’ll die young.
He also has a congenital inability to recognize people, which makes him rather eccentric.
Recently, someone who has lost his memory arrived at Xu Nianhe’s estate. Xu Nianhe likes his looks and figure.
Just as he’s thinking of keeping the man for himself,
he learns that the man is the missing Great General.
And Xu Nianhe has to enter the palace under a false identity.
P.S. The top and bottom are both physically and emotionally devoted to each other. The top is split into multiple incarnations, and each one is devoted.
This quick transmigration story has turned into a slower-paced one, so things move a little slowly.
Theme: As long as you’re alive, there’s hope