A Survival Guide to Paradoxes

My name is Lin Huai. I am recording the ways I might die in a blank notebook.

The world’s underlying logic has collapsed, replaced by a set of malicious paradoxical laws. To survive, you have to follow instructions that contradict themselves.

- You must enter that door, but entering it is forbidden.

- You must kill that ghost, but harming it means harming yourself.

For most people, madness is the only possible ending. But I discovered that the one way to survive is to write down a paradox just before it comes into being.

And so my notebook became a survival guide to paradoxes. What I write is no strategy guide. It is the reality that is about to unfold.

The newest line in my notebook reads:

“Anyone holding this guide will be erased by the world’s own logic in three seconds.”

The ink is still wet.

The countdown has begun.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.