Let Me Touch Your Spirit

Happy autumn equinox, everyone! (O v O)

Here's a peek at my upcoming stories, One More Bite [Nonhuman] and Even the Ancestor Needs an Arranged Marriage? Their blurbs are at the very bottom.

Blurb:

[Silent, poker-faced, swift-to-kill S+-rank Sentinel in public x rational, composed S+-rank Guide in public; a little bamboo viper who'll beg for cuddles in private and even trade a serious injury for them x a white long-tailed bird who lets her controlling, caring, possessive side run wild in private]

The ES10 squad has two shared beliefs: 1. Their little snake will do anything to rank up. 2. The little snake's self-control is freakishly strong, so she doesn't need a Guide's soothing.

It wasn't until they worked with the legendary S-rank Guide from the ES1 squad that they realized the first was because of him, and the second was, too.

The young acting captain, already worrying like a father: "Did you hear that? Our little snake wants that Guide. Find a way to make it happen, all of you! He's a captain? I don't care!"

Later, they did come up with a plan, but they got the wrong person caught in it.

Tipsy Xi Jianqing cornered someone at the annual party. "Be my exclusive Guide... I really want to have you..."

Everyone: "?"

Guan Xu: "Sure."

Everyone: "???"

She looked at him in confusion. "Then, what are the conditions?"

"When you lose control, let me help you."

At fifteen, during her first field placement, Guan Xu showed her talent while soothing a newly awakened Sentinel who had gone berserk. She then ranked up at the fastest pace ever to become the youngest S-rank Guide. Any Sentinel could be brought under control by her mental power, regardless of their pairing.

To help her shine in S-rank missions, the White Tower never arranged for her to bond with a Sentinel. That is, until the day the ES1 and ES10 squads worked together, and she met an A-rank little Sentinel who had completed an S-rank mission above her level.

She remembered her. She was her first Sentinel.

But after soothing her for a moment, the little bamboo viper's spirit form, which had been on the verge of losing control, went completely berserk and wound around her again and again.

?

Her absolute soothing ability seemed to have failed.

[Mini-scene 1]

Xi Jianqing: My white-noise headphones broke.

Guan Xu (smiling): How many times has that happened this month?

Xi Jianqing (quietly): They broke on their own...

Guan Xu covered her ears and released his mental energy: You can come to me even when they aren't broken.

Xi Jianqing (cautiously rubbing against him in his arms): Mm...

[Mini-scene 2]

A squad member whose repeated declarations of love had been ignored spoke sourly: "You don't know how to get along with our little snake, do you? Want me to teach you?"

Guan Xu: "No need. She's very clingy."

"..."

She's very clingy... very clingy... clingy... ly...

I'm gonna make a scene!

Qingqing: I'm just a cute, clueless big shot who gets mistaken for a cold, formidable boss because I kill without blinking (munch munch).

1. The basic Sentinel-Guide setting comes from Baidu Baike's "Sentinels and Guides." Even if you're unfamiliar with it, you'll be able to understand. The other personal settings serve my preferences. Due to the worldbuilding, there are descriptions that will lower your SAN value.

2. When they first meet, Qingqing is six and Guan Xu is fifteen. They reunite twelve years later. A steadfast one-on-one romance with a happy ending. The couple will be sweet and affectionate, though there will be some twists (very quietly). The story is forty percent romance and sixty percent plot. Mini-scenes will appear in the author's notes at random.

3. Guan Xu is controlling. Considering the plot and characterization, this is not a strong-female-lead story, not a story about a powerful heroine, and not a weak heroine either. Qingqing is the stronger one, but she's willing to give up the lead.

4. The bird is generally called a long-tailed bird, also known as a paradise flycatcher. There is no such thing as a "white long-tailed bird"; I added that to emphasize its plumage. It's really beautiful, friends, so look up a picture.

5. Blurb polished, screenshot taken on 2024.09.24.

Pre-release: One More Bite [Nonhuman]

[Top-tier seduction experimental subject x keeper who can't be seduced but falls in love]

Experiment log 01: I've been chosen to care for Experimental Subject 013 because I can stay clearheaded even when I look at it. Come to think of it, who would be captivated by a white blob of slime?

Experiment log 26: The director sent a researcher who tried to take 013 away to the gallows. He kept calling its name until he died: Lufixia.

Experiment log 53: The experimental subject is looking more and more human, and its abilities are growing stronger. It can ignore buildings and protective clothing, and seduces everyone indiscriminately. I'm now its only keeper.

Experiment log 98: She kissed me. It's just her innate ability to seduce; it's all for the sake of freedom. I don't mind playing along.

Experiment log 99: I love her.

Experiment log 132: Being a top-tier seducer doesn't mean you have no way to fight back and must let others do as they please. It means telling them that those who haven't given their lives aren't worthy of my favor. Fight for me. I'll reward only the victor., Lufixia

You can take my life whenever you want, instead of scribbling all over my diary, my Luxia., The victor who wants a reward

Foraging Guide 00: I transmigrated to another world and encountered a crowd of two-legged beasts. Edible. I found a rare individual. Seduction ineffective. Continuing observation.

Foraging Guide 01: Captured by two-legged beasts. Too much lust. Stuffed.

Foraging Guide 02: Tired of low-grade food. Desperately need high-quality nourishment.

Foraging Guide 03: Reencountered rare individual. Formulating a hunting plan.

Foraging Guide 29: Hunting attempts continue to fail. I can't eat. Hungry...

Foraging Guide 30: Attempting to learn human methods of seduction. Becoming an ambitious succubus.

Foraging Guide 31: Hungry, hungry, food, food. Kissing a delicacy. Just a little bite!

Foraging Guide 32: Formulating a plan to raise a delicacy and store food for the long term.

Foraging Guide 99: Humans! Scary! Stuffed! Can I stop eating now?

No.

I said I want to stop eating!

And I said no.

Pre-release: Even the Ancestor Needs an Arranged Marriage?

[Little ancestor who plucks flowers and catches fish from heaven to earth x old ancestor as solemn and steady as a bell, who rings whenever struck]

In the Yuan family of the Central Continent, what was more famous than their strength was the precious status of their little ancestor, Yuan Jixing.

The treasures everyone in the world fought tooth and nail to obtain were toys she tossed aside at her coming-of-age ceremony.

The rare medicines that great families had sought in vain for ages were bait she poured into the pond for her pets.

As the pass sealed off from the Demon Realm for a thousand years was about to open, cultivators began making their way there in groups to slay demons. The little ancestor eagerly began packing to head out

for a sightseeing trip!

No one could stop her or persuade her. After many days of worrying so much he could neither eat nor sleep, her great-grandfather finally remembered that the late Old Master Yuan had arranged an engagement for her when she was young.

As it happened, her betrothed was an unprecedented genius sword cultivator from Peng Mountain, an ancestor of the sect.

He'd been single for two hundred years, with eyes only for his natal sword.

Want to cancel the engagement, right?

Then take her to the Demon Realm, bring her back, and make sure she eats, drinks, and has fun without shedding a single tear. Only then will the engagement be called off.

He had cultivated the Dao until he was half a step from immortality when he suddenly learned he had an arranged marriage. It was nothing. She was just a dewdrop on a leaf tip along his journey to seek immortality and the Dao. She would fall away with a brush.

Later

Who says a fiancée isn't a wife?

Even after separating, they can still marry.

[Ask for advice about marriage]

[Poster]: My fiance practices the Heartless Dao and can't perform in bed. What should I do?

[Reply 1]: Dump him. Move on!

[Reply 2]: Kill your husband to prove your Dao. Dump him!

[Reply 3]: It's the cultivation era. It can be treated. Dump him!

[Reply 220]: It's not the Heartless Dao, and he can perform in bed. Don't dump him.

[Reply 260]: Is the real person here? Poster, are you still alive? Dump him!

[Poster]: Right, he's not (''- '')_(:3"∠ )_ (╯+ - +)╯┻━┻

[Mini-scene that doesn't exist]

A disciple of the Asking Immortals Sect: "Heavens are jealous of talent! Heaven wants me dead! Struck by lightning! The little daughter of the Yuan family is already engaged! They've barely met. Forcing a match won't make them happy! Don't you agree, Ancestor?"

One of the sect's ancestors, who was involved and had just met the other person involved that morning, pondered.

"Do... I?"

"?"

That night, he replaced the bedtime reading he'd used as a pillow every night, Have You Cultivated Today?, with The Daily Life of Jixing.

Theme: Reach up and pluck the stars