Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

Hello everyone, how's it going?

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I wanted to check in and ask if the character names are difficult to remember. I've done my best to make them as easy as possible, but that's just from my perspective.

Moving forward, I'm planning to simplify the names while keeping a touch of Chinese influence—perhaps focusing on family names or using simpler Chinese names. Additionally, I may revise some of the female character names to make them more memorable starting next month.

Thank you for your time and support! I hope you continue to enjoy the story.

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In Yino's memory, Sera was just a minor character in the game, forgettable yet filled with tragedy.

She was a lot like Yunjin, but sadly, Sera wasn't even a newbie guide; she was more like a small-time merchant selling array scrolls in the game.

Because of her poor family background and her natural talent in drawing, while cultivating at the Wuji Sect, Sera earned extra money by customizing array diagrams for other disciples to help support her family.

In the cultivation world, drawing was a skill of productivity.

Arrays, engravings, spell seals, even image formations...

These bizarre patterns, when drawn with special spiritual energy on scrolls, could be used as pre-made tools by cultivators.

Cultivators paid Sera, and she would create the array patterns they desired.

It was a nice little side hustle.

But halfway through the game, a mysterious person in black approached Sera, offering her a large sum she couldn't refuse. They wanted her to draw three scrolls every day based on the movements of the celestial bodies.

As a Core Formation stage cultivator, how could Sera understand the significance of celestial patterns?

She thought it wasn't a big deal, so she agreed to the mysterious person's request, observing the sky daily to draw the diagrams.

One day, she recorded something she shouldn't have among the myriad celestial patterns.

By the time players reached Sera's house in the game, they found the young girl lying in a pool of blood with a Scorpio constellation sword in her arms, and an unfinished celestial diagram on the desk beside her.

Later, both the Wuji Sect and the Immortal Alliance sent people to investigate.

It turned out Sera had been stabbed three times in the back, piercing her organs, yet it was ruled a

suicide

. No matter how hard Qiuya tried to investigate, the bizarre case was eventually suppressed by an invisible hand.

Back when Yino was playing the game, he never understood how Sera died or what kind of melodramatic world

Falling Immortal

truly hid.

But now, after being reborn and revisiting these memories, Yino had some new ideas.

He remembered...

Yuyan had also mentioned that her father was obsessed with chess, always making her play with him and memorize the family's obscure ancient chess manuals.

This made Yuyan hate chess in her childhood, turning instead to sword cultivation with her neighbor, Yanran.

Then, strangely, when Yuyan was nine, her family was destroyed by a heavenly fire, leaving behind only a few incomplete chess manuals her father had cherished.

And when Yuyan decided to seriously study chess, the Sect Leader, Mu Daosheng, inexplicably forbade anyone from teaching her chess or sharing chess manuals, leaving Yuyan to struggle on her own for years.

There's a connection here...

But with so little information, Yino felt that key characters like Jinyue, Yanran, and Mu Daosheng all knew some secrets, but they wouldn't share them with players in the game because, well, they had their own lives. And you, my friend, are just an outsider with a camera on your head, not really part of this world.

Thinking about this, Yino felt frustrated again, wishing he could hide the game's developers' mothers.

Others who were reborn had the real script, but Yino's rebirth seemed to come with a script he might as well not have had. He even suspected he knew less than the pleasure demon Jinyue.

"Man, work was hard enough in the last life, and now coming home to play a game is like solving a damn puzzle!"

"When I level up my cultivation a little more, I'll just grab Jinyue by the tail and make her spill all the beans!"

Yino grew more and more annoyed, mumbling under his breath.

It was then that the young girl in the little white dress beside him spoke up:

"Um... Mr. Yino?"

Sera raised her cute face, holding a large drawing board, her big eyes looking uncertain as she gazed at Yino.

As Yino's lips curled up in a strange smile, Sera felt a bit scared and lowered her head, hiding half her face behind the drawing board, revealing only a cute babypanda like face and her light pink eyes.

"What's wrong? Why hide from the customer?"

Yino noticed Sera's reaction and returned from his irritation.

He pulled the drawing board away from her face to see her fully, then asked with a meaningful tone, "Do I look like a bad guy?"

"No! No, no... Mr…. Mr. Yino looks cool... like a big villain... ah, no! I mean, very sunny and cheerful hero!"

Sera waved her hands in front of her, stuttering as she tried to say something nice, but her nervous heartbeat betrayed a bit of her true feelings.

Yino could only keep a polite and sunny smile on his face.

But for some reason, Sera seemed even more frightened.

"Um... you haven't told me... what kind of array you want?"

Sera buried her face into the drawing board again, asking softly.

She tried to sneak a peek at Yino's expression, but once their eyes met, her face blushed and looked down again.

Such familiar social anxiety, ordering a commission like it's a game of whack-a-mole...

Yino squinted his eyes, cleared his throat, and walked towards the corridor outside the tea room.

"Come with me, I'll show you what I want."

"Huh...?"

Sera blinked, not understanding why ordering an array required following him outside.

But since Yino had paid so much, Sera reluctantly followed.

She kept her head down, holding the drawing board, hands clasped behind it.

However, at some point, Yino stopped suddenly, and Sera, still pondering the drawing, didn't react in time. The drawing board fell to the ground with a thud, and her face and chest pressed against Yino's back.

"Ah!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."

Sera was startled, quickly looking up at Yino.

He turned around, holding back a laugh, thinking this trick was foolproof.

"It's okay, Miss Sera, please come a little closer."

"Huh?" The young girl's head was filled with question marks.

"If you don't come closer, you won't see what I need for the commission."

Yino stood at the spiral staircase in the corridor, a bit helpless as he said this.

Sera paused, then gathered her courage and stepped forward.

"A little closer."

"Ah... okay..."

"Even closer."

"Ah... w-w-what!"