After the fifth purification triggered sentinel bonding heat, Qin Shuyue lost her job.
She was an ordinary, diligent D-rank guide at Qinghe Base. She had only been working for three months and was about to get a raise, reaching the pinnacle of her life with extra meat and side dishes at lunch. Then she was fired.
Just as her name suggested, Qin Shuyue was as beautiful as the bright moon in the sky, with long, cascading black hair, fair, smooth skin, and sweet, gentle features. Before the wasteland era, she might have become a star.
Unfortunately, this was an age overrun by contamination. She had no parents, and her striking beauty only invited trouble. Qin Shuyue had thought becoming a guide would make life a little easier, but after suffering a baffling high fever, something went wrong with her mental powers.
Even during a simple purification, the moment her mental tendrils reached into a sentinel's mental landscape, they would inexplicably trigger bonding heat. The sentinels would try to force a bond with her, setting off the purification room's alarm again and again.
Now she had no choice. A useless discarded pawn, she could only be sent by the base to the White Tower to make a living.
They said the sentinels on the White Tower's lower levels fought all day long. They spent months at a time in contaminated zones, and were not only irritable, but often injured their guides, too.
Qin Shuyue was terrified.
On her first day working at the White Tower, just as expected, she triggered bonding heat in a B-rank sentinel. After he was rushed away, Qin Shuyue huddled fearfully in the corner of the purification room, wondering where the White Tower would dump her once it rejected her.
She had heard the White Tower sent useless guides to the confinement zone. There was an S-rank sentinel there who could mutate and go berserk at any moment, and none of the guides who had gone there ever came back...
Qin Shuyue wept with frustration. She didn't want to die. Why was she always the one who had to suffer?
Through tear-blurred eyes, she looked up and saw someone standing before her, though she hadn't noticed them arrive.
A tall, handsome young man stood ramrod straight in his military uniform. He raised a hand to wipe away her tears, his voice deep and resonant. "Qin Shuyue?"
Qin Shuyue nodded in a daze, and the young man led her away.
From then on, a beautiful guide surrounded by high-ranking sentinels became a fixture within the White Tower. She was delicate and pampered, yet the sentinels flocked to offer themselves to her like moths to a flame. Even several newly promoted S-rank sentinels were smitten with her.
All because she could trigger bonding heat.
[Reading Guide]
1. This is a brainless wish-fulfillment novel about a girl adored by everyone. The heroine is a pampered princess, and everyone falls for her.
2. Pairings shift by arc: one-on-one romance, with many male supporting characters, one-sided crushes, and plenty of romantic rivalry.
2025.1.23
Theme: Growth
