THE SENTINEL GUIDE
Mu Chen transfers into a top-tier special operations team at a high-tech military base where every guide and sentinel is monitored like equipment. Officially he’s a low-grade, late-awakening guide, brought in because the team is short-handed and the institute wants fresh data. Unofficially, he’s hiding an overwhelming level of power that would get him caged, dissected, or assigned for life.
The team is led in the field by Ye Fan, a famous A-tier sentinel known for brutal control and near-zero compatibility with guides. He doesn’t welcome Mu Chen, doesn’t trust the timing of the transfer, and senses something “off” about him—too quiet, too clean, like a signal that refuses to be read.
Mu Chen keeps his head down and plays harmless while learning the team’s rules: link permits, compatibility scores, and surveillance that reaches into their private thoughts. As missions escalate and the system tightens, Mu Chen repeatedly saves people in ways that look like luck or technique… except Ye Fan feels the truth every time, like relief he never asked for.
Their relationship grows inside the pressure of the unit: small moments of care between operations, unspoken protection, and an attraction that becomes dangerous because it’s unsanctioned. The more the institute tries to control them, the more Mu Chen risks exposing what he really is—and the more Ye Fan has to decide whether to obey the system that built him, or burn it down to keep Mu Chen.
