You Must Die to Live

When other people enter the world of rules and weird talk, they try their best to abide by the rules and violate the rules, for fear that one wrong step will cost them their lives. The rules are clearly written: you cannot look directly at girls in white skirts, you cannot speak during evening self-study, you cannot touch the penultimate classroom on the third floor, you cannot accept things from strangers, and you must lie motionless on the bed after turning off the lights. The people who came in together were all trembling with fear, staring at the rules and regulations, not even daring to breathe, for fear that knocking down a hair would be considered a violation. But the first person who obeyed the rules and lay still until the lights were turned off, within ten minutes, quietly stopped breathing, and his death shape was twisted, as if he had been strangled alive. The stricter and more absolute the rules, the more of a trap they are. The obedient person dies faster, and the more completely he guards, the earlier he dies. When others dare not look at the girl in the white dress, he insists on catching up with her and stares at her; when others are silent during night study, he insists on banging the table and shouting; when others avoid the classroom on the third floor, he insists on pushing the door open; when others reject everything, he insists on reaching out and accepting it. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.