What Do You Do When Everyone Loves the Guide?

- The main story is complete. The pirated and official versions differ significantly, so please refer to the Jinjiang version.

[A lighthearted, sweet romance written to the author's tastes, with everyone intensely devoted to the bottom. They resent the moon for shining on everyone instead of only them.]

What is it like to be the Empire's endangered Guide?

The perks: With a crook of your finger, countless Sentinels will come begging for your favor. The Emperor will fuss over your health, and the legions will swear loyalty unto death.

The downsides: Millions of Sentinels across the Empire are crying out for guidance, and there's no one to rely on. Even if your spirit animal is a nuclear-powered donkey, guiding them all would still wear you to death.

Bai Zhu: ...Thanks for asking, but I'm still young. I can do without being a Guide.

He'd planned to lie flat, pass himself off as a low-ranking Sentinel, and live a quiet life. But after accidentally exposing himself as a Guide while rescuing someone, he had to flee.

With the whole Empire hunting him, Bai Zhu pulled off the classic trick of hiding in plain sight and slipped into a Sentinel academy. Every day, he mingled with a crowd of elite hunks, pretending to be a mediocre slacker. Whenever he was in the mood, he'd pick a random Sentinel and polish his mental landscape until it shone like a brand-new stainless-steel basin.

The only thing was, his technique was a little unusual. Other Guides soothed people like a gentle spring rain. His guidance felt like getting scrubbed with a steel-wool pad.

Bai Zhu: ...Just bear with it, buddy. That's how us wild Guides do things.

A mysterious legend began circulating around the Sentinel academy: On every full moon, a merciful deity would randomly knock out one lucky Sentinel, harden his will and strengthen his body, and grant him a soul-cleansing experience he'd never forget.

The Sentinels went crazy chasing after his shadow, desperate to earn his favor.

A good-for-nothing by day, a deity by night.

As the days passed, his secret identities began to fall away.

At last, one day, everyone had had enough and cornered Bai Zhu.

The pure-hearted Crown Prince offered him his scepter: Come with me. I can give you the whole universe.

The aloof younger brother stood there with tearful eyes: Big brother, didn't we promise we'd never part?

And the Legion Commander, rumored to have a shattered mental landscape and little time left to live, slowly unbuttoned his shirt and loomed over Bai Zhu. You saved my life. Now I'm yours.

Bai Zhu: Is it too late for me to run?

Everyone, smiling: What do you think?

A love-triangle showdown, one-on-one, happy ending.

[Steady and unflappable, a hard-core Guide with a rare condition, the bottom × the strongest fighter around, a fiercely protective husband, the top]

Theme: Break free of predetermined shackles and seek true freedom.