The Cannon Fodder's Guide to Redemption [Quick Transmigration]

[World Two complete] [Please read the notes at the bottom before starting]

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Xu Jingcheng is an office worker. After an accident, he opens his eyes to find a System in his head, claiming to be the Cannon Fodder Rescue Plan.

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Facing the mechanical voice in his mind, Xu Jingcheng asks slowly, "You mean, if I earn enough mission points in various worlds, I can return to the moment before I died?"

System: [That's right.]

Careful not to take an opportunity that not everyone gets for granted, Xu Jingcheng asks, "What exactly do I have to do?"

System: [Play cannon-fodder characters and escape their miserable fates.]

It sounds like a hassle. Xu Jingcheng thinks it over, then asks, "What if I refuse?"

System: [You'll die all over again.]

So Xu Jingcheng agrees.

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World One [Complete]

① Universally disliked beta

You are an Alpha pretending to be a beta. You're quiet and withdrawn, and have lived on financial aid as an orphan since childhood. By chance, you fall for an Alpha classmate and become a notorious stalker and obsessive simp. Eventually, you're expelled for stealing someone's personal belongings and lose your financial aid. Unable to take the blow, you give up on yourself and end up homeless.

[Mission for this world: Escape the ending where you become homeless.]

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World Two [Complete]

② The gloomy fake crown prince

You are the fake crown prince in a case of mistaken identity at birth. You're unruly and dark-tempered. Though slow-witted from a young age, you've still been doted on and have made a habit of wearing people down with beatings and abuse. Then your true identity is exposed, and the real crown prince enters the palace. As an impostor, you're forced to fall from grace and become the target of ridicule. Eventually, you're framed for trying to murder the real crown prince and hang yourself in a dungeon.

[Mission for this world: Escape the ending where you hang yourself in a dungeon.]

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World Three [In progress]

③ The hypocritical senior brother

You are the eldest disciple of a cultivation sect and a prodigy who made a name for himself at a young age. You're cold and ruthless, and consider yourself above everyone else, but you're a hypocrite. Later, you unexpectedly lose all your cultivation. Jealous that your beloved master favors your junior brother, you stop at nothing to regain your power, even going so far as to suffer cultivation deviation and join the demonic cultivators. In the end, your master pierces your heart with a sword, and your body and soul are destroyed.

[Mission for this world: Escape the ending where your body and soul are destroyed.]

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World Four

④ The timid bottom-ranked student

You are a bottom-ranked student at a Western magic academy. You're weak-willed and dull, and your family background and magical abilities are thoroughly average. You thought you would have a better life after enrolling at this boarding school, but instead you become the nobles' plaything, living in misery every day. In the end, you choose suicide after suffering a mental breakdown.

[Mission for this world: Escape the ending where you die by suicide after a breakdown.]

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World Five

⑤ The pathetic rich young master

You are a pampered rich young master. You're arrogant and conceited. When the apocalypse strikes, the world is turned upside down, and you lose your money, status, and everything else. You can only struggle to survive as an ordinary person, becoming an opportunistic fence-sitter who clings to whoever can keep him alive. Later, your poor health makes your friends despise you and your lover abandon you. In the end, you're left alone in a zombie horde, your body never to be found.

[Mission for this world: Escape the ending where your body is never found.]

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World Six

⑥ The despicable only child

You are the only child in a nomadic family. You're selfish and mean, and spend your days being lazy and gluttonous. Your home is in ruins, and both your parents are disabled. You remain unmoved by the burden of caring for them and the condemnation of outsiders. Then a blizzard hits the grasslands, the snow crushes your home, and all your livestock die of disease. Your parents' conditions worsen. In the end, you lose everything, and your family is destroyed.

[Mission for this world: Escape the ending where your family is destroyed and you lose everything.]

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Other worlds, including the Republican era and interstellar settings, are still undecided.

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After playing cannon fodder, Xu Jingcheng keeps feeling that something is wrong.

He asks the System in confusion, "How is this different from what you told me at the start?"

System: [Is it?]

Xu Jingcheng looks at the drawer stuffed with love letters, then thinks of the stranger who confessed to him not long ago and the customers who keep touching his hand when he works part-time. He falls into thought. "Why do so many people like me? Did I do something to give them the wrong idea?"

"Are universally disliked cannon fodder supposed to be this popular?"

System: [...]

It really wants to say:

Just look in the mirror and you'll know why.

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[Notes for readers]

① A pale, gloomy, captivatingly handsome bottom x a gong who will fall in love no matter what. [The gong's different incarnations vary in quality. Some may be crybabies, cowards, or useless.]

② The bottom takes the lead in the relationship.

③ The gong is chaste, and there is more than one incarnation of him in each world. The bottom will only end up with one of them. [There may be happy-ending bonus stories for the other incarnations.]

④ Worlds may end happily or badly. Possible plot points include cannon-fodder gongs, the gong or bottom dying, the bottom faking his death, changing partners, and chasing after an ex.

⑤ In every world, the bottom starts out universally disliked and faces unfair treatment and hostile looks. The story may turn around as the plot progresses, and he may become universally adored.

⑥ Please note that this story is not suitable for readers who are strict fans of one side or particularly possessive about one role. The author's preferences are complicated, and I won't try to please everyone, balance everything, or write secondary couples. I don't consider myself to favor any particular role; I just write what I like. Readers who are particular about role preferences will definitely hit some landmines here.

⑦ I generally won't delete comments, but please don't post comments that are hostile toward the bottom. Otherwise, say what you like.

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