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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

"Where did you go? The food is getting cold."

The food was served, and Ethel wondered where the two went because of how flushed and troubled Christopher's expression turned.

"Who bullied my baby?" Ethel approached Christopher and fixed his messy hair that was flowing down on his forehead.

"I-I am not a baby! The baby is over there!" Christopher grumbled. He pointed at Anni while he avoided Ethel's hug.

"What happened? He looked troubled?" Ethel whispered to Mila. She didn't think of Christopher's trouble as that was serious because Mila remained calm, and she could also see traces of a smile on her lips.

Mila replied in a hushed tone, "Kimsmeth scared him, and it troubled him how they could speak the same sentence word for word."

The two chuckled at the same time and, of course, thought the same without the need to discuss it.

They sat across from Christopher while he sat beside his wife.

"Don't tell me."