Can a Pretty Beta Be a Guide?

[Gorgeous, beloved sweetheart guide x S-class human weapon sentinel]

[Slow-witted, blunt, sweet-on-the-outside-and-dark-within beta x aloof alpha who talks himself into falling for her]

The White Tower had an unexpected new recruit this year: a beta guide with no training or experience whatsoever.

Song Yin was quite pleased with her job offer. Hehe, she couldn't guide or purify anyone at all. She was just there to collect an employment subsidy.

Song Yin didn't understand the rules of this world one bit. She'd transmigrated into an ABO world, and as a beta, she couldn't smell pheromones.

She hadn't even figured out ABO yet, and now the White Tower was sorting everyone into guides and sentinels. She understood even less.

But they paid you just for interviewing to be a guide, and the internship came with a million yuan.

By a stroke of luck, she passed the interview. Her plan was to finish her internship, say she couldn't learn the skills, take the money, quit, and run away.

Song Yin had no idea that a line of tiny print appeared beneath her employment form: "All departments are to keep a close watch on this specialist. Suspected to be above S-class."

*

At the time, He Lantan had just returned from a bloody battlefield. His S-class silver wolf, a living weapon, was howling in a frenzy, and he was told that an unknown guide had been assigned as his partner.

He Lantan: "What's her spirit form?"

Colleague: "...A siren."

He Lantan, scornful and incredulous: "The White Tower's gone crazy, and now you have too?"

How could a mythical creature like a siren, an above-S-class being, possibly belong to an unknown intern?

He Lantan didn't care. He was convinced the White Tower had made a mistake, and even more convinced Song Yin was only there to cheat them out of her internship pay.

The moment he saw Song Yin, he froze briefly, then nodded in understanding. She was so beautiful, no wonder she'd bewitched the White Tower.

She was really good at charming people. But he wouldn't fall for it so easily.

He resolved to investigate her thoroughly.

*

The internship lasted three months.

Song Yin took her internship handbook and diligently studied the techniques.

Guides were supposed to soothe sentinels. When the gorgeous, ruthless giant siren awakened, Song Yin sang amid the crashing waves and soothed the silver wolf by holding its muzzle.

He Lantan: Her singing is awful. How could she be a siren? It must be a trick.

Every day, a crowd of alphas competed to show off for Song Yin, releasing pheromones like crazy. Song Yin couldn't smell a thing, so she could only smile and ask them not to block the way.

He Lantan: Hmph. She's still pretending to be a beta. How could someone that beautiful be a beta? She told them not to block the way, so she must know that I'm her partner. She has feelings for me.

A mission came up. Song Yin accidentally put on He Lantan's bulletproof vest, so she had no choice but to charge through a hail of bullets to save him, thinking all the while, This million is hard to earn.

He Lantan: She really loves me!

A colleague asked how the mission was going. He Lantan: You've all been fooled by her. I'm only pretending to be fooled. I've got my own plan.

Siren's nature was greedy and unfeeling. Following the guide handbook, Song Yin and He Lantan grew closer and closer, forming a bond.

They held hands, kissed, and shared every kind of intimacy, body and soul, without a single gap between them. She took everything from him.

The day after they slept together, her internship ended. Song Yin collected her million, happily said goodbye, and didn't even look back.

He Lantan, cheated out of his body and heart: She really is a fraud. She really was only here to cheat us out of the internship pay. She doesn't want a partner. She doesn't want me. QAQ

Bonus scene

He Lantan reconsidered. If a guide-sentinel relationship wouldn't work out, there was no reason an ABO relationship couldn't. He was a top-tier alpha, after all!

Full of enthusiasm, he took medication to bring on his rut early, resolving to go downstairs to Song Yin's building on a rainy day and act pitiful.

Colleague: ...Buddy, if you knew she really was a beta who couldn't be marked, wouldn't you lose it?

1v1, mutual firsts, happy ending.

Female beta, male alpha. Much later, female esper, male alpha. Female guide, male sentinel. ABO, spirit forms, and guide-sentinel dynamics all mixed together, with lots of original worldbuilding. Normal anatomy; the heroine doesn't grow anything. BG romance.

The writing has a light, everyday comedy style. It's all about falling in love, sweetly falling in love. Both leads are attracted to each other's looks, so don't read if that's not your thing. The romance moves quickly, with lots of intimate scenes and an excessive amount of cuddling and hugging between the couple.

The companion story featuring the same characters, "The Enchantress Really Didn't Bewitch the Aloof Beauty," is complete and available in the author's collection. It has a separate world setting.

Theme: Strive to surpass yourself and bravely move forward.