fantasyromanceAuthor: QuantumJester|Status: Completed
A tired office worker was reincarnated into a novel as the protagonist's best friend -- a character who dies in the original story to motivate the hero's growth. The death is supposed to be tragic, noble, and completely unavoidable. The reincarnated office worker has other plans. Armed with knowledge of the novel's plot, the best friend begins to make choices that the original author never wrote. He avoids the situations that lead to his death, builds skills that the original character never developed, and forms alliances that change the protagonist's story in fundamental ways. As the best friend's survival creates butterfly effects throughout the novel's world, the protagonist discovers that his most loyal companion is also the most unpredictable variable in his destiny. The character who was supposed to die becomes the one who reshapes the story, and the tired office worker who reincarnated into a death sentence discovers that the best way to survive a novel is to refuse to follow the script.
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