The Guide Only Wants to Be Marked

[Scheming, flirtatious beauty guide top × lovesick, domestic sentinel bottom] [Beautiful and strong / Strong x strong] Jiang Youlin is a doctor at a small clinic in a community on a remote planet. This line of work doesn’t require high mental aptitude, and most of his colleagues are B- or C-rank guides. In everyone’s eyes, Doctor Jiang is gentle, modest, polite, skilled, and handsome. It’s just that... he seems to take time off a lot. Does he ever get his pay docked? This time, Doctor Jiang took his annual leave to go home and get married, and brought an A-rank sentinel back from the capital planet. The sentinel was sunny and cheerful, good at keeping house, and blushed helplessly at the slightest teasing. He was the perfect househusband. It was a marriage that began as a transaction, though: he wanted the sentinel’s mental energy, while the sentinel depended on his guide pheromones. Before they registered their marriage, Ye Zhiyuan solemnly promised that he would fulfill his responsibilities as a partner. So even though his sense of taste had deteriorated, he still cooked Jiang Youlin three meals a day. Even when he came straight home from a mission covered in the stench of blood, he hurried back to help his guide with treatment. Even when he fell into a frenzy, his first choice was to lock himself in the white-noise room. Jiang Youlin pulled the battered Ye Zhiyuan up from the cold floor and, as usual, gave him a hot, wet kiss. That was the only “payment” Jiang Youlin was willing to make in this marriage. · When he took off his white coat, Jiang Youlin’s true identity was revealed: he was the first team leader of the Federation military’s special operations group. No one could have imagined that the former S-rank guide and top combatant was hiding out at a remote little clinic. Time passed at an unhurried pace, and Jiang Youlin’s ambush mission gradually neared its end. Only one final mission remained before he could return to the White Tower and resume his powerful post as first team leader. Aboard a starship locked in a standoff, among the most mysterious pirate gangs, whose members were said to appear and vanish like dragons, Jiang Youlin saw the face he looked at night after night. But Ye Zhiyuan wore an expression of cold indifference Jiang Youlin had never seen before. · The little prince of the Empire had run away from home as a child. Many years later, the ancient planet finally welcomed its young king back. Faced with proposals ranging from flattery to coercion, the sentinel lazily raised his eyes and rubbed the ring on his left ring finger. “An arranged marriage? I think I’ll pass.” He smiled coldly. “My guide... isn’t very easy to deal with.” [Reader’s Guide] 1. Beautiful top, handsome bottom. Scheming, flirtatious beauty guide top × lovesick, domestic sentinel bottom. The bottom is very obedient around the top, but very cold toward everyone else. Both are extremely strong in combat. Note: “Househusband” refers to domestic skills like organizing and cooking. 2. Seven-year age gap, with the top older. 3. Sentinel-guide setting, with some original worldbuilding. 4. They have spirit forms: silver fox × python. 5. The top and bottom both have quite a few secret identities, which are revealed gradually. Coming next in my author page: a main-character-as-top, doppelganger romance. [Doppelganger story: Alpha pretending to be an Omega, two-faced, scheming beauty top × tough-on-the-outside, lovesick bottom] The supreme king of the Nix System, Aizergard, was unexpectedly reborn into an Omega’s body fifteen years in the past. He never expected that the little prince who had suffered a crushing defeat during the Empire’s coup all those years ago would be looking at him now, innocent and proud. Young and vibrant, not yet chewed up and turned into the cold-blooded, ruthless person he would become. He was even a lovesick innocent who wholeheartedly believed that “frail Omegas need protection.” Ruan Tingyan: ...This is interesting. So he let his eyes wander and softened his voice, playing the part of a “considerate, perfect fiancee” to the hilt. His lowered rose-colored eyes held no shyness, only an amused, appraising gaze. Then, on the eve of the wedding, Ruan Tingyan shoved the veil into the other man’s arms and turned away with a smile. “Your Highness, let’s never meet again.” · Later, the entire Empire knew that the Third Prince had gone mad. He turned the whole star system upside down, all to find someone who had been dead for fifteen years. At last, he found him again. The man stood where light and shadow met, his bearing utterly unlike the Omega in his memories. Golden hair fell to his waist, and his rose-colored eyes were cool and distant, stripped of every trace of feigned tenderness. Lu Jingxi stared at the face that was exactly like his own. Seeing the man before him suddenly lose his composure, Ruan Tingyan laughed softly and reached up to touch his face, pressing his forehead to the other man’s. “Darling, after searching for me for so long, don’t you know who you’re looking for?” 1. Double-alpha doppelganger romance + older top. 2. The top and bottom have similar core personalities. The top puts on an act early on, and the bottom will be teased. Blurb revised 26.02.28 Coming soon from the same author, set in the same universe: main-character-as-top sentinel-guide story, The Lazy Guide Picks Up a Brooding Sentinel. Please add it to your library!~ [A shirking special-force captain with a hidden identity × a brooding little emperor with psychological issues. Outwardly bold × secretly shy] [Beautiful and strong / Strong x strong] [Sentinel-guide] If you like it, please tap the little star ovo Theme: Stay true to yourself