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"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

"Anyway, what do you prefer? Should I call you? Mila or Ethel?"

Mila was perplexed with her own response. She didn't mean to answer Mila's name right away. She wanted to change it to Ethel, but Greyson responded with a short chuckle before saying, "It's Mila then."

"It's okay. You're Mila. Don't worry."

Mila doesn't get what Greyson means by those. She still tried to make Greyson spill out everything he knew while they were inside the elevator on the way to his unit, but Greyson was tight-lipped.

"Come in. Feel free to feel at home." Greyson guided her inside a studio-type room that was too clean with so few things inside, as if no one had been staying there for such a long time.

"Hey, tell me, how long have you been living here?" Mila asked. She thinks that Greyson was only recently thrown out into the real world.

"Is this a knock off?"