The Cannon Fodder's Fate [Quick Transmigration]

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Ning Xiao's awakened consciousness was recruited by the Temporal Administration of the Main God Space, making him a professional cannon fodder character.

From that day on, Ning Xiao had a codename and began traveling through various minor worlds. His mission was to play out the cannon fodder plot so each world could function independently.

Cannon fodder is called cannon fodder because no matter how much screen time they get or whether they're a good character, they are all destined to bite the dust in the end.

The System said this was the fate of cannon fodder.

Ning Xiao: Cannon fodder? Who? Me?

A collection of kinks and tropes. Feel free to suggest tropes and character types.

World One [Wealthy Family]: His younger brother's boyfriend comes to visit for the first time and falls for the rustic older brother with a special constitution. (√)

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World Two [Imperial Palace]: Yuan Le disguises himself as a girl and becomes the Crown Prince's maid. Then the emperor of an enemy kingdom abducts him too, leaving him torn between the Crown Prince and the enemy emperor. (√)

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World Three [Game]: He becomes the game developer's unrequited love, only to discover he exists solely in the developer's memories. (√)

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A Guide to Survival for the Sickly Crown Prince

[Third-person narration in the main story]

I transmigrated into a political intrigue novel as the cannon fodder crown prince who dies in the very first episode!

The male leads are Huo Tingchao, a prince of a different surname who commands the army, and Han Shuguan, a young chancellor who controls the court and public opinion.

They fought for power and loved and hated each other for three whole years. In the end, they came to admire each other and decided to support a puppet emperor and rule the realm together.

And me, the legitimate crown prince, had only one bar of health from the start.

I was gravely ill and unfit to inherit the throne. On the day Huo Tingchao staged a coup, I planned to sneak out of the imperial mausoleum, but Han Shuguan's men caught me, skinned and dismembered me, and left me to die in the mausoleum.

Fleeing meant death. Staying meant death too...

After transmigrating into the book, I couldn't sleep at night. I thought about it day and night, trying to figure out how to stay alive. After weighing my options, I decided I was suited to become the puppet emperor three years from now!

The only problem was that I had to survive until then.

So I began my extreme survival strategy, caught between two powerful men. Today I'd flatter one, tomorrow I'd play the devoted lapdog to the other.

At last, the three-year term was over...

The good news was that I survived to the ending with barely a drop of health left.

The not-so-good news was that I'd lost my chastity and had no idea whose baby I was carrying...

Oh my God, this was a pregnancy story too?

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Upcoming story: The Charming Bad Thing

I loved you when you didn't love me. Now I don't love you, but you won't let me go!

And so it begins!

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In high school, Jiang Yuchi was obsessed with Li Yu, but his infatuation was shallow, based entirely on looks.

After trying to get Li Yu by threatening him, bribing him, throwing tantrums, and acting out, only to fail, Jiang Yuchi plunged into the entertainment industry instead, seeking the company of even more beauties...

Nine years passed in a flash.

The Jiang family went bankrupt. The people Jiang Yuchi had supported as their "benefactor" all scattered like monkeys when the tree fell, and his circle suddenly became deserted.

There was no way he was going to feel sorry for himself. Relying on his good connections from the past, Jiang Yuchi kept living his extravagant, pleasure-filled life, only now without anyone close by.

Then his father shoved a marriage agreement into his hands. "Go marry into the Li family. It's our only hope of making a comeback!"

After learning about the Li family's background, Jiang Yuchi agreed without a shred of integrity. That very night, he met Li Yu, the ruthless head of the Li family.

The power of a first love lies in this: even when the person you loved most is right there, they still can't compare to the memory of your first love.

The cold, abstinent man was nothing like the elegant, aloof boy he'd been years ago.

Jiang Yuchi tried to convince himself that Li Yu's personality had simply gotten worse, not his looks...

TAT He couldn't convince himself.

His taste hadn't changed in ten years: he still only liked beautiful, aloof young men, not domineering men like Li Yu now.

Besides, in the six months since they got married, Jiang Yuchi hadn't even touched Li Yu's hand. Life was dull.

At last, on a rainy night, he got drunk at a bar and complained to his friends that his husband was far too abstinent and must be sexually cold.

His friends egged him on: Why not let loose tonight? Find someone you feel close to and have some fun. Taste the forbidden fruit.

Jiang Yuchi mumbled a refusal, but thought he saw Li Yu.

Li Yu asked, "You want to go have fun with someone?"

He wanted to find someone else again...

Jiang Yuchi couldn't remember what he said. The result was that Li Yu had his way with him all night...

Theme: Be confident and shine. Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.