Tales of a Haunted City

Chen Mo, an ordinary office worker, receives an anonymous package one night bearing a death threat: an ancient jade pendant carved with strange runes. At first, he pays it no mind. But nightmares and bizarre events in the real world soon leave him no choice but to put on the "rule artifact," which cannot be removed.

From then on, Chen Mo's world collapses completely. Black taboo words appear in the air, residents of his apartment complex die in bizarre ways, and elevators and apartment buildings become deadly traps. He realizes that everyday life has long since been swallowed by "rule-based horror stories" that are consuming reality. His only hope of survival is to obey unknown rules that can take a life at any moment.

The mysterious "Night Watchers" organization reveals the truth: the pendant is an ancient relic that can resist the erosion of the rules, while the world is gradually being devoured by the source of those rules, born from humanity's collective fear. Chen Mo possesses the special power of a pure jade pendant and becomes the key to saving the world. Forced to venture into a mirror world where logic is turned upside down and a bizarre amusement park teeming with danger, he struggles at the edge of life and death, rewriting deadly rules at the cost of his memories and shutting down one source of terror after another.

With part of his most important memories gone, Chen Mo struggles to understand who he is within his fractured sense of self

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