Are there novels where the cannon fodder character tries to escape their fate?

The cannon fodder escape trope is one of the more self-aware and entertaining setups in transmigration fiction. A cannon fodder is a minor character who exists primarily to be used, humiliated, or destroyed in order to make the main characters look better. The premise of the escape trope is simple: someone transmigrates into one of these doomed side characters and, knowing exactly how bad their ending is supposed to be, immediately tries to get out of the way of the plot entirely.

"I, a Villainous Cannon Fodder, Pick Up the Female Lead at the Start?" takes this premise and runs with it comedically. Lin Muyu knows she has transmigrated into a character who will eventually be sent to a terrible place by the male lead, so her plan is simply to hide in a small village and never encounter anyone important. The plan fails almost immediately when she stumbles across the unconscious female lead herself.

"Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant" puts a different spin on the same problem. Ye Mu knows her character is fated to abuse the male lead and die at his hands, so she considers eliminating him first. But seeing him as a scraggly, determined child makes her incapable of following through, and she ends up raising him instead, only to discover that he grows into someone who turns her own goals against her.

What makes these stories so entertaining is the tension between knowing how the story should go and being completely unable to stay out of it. The plot pulls the protagonist back in regardless of how hard they try to avoid it, which tends to produce both comedy and genuine dramatic stakes as the character scrambles between knowledge and helplessness.