The Cannon Fodder Goes on a Rampage After Livestreaming Spoilers

Rong Xi attends the Princess's flower-viewing banquet and catches her fiance, the Third Prince, kissing her cousin. By chance, she becomes bound to a livestream System.

Subtitles scroll across the System's screen, and the topic's main character is her, Rong Xi.

[You silly girl, the heroine made sure you saw this so you would give up and break off the engagement yourself.]

[The eldest legitimate daughter of a marquis's household, with several powerful figures backing her. What a pity she's a lovesick cannon-fodder character, destined to die at sixteen.]

Only then does Rong Xi realize that she's cannon fodder in a sweet romance novel.

The moment she opens the door, the male lead will kill her with one slash and dump her body in the moat.

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Rong Xi curses up a storm, tears up her cannon-fodder script, and sets the male and female leads on fire, sending them flying into the heavens.

Their affair is exposed. The Princess is furious, throws them both out, and takes Rong Xi in as her goddaughter.

[Well, there goes the male lead's biggest source of support in his bid for the throne.]

The heroine's carefully cultivated reputation is ruined, and the male lead is knocked out of the running for Crown Prince.

Rong Xi earns a reputation as a villainess throughout the capital. Even dogs cross the street to avoid her.

Rong Xi says she's not worried and keeps going gloriously insane.

Rong Xi takes the huge compensation paid by the male lead and throws money around everywhere. One day she buys a run-down house, the next an uncultivated mountain, and the day after that she spends a fortune on musicians and dancers.

The male lead accuses her of being wasteful and failing to uphold a woman's virtue. Rong Xi slaps him so hard he spins like a top. "You shameless man, with no regard for a man's virtue."

[Does she know there's treasure from a previous dynasty hidden beneath that house, potatoes yielding five thousand jin per mu growing on that mountain, and that the musician called Pretty Boy is a spy from an enemy nation?]

During a famine, Rong Xi presents the potatoes and saves countless people. She earns the title Potato Goddess, and is made a commandery princess for her meritorious service in exposing wrongdoing.

The heroine takes the opportunity to embezzle a fortune, earns herself a month in prison, and has all her property confiscated.

At the imperial autumn hunt, the male and female leads use underhanded tricks to steal Rong Xi's game.

Rong Xi simply quits, hauls out the little contraption she's just put together, and blasts away half the forest. As a bonus, she gives the leads the full wash, cut, and blow-dry treatment. They spend the next six months too embarrassed to leave the house with their bald heads.

[Aaaaaah, is Rong Xi even human? How can she make a firelock, too? Does she already know that the State of Chu plans to invade the State of Wei?]

When war breaks out between the two states, Wei is prepared in advance thanks to Rong Xi's warning.

The firelock troops send the enemy fleeing in disarray, and also uncover evidence that the male lead has colluded with the enemy and betrayed his country.

The Emperor: Lady Rong has helped ease my burdens. I grant her a marquisate!

The male and female leads: ...

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Later, Rong Xi rises to the head of the civil officials, wielding power across the court.

As for the male and female leads, they'd been sent off to mine coal years earlier.

The viewers in the livestream are so shell-shocked they've gone numb. Only belatedly do they realize:

[I thought this was supposed to be a brainless fluffy romance about defeating an evil elder sister and finding the perfect husband. How did it turn into a female-led story?]

[Weren't we here to watch the leads' sweet everyday life? How did this become a show about watching an evil cannon-fodder character go berserk?]

★2023.03★

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