Can Even the Bottom-Ranked Guide Be Stolen Away?

A trending post on the White Tower Forum has blown up: “Legendary Sentinel Brings Back Mysterious Girl.” The silver-haired, blue-eyed girl in the photo has Sentinels fawning over her, but someone has exposed her as a bottom-tier D-rank Guide. Wen Yan is just as baffled. She was climbing a snowy mountain when an avalanche struck. The moment she opened her eyes, she had landed in the apocalypse a hundred years in the future. The good news: she awakened as a Guide, with a snow lotus from the high mountains as her spirit form, and silver hair and blue eyes to match. The bad news: she’s bottom-tier D-rank, and a Dark Guide feared throughout the White Tower: the kind who levels up by devouring mutants. All she wants is to graduate quietly and live the laid-back life of an idle Guide. But somehow, she first gets involved with two heirs to the Four Great Families, then has a handsome young man whose spirit form is a rabbit clinging to her and calling her “big sister.” At the graduation ball, she drinks too much and accidentally marks the Elders’ Council’s untouchable beauty. The dog-like squad captain wears an apron, his voice burning with passion. “From the day you saved me, I’ve been yours.” The cat-like squad captain curls his lips seductively and presses her hand against his honey-toned chest. “Do you like it?” Later, she becomes the only Guide capable of working alongside others in contaminated zones. But when her identity is exposed, she is framed, gravely injured, and left for dead. An exiled Sentinel takes her into the “City of Death.” Three years later, a mysterious female Guide appears in the City of Death. Sentinels who have lost the woman they love come searching with their last shred of hope. There she is, the woman they have yearned for, seated in the city lord’s chair, with a man wearing a sinister look standing beside her. The man raises an eyebrow. “My lady, who are these people?” She merely glances at them lazily and says lightly, “I don’t know them.” That night, a succession of knocks sounds at her door. Theme: A Dark Guide’s laid-back life in the apocalypse. She finds herself amid a Sentinel battlefield of love, discovers who she is, and breaks free of the roles and constraints imposed on Guides.