When I Lay Flat, the Female Lead Panicked - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Cannon Fodder

Her pupils constricted in fright. Rooted to the spot, Luo Xiaoxiao was too stunned to move. And there was a good reason for that: her legs had turned to jelly. If she moved, she might actually kneel.

Wuwu… she was truly no longer sleepy. How could she be? She’d been scared wide awake. She clearly remembered lying comfortably in her bed just a moment ago, giggling foolishly with her phone in her hands. Who would’ve thought that in the blink of an eye, she’d end up here? So what in the world was going on? Did she follow the trend and transmigrate? Huh?!

All she did was close her eyes to sleep. What was this? Where did her phone-daddy send her? At this moment, her mind was filled with the philosophical questions: “Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here…?”

Luo Xiaoxiao was just about to raise her hand to pinch her own pretty face to see if this was real when her two thighs were grabbed tightly by two unknown objects. Then, two hoarse, ugly wails instantly echoed in her ears.

“Wuwuwu, Young Master, I know you’re very sad, but please don’t kill yourself, Young Master.”

“That’s right, Young Master. Even though the Master is dead, you still have us! Wuwuwu…”

“Don’t die, Young Master! What will we do if you die? We’re just two lonely brothers, it’s too pitiful.”

“Exactly, Young Master. Without you, how can we live~”

…

“…” The buzzing in her head was deafening from the ghost-like wailing and howling.

Her beautiful eyes narrowed as she glared slightly at the two large men kneeling at her feet, who were biting their handkerchiefs and crying their eyes out with affected misery. She felt that this scene was too beautiful and a strain on the eyes, so she didn’t dare to look for long.

Luo Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, gritting her teeth to feign calmness. “You two, let go of me first!”

“No! Young Master, you are the only hope of our Demon Race. You truly can’t kill yourself! I, Fatty, will protect you with my life!”

“That’s right, Young Master! I, Monkey, swear to defend you to the death!”

“You… you guys…”

The hand she had raised in the air slowly lowered. Just when Fatty and Monkey thought Luo Xiaoxiao was touched by their sincere words and had decided to abandon her suicidal thoughts, two heavy thuds landed squarely on their heads.

…

Two minutes later, with her arms crossed, Luo Xiaoxiao looked at the two men with large bumps on their heads, kneeling obediently in front of her. She felt no guilt for her violent act. With a faint expression, she blew on her small fist that had just hit them, and concluded: “Mm, good. It hurt my hand from hitting them. It seems this is for real. No doubt about it.”

Thinking this, Luo Xiaoxiao looked at the two “information sources” in front of her, who now seemed extraordinarily obedient after being beaten. Using the persona of the so-called Young Master, she casually pointed to the thinner and shorter one of the two and ordered in a delicate voice, “You. Go. Find me a mirror.”

“Yes, Young Master.” Monkey obediently replied. Although he didn’t understand why his Young Master suddenly wanted a mirror, he went to get it for her anyway.

And when she saw the familiar face reflected in the bronze mirror, Luo Xiaoxiao finally let out a sigh of relief. “Thank goodness… Besides the ancient clothes she’d never seen before, it was still her face, her body…”

“Um… Young Master?”

Seeing Luo Xiaoxiao suddenly making all sorts of strange expressions at her own reflection, Fatty and Monkey exchanged a knowing glance. They both shivered, feeling a little creeped out. Their Young Master couldn’t be…

“Right, let me ask you, what’s my name?”

Ignoring what Monkey and Fatty were assuming in their heads, Luo Xiaoxiao finished admiring her own face and asked.

“…” At this question, Fatty and Monkey’s expressions turned to shock, and they fell silent.

As they remained silent, Luo Xiaoxiao was also feeling a little unsure. Did she… ask too directly? Did these two idiots realize she wasn’t the original? But very quickly, Luo Xiaoxiao realized she had overthought it. Because in a moment, she saw the two of them trembling and suddenly hugging each other, their eyes welling up with tears. They started wailing again, like a boiling kettle.

“Wuwuwu, my Young Master! How could you get amnesia from going mad at such a young age?!”

“Oh, heavens! Oh, earth! This is an outrage! My wise and mighty Young Master, wuwuwu…”

Sure enough, their guess was right! The Young Master had gone mad and lost her memory because of the great shock of the Master’s death!

“…”

Gone mad? Me?

Her speechless expression subtly began to crack. Luo Xiaoxiao furrowed her brow, fighting the urge to explode and hit them both on the head again. She just raised a hand to rub her temple, her expression a little lifeless. She couldn’t be bothered to explain anything more.

“Stop wailing, you two! I’m not mad. I just wanted to, well… um, I just wanted to test your loyalty to me. After all, now that Red Hair— er, my father is dead, I am the ruler of Demon City. My subordinates can’t just be any useless trash. This is just the first test of your loyalty. What, are you scared?”

After a string of nonsensical, bluffing statements, the sound of the boiling kettle instantly disappeared. The two men who had just been hugging and crying their hearts out instantly became rivals. They scurried forward, vying to get in front of Luo Xiaoxiao like a pair of fawning dogs.

“Young Master, Young Master, I’ll answer! I’m loyal!”

“Young Master, ignore him! I will! I’m more loyal than him!”

“I’m loyal!”

“You’re full of crap! I’m loyal!”

“…”

Luo Xiaoxiao went to a comfortable, soft chair and sat down, lazily propping her chin on her hand. Watching the two of them, who didn’t seem to have a shred of doubt and were scrambling as if they were afraid of missing out on a great reward, Luo Xiaoxiao thought they were idiots.

But at least they eventually answered her question in unison.

“Young Master, your honored name is Luo Xiaoxiao.”

“…”

Oh, right. As expected…

Her lazy, relaxed expression instantly turned ashen. Her body went stiff, and her posture looked utterly desolate. The heart that Luo Xiaoxiao had been holding up finally died completely.

Heh, heh, hehe… Same name, same surname, daughter of the Demon Lord. Wow~ The conditions all matched up! Ha, haha…

So happy. She woke up and transmigrated into a book, and she transmigrated into a cannon fodder character who only appears for a few chapters, cries about avenging her father, then relentlessly seeks death by going to the female lead and getting clobbered on the spot…

Ha, haha… Good, very good, too good. It was so good that she actually wanted to kill herself for real this time… (Self-destructing)

Ha, haha… She was fine. Not crazy, not at all crazy. Just not far from it…

Although Luo Xiaoxiao had an inkling of a premonition, the moment she confirmed it, she still secretly shattered. When she read Prideful, she was a little annoyed by the name of the cannon fodder character in the opening chapters because it was the same as hers. But since this cannon fodder only appeared for three chapters before being righteously eliminated by the female lead, Wen Nanshu, it didn’t affect her later reading experience, so Luo Xiaoxiao didn’t pay much attention.

Who would’ve thought that she, of all people, would transmigrate into this character! Because of the shared name, Luo Xiaoxiao was morbidly clear about how this cannon fodder died. She didn’t really remember the specific moves in the novel’s description of how Wen Nanshu killed the cannon fodder. The only thing that left a deep impression was that the self-destructive cannon fodder died from… pierced by ten thousand swords!

Pierced by ten thousand swords…

Her eyes went vacant, and she stood frozen. The color around her turned into a large black-and-white blur.

Wuwu… It hurt just hearing it! Luo Xiaoxiao didn’t know if the female lead’s ten thousand swords could all accurately pierce the villain’s heart. She only knew that as the second-generation cannon fodder, she was about to be stabbed into a beehive in the near future.

Help me!!!

Wanting to meet the female lead was just her talking big! Just saying it for fun! Which damned person actually sent her in here?! Thinking that her time was limited after the Demon Lord’s death, Luo Xiaoxiao felt a chill down the back of her neck and wanted to cry.

“…” The air was terrifyingly quiet.

Instead of crying, wailing, and demanding to go back, Luo Xiaoxiao radiated a sense of calm and desolate madness. But underneath her calm exterior, her heart was anything but peaceful.

Fine, fine… so this is how we’re playing, huh? My life isn’t a life, huh? Wuwu… it’s not fair. Why do other people transmigrate for a good life, while I transmigrate to take the fall?

Other people transmigrate to be kings and generals, living a free and easy life. But I have to frantically find a way to survive. Other people transmigrate to have sweet love, but I have to desperately cling to life between life and death. Other people have a bright future ahead of them, but I’m in the dark. All I have to do is close my eyes and die.

Wuwu… help! Is this fcked-up life for real?! It’s so hard to rate… Wuwu, this is so hard to rate! This shitty life. I’m just going to request to die again on the spot. Wuwu…*

Transmigrating into a book is already so casual these days, but on top of that, I have to die right away. It’s not fair! I’m just a freshman in college and haven’t even graduated yet. What are you doing?! Bullying me because I’m a clear-minded and honest college student who says “Makka Pakka” and doesn’t swear?

Seriously, other people transmigrate with overpowered cheats, but I’m just a miserable nobody who knows her death is coming. Ahhh… someone do something! At least give me a chance to live!

Right! Since other transmigrators have systems, I should have one too, right? Right?!

Thinking this, she finally found a glimmer of hope. The previously silent Luo Xiaoxiao suddenly stood up with her hands on her hips and laughed wildly at the sky without warning. Her face was filled with the confident expression of “I found you.”

“Ha! Ha! Ha! There’s always a way out. Don’t hide, System! I know my script is different, right?! I’m going to make a comeback and survive, right?!”

“…”

“Haha, little troublemaker, Sys~! Don’t hide! I see you!”

“…”

“Sys!!! System!!! System-bro! System-bro! Ahhh, come out, please!!”

“…”

“System!!!!”

“…”

The empty and quiet palace was filled with Luo Xiaoxiao’s cries for a system. Her confidence gradually turned into madness, which then settled into a dead silence.

Fatty and Monkey watched with their own eyes as their Young Master went from laughing hysterically one second to no longer laughing the next. Now, she had returned to that lifeless state of “might as well live, might as well die.” Not knowing what their Young Master was hysterically yelling at the void, a chill went down their spines. The creepy feeling was as if they had seen a ghost. Fatty and Monkey swallowed nervously and hugged each other again in fear.

They confirmed one thing from each other’s eyes.

“Their Young Master has indeed gone completely mad!!!”