The Alluring Guide Everyone Covets

Next up: The Honest, Irresistible Darling of the Horror Game [An irresistible darling trying to keep her secret identity under wraps x sentinels and guides going crazy for her] Chi Tingyi transmigrates into a sentinel-guide world and becomes an ordinary guide with an ordinary little bird spirit. After a physical examination, she discovers, oh wow, she also has a sentinel spirit: a pretty little fox. That’s bad. Sentinels and guides in this world have a terrible relationship and keep each other in check. If they discover an anomaly like her, they’ll definitely take her away for research. She also discovers why her rank hasn’t improved in all these years. She has to strengthen the sentinel’s little fox spirit in order to raise her guide rank. And vice versa. Chi Tingyi can only quietly join a mercenary squad while carefully keeping her secret identity under wraps. On workdays, she’s a diligent, gentle, and kind ordinary guide who occasionally treats her teammates. On days off, she’s an agile, decisive member of a mercenary squad. If she gets contaminated, she has to secretly find a way to get a guide to treat her. She thinks she can keep living this way, with only a few close calls. But one day, her neighbor with a split personality flicks out his tongue and gazes at her obsessively. “You have two different pheromone scents on you.” The captain, who accidentally spent seven days and seven nights with her before turning around and abandoning her, drops his usual composure and stops her like a madman. “Miss Guide, have we met somewhere before?” The ruler of the black market takes the hand she tries to pull away and leans his other cheek toward her. “Does your hand hurt? Want to try the other one?” The Vermilion Bird father and son turn against each other, each taking one of her hands and asking which one she’ll choose. With her secret identity about to be exposed, Chi Tingyi makes a quick getaway. When the men discover she has escaped, they go mad on the spot. In the end, they briefly set aside their old grudges and join forces to capture her. Trembling with fear, Chi Tingyi turns in desperation to her immediate superior, that mysterious, sharp-tongued green bamboo, and asks him to help her out. The green bamboo, usually a quiet and refined gentleman in public, now smiles at her and says, “Tingyi, you wouldn’t want anyone to find out you’re both a sentinel and a guide, would you?” Chi Tingyi: …Oh no. There are wolves in front and tigers behind. I’m caught in the middle. [Reader’s Guide] * The heroine is both a guide and a sentinel, but her two spirit forms can’t appear at the same time. The men include both sentinels and guides. * A Mary Sue, irresistible-darling romance, BG, not a strong heroine. No logic, no logic, so don’t take it seriously. Romance and plot get equal focus, but the plot is all in service of the romance. There’s a little power progression. * Lots of dramatic love-triangle showdowns. * Plenty of one-sided crushes, with a few mutual ones. All the men in mutual relationships are virgins, pure in body and heart. Those who aren’t can only have one-sided crushes, and the heroine won’t return their feelings. * My take on the sentinel-guide genre, with lots of personal worldbuilding and made-up details. Recommended upcoming novel The Honest, Irresistible Darling of the Horror Game [The whole world enters instances * mildly scary infinite flow * mild coercion * an honest person becomes the top-ranked player * everyone loves her] The horror game arrives, forcing people all over the world to enter instances. By the end of the first instance, the population has fallen to two-thirds of what it was. Those who survive earn horror coins, and players judged to have performed exceptionally also receive special items. All firearms and other modern weapons stop working, and society descends into chaos. Some people tremble in fear, while others celebrate wildly. According to legend, the players ranked near the top of the horror game leaderboard will no longer have to enter instances and will be granted eternal life. Some time later, the anonymity item of the number-one-ranked player stops working, revealing her name: Kui You. [There can’t be many people with such a rare name, right? If this is the Kui You I know, she’s so honest and proper. How did she make it to number one?] [I saw Kui You in an instance. She was super honest. She gave her real name and answered every question. When a top-300 player cornered her, she was too scared to say a word.] [I saw her too! Luo Shen, who’s ranked in the top 200, sat her on his lap. She blushed so hard she didn’t know what to do with her hands and feet, then quietly asked him not to do that.] [She’s always been so proper, never fighting for anything. How could her score be so high? Did the leader of the strongest base, the one who took her in, give her all his points?] [Anyway, I don’t believe a truly honest person could survive in a kill-or-be-killed horror game and get such a high score. Haven’t you heard? The more honest someone seems, the more terrifying and ruthless they are when they strike back.] […] Tentative instances: [Desolate Mountain Psychiatric Hospital] [Deserted Island Dating Show] [Feudal Mountain Village] [Moldy Apartment Block in a Back Alley] [Office Tower of All-Night Overtime] […] [Reader’s Guide] * The heroine is an irresistible darling, and this is a very, very Mary Sue wish-fulfillment story. No logic, no logic, so please don’t overthink it. * Mild horror, mild horror, mild horror. A horror game is bound to be a little scary. * There will be a fair amount of story set in the real world. * The heroine is generally honest. She’s honest under ordinary circumstances, but she’ll go berserk if pushed too far. * All the men are virgins, and they love her blindly, passionately. Plenty of one-sided crushes, with a few mutual ones. Theme: Work hard at life and keep striving to improve