A Cannon Fodder's Guide to Self-Rescue in a Comic

In an age of supernatural ability awakenings, the unlucky ordinary person Mu Chuhang nearly falls victim to a "Nightmare Spirit Beast" on the last day before summer vacation begins.

Perhaps she was fated to survive. At the critical moment, she awakens a "superpower":

The ability to see a forum and bullet comments from beyond the world.

A System that calls itself [The World] seeks her out.

Bad news: The world she lives in is a comic, not reality.

Good news: Anything the audience believes can come true. That is also her greatest bargaining chip for winning a slim chance of survival.

Even worse news: She's not the protagonist, but a cannon-fodder character who dies a gruesome death in chapter one. One minute left on the countdown to her death.

Oh, you've read this far: forty-five, forty-four, forty-three.

Mu Chuhang isn't good at anything. Her only redeeming qualities are knowing which way the wind blows and occasionally taking advice.

When the bullet comments say there's a Nightmare Spirit Beast in the classroom, she immediately turns around and runs at top speed.

When the bullet comments say a Nightmare Spirit Beast is about to cause an incident at the school gates, she'd rather jump out from somewhere else and die right there today than take even one step outside the school!

To avoid becoming a miserable cannon-fodder sacrifice from the start, Mu Chuhang resolves to tear up her supporting-character script and change the comic's direction, embarking on a journey to defy fate and change her destiny.

Along the way, she casually befriends the three members of the protagonist group, casually leads her school to win the interschool championship, casually joins a team for a major battle, then casually starts stacking up her own merits like a game of block-stacking.

In the end, she casually saves the world.

Mu Chuhang: "...What?"

Something seems a little off, doesn't it?

Reader's guide:

1. A feel-good power fantasy, though writing something this feel-good is uncharted territory for me.

2. There are forums and delusion-fueled reactions. The protagonist is a chuuni girl who loves cultivating the aura of a mysterious big shot, but always fails.

3. The heroine is probably, maybe, more or less a strong attack-type support (?).

4. Everyone's relationships are platonic.

5. Lots of women. Apart from the original comic's classic shonen lineup of two boys and one girl, and the homeroom teacher who was decided on long ago, there'll always be lots of girls, girls, girls, boys, girls, girls. Let's cheer for ghg: Oh-ho!

Additional content warning: I like women, but the male characters will also have their moments in the spotlight. For example, the original male lead of the comic is a pretty good kid, so he won't have especially little screen time. Sorry to readers who only want to see women (-人-).

6. The early story is mainly set at school; later, the characters will venture beyond the school grounds.

7. I wrote this because of my younger sister again...

--- The following is a preview of my next original novel, Dump the World God and Take His Place ---

Su Xiaoran accidentally comes across her older brother's belongings and finds a game called "The End of the World."

Curious, she opens the game and presses "Confirm."

When she opens her eyes again, she's in a world that doesn't belong to her, an advanced landscape of steel jungles and towering skyscrapers.

In this cruel world, she isn't the only one struggling to survive. The Federation's citizens trample lower-class humans at will. Those of higher status toy with human lives, while their lavish lives are built on mutual slaughter staged as entertainment.

And a game System suddenly pops up before her eyes.

Su Xiaoran: "..."

I get all that, but can someone tell me what "Federation SSS-Rank Wanted Criminal" means after the word "Identity"???

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Su Xiaoran realizes this world isn't so simple.

The Asgardian army's welcome gift to her is an attack of ice and fire. The Aztec cyborgs ignore her, treating her like garbage.

At first, she thinks she can be cold-blooded, cold-hearted, and stone-faced as she deals with everything in the "game" and returns to her own world.

Until the young master of the family representing Huaxia happens to pass by and takes her to her destination on a flying sword.

Until she mingles with the crowd to worship at a shrine, only to witness a god's vile wish with her own eyes.

Until she sees the Federation's highest classified secret:

On a face she knows all too well, the accusation written there is deicide.

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1. A coming-of-age story. The heroine gets stronger and stronger. It might not be obvious, but that's the direction I'm working toward.

2. A hodgepodge. The "Second World" has supernatural abilities, cultivation, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, a federal government, and all kinds of sects. Eastern magic battles cybernetic mechs; immortal sect swords face off against cannons. You think it's ancient cultivation, but the other side is preparing treaty-based weapons.

3. Not romance-focused. A serious plot-driven story.

4. The original title was "No Gods Today." I've been developing this story for many years. I don't think my writing is good enough yet, so I'll keep working at it and write it when I'm ready. I had a sudden idea today and decided to put up the blurb and such first. But it'll definitely take a while.

[2024.7.11]

Theme: Everyone is the protagonist of their own life