The F-Rank Guide Lost His Memory and His Persona Crumbled

[Secret identity reveal | Strong leads | Sentinel and Guide | Ensemble cast]

★ My next novel is What Happened After My Stalker Account Was Mistaken for a Marketing Account, a sweet Sentinel-and-Guide story with secret identities revealed. Please add it to your favorites!

After a school bullying incident, Wei Zhili lost his memory.

To uncover the truth behind his amnesia, he began investigating his past.

He was a useless F-rank Guide who never applied himself and spent all his time stalking the academy's super A-rank Sentinel.

Because he was a lovesick fool with no strength and no principles, he was hated by everyone at school.

“Wow, bullying is bullying. Now you're making excuses for the victim?”

Wei Zhili nearly laughed with anger as he looked through his file.

If they bullied him because he was a lovesick fool, then he'd wake them up by slapping them all in the face!

But he had only just begun enthusiastically planning how to slap them in the face when he discovered...

His overly cautious plans were completely unnecessary.

He could solve every problem with brute force alone.

“Breaking news! The academy's most hated bottom-of-the-class student at Iris Academy has broken through to A-rank mental power!”

“Breaking news! After reaching A-rank, Wei Zhili defeated Shi Beiluo in a duel!”

“Breaking news! Wei Zhili... defeated the Second Prince in the mecha tournament!”

After fighting his way to the top, Wei Zhili frowned and belatedly realized...

His persona didn't seem quite right.

After realizing his persona had fallen apart, Wei Zhili fell into an existential crisis.

Who was he? Where was he? Had he really been nothing but a useless F-rank before losing his memory?

Then he found a Zerg cultivation tank at home and looked at the diary he'd kept before losing his memory. At last, he understood.

“So I'm a Zerg!”

Wei Zhili accepted his new identity in zero seconds and started making a fuss about returning to the Zerg nest.

“No, you're not. If you really go to the Zerg nest, you're doomed!”

The cannon-fodder lackey he'd beaten into submission hurried to stop him.

“You're not! But I don't think you're my childhood friend Wei Zhili, either.”

His rumored crush, a super A-rank Sentinel, said sadly.

“You really aren't.” The school's only S-rank Sentinel vouched for him too.

The mysterious S-rank smiled, his words cryptic.

“No matter what you become, I'll recognize you, big brother.”

And so, ten years of the Empire's past came flooding back to him.

And so, the opening chapter of a galactic epic of heroes was written.

Reading guide:

1. Natural-born schemer / wolfish younger man / S-rank Sentinel x maxed-out combat power / vengeful / S-rank Guide

2. Includes interstellar settings, mechas, and Sentinel-and-Guide lore

3. [Important: The Zerg in this novel are cannon-fodder villains, not the protagonists. They're the classic elite monsters of space fiction.]

4. Strong leads, one-on-one romance

Below is the blurb for the upcoming novel What Happened After My Stalker Account Was Mistaken for a Marketing Account

Chi Xingshi's friend asked him to stalk their crush's social media account.

The problem was, his friend's crush was a scumbag Sentinel who had once pursued Chi Xingshi relentlessly.

If he used his main account, the guy would recognize him immediately.

As a friend who'd been saddled with a ridiculous task, Chi Xingshi had no choice but to make a new secret identity for himself:

An online shop's marketing account specializing in mental-sea comfort services.

Then he started posting ads and hanging around the scumbag Sentinel's account every day.

The scumbag posted: “Don't engage with marketing accounts, idiots! I've got plenty of bedmates! I don't need a Guide to soothe me! [Angry] [Angry]”

Chi Xingshi: (looks away) (takes a screenshot) (sends dirt to his friend)

But after he casually posted another ad, a Sentinel actually showed up at his door.

[Customer] Xinghuai: “Do you provide online comfort services, or in person?”

Chi Xingshi: ???

Oh no. He'd played the role of a marketing account too well. Now he had no choice but to take the job.

Chu Huai's mental sea was on the verge of collapse. After nearly making a fatal mistake in battle, he finally took his friend's advice and decided to try a mental-sea comfort service.

He found a shop whose name was similar to his own ID. It also had the character “Xing” in it, which made him feel a certain fondness for it. The ads it posted were just a little questionable.

Chu Huai didn't suspect a thing. He placed an order and waited for the shopkeeper to arrive in the virtual world.

The person who arrived was furtive and wouldn't show his face. He didn't look like a good person. Chu Huai nearly let professional instinct take over and grab him on the spot.

But when the other person released his spirit form, Chu Huai froze.

It was the spirit form of the Guide he'd been secretly in love with for ages.

After their first online comfort session, Chu Huai was breathing slightly hard as he gazed brightly at the person in front of him.

“Next time... could we do it in person?”

Chi Xingshi was wrapped around the waist by the other person's spirit form's tail. With tears in his eyes, he anxiously refused.

“Sorry, online services only. And I'm planning to close up shop, ”

Before he could finish, the scaly sensation of something against his skin became unmistakable. The spirit form, whose appearance he couldn't make out, had moved to his chest.

Chu Huai licked his lips and tilted his head. “Closing up shop?”

Chi Xingshi: “...I'm not closing! I'm not! QAQ”

Chi Xingshi was well taken care of by his only customer.

That Sentinel was a little scary, but he was generous. The tips he gave were enough to cover Chi Xingshi's living expenses for a month.

Just then, the Empire's First Army returned to Imperial Capital Star, and the new king publicly called for a Guide to be bound to the marshal on the battlefield.

Chi Xingshi wanted to take a shot at securing his future, so he signed up confidently.

But the moment he met the marshal, he touched the marshal's cheek, using physical contact to send his mental tentacles inside.

The secretary beside them cried out in alarm. “What are you doing? Are you harassing the marshal?”

Chi Xingshi turned back in confusion. But that's how he always did online comfort sessions!

A soft laugh came from above him. Chu Huai soothed him. “It's fine. Let him try.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the marshal's black dragon spirit form wrapped its tail around Chi Xingshi without warning.

Chi Xingshi looked at the tail around his waist, then at Chu Huai's awkward expression, more confused than ever.

Are all reptilian spirit forms this affectionate and clingy?

Thesis: Always be honest and brave.