As a new recruit in the Cannon Fodder Department, Ji Shu is nervous about his first assignment. A senior colleague tells him that cannon fodder have the fewest rights of all: they are often subjected to both verbal and physical abuse by protagonists and supporting characters alike.
Ji Shu trembles. He is terrified of pain.
Later, Ji Shu realizes his senior wasn't joking. In every assignment, he gets bullied until he can barely catch his breath.
[World One: Rural Fiction's Timid Widowed Sister-in-Law]
Because his family is poor, Ji Shu is sold by his stepmother to the eldest son of the Zhou family as a contract husband.
But not long after he marries into the family, he becomes a widower.
His deceased husband has even left him with a pair of twin younger brothers-in-law to look after.
Ji Shu is timid by nature and is always pressured into stealing things from the household to support his birth family. When his brothers-in-law catch him, he can only let them threaten and bully him.
Worst of all, he always feels that something is wrong in the house. Every morning, he wakes up with mysterious red marks all over his body.
[World Two: The Village Chief's Little Fool]
When Ji Shu was young, a high fever left him with brain damage. Ever since, he has been a little slower to react than other people.
He likes following his childhood neighbor, Big Niu, around. Big Niu takes him out to play every day and buys him snacks.
But Big Niu always eats from his mouth, and Ji Shu doesn't like it.
One day, lots of people from the city come to the village. He hears they're filming a show.
Ji Shu doesn't like them because they're all so mean.
[World Three: Brothers, Love Me Once More]
Ji Shu has been gloomy and unpopular since childhood, and rarely speaks to anyone, always keeping his head down.
Then, at the age of twenty, he learns that he isn't the Ji family's biological child at all. He is the posthumous son of one of Ji Father's comrades-in-arms.
Afraid of being abandoned, he can only desperately try to please his brothers.
The stern eldest brother, the gentle second brother, and the sweet-faced but scheming third brother:
When I Forgot Everything [The Seven-Year Itch]
The One Everyone Hates Thinks He's the Group's Beloved
A Crybaby Top Is the Best
The Tragic, Beautiful Male Lead's Cannon-Fodder Husband [Book Transmigration]
My Lover Is a Monster Villain
When a Swordsman Becomes a Chuunibyou Teen [From Ancient Times to the Present]
My Honest, Down-to-Earth Husband
After Transmigrating Into a Rejected Little Male (Insect World)