A Cyberpunk Crematorium Story

[Guide top, Sentinel bottom, cyberpunk and wasteland setting] Ye Pei was an S-rank chief Sentinel in the Lower World, and his partnership with Jun Li, an S-rank Guide, was known as the best in the Lower World. They'd grown up together, slacking off, fighting, skipping class, and sharing an absolute understanding. Still, everyone wondered why the two of them had never undergone a Dual Bond. Ye Pei knew perfectly well that Jun Li had never forgiven him. Because when Ye Pei first transformed into a Dark Sentinel, he lost control of his consciousness and caused the death of the person Jun Li loved most. For five years, Ye Pei had stayed by Jun Li's side out of a desire to atone. He ignored his Sentinel's superhuman senses and returned from every mission covered in wounds. Later, he even accepted being the one on the bottom without a single complaint. Ye Pei had a little secret: he'd fallen for Jun Li as soon as he first discovered love, and still loved him now... He thought that with twenty years of friendship and five years in bed together, there might be even the slightest chance for him and Jun Li after he'd atoned for his sins. Until Jun Li's beloved, who had supposedly died, came back to life and appeared once more. Amid the beast tide, Ye Pei watched Jun Li sheltering his beloved behind him and finally understood: this so-called atonement had all been self-deception. To save Jun Li's beloved, Ye Pei used himself as bait and let the beast tide swallow him whole. A Sentinel's senses were keen, yet Ye Pei felt the pain of being torn apart by alien beasts was nothing compared to the agony of his heart being ripped open. A life for a life. He owed those two nothing anymore. When he opened his eyes again, Ye Pei was in the Upper World. With a body clad in nanomechanical armor, he had become a true Dark Sentinel. He was like the most perfect machine, cold and utterly untainted. #I've already paid back what I owed you. You don't need to repay what you owe me either# War broke out between the Lower World and the Upper World. On the battlefield, the visor of the Upper World's Mechanical War God was knocked away, revealing an incomparably handsome face. Everyone saw the Lower World's leader, Jun Li, looking frantic as he rasped out his Sentinel's name. His fingers trembled as he tried to touch the other man, but the Mechanical War God seized his wrist and pinned him to the ground. "I am Ye Pei, the Mechanical War God of the Upper World." "Your Sentinel, Ye Pei, has been dead for a long time." Reader's guide: 1. Cool, abstinent Guide top x short-tempered, incredibly powerful Sentinel bottom. 2. Wasteland and cyberpunk setting. 3. The bottom switches entirely to a mechanical body in the middle and later parts, but regains a human body at the end. 4. Updated daily at 18:00. [The author's upcoming bottom-focused novel, "Extreme Sports in a Steampunk World," is open for follows~~] Blurb: Jiang Yinuo was sabotaged during his graduation assessment at a cultivation university. When he opened his eyes, he was in a death-match arena in a mechanical city with a steampunk aesthetic. He had become one of the countless slaves in the arena, and had also picked up a young child who was an Alpha like him. The kid was pitiful, all skin and bones, but his eyes were exceptionally bright. Jiang Yinuo's heart softened. He decided that if he had food, he wouldn't let the kid go hungry. As he raised him, Jiang Yinuo began to feel something was off. Why had he come through every match without a scratch when the death rate was over 98 percent? Especially since his spiritual power was sealed and he couldn't use his flying sword. He kept winning without lifting a finger, so easily that even Jiang Yinuo found it strange. Then he saw the city lord's face, and understood. The kid he'd picked up was the city lord's biological son. As the city lord's slave, Jiang Yinuo was simply getting special treatment. Jiang Yinuo: "I don't need you to go easy on me! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻" At first, nobody in the arena took the slender, beautiful young man seriously. Everyone thought he was the city lord's new plaything and that they just had to be careful not to hurt him. Later, faced with the stunning young man standing on a modified flying sword, everyone begged, "Please go easy on us!!" * Qin Lin was the lord of the largest mechanical city on the continent, and also an extremely rare fourth-gender Enigma. He had a secret the public knew nothing about. Every full moon, he shrank back into his ten-year-old self. Once, in his shrunken form, he was picked up by a slave. Watching the slave go to great lengths to please and look after him, he decided that, as a special favor, he would make sure the man got through the competition and was promoted from slave to commoner. If he hadn't gotten tired of him by then, he might even bring him back to his side for a bit of fun. But when he saw Jiang Yinuo wipe the floor with everyone, win a medal, and keep provoking his opponents, Qin Lin fell silent. #Help! My wife is a sword cultivator who refuses to cultivate the Heartless Dao, and can rip a mech apart with his bare hands. What do I do?# Theme: Even in adversity and darkness, you can keep striving forward, grow, and become your truest self