A Tool Character's Guide to Self-Rescue

[My completed novel, The Cannon Fodder Never Saw It Coming [Quick Transmigration]. I hope you’ll show it some love~] Blurb: Mu Yin transmigrates into a book, becoming a minor character who serves as a plot device in the early chapters. At a mysterious and powerful academy for people with supernatural abilities, a group of gifted boys who can’t stand one another have gathered. Each of them should be a once-in-a-millennium genius, yet by some strange coincidence, they were all born around the same time. None of them will admit anyone else is better. They have no interest in the academy’s lessons, freely flout its rules, and claim territory wherever they please. What should be a peaceful school life has become a brutal arena where they constantly compete. The teachers can’t control them, and the staff don’t dare to interfere. After much deliberation, the hardworking headmaster comes up with a sneaky plan. He’ll promote an unprecedented, peerless genius, hoping that by having this person ‘crush’ the students in various ways, he can teach them humility and gradually foster a healthy, proper spirit of competition. The person Mu Yin transmigrates into is this plot device, who actually has no supernatural abilities at all. In the story, after successfully building up his reputation in all sorts of ways, he will be exposed as an ordinary person in front of everyone and become a laughingstock. And, ‘luckily,’ at his grand public humiliation, the novel’s little-known protagonist will happen to awaken their powers and become a peerless dark horse, gradually crushing all the academy’s geniuses. As the plot device, Mu Yin doesn’t have much to say about it. An ordinary person like him getting caught up in this mess is bound to end in tragedy, so while playing his role, he does his best to seem as much like a ‘background extra’ as possible. But the story slowly starts to go off script. The things he casually throws away become prizes that only the victors can claim. His photos spread like wildfire across secret forums. The novel’s protagonist starts to see him as their hope. … When his identity is exposed, the academy erupts. But not in the way it does in the original story. The students are consumed by burning passion, obsession, and excitement… Beneath all those emotions lurks the beasts’ mating instinct, on the verge of breaking free. 1. The protagonist is gorgeous and irresistible, and everyone has a one-sided crush on them. 2. He will awaken supernatural abilities partway through and become a true chosen one. [Blurb screenshotted and uploaded to Weibo on March 19, 2025~] [Completed novel, The Cannon Fodder Never Saw It Coming [Quick Transmigration]] Xie Qing binds himself to a Spouse System and transmigrates into a novel as the protagonist’s original partner. These original partners all have one thing in common: they’re childhood friends who stayed by the protagonist’s side during their early, down-on-their-luck days. They have ordinary aptitude and unimpressive abilities. Not only can they never measure up to the protagonist’s later love interests, they often hold the protagonist back and cause them plenty of trouble. Every day, countless readers demand that the official pairing be changed. [Your mission is to step aside and let him be with the one he loves.] Xie Qing nods, figuring the protagonist probably doesn’t like him anyway. But strange changes keep happening to him. In an ABO novel, he’s a Beta pretending to be an Omega, but becomes a true Omega with 100% pheromone purity. In a gaming novel, he uses a beautiful NPC’s account to trick people into falling for him, but his real appearance is far more stunning than the NPC’s. In a cultivation novel, he’s a talentless good-for-nothing who should have fallen to demonic cultivation, but becomes the supreme Daoist physique, favored by the Heavenly Dao. … The protagonist he wants to divorce is devoted to him, while the love interests he tries to set up with the protagonist see the protagonist as their rival in love. Xie Qing: ? He always ends up becoming the whole world’s unattainable white moonlight. #The world favors you, and everyone is waiting for your return# Theme: Exploring the meaning of life