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Doomed To Be Cannon Fodder #6
Doomed To Be Cannon Fodder: Book 6
Long Heng makes an oath that he will only love Bai Xiangxiu for the rest of his life. However, things don’t go smoothly for our main couple as the Emperor is now lusting after Bai Xiangxiu, and he’ll do anything to get his way! With Long Heng faking his own death and Bai Xiangxiu discovering that she’s once again pregnant, how will the story end? Will our main characters get the happily ever after they deserve? Find out in the exciting conclusion of Doomed to be Cannon Fodder volume 6!
- GenresLight NovelFantasy
249 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 6, 2020
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October 4, 2020
I'll go back and add this review to the other books as well, since...well honestly folks this is a roller coaster.
Quickly - CW for rape, assault, some torture stuff, misogyny, and that's about it
General Spoilers for the series as well
I don't remember how this series crossed my KU dash. Its not, strictly speaking, related to any of the other books I've read or bought from Kindle, and I RARELY seek out new content from authors I haven't read before. Not on KU at least.
Its fate maybe that I found it. Strictly speaking, in a technical level, this can be hard to get through if you've not read translated light novels before. I'm not sure how professional the translation was, but dialogue, sentence structure and even phrases could throw off the new reader.
That said it would be a shame to ignore this series because its a soap opera of no equal.
Meet Bai Xiangxiu, the fourth concubine of Long Heng (also known as Prince Li, an honorary title having nothing to do with Imperial blood relations), an acclaimed General in what's essentially ancient China (but like many wuxia, which this draws a heavy amount of inspiration from, its not QUOTE China).
Having somehow had her soul travel through space into the body of this fourth madame, our MC quickly (but with a healthy amount of horror) realizes she's in the world of a webnovel she read. Worst, her new vessel is slated to die QUITE HORRIBLY in a few months time.
Thus begins Bai Xiangxiu's quest to survive, somehow.
While she's fairly likeable, if much too competent and lucky, Long Heng is an alphahole hero to the nth degree. Bai Xiangxiu explains it as the "male lead halo", but really its because he's emotionally, morally and psychologically constipated by a long life of traumatizing events.
Kind of like in Scarlet Heart (choose your version), Palace, and heck "A Kid in King Arthur's Court"/"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" our MC used her future knowledge to win the day.
Sometimes its through cooking 100 vegetarian dished on a limited amount of food and sometimes its creating hand grenades to stop an enemy country's army from killing everyone. Once it was even making lingerie. She was skilled ok? She eventually becomes much more like Yuri (in Red River) in that she gains a lot of military prowess and renown.
Unlike in those other series I named, Bai Xiangxiu has a bit of an advantage in that Huo'er, a cactus, can offer her help in later volumes.
This is kind of meta, in that much of Bai Xiangxiu's ability and knowledge comes from the webnovels and dramas she read/watched about her very situation.
Generally however Lin Qianzi, the female lead in the original novel (thus Long Heng's original love interest) gets a rough end of life simply by being the literal worse. Even Yu San isn't as contemptible.
If like me you want something VERY not centered on the trashfire of reality, I invite you to read this series.
Quickly - CW for rape, assault, some torture stuff, misogyny, and that's about it
General Spoilers for the series as well
I don't remember how this series crossed my KU dash. Its not, strictly speaking, related to any of the other books I've read or bought from Kindle, and I RARELY seek out new content from authors I haven't read before. Not on KU at least.
Its fate maybe that I found it. Strictly speaking, in a technical level, this can be hard to get through if you've not read translated light novels before. I'm not sure how professional the translation was, but dialogue, sentence structure and even phrases could throw off the new reader.
That said it would be a shame to ignore this series because its a soap opera of no equal.
Meet Bai Xiangxiu, the fourth concubine of Long Heng (also known as Prince Li, an honorary title having nothing to do with Imperial blood relations), an acclaimed General in what's essentially ancient China (but like many wuxia, which this draws a heavy amount of inspiration from, its not QUOTE China).
Having somehow had her soul travel through space into the body of this fourth madame, our MC quickly (but with a healthy amount of horror) realizes she's in the world of a webnovel she read. Worst, her new vessel is slated to die QUITE HORRIBLY in a few months time.
Thus begins Bai Xiangxiu's quest to survive, somehow.
While she's fairly likeable, if much too competent and lucky, Long Heng is an alphahole hero to the nth degree. Bai Xiangxiu explains it as the "male lead halo", but really its because he's emotionally, morally and psychologically constipated by a long life of traumatizing events.
Kind of like in Scarlet Heart (choose your version), Palace, and heck "A Kid in King Arthur's Court"/"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" our MC used her future knowledge to win the day.
Sometimes its through cooking 100 vegetarian dished on a limited amount of food and sometimes its creating hand grenades to stop an enemy country's army from killing everyone. Once it was even making lingerie. She was skilled ok? She eventually becomes much more like Yuri (in Red River) in that she gains a lot of military prowess and renown.
Unlike in those other series I named, Bai Xiangxiu has a bit of an advantage in that Huo'er, a cactus, can offer her help in later volumes.
This is kind of meta, in that much of Bai Xiangxiu's ability and knowledge comes from the webnovels and dramas she read/watched about her very situation.
Generally however Lin Qianzi, the female lead in the original novel (thus Long Heng's original love interest) gets a rough end of life simply by being the literal worse. Even Yu San isn't as contemptible.
If like me you want something VERY not centered on the trashfire of reality, I invite you to read this series.
September 16, 2025
Mejor de lo que esperaba, no mejor de lo que recordaba cuando lo lei por primer vez, aunque en esa ocasion no lo termine de leer.
La misoginia del autor fue dolorosa de leer, sobre todo los primero 200 capítulos (que no es poco), aunque poco a poco fue disminuye y convirtiéndose en algo las soportable y fácil de ignorar si te concentras en otros asuntos.
Hubo mucho, pero muuuuuchos momentos en que le mente la madre a todos, sobre todo Long Heng. Por menos ya lo hubiera intentado asesinar, yo no hubiera parado cuando casi lo mata Bai con las tijeras.
Se queda con muchos huecos la trama, al final no supe que onda con el regresar a su cuerpo de Bai, lo que pasó con su familia en el mundo real, si compraron a Lin Quinzi (no recuerdo si así se escribe su nombre) o lo que sucedió con su hermano.
Es una sátira a las novelas del tipo, pero realmente no hace nada para evitarlo en los protagonistas; hombre de pocas palabras, musculoso, fuerte, de dinero y la pobre protagonista débil, de buen corazón, pero que engaña a los demás y usa métodos que desprecia.
La historia se lee rápido, es entretenida, pero hay muchas cosas que no terminan de gustar.
La misoginia del autor fue dolorosa de leer, sobre todo los primero 200 capítulos (que no es poco), aunque poco a poco fue disminuye y convirtiéndose en algo las soportable y fácil de ignorar si te concentras en otros asuntos.
Hubo mucho, pero muuuuuchos momentos en que le mente la madre a todos, sobre todo Long Heng. Por menos ya lo hubiera intentado asesinar, yo no hubiera parado cuando casi lo mata Bai con las tijeras.
Se queda con muchos huecos la trama, al final no supe que onda con el regresar a su cuerpo de Bai, lo que pasó con su familia en el mundo real, si compraron a Lin Quinzi (no recuerdo si así se escribe su nombre) o lo que sucedió con su hermano.
Es una sátira a las novelas del tipo, pero realmente no hace nada para evitarlo en los protagonistas; hombre de pocas palabras, musculoso, fuerte, de dinero y la pobre protagonista débil, de buen corazón, pero que engaña a los demás y usa métodos que desprecia.
La historia se lee rápido, es entretenida, pero hay muchas cosas que no terminan de gustar.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 8, 2020
This was a pretty fun book to read, very typical of Chinese book in that it's like a TV drama got put to the page.
I didn't like how the main female character starts out trying to stay low, but then takes on many of the characteristics of a typical female lead in the end. In fact, she acts like the worst type of female lead: acting helpless when she isn't, relying on her looks to overcome criticism, "unwittingly" attracting all the good men in the book. I honestly didn't see how she was different from many of the other insufferable female leads that this book is supposedly satirizing.
My other main gripe is how sexist and appearance-centric the author is. The sexism was definitely annoying - the author (or at least the translation) keeps on empathizing how all men like this, or all women like that. No, not all men like sweet and helpless women, and no, not all women like buff and uncommunicative men. I feel this book has some of the worst stereotypes of men and women and what they supposedly like or don't like.
The focus on appearances is pretty typical for this genre, but this book seems to take it to another level. I couldn't read a page without coming across some commentary on a character's looks. Honestly, after I have an image of a character in my head, I don't need to be reminded repeatedly about their attractiveness.
All gripes aside, this book was still a fun read and I appreciate the effort it took the translators to convert the story to English.
I didn't like how the main female character starts out trying to stay low, but then takes on many of the characteristics of a typical female lead in the end. In fact, she acts like the worst type of female lead: acting helpless when she isn't, relying on her looks to overcome criticism, "unwittingly" attracting all the good men in the book. I honestly didn't see how she was different from many of the other insufferable female leads that this book is supposedly satirizing.
My other main gripe is how sexist and appearance-centric the author is. The sexism was definitely annoying - the author (or at least the translation) keeps on empathizing how all men like this, or all women like that. No, not all men like sweet and helpless women, and no, not all women like buff and uncommunicative men. I feel this book has some of the worst stereotypes of men and women and what they supposedly like or don't like.
The focus on appearances is pretty typical for this genre, but this book seems to take it to another level. I couldn't read a page without coming across some commentary on a character's looks. Honestly, after I have an image of a character in my head, I don't need to be reminded repeatedly about their attractiveness.
All gripes aside, this book was still a fun read and I appreciate the effort it took the translators to convert the story to English.
September 1, 2023
💙💜💛💚
What an amazing series!! I am obsessed/in love with our characters. Loved the HEA that everyone except a certain wild man had. Little sad he didn't get one, but everyone else found love and had children. Wish it was longer.
What an amazing series!! I am obsessed/in love with our characters. Loved the HEA that everyone except a certain wild man had. Little sad he didn't get one, but everyone else found love and had children. Wish it was longer.
May 2, 2022
love this story!!!
I’ve read this story 3 times now but still love it!
Great love story and the ending was definitely great!
I’ve read this story 3 times now but still love it!
Great love story and the ending was definitely great!
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