MaryahLu

"Why do the main character's parents often get the short end of the stick?"
That is what Mila asked while looking up at the sky. She was grumbling toward whoever sent her inside the novel she read before she died.
She becomes the mother of the main character, whose parents are both dead. Mila's character was merely a tool for the MC's character development.
It's a simple, fix-all solution. The author wanted to make the audience instantly sympathetic towards the main character, and the best thing he did was to have the MC's parents die.

After she avoided her death in the original plot, death flags kept coming for her. 

Will the original plot not end if she's not dead?

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proofreader: Aserehtam

Main character's parents must die

"Ethel – lives – here – you – know – her?" Mila tried to approach the lady in a nice and calm way, and by the way the old lady answered her, she could tell that the old lady was not lying.

"Ethel? I don't know who that is. I don't know any Ethel at all."

"I've been staying here for ten years. Why? what's wrong?"

The lady looked at her from head to toe, checking if she was someone who would do some suspicious things.

Mila gave up and was about to live and try to find another way to know what happened to her place, but the old lady grabbed her hand and stopped her.

"Are you lost? Or someone tricked you?" the lady asked with concern.

Mila doesn't know what to respond to as she finds everything suspicious. She just turned silent, which only brought the old lady to conclude on her own.

"Oh my, foreigners are usually getting robbed nowadays. Are you fine? Where's your things?"

"Just wait for me there."