The Cannon Fodder Awakens and Rewrites the Paranormal Novel's Protagonist

My new novel, "The Introverted Girl Grows Grass and Gets Rich on a Desolate Planet," is now updating!

Blurb:

Lu Yu suddenly awakens and learns that he is a cannon-fodder character in a melodramatic supernatural novel.

In the story, he and the universally adored protagonist are trapped in a wilderness villa. The protagonist is so lovely and delicate that Lu Yu, playing a disposable extra, feels a surge of tenderness and dares to fall in love. Then, on the very first night, a monster devours him...

Awakened Lu Yu presses his palms together and silently chants: Staying alive comes first. Let all the melodrama and ridiculous drama stay far away!

Repeating, "Put down the urge to help. Respect the protagonist's fate," Lu Yu still can't help shielding the poor thing from a tiny bit of trouble.

He never expects that this one act will make him a speck of grit in the eyes of the plot.

In the name of the "fair principle" that those who share hardship shouldn't share good fortune, Lu Yu is dragged into all kinds of supernatural incidents that evil spirits create for the protagonist.

Over there, monsters are indulging their cruel whims by tormenting the poor thing, with tenderness and terror intertwined.

Over here, all Lu Yu gets is terror. He's forced to fight for his life at every turn, with packs of monsters howling after him, clearly hoping to make him their next meal.

Lu Yu: My silence is deafening.

The plot: You're just a lowly cannon-fodder character. I'll kill you, kill you, kill you, kill you, kill you!

Lu Yu: Having a little too much fun, are we?

In that case, he roams around, talks people into things, and completely remakes the pitiful protagonist.

Thanks to Lu Yu's tireless efforts, the pretty, delicate protagonist hasn't even met the evil spirits yet, but already hates them with a passion.

Lu Yu leaves, satisfied.

The plot gradually realizes something is wrong and lets out a shrill wail: Where is my beautiful, delicate protagonist? Where is my coercive romance? Where is my melodrama?

A little scene:

In an illusion, an evil spirit whispers in the protagonist's ear like a devil: You're mine. You can't escape. I'm the only one in this world who truly loves you. I'll never hurt you.

The protagonist wavers, his face twisted in pain and indecision.

Lu Yu: Take a look at this footage! In this episode, it sent an ugly frog to bully you. In this one, it told its lackeys to hack at you with a ten-meter sword. In this one, it burned you. And these episodes, and these...

The protagonist snaps out of it and draws his blade: Thanks, but I don't love it anymore. I'll kill it.

Reading guide:

1. This is a plot-driven novel. The love interest appears in Chapter 10.

2. Everything is fictional and serves the plot.

Blurb for an upcoming novel:

A tide of zombies sweeps across the apocalypse, and the base falls. An Qingyu, a solitary, socially anxious person with weak special abilities, is shoved into the zombie horde while fleeing.

When he wakes, he finds a barren wasteland stretching as far as the eye can see, with yellow sand filling the sky. It's hardly any better than the apocalypse.

An Qingyu pauses, then raises a hand and grabs himself by the throat.

A heart-wrenching plea rings out in his head: "Hero! Please spare my neck! I'll do anything, I beg you! QAQ"

A voice calling itself the System says they can earn generous rewards by working together to complete the missions of the Supreme God.

An Qingyu: "But all I know how to do is plant trees."

The System gets even more humble: "Well, that is right up your alley, but my shop only has grass seeds right now. Could you... lower your ambitions and grow grass instead?"

An Qingyu gets it. So the System is just as useless as he is.

*

An Qingyu settles down on a desolate planet with nothing to his name.

The gaunt, sickly-looking locals all have little pets. When they see the newcomer doesn't have one, they urge him to pawn everything he owns and scrape together the money to get one.

An Qingyu doesn't understand, but respects their choice and does as they say. He has no money, though, and one day while foraging for mushrooms, he comes across a stray kitten with a terrible temper.

An Qingyu summons the greatest courage of his life and kidnaps the cat.

On his first day planting trees, he buys a bag of grass seeds from the System's shop and grows a small patch of fluffy foxtail grass.

Bad news: People can't eat it.

Good news: Little animals love it. They devour it like crazy.

Cat grass, dog grass, tiger grass, rabbit grass, grass in all kinds of animal shapes. Quietly, An Qingyu opens up an entirely new path to wealth as a beast-grass supplier, and his products become bestsellers across the stars.

As his grass-growing business steadily expands, he begins growing vegetables and fruit, too. After repeated invitations from the lord, the socially anxious An Qingyu finally agrees to move from the desolate planet to the capital planet.

One day, after witnessing a cute rabbit transform into a rabbit-toothed boy, An Qingyu is deeply shaken. To his horror, he discovers that the little animals in this world can turn into people.

Suddenly, An Qingyu thinks of the kitten back home.

He opens the door to find a handsome, sharp-featured cool guy with a sprig of cat grass in his mouth, glaring at him in displeasure. "Why are you back so late? Do you know what time it is?"

An Qingyu looks at the table full of delicious food, swallows, then sneaks a glance at the man beside him, whose build is like that of a top male model. He asks nervously, "You made all this?"

The cool guy glares at him, annoyed. "Who else did you think made it?"

An Qingyu clutches his bowl and shakes his head frantically, thinking that his kitten has secretly turned out to be a magic snail gentleman.

*

The "Lin" particle radiation contamination is rampant. The Divine Beast Healers can absorb particle radiation, but cannot purge the pollutants from their bodies, and are tormented by illness.

Yan Mingshu is one of the Divine Beast Healers. Because his ability is too powerful, he has been unable to form a symbiotic contract with a human and regain his original form.

He has always been detached by nature, so he lives alone, roaming and adventuring in beast form across desolate planets filled with danger, until one day a bold human stuffs him into a sack and carries him off...

Theme: Even a nobody deserves to see springtime.