Surrender to the Top Guide

[See the bottom and pinned comment for the blurb of the upcoming story, The Minister's Wife.]

Bai Zhiyi is dragged into the Galactic Empire's tower by a little S-rank black cat.

As a D-rank guide whose spirit form is a white rabbit, her job should be to provide the most basic mental guidance:

Guide sentinels and summon their cute, ferocious spirit forms to soothe their emotions.

Not sit in the guidance room and watch a group of enormous spirit forms crowd around her white rabbit, using their paws or mouths to keep it within their reach.

So irritated she wants to hit someone, Bai Zhiyi declares that whoever wants this lousy guidance job can have it. If you're a woman, get onto the battlefield and fight a real war.

One rainy night, she attacks the five S-rank sentinels and makes her escape.

Those sentinels hate her guts.

But when they meet again, she stands on the battlefield, her cape billowing behind her. She gazes at them from afar with an indifferent look, as if she's never known them.

Only then do the sentinels realize that more than they hate her, they want to become her exclusive sentinels.

Reader's guide:

1. The heroine is very strong, in the literal sense.

2. Lin Yao is the official pairing, but the other sentinels will also get chances to fight alongside the heroine.

3. This is still a story about women. And yes, the logic of a sci-fi sentinel-and-guide world can absolutely be self-consistent.

Blurb revised for the second time on January 11, 2025, at 23:30

Blurb uploaded and screenshot taken on March 16, 2024

[Upcoming story]

At the victory banquet, Jiang Ling repeatedly feels the emperor's deep gaze upon her.

So worried she can't sleep at night, she confides in her wife, who says she's imagining things. How could the noble, upright emperor overstep his bounds and look at one of his ministers' wives?

Until the emperor pins Jiang Ling's ankle beneath her skirt against a rockery and covers her mouth.

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Zhang Qingyun successfully persuades the Kingdom of Qing and returns to the capital. Zhou Xiangyi is overjoyed and asks what reward she wants.

Zhang Qingyun merely lowers her head with a smile and says that all she wants is to spend more time with her wife now that she's back.

Zhou Xiangyi has heard of her wife. Apparently she's a sickly beauty who always needs someone by her side.

When a minister makes a request, the emperor naturally won't make things difficult for her.

During the autumn hunt, Zhou Xiangyi shoots a white horse out from under its rider, frightening a woman into tears.

The woman covers her face as she cries. When she looks up, Zhou Xiangyi sees the tiny red mole at the corner of her eye. She looks so tender and affectionate.

At the victory banquet, though, the woman and Zhang Qingyun are restrained in public, but their intimacy is plain to see.

Zhou Xiangyi sits at the head of the table, her gaze indifferent.

What a pity that the woman is the wife of her own right-hand woman.

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So what?

Theme: No matter what hardships you face, keep moving forward.