
The Person Who Knocks on the Door Late at Night
by Na Liu
About This Novel
There is an old rule in Courtyard No. 2 Of Huaijiao Hutong that has never been written down in any document-- At three o'clock in the morning, you are not allowed to answer the knock on the door. No one is allowed to make a sound, and no one is allowed to open the door. It is said that they are not looking for living people. After young reporter Zhou Jun moved into the old community, he thought he would just continue his boring reporting on people's livelihood, but he heard a knock on the door one early morning. Lightly, slowly and accurately, as if counting his breaths. But the old man next door was frightened and stopped him from speaking: "Don't answer! Don't talk! The person who opens the door... Is never you." As the demolition proceeds, residents' files that have been sealed for many years have resurfaced. Missing persons, ownerless houses, families that have moved repeatedly, behind these seemingly ordinary folk taboos, there seems to be a deliberately concealed fear. The more Zhou Juan investigated, the more he discovered that the nights in this community did not belong to the people who lived here. The footsteps at midnight, the extra shadows in the video, the strange names that appear repeatedly in the corridor... Everything points to the same rumor: Someone knocked on the door late at night. But it's never "people" who knock on the door. The boundary between reality and folklore is torn open, And the real source of fear, Those are the old rules that no one dares to say.
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