An Unconventional Guide-Sentinel Relationship

Xue Yuqing transmigrated into a world where the relationship between Guides and Sentinels was more like that between doctors and patients.

In this world, a Sentinel's body mutated after their mind was contaminated.

Only Guides who had received systematic training like doctors could perform surgery on a Sentinel's mental form.

But because of the special nature of mental forms, the pain during surgery was magnified dozens of times, tormenting the Sentinels.

Xue Yuqing had thought that as a newly arrived Guide, Sentinels would fight over her. Instead, she was sent straight to the White Tower to study.

What White Tower?!

It was a medical school with a five-year bachelor's program followed by a three-year master's and doctoral program!

"Postoperative Care for Sentinel Mental Forms (Reptiles)?!"

"Mental Form Pathology (Mammals)?!"

"Clinical Allergy Science for Sentinels?!"

Xue Yuqing looked up at the textbooks piled higher than she was and cried out in despair, "I didn't come here to study medicine!"

Just when Xue Yuqing was studying herself bald and on the verge of giving up, she suddenly discovered something.

Unlike the Guides in this world, who had to operate on a Sentinel's mental form to treat them,

she seemed able to treat Sentinels suffering from mental contamination and physical mutations through direct physical contact and mental guidance using imagery.

Xue Yuqing was thrilled. "Now that's what a Guide-Sentinel setting should be like!"

For Sentinels with mild contamination, Xue Yuqing could just touch them and "pull" the contamination out.

When a highly contaminated Dark Sentinel who had already lost all reason lunged at her, trying to bite through her neck and kill her,

Xue Yuqing fought for her life. To everyone's shock, she flipped the S-rank Dark Sentinel onto his back, pinned him down, squeezed her eyes shut, and kissed him fiercely.

The Dark Sentinel's black, mutated tentacles, which had been sweeping everything away and piercing through other people's bodies, froze at once.

Realizing she might survive, Xue Yuqing pressed on. Throwing caution to the wind, she forced the Dark Sentinel's jaws open and kissed him passionately.

Then, like a parched traveler in the desert discovering a spring, the Dark Sentinel stopped biting her neck and started biting her lips instead.

The black, mutated tentacles that had wrapped around everyone present and were a moment away from killing them slowly turned to ash and vanished...

The Dark Sentinel's contamination level plummeted, his attack power vanished, and his physical mutations disappeared completely.

Before passing out, he even remembered to kiss Xue Yuqing once more, then collapsed into her arms.

At once, the other Dark Sentinels, wearing bite-proof masks and long since declared incurable, all fixed their burning gazes on Xue Yuqing, as if they wanted to devour her whole.

Xue Yuqing backed away again and again. "That was an abnormal Guide-Sentinel relationship! Guides and Sentinels should keep their distance!"

But her resolve was soon broken after she failed twelve courses in a row and was expelled from the White Tower.

Xue Yuqing: "Wahhh, I'm really not cut out to study medicine!"

After failing to complete the White Tower's Guide curriculum, getting expelled, and saddled with a massive student loan, Xue Yuqing had no choice but to turn to practicing medicine illegally to pay off her debt.

She secretly opened a small clinic.

At the White Tower, Sentinels needed a Guide to perform painful surgery on their mental forms to treat them.

At her little clinic, there were no scalpels or blood. She just touched the Sentinels' hands and pecs.

When she, their Guide, gave them a tight, clingy hug, they were healed from head to toe.

When she encountered a seriously ill Sentinel who had been pronounced incurable and destined for a mental breakdown,

Xue Yuqing could only steel herself and prepare to be treated like prey by a beast.

She would sacrifice herself, using the most intimate method of entering their mental domains to provide guidance and treatment.

The good news was that the Sentinels were all cured. The bad news was that a whole string of them latched onto their Guide.

Xue Yuqing: "I told you, this is an abnormal Guide-Sentinel relationship! Don't come any closer!"

"One kiss cured you, so why do you need another?!"

"You've had enough hugs, now let go. There's another Sentinel waiting for treatment at the door."

"I know my pheromones can suppress mental contamination, but you've practically stolen every lab coat and other piece of clothing from my wardrobe!"

"Can't you leave me a couple of things?!"

[Blurb screenshot archived on 2025.1.12]

Theme: Risking yourself to save others.