The S-Rank Guide Is Seriously Ill

Lai Deng had just finished the college entrance exams and was getting ready to go hiking when she slipped and fell off a cliff.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in the arms of a man with blood running from the corner of his mouth. A group of thugs nearby were shouting things like "female" and "idiot," and the Federation had come charging in like that. But the man managed to protect her and escape. When she got home, she discovered that three people had protected her.

After analyzing the situation, Lai Deng realized she had transmigrated into the body of a mentally disabled female guide. The three handsome men before her were now her beast husbands. They were good-looking, but all F-rank deadweights. Females were scarce in this world, so powerful males were always trying to defeat her three F-rank husbands and get close to her.

Those males had a certain way of thinking: a beautiful female like Lai Deng could never choose three F-rank males as her husbands. The three wretched men must have taken advantage of her stupidity and tricked her into signing a contract.

When Lai Deng transmigrated, other males were already attacking her husbands. Yet those three F-rank deadweights still took her and fled home.

After thinking it over, Lai Deng decided to pretend to be an idiot so she could gather information.

Though Lai Deng was pretending to be an idiot, her three husbands didn't take the opportunity to mistreat her. Instead, they treated her well. Powerful males kept trying to eliminate them along the way. Lai Deng hadn't wanted to get involved, but the three men were just too beautiful. So, when they got into trouble again, she sprang into action. One phone call to report them got their attackers charged with harming a female, and the group was taken away. She told her three husbands that she wasn't stupid anymore and had recovered, but the next moment, the authorities came and took her away.

The reason: every female of normal intelligence had to attend military school for compulsory education.

Lai Deng, who had just finished her college entrance exams: ? I transmigrated and still have to go to school? Is this for real? So that's what pretending to be stupid was for.

Bad news: She has to go back to school.

Good news: The military school's dorms are amazing, with a private apartment for each student. Lai Deng can leave the slums and live there with her husbands. But since all her husbands are F-rank sentinels, they're not eligible to enroll. They can only stay as her servants.

What about Lai Deng? What rank is she? The moment she gets tested, it turns out she's an A-rank dual-form guide, able to take both sentinel and guide forms. As soon as word gets out, Lai Deng becomes a hot commodity, while her three F-rank husbands face even more hostility from other males.

But is any of this real?

A choose-your-favorite kind of story.

Technology in this world has advanced at breakneck speed, but the price is that greenery has become scarce and precious. Fragmented information and neon lights have left people's minds unstable and deeply polluted. Contamination factors lurk everywhere, and the slightest slip can drag you into the abyss. The result of contamination is becoming a mindless monster, commonly known as a contaminated being.

The "beast husbands" in this story are more like a prettified term for servants and slaves.

[Cyberpunk Wasteland + Interstellar Transmigration + Sentinel and Guide + Unconventional Beast World]

In this setting, females are scarce, so they have far higher status than males and can have multiple beast husbands at their service. The protagonists are all humans, all humans, all humans. They can simply transform into animal forms.

To reiterate: in this setting, all human mental forms are animals. When their mental power reaches a certain level, people can transform into animal forms to attack. After marrying a female, they are called beast husbands. They are not actual animals; their true forms are still human. Though called beast husbands, most submit to their wives as slaves and servants.

People are generally classified as guides or sentinels according to the animal type of their mental form. In this information-driven, technological, fragmented world, guides with powerful mental abilities are even rarer and more valuable.

So the social hierarchy is: female guides > female sentinels > male guides > male sentinels.

The heroine is a female guide who also has a sentinel form, putting her even above the highest rank.

The characters have a mix of Western and Chinese names. I just picked whatever looked right, so the cultural ingredients are pretty complicated.

An unconventional sentinel story?

Blurb: 2026.08.15

Started writing: 2026.09.21

Blurb revised: 2026.10.8

Theme: Study hard and improve every day.