Sentinel and Guide: The Ninth Tail and the Dragon

[Unhinged gong + reborn shou + growth arc + groveling pursuit + angsty romance with a happy ending] Jiang Qingning returns reborn and becomes a despised Guide, only to be forcibly bonded to the person he had guarded against most in his previous life: Shen Moyuan, a Dark Sentinel. The entire base waits to see how this “delicate flower” will wilt under the tyrant’s hand. Shen Moyuan imprisons him in a tower and torments him day and night, then whispers obsessively in his ear: “Do you hate me? Every inch of your soul bears my name.” Then a tide of zombies surrounds the city, and catastrophe strikes. The wisteria that everyone thought could only cling to the strong slowly ascends the city wall before thousands of onlookers. The phantom of a nine-tailed fox rises into the sky, and holy light sweeps across heaven and earth! With a wave of his hand, he annihilates the zombie horde. “Sorry,” Jiang Qingning says, wiping the blood from his fingertips and glancing back with a faint smile. “Who was it just now who said they’d feed me to the zombies?” Later, the truth tears them apart. Jiang Qingning disappears on a rainy night, leaving behind just one sentence: “Shen Moyuan, I can’t accept your protection.” The Dark Sentinel, who had always thought himself untouchable, finally loses his mind completely. Kneeling among the ruins, he presses his forehead to the muzzle of a gun, his voice hoarse and broken: “Come back... or kill me. Choose one.”