I Became an Extra and Helped the Cannon Fodder Turn Their Life Around

[Short story filling in a plot hole. Read at your own risk]

[First-person POV]

Somehow, I transmigrated into a book as a random passerby.

Apart from my peerless beauty, I had nothing. I even had to make up my own name.

With my extraordinary intelligence, I could easily live a carefree life without a care in the world.

But why does this doomed cannon fodder keep running over here every day, spreading his bad luck to me?

*

I suddenly looked up and smiled at him. "Xie Suining, do you have a crush on me?"

He froze for a moment, then casually picked up the slice of meat covering his face and dropped it into my bowl. He said fiercely,

"Just eat your meat!"

He was always all bark and no bite.

I wasn't scared at all, and kept teasing him:

"Then remember to come to my home and ask for my hand after your coming-of-age ceremony."

Xie Suining's fair face quickly flushed crimson.

He murmured, "You're just a little girl, but you sure have no shame."

But I knew Xie Suining wouldn't live to see twenty.

Theme: Treasure life, but bravely face the hardships you encounter and work hard to turn things around.