After the Dark Guide Is Captured

Bai Lu is the cheapest public Guide in the underground district.

Any Sentinel can rent him and use his mental energy and pheromones however they please, like a dirty rag.

Later, he awakens as a Dark Guide, able to turn Sentinels into his battle puppets.

Now it’s your turn to be disposable.

Bai Lu chooses Simba, an upper-city Sentinel of noble birth and the Lion family’s next-generation hope.

Even with a Guide like Bai Lu, he remains courteous and gentle.

His whole body radiates sunshine, which makes Bai Lu sick.

So Bai Lu pretends to be weak and seduces Simba. All he wants is to form a mental link and make the other man his pawn.

But Simba takes him seriously, rescuing him from the underground district and bringing him to the upper city, where he gives him a respectable identity.

He even turns against nearly the entire upper-city political establishment for Bai Lu’s sake.

Bai Lu plays the part of Simba’s obedient little wife right up until their wedding night.

He completes the link with the Sentinel, turns him into his puppet, and brands his mark on the man’s temple.

Then he lets the resistance army he built himself storm the city.

The old royal court, decadent for a hundred years, is engulfed in flames overnight.

As for that Lion Sentinel...

Sentinels who have been linked to Bai Lu don’t live long, so he doesn’t give Simba another thought and leaves him to fend for himself.

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Bai Lu establishes a new government and takes the seat of power.

But just a few years later, a new force rises along the border, absorbing the remnants of the old regime and growing stronger until it finally invades the capital.

On the day the city falls, Bai Lu leans weakly against his throne and watches the person who walks in.

The man is covered in blood, a star branded on his temple. He is the Lion General, whose reputation has risen rapidly in recent years.

The only person Bai Lu has ever wronged in his life.

The gentle young lion of the past is long gone.

This time, he yanks Bai Lu by his silver hair, grips his chin, smears blood across his face, and smiles dangerously.

“Long time no see... my Guide.”

Ambitious, beautiful, strong, and tragic queen bottom x obsessive, vengeful, devoted top

Younger top, equally matched, melodramatic second-chance romance, happy ending

They both put each other through plenty, so neither gets a one-sided groveling arc. They reunite after both have suffered for the relationship.

Theme: True love transcends everything