Not Your Fated Guide

Bound by a record-breaking 92% compatibility—the highest in Center history—a Guide and an Esper have spent every waking moment at each other’s throats, from their first meeting to a nationally televised gala brawl. But beneath every curse and collar-grab lies a bitter truth: this rude, arrogant Esper was the Guide’s childhood first love, and their vicious battle-cohabitation is actually the final three months of a hopeless, ongoing crush. Determined to remain tethered to the man who imprinted on another guide nine years ago, the narrator initiates a masochistic war of mutual destruction, forcing painful, incompatible physical contact and gladly enduring bone-deep agony just to keep his unreachable soulmate close.