My Blind Date Is the Rules of a Ghost Story

[My new novel, An S-Rank Celibate Sentinel Loses Control for Her, is now underway. Blurb below.] As the global environment suffers severe pollution and water and electricity supplies mysteriously fail, strange rules begin appearing everywhere. * For example, an apartment building you can't escape from: 1. When leaving your apartment, you must wear white and bring your apartment key. If you lose your key, please visit the management office for a spare. * 2. If you forget to wear white when going out, make sure that any neighbor you encounter is human, walks upright, and has two eyes, two ears, one nose, and one mouth. * 3. If the situation described in Rule 2 occurs and you encounter a neighbor who doesn't fit the description, or a neighbor with red eyes, do not make eye contact for more than three seconds. Don't look back. Leave immediately. Lu Miao is a rising star in the Rules of the Strange Investigation Department. She has an exceptionally high success rate and has earned plenty of survival supplies. Since she's always away on work and never has time to date, her mother arranges a promising blind date for her. * He's handsome, well-spoken, doesn't mind that she travels for work all the time, and suggests they start dating. She isn't opposed. Her only concern is that he has obsessive-compulsive tendencies. * He neatly arranges peeled shrimp on his fried rice, and lines up the shells on the side of his plate like bodies at a crime scene. * After his seventh bite, he has to drink some water. He always has to step forward with his right foot first. He buttons every button on his clothes. When he hears she's going on a work trip, he struggles to hide his excitement... * After they start dating, Lu Miao can't tell whether she's unlucky or the rules are getting harder. Every strange phenomenon she investigates suddenly comes with new rules. * The words are bright red as blood, as if taunting her while brimming with ardent love. But she beats them all with her intelligence. * Oddly enough, she gets more supplies than everyone else, until her coworkers can't help asking, "I really think you're the mastermind behind all this. Are these strange domains run by your family or something?" * Until strange rules appear in their home, and Lu Miao sees a line of red text on the wall: "I love the way you look when you solve my mysteries." * 1. The strange phenomena and rules belong to opposing factions, and the hero is one of the rules. 2. The plot-to-romance ratio is 6:4. 3. No System, no supernatural abilities. She solves everything with her brain. * New novel, An S-Rank Celibate Sentinel Loses Control for Her: * After civilization regresses in the wake of a catastrophe, humanity must build high walls to protect their homes and rebuild civilization. * Xia Ying is a top Guide trained by the White Tower, with S-rank mental strength. She's pampered and picky, but suffers from a pheromone deficiency and has trouble producing pheromones. After refusing to bond with a handsome, influential Sentinel, she's sent to a border town to do backbreaking work calming the Sentinels' spirit forms. * Her fellow Guides nearly set off firecrackers to celebrate. * Xia Ying: "Tsk, the food here is delicious and plentiful, and handsome men and beautiful women from the Sentinel ranks are all around me every day. Isn't that better than the city?" * The only person she has trouble dealing with is the commander of the border town: a highly decorated man, extremely calm and self-controlled, who has never lost control of his emotions. He's sharp-tongued and seems to be an ordinary captain with excellent physical fitness. * Xia Ying rarely speaks with him, and whenever they do, they trade barbs. He always stays at least two meters away from her... * She never expected that one day her pheromones would suddenly start to seep out, making the Sentinels in the regiment approach her as if bewitched, begging her to spare them even a little of her pheromones. * And after that, the self-controlled man is the first to exhibit abnormal behavior. He silently comes up behind her, restraining himself as he grabs her shoulder in a frenzy, then gently rubs the tip of his nose against the skin of her neck. * "Don't go." His voice is slightly hoarse, and his pheromones radiate aggression. * "I won't, but don't rub my ears." Xia Ying's panda spirit form uses a paw to bat away the giant python spirit form above its head. * The arrogant, influential Sentinel is willing to give Xia Ying another chance to choose, but he doesn't know that Xia Ying, now revered as a saint by the Sentinels, is beyond his reach. * And by her side is an S-rank Dark Sentinel who treasures her above all else. Aloof Dark Sentinel (Golden Python) x Beloved Prodigy, Foodie, God-tier Guide (Giant Panda) Theme: Protecting the Earth is everyone's responsibility