This was a relatively special world. A typical world would use male and female to distinguish between human genders but here, humans are divided into three types; guide, sentinels and ordinary people.
A sentinel was one whose abilities in all aspects far surpasses that of ordinary people, with all the good points of human beings having been magnified many times. Sentinels are smarter, stronger and they also possess very powerful spiritual powers so there are usually sentinels at the top of all fields.
But where there are advantages, there are also disadvantages. Because all aspects of their skills have been amplified, they become much more sensitive than ordinary people. Even the slightest stimulus would be extremely painful for them. As a result, a sentinel can only eat the plainest of foods, live in the quietest house and wear the softest clothes or the feeling of the fabric rubbing against their skin could drive them crazy.
Even if they are constantly being careful, one couldn't avoid all the noises and sensations in the world. Besides, sentinels are the pillars of the world. You couldn't let the pillars stay holed up inside all the time, right?
As a result of this, another kind of person was needed —- A guide.
A guide was someone who could quickly calm sensitive sentinels down. They possess a gentle spiritual power that is different from others and can help calm the sentinel's mind, giving them comforting reassurance. Sentinels who have had their spiritual mind soothed and calmed down by a guide can remain unaffected by any external influences for some time. If they could bind with a guide, that period of time would be greatly increased.
In this world the ratio of sentinels, guides and ordinary people are 3:2:5. Although there are relatively fewer sentinels and guides, it didn't mean that there aren't any. But, because a sentinel basically could not live without a guide, the country had regulations put in place. A guide must be registered and bound with a sentinel before the age of thirty. If that is not achieved, the country would continue to set the guide on blind dates until they are willing to form a bond with someone.
Although they weren't technically forcefully sending a guide over to a sentinel, this kind of middle-aged aunty-like shameless policy was also very troublesome.
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Guides and sentinels are people with powerful spiritual powers and because of this, each guide and sentinel would have their spiritual power condensed into a 'spiritual body'. Most sentinel's spiritual body take the form of a ferocious beast with strong lethality while the spiritual bodies of guides are usually of cute little herbivore animals.
The characteristics of guides and sentinels had appeared thousands of years ago and through these thousands of years, humans have managed to find a way to maintain a proper balance such that forceful exploitation would not happen again.
And the person Chi Zhao had to act out was a guide.
This person was called Noah, currently twenty-four years of age. He was a golden-haired, gentle looking and seemingly very harmless young master. A dozen generations ago, his family once had some relationship with the Emperor of the previous dynasty.
His family was a scholarly family, and everyone were scientists. From his grandparents to his younger cousins, they were all involved with scientific research. Even he himself was also a PhD student.
It may seem like he was a noble and intelligent person coming from a good family background, but the truth was that his character was inversely proportional to his appearance.
Noah wore a harmless mask but his favourite thing to do was climbing the social ladder. Guides are also divided into different levels with a total of six levels. He was a relatively advanced level two guide. He always felt that since he was a guide, he was already much better than the others and that those excellent sentinels should all listen to him and flock to him.
When he was twelve years old, Noah's guide characteristics awakened. Since then, he held himself higher than the sky. When he meets ordinary people or low-level sentinels, he would sneer and when he meets high level sentinels, he would use all sorts of methods to get acquainted.
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Sentinels have a natural desire to protect guides, particularly their own guides, and would wish to have them tied to their side day and night. Although Noah's intentions were not pure, he acted very well and managed to seduce a lot of the top class but innocent sentinels and he even carefully considered whether or not he should marry one of them.
At this time, Noah met a man. That man came to the academy where Noah studied at to attend an event. Although he saw him from afar, Noah suddenly realised that his mindset was too narrow.
None of the sentinels he had met before could compare with a single strand of hair on this man before him.
The man Noah met was the protagonist of this world, Leopold Grenoch.
As mentioned before, guides are divided into levels. Sentinels were also similarly divided into levels. From one to six, the lower the number the higher they are and above these six levels, there was another existence that existed outside of heaven's plans; the dark sentinel.
Dark sentinels are much stronger than ordinary sentinels in all aspects and they also have an advantage that ordinary sentinels absolutely cannot match up to; they are not bothered by external influences and do not need a guide to help calm their spiritual mind down.
This superior characteristic allowed them to break free from all restraints and they could go around as they pleased and complete long, solo missions without needing to bring along a weak guide. A dark sentinel was a precious talent every country attached great importance to. Almost all the upper echelons of the military and political circles were occupied by dark sentinels.
The probability of a dark sentinel's appearance was one in one hundred thousand and it was even more rare today with the low fertility rate.
As we all know, where there are good sides, there are also bad sides. The word perfect didn't exist and it was the same for this world.
A dark sentinel was indeed very powerful, but they had a fatal flaw and that was, when they are thirty years old, their usually stable spiritual mind that has never received any soothing would become very messy. Even the smallest noise would make ordinary sentinels want to cut off their ears to relieve them from the pain but for a dark sentinel, it made them want to cut off other people's ears instead.
It was really very scary.
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This symptom was medically regarded as Mania. The less soothing received, the more serious the symptom and it could even cause large-scale casualties. Even if the dark sentinel could resist the urge to hurt another person, repeated episodes of Mania would continue to consume their lives. If they cannot find a suitable guide for themselves, they wouldn't be able to survive past forty.
No one wanted to die. And so, the first thing dark sentinels do after discovering that they are a dark sentinel wasn't to open a bottle of wine to celebrate but to rush to the Guide Academy to book a guide who can form a bond with them in the future.
There was no requirement for a low-level sentinel and guide to match each other, just receiving approval from both ends was enough. But the higher the level, the stricter the requirements because low-level guides cannot soothe out the spiritual mind of a high-level sentinel. As such, dark sentinels have an even more difficult time finding a guide. After all, there aren't many of them around and guides that are compatible with them are also very few.
The protagonist Leopold was such a dark sentinel and also a very unfortunate dark sentinel.
He was twenty-nine years old this year and he still hadn't found a guide who could form a bond with him.
The Leopold family was much more complicated, and it result in him becoming very resistant to marriage. As a result, he was still single at twenty-nine years of age. His identity was the chairman of the Armed Services Committee and he was still very young. Everyone could see that his future was bright and perhaps he may even become the next president.
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In any case, no one would talk about the military chairman's past so very few knew that he didn't get married because of it and just thought he was too picky. After inquiring about it, the narcissistic Noah felt that the protagonist was destined to be with him, that he had been single all this time just to meet himself.
Regardless of the fact that a level two guide wouldn't be able to soothe out a dark sentinel's mind, Leo would never like him because of his character because he was just too similar to the third-party guide who got involved in his parent's marriage.
Noah tried his best to get close to Leo but was indifferently rejected several times. He had never felt so wronged in his life. Noah was very angry, and he thought of a very wicked plan.
He took advantage of the convenience of his own home and managed to get his hands on a drug specially designed to be used on sentinels. As long as a sentinel drank it, even the dark sentinel would feel uncomfortable to the point of being unable to stand. Along the way he even gave himself a shot to stimulate his heat in advance. With both sides ready, he pretended to be a waiter and arrived at a private party, ready to cook up the protagonist.
Once sentinels and guides are bound, they automatically form a marriage relationship. If both parties agree, the binding mark could be removed but if one party does not agree, it cannot be done. If removed forcibly, the torturous pain from the removal could result in the other party's life to be put in danger.
Noah's plan was flawless. The drugs he took were only available for top secret military operations, it was something even Leo wouldn't be able to resist. Unfortunately, he went to the wrong room.
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Perhaps there was a mistake in the information received or perhaps he really went to the wrong room, in short, the heat very quickly made him lose his mind and the other party saw that it was a guide without a master and felt that there was no reason not to eat him up. When Noah woke up the next day, he discovered that he was topped by a stranger and the most frustrating thing was that the binding pact wasn't done.
What a beast! Only enjoyed and didn't take responsibility!
What happened to him was disgraceful and he would be in trouble if he was found out so he could only secretly escape. Unfortunately, the worse was still to come. Not long after he returned home, he discovered that he was pregnant.
Yes, pregnant.
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Female guides have the highest fertility rate and that was followed by male guides and then the ordinary females. If it was Leo's child, Noah would pass out from happiness, but this was a stranger's child. When he later secretly investigated who that stranger was, he discovered that it was Leo's half-brother who was also the son of the third-party.
It was too embarrassing, too miserable.
Noah was about to go crazy, but the law stimulated that he couldn't abort. Even if he didn't want the child, he had to give birth and then sign a series of agreements to hand the child over to the country. Afraid of being found out by his family, Noah had to go to a remote planet to give birth. When he was about to hand the baby over, Noah was a little reluctant. No matter how bad a person may be, they would still have paternal love in them. After thinking it through for several days, he eventually decided to keep the child and think about what he should do in the future.
Accustomed to the life of not having to worry about being clothed and fed and now having escaped to a place that was in the middle of nowhere, Noah couldn't get used to it. After four years, he secretly ran back to the main star, planning to get some money from home but he accidentally ran into Leo's brother. Only then did Noah realise that the other party didn't remember him anymore. He walked past him expressionlessly and completely showed no signs of recognising Noah.
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Noah stood there, stunned for a long time. He returned to his temporary hiding place and looked at his son's face that was three parts similar to that of Leo's and revealed a disgusting smile.
He first brought the child back to his home and insisted that the boy was a child between himself and Leo and that the reason for the child's existence was because Leo raped him. He said it with good reason and along with the child who resembled Leo, the family quickly believed him. Of course, they also couldn't not believe him. If they did, they would have to admit that their child had a child outside of wedlock. Face and reputation were the most important things to this family, and they couldn't afford to lose that.
This group of pedantic elders also played role in raising Noah into a person he turned out to be now. In order to save their faces and along the way use this opportunity to become a family with one of the four major families in the country, Noah's family involved the media and used public opinion to exert pressure on the protagonist. Eventually, the protagonist had no choice but to come forward. At the same time, Noah had spent a lot of money and pulled a lot of strings to manipulate the results of the paternity test so the protagonist could only marry Noah and take the child along.
If the story ended here, Noah's behaviour would be hateful but not enough to make people want to break all the bones in his body. Because the marriage process wasn't very pleasant, the two were still not in good relations and never had a chance to interact at all. Noah's love for the protagonist had already worn out years ago and he had only wanted to marry him because he thought he would live a more luxurious life.
He was outside all the time drinking into an oblivion and would always cause trouble for the protagonist. The protagonist could endure these acts, but Noah never considered toning it down.
For some reason, he would always run into the protagonist's illegitimate brother. The more his brother looked at Noah, the more familiar he found him. Finally, one day, he remembered. He then proceeded to threaten Noah with this and asked Noah to help him deal with the protagonist. After counting the days and confirming that the child was actually his, he made a promise to Noah. As long as the protagonist dies, he would be the heir to the family, and he would marry Noah back and let him continue being Madam Grenoch.
The two hit it off immediately and were especially crafty. In fact, the protagonist being willing to marry Noah already meant that he no longer had any interest in life, he no longer cared if he died of Mania. They however weren't satisfied and wanted to kill him and take everything away from him.
The thirty-five-year-old protagonist used a simulated guide every day. Only by doing so would he feel better and not hurt others. After discovering the actions of the two men, he didn't rush in and instead silently waited for a long time, watching over them. It was because he couldn't understand why the two would work together. After he discovered the truth, he was completely enraged.
His life was originally very miserable. Half of it was because of his brother and the other half was because of Noah. Despite knowing that he wouldn't live long, they still plotted to kill him.
The protagonist was motivated to fight back. He first dealt with his brother, turning him into a cripple. He then dug out a pile of evidence of his brother's crimes and anonymously revealed it one by one to the public, ruining his name. After he was convicted, he went to the place he was confined in, slowly extracted the oxygen around him and personally watching him be tortured to death.
As for Noah, the protagonist didn't kill him, but he might as well have. With his powerful spiritual power, he directly shattered Noah's spiritual mind and turned him into someone with dementia. Noah's family was also destroyed by him. Divorce was a very simple process as they never properly bonded. With the protagonist preventing anyone to help, Noah wandered around like a stray, living through each day in a complete state of confusion and eating out of the trash whenever he was hungry.
As for the child, he was sent to another planet by the protagonist.
After doing all this, the protagonist felt that even if he died now, he had no regrets. At this moment, he met a person completely different from Noah; a person who didn't pay him any attention but somehow that person left a strong impression in his heart. He tried to pursue that person, wanting to see if he could finally find some fortune in this miserable life of his.
The answer to was naturally yes.
After reading through it, Chi Zhao was silent for a few seconds. He asked the system, "You said there was room for discussion? Don't I still have to give birth? And it's also a child with such a trash man! Alright, so be it."
The system had just wanted to explain itself but when it heard Chi Zhao's last few words, it felt that something wasn't right. When it looked at Chi Zhao again, it saw that he was no longer paying attention to the knife and was making a running posture.
System: ?
Thud, thud, thud——–
Chi Zhao ran over to the window, opened it and made an attempt to leap out.
"Bye bye!"
System: "…..!!!"