Ling Shuang transmigrates into a cannon-fodder character in an ability-user novel with no romance.
The male lead is the child of destiny, blessed with the world's fortune. After awakening an S-rank ability, he enters the Federation's top military academy, assembles an elite special forces unit on campus, and fights monsters and levels up all the way to becoming the Empire's top general, remembered for generations.
Ling Shuang, meanwhile, has an E-rank ability and is cannon fodder from the moment he appears.
System: Your job is to infiltrate the male lead's inner circle and stay alive.
Ling Shuang: Okay. So who is the male lead?
System: "The male lead is called *&%#... Sorry, the current system has crashed."
Ling Shuang: ???
*
When Ling Shuang arrives, it's the freshman entrance assessment. An S-rank ability user is discovered at the site, causing a huge commotion.
Ling Shuang's expression turns serious as he looks over.
The handsome young man is tall and slender, with a cool, aloof air that makes him stand out from the crowd.
Ling Shuang: He's definitely the male lead!
When the dorm assignments are announced, Ling Shuang and the young man are assigned to the same room.
Ling Shuang: This is fate!
The young man seems cold, but after Ling Shuang's 360-degree, no-blind-spots charm offensive, he even blushes around the ears as he thanks him.
*
When the System reconnects, it immediately answers Ling Shuang's earlier question.
"The male lead is called Ming Qiu."
Ling Shuang: "Huh? Then who have I been trying to win over?"
The System takes a look and cries out in horror, "He's the future villain boss, the male lead's lifelong nemesis! You're supposed to die at his hands! Wait, why are you still alive?"
Ling Shuang thinks back to the night he was supposed to become cannon fodder in the original story.
It was a dark and windy night. Half asleep, he saw Ye Qingling standing by his bed, eyes bloodshot.
Thinking the other boy had had a nightmare, he pulled him into bed and held him close, soothing him gently like a child. "There, there. Don't be scared anymore."
Ling Shuang (covering his face in anguish): I'm doomed. Sooner or later, he'll kill me to keep me quiet.
Is it too late to switch sides and join the male lead?
*
Later, the demon wrapped the young man in his enormous black wings.
His icy presence seemed ready to swallow him whole.
He said,
"Shuangshuang, where do you think you're going?
"You can only be mine."
*The love interest is nonhuman and extremely possessive, so much so that human logic cannot comprehend it.
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