The Hive

Sudden, strange voids keep erupting. Humanity is forced to band together for warmth, and its bases become isolated islands in the wilderness. As people wait in constant fear, humanity undergoes a transformation of its own.

Mr. Xiao Chi, a small-scale farmer, has two secrets. First, he's a special ability user with a mental landscape that machines can't detect: his moon. Second, he has someone hidden in his heart. Gentle and gracious, that person appeared on a rainy night four years ago and pulled him back from the brink of collapse. That is his second moon.

Four years later, the fearsome Captain Ming appears with a dark expression, demonstrating what it means for the moon to wax and wane... and wax and wane and wax and wane.

A bronze-tier alt account with a king's aura | Down-and-out lawyer | Beast in fine clothes | Mad-dog mob boss seme & thinks he's bronze but is actually a cheat | Arrogant little artist | Soft and adorable troublemaker uke

1v1, happy ending.

Some of the worldbuilding is inspired by Sentinel and Guide fiction, but this is not a Sentinel and Guide story. Everyone has an ordinary gender!

The other worldbuilding is stuff I made up.

Theme: Enforce the law strictly and punish every violation.