A Stand-In for the Cannon Fodder? I’m Out

As an overworked office drone, Gu Xunzhen spends her days diligently working like a beast of burden for her boss, then plays online mistress to her love-struck friend at night. Frustrated by her friend’s refusal to see reason, Gu Xunzhen urges her to break up, only to be stabbed to death by the boyfriend...

As Gu Xunzhen’s consciousness is about to fade, she gets bound to a System. Her mission is to travel through various melodramatic novels and play the cannon-fodder stand-in left behind by the male lead’s beloved, so the male leads and supporting male characters can “look at her and think of their lost love.”

As a cannon-fodder stand-in, Gu Xunzhen must throw herself at the male lead, love him without hope of being loved in return, and do every terrible thing imaginable, only to be discarded like trash when the female lead, his beloved, returns.

After transmigrating and reading the mission details, Gu Xunzhen is so appalled by these people that she declares on the spot: “Get lost, you lunatics!”

Convinced the whole thing is a mess, Gu Xunzhen decides to create a bright future for herself.