The Sentinel Keeps Fighting for What He Wants

Black-hearted, strongest sentinel shou x outwardly cold, inwardly scheming guide gong

Three years ago, Bai Shiyu awakened late in life after an accident. Despite having exceptionally high mental power, he pretended to be an ordinary C-rank sentinel.

His original plan was to get revenge, go home, and confess to his childhood friend and older brother. But one day, he unexpectedly discovered that he was living inside a cliched power fantasy novel.

The protagonist could summon the wind and rain and was so beautiful he could make fish sink and geese fall from the sky. He conquered a country with a single step and attracted a crowd of admirers with a wave of his hand... Meanwhile, Bai Shiyu was just a tiny cannon-fodder character on the protagonist’s path to godhood.

Bai Shiyu: ...Whatever. I want revenge, and I want love.

Then Bai Shiyu discovered that his childhood friend and older brother, Oswin Fernandez, the Empire’s strongest guide, would also become a member of the protagonist’s harem.

Bai Shiyu: Now that matters a lot!!

So...

The protagonist has the plot on his side.

Bai Shiyu: No problem! I’ll get to him first.

The protagonist conspires with foreign races.

Bai Shiyu: Don’t panic! I’ll take them all out at once.

The protagonist joins forces with the villain.

Bai Shiyu: That’s it? I’ll kill every fly that passes by.

But as the two of them fought, Bai Shiyu gradually realized something was off. Where was the protagonist’s plot armor?

Only after the story went wildly off the rails did Bai Shiyu discover that someone else was pulling the strings, and that the so-called plot concealed another scheme.

During a mission, Bai Shiyu was severely injured while undercover and lost consciousness. In his mental disarray, he attacked anyone who tried to approach him.

Oswin bore the sentinel’s violent mental power and approached him step by step, gently letting Bai Shiyu bite the side of his neck.

The soothed sentinel came to his senses. Years of pent-up grievances and pain finally found an outlet, and he clung to his guide, sobbing uncontrollably.

Oswin: There, there. Crying too much is bad for you. You haven’t recovered yet.

Bai Shiyu tucked his head down like a quail. “It’s not... My bonding heat flared up.”

A week later, Bai Shiyu swaggered out of Oswin’s room with a ring of bite marks on the back of his neck.

Under everyone’s dumbfounded stares, he straightened his back with dignity. “Hey, how did you know Oswin and I bonded?”

Everyone: Who asked you????

Little extra:

One day, Bai Shiyu struggled to pull the python wrapped around his ankle off, ignoring the man behind him hinting, “I can’t anymore. I really can’t.”

But the man abandoned his usual gentleness and dragged the sentinel back. “I think your bonding heat is acting up again.”

Bai Shiyu exploded. “Bullshit! My disorder was cured ages ago!”

The man bit the back of Bai Shiyu’s neck, pretending not to hear. “Then it’s mine that’s acting up.”

Bai Shiyu: #$%$%...$%!!

Notes:

0. Sentinel-and-guide story, plot-focused.

1. Shou-focused, two strong leads. Both the gong and shou are formidable in every way.

2. Happy ending, both are sexually inexperienced, 1v1, age gap with the gong older.

3. The gong was never attracted to the person who transmigrated into the book. Their feelings for each other are overwhelmingly mutual.

4. Includes an introduction to the sentinel-and-guide world. Guides and sentinels are both combat-oriented, with original settings.

Upcoming novel: Don’t Pick Up Men in the Recycle Bin

[World-weary, snarky, beautiful, strong, miserable shou x flamboyant, gloomy, nonhuman gong]

Lu Shi is an orphan, and a dying one at that.

Ever since a hole split open in the sky decades ago and a bunch of eggs came tumbling down, hatching into a swarm of indescribable monsters, the whole world has been in a state of panic.

Offices for managing the abnormal were established everywhere to fight them and keep society safe.

Thanks to his incredible mental power and his legendary ability to survive anything, Lu Shi was once the youngest chief combat operative at Huaguo’s National Abnormal Management Bureau, codenamed Night Roamer.

Now he has fallen all the way to becoming a janitor in the support department. Even a passing dog would pity his sorry state, and he has become the bureau’s number one topic of gossip.

Lu Shi has a beautiful red crystal horn from a goat. He found it at the support department’s recycling station and thinks it’s so gorgeous it could shake heaven and earth.

The catch is... it turned into a naked man.

Lu Shi has seen his share of strange things: roadside curbs that spit bubbles, fish-head bicycles that tell comedy routines, huskies that can do calculus...

But... this is the first time he’s seen someone transform into a person.

Lu Shi clutched a slipper. “You’re saying you’re that rock?”

The man nodded obediently.

Lu Shi put down the slipper and gazed at the man’s bright red single horn with deep reluctance. “Go on. I’m about to die, and you look like you’d eat a lot. I can’t afford to keep you.”

The man leaned over, revealing his true form. “Then, would you like to make a pact with me?”

His voice was enchanting as his fingers traced Lu Shi’s chest. “I’ll cure your illness, and you’ll help me get my body back...”

Hatred welled up in Lu Shi’s eyes.

So Lu Shi made a pact with the man. He would help him get his body back, and in return, the man would serve him and suppress his illness. The only odd thing was the way they had to do it.

After making the pact, Lu Shi tugged at the soft tentacles on his body. “Seriously? Do we need to be this close?”

Not long afterward, the former chief combat operative Night Roamer returned to the front lines, now with a handsome long-haired man who never left his side. Their relationship seemed a little unusual... This instantly became the bureau’s second biggest topic of gossip.

Lu Shi warned him, “Get your third, fourth, fifth, and sixth hands out of my clothes and off my waist.”

The man’s gaze darkened. “No. I hate the way they look at you. You’re mine.”

Lu Shi used a grappling move on him. “Are you sick?”

The man’s gaze instantly cleared. “Ow, ow, ow! I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”

One night, after his body had been completely restored:

Lu Shi: “You’ve got your whole body back.”

The man wrapped his arms around Lu Shi’s waist from behind and gave a muffled “Mm.”

Lu Shi: “The pact should be over now, right? I think we should... Mmph!”

Dark red tentacles coiled tightly around Lu Shi, and the man covered his mouth.

The man chuckled, his face icy. “What were you thinking? I didn’t hear you clearly. Could you say it again?”

The next day, Lu Shi felt a little better after seeing the bruised and swollen man before him.

The man, who didn’t dare fight back and probably couldn’t win even if he did, knelt on the ground and wept as he repented. “I’m sorry! Sob, sob! I didn’t know you wanted to date me. I thought you were going to abandon me. Sob, sob! Could you give me one more chance?”

Must-read before starting:

1. Shou-focused, 1v1, happy ending, protagonist is the strongest.

2. Inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, with extensive original worldbuilding and nonhumans appearing throughout.

3. Their feelings for each other are overwhelmingly mutual. Respectfully declining all character-control preferences.

4. Mild horror.

5. No childbirth!

Theme: Fight for a beautiful home