A Cannon Fodder's Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse

The next novel will be My Archenemy Became My Dao Companion After I Lost My Memory. Synopsis below.

The first second Song Weishi transmigrated into a doomsday novel, the System showed her the obvious way out: die.

The original character was a standard cannon-fodder saintly heroine: weak and a burden. In the original, she was killed with a single stab in the very first chapter, when a companion betrayed her to win someone's trust.

The death-escape System was useless, too. When life and death were on the line, all it could do was gently persuade her: “Host, just die and you'll get a new map!”

Song Weishi moved swiftly, cutting down her enemies. “Stop rushing me.”

System: ?

Her companions betrayed her: dead.

Her boss exploited her: dead.

Anyone who tried to guilt-trip her was sent straight to the afterlife.

System: Host, you're supposed to be playing a cannon-fodder character who fakes her death and escapes!

Song Weishi: Who says you can't fake your death by making someone else die?

System: ... (puts hands together)

What does the original character being a cannon-fodder have to do with me after I transmigrate?

New novel: My Archenemy Became My Dao Companion After I Lost My Memory. Synopsis:

Yin Xianyu was once the most dazzling genius in the immortal sects.

On the trial platform, she was the only one who could fight Xie Qingrang to a standstill.

Later, her sect fell into decline overnight, and her cultivation stalled at the Golden Core stage. Xie Qingrang, meanwhile, continued to soar, becoming the number-one person in the immortal sects and a once-in-a-millennium genius of the Heartless Path.

From then on, Yin Xianyu could only watch her from afar.

She watched her stand at the center of a crowd of thousands, admired by all but never glancing her way. She watched her sword strike down every foe, like a bright moon hanging high in the sky, illuminating all the world but never lowering its gaze to the fallen Yin Xianyu.

Yin Xianyu hated her.

She hated herself even more for refusing to admit defeat, even though she knew she could never catch up.

She gritted her teeth and swallowed a secret pill, vowing to reclaim her glory at the immortal sects' trial!

But the expired pill was deadly. Her memories became muddled, and she mistook Xie Qingrang for the one true friend of her life.

At the immortal sects' trial, Xie Qingrang had slaughtered the demons until not one was left standing. She turned her sword around, ready to end this chapter of her life, when Yin Xianyu said, “Senior Sister, you came to save me.”

Xie Qingrang: ?

Yin Xianyu slept side by side with her cold and unfeeling rival, remembering their bitter feud as a deep bond between fellow disciples.

The most absurd moment came one night, when Yin Xianyu rested her head on Xie Qingrang's lap and quietly planned, “Once our sect has risen again, I'll storm Lingzhan Mountain and show them who the true number one in the immortal path is.”

Xie Qingrang lowered her eyes and gently stroked her long hair. Her expression was unreadable as she said just one word: “Good.”

It wasn't until Yin Xianyu stormed Lingzhan Mountain and saw every fellow disciple there address her “Senior Sister” as Sect Leader that she realized.

Yin Xianyu: ...

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