When the Extra Takes Centre Stage

Every story is structured the same, really, if you're a reader of fantasy webnovels.

Girl gets involved in some sort of freak accident. Girl wakes up in the body of a character from a novel she's read. Girl navigates the world around her, forms friends, and ultimately finds her way to a happy ending.

Repetitive, simple, addictive junk that was Bang Yuha's guilty pleasure. Did online novels count as any sort of quality literature? No. Did the stories give her cheap dopamine hit whenever she had a little spare time? Absolutely.

And of course, she was the one to be reincarnated into one of these tales.

A typical storyline, but obviously not-so-typical when applied to reality. But what's done is done. Your life could go anywhere now. Unless it's one of those stories where there's an author behind the scenes controlling the narrative, but Yuha's pretty sure this one isn't. It's a 'world-is-your-oyster' kind of situation.

Yet it's hard to find your footing, especially if you've wound up being reborn as a five-year-old orphan who wasn't even named in the original novel.

It's especially hard to find your footing when you've been reborn as a nameless five-year-old orphan when you were well on the way to becoming an A-list actress. Everyone was talking about it. You were right there.

« If there's a god out there, he's going to have three seconds to run before I wrangle him to death at heaven's gates. »

As Yuha, now in this tiny, foreign body, examined her hands frustratedly, she came to a conclusion:

« I have to make this work. »

« I died at an untimely part of my life, but I'm here now, so I'll have to make this work. »