An Arranged Marriage

[This story is complete. The new story next door, "We Made It Real on a Blind Date Show," is now underway. Check the author's page for the blurb!]

The day after S-class guide Chu Yunlan gets divorced, the government assigns her a new partner.

Rumor has it her new partner is a rare female sentinel, and the S-class sentinel with the highest compatibility rating with Chu Yunlan in the database.

Unfortunately, Chu Yunlan and her new partner have a history.

To be precise, they went from lovers to sworn enemies, unable to stand the sight of each other and vowing never to meet again.

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When sworn enemies meet, sparks fly. They roll up their sleeves and get ready to fight.

Their spirit companions glare at each other, then suddenly pounce...

and start grooming one another.

Bystander A: Is this some new form of revenge?

Bystander B: Some people act like sworn enemies, but behind our backs they've already made it official.

Bystander C: So when are you two getting married?

Chu Yunlan & Lin Fengge: ...[It's not what you think. Let us explain.jpg]

One look at the other and they find each other even more annoying.

One look at their spirit companions rolling over to show their bellies and they feel even more crushed.

They exchange a glance, then look away at the same time.

Lin Fengge makes a threat: "If I ever marry her, I'm a dog!"

Chu Yunlan says simply: "Get lost!"

And yet, six months later...

Lin Fengge pets her spirit companion's dog head with a blank expression: "Woof, woof, woof."

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Warnings:

※ There is a scheming ex at the start. They break up right away, and the scumbag may get what's coming later.

※ My take on the Sentinel-Guide setting, with lots of original worldbuilding. Don't scrutinize the logic; it's all made up by the author.

※ Lin Fengge x Chu Yunlan. Two goofballs in a love-hate relationship, rekindling an old flame. One-on-one, happy ending.

※ Short story.

>>>>> Coming soon: Check the author's page and add to your reading list if you're interested. Kisses!

1. "We Made It Real on a Blind Date Show"

[Blurb]

When Zhao Minglang visits a dating reality show produced by her company, several female guests are hospitalized with food poisoning, so she has to fill in at the last minute.

The show is uneventful, with nothing to make headlines. Hoping to spice things up, Zhao Minglang gets an idea.

Before the male guest can confess, she takes the hand of the female extra next door, who gets paid five hundred a day.

Zhao Minglang: "To be honest, I fell in love with Miss Lin Xingyue at first sight."

Lin Xingyue whispers: "Boss, do I get paid extra for this scene?"

Zhao Minglang: "Double pay, and I'll throw in an extra chicken leg."

Lin Xingyue: "Sure thing, boss! No problem, boss!"

To make a living, the extra Lin Xingyue reluctantly nods with feigned demureness, drops to one knee and proposes on the spot, then delivers a heartfelt confession that brings everyone to tears.

The show becomes an overnight sensation, and Zhao Minglang leaves satisfied.

After counting her cash backstage, Lin Xingyue smiles, bows, and offers her thanks three times before turning to leave.

But generous Boss Zhao corners her unexpectedly.

Zhao Minglang: "I've got another job for you. Interested?"

Lin Xingyue: "What is it?"

Zhao Minglang: "Be my partner."

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Film company boss x rich young lady who ran away from home and fell on hard times. Think tsundere domineering CEO x goofy extra.

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2. "The Author and Reader Got Their Happy Ending [Book Transmigration]"

*Possible titles include "Life as the Heroine's Favorite Concubine," "The Domineering Princess Is Online, Looking for a Marriage," and "I Became a Fortune-Teller in a Fantasy Novel." The title may change at random, so look for the character keywords [Xiao Muyu x Hua Feixue].

/Short blurb/

Xiao Muyu transmigrates from the apocalypse into the fantasy novel she sabotaged.

The moment she opens her eyes, the heroine, a princess who will become empress one day, drags her to the bedside of the dying old emperor.

Princess: "I want to marry her!"

The dying old emperor sits bolt upright: "I forbid it!"

Princess: "Then I can marry her instead."

Xiao Muyu: "???"

The princess, who should have been cold and ruthless, with the whole world in her heart, has suddenly become a hopeless romantic. Something must be wrong with the plot...

Xiao Muyu: "Watching all these heroes vie for supremacy and divide the realm, don't you feel a burning ambition to conquer the world?"

Princess: "No. I only want to conquer you."

Xiao Muyu: "...That's out of character, dear."

As the original author, Xiao Muyu is tearing her hair out over this bug, without noticing the princess's intensely focused gaze.

What she doesn't know is that, in the unfinished story, time has been frozen forever on the final line of text.

In a world where time stands still, the princess sits alone in the snow, gazing toward the far horizon. The only one at the end of her gaze is the god who created her.

In that frozen time, she makes a wish: I don't want this realm that I can rule as I please. I only want the person who will walk with me through this vast loneliness.

When time starts moving again, Xiao Muyu appears before her.

The princess takes her hand and never lets go, even in death.

Theme: Love and peace