National Fate: You Asked Me to Be a Designer, but I Became the Abyss

When the national-fortune horror game descended, 197 countries around the world were dragged into a deadly struggle. Western nations put their faith in gods, hoping to exploit loopholes through theology and treat the abyss like a game. Only Great Xia was assigned a “rule designer” with absolutely no combat ability: Lu Yuan. In response to the provocation and arrogance of Western theology, Lu Yuan turned five thousand years of Great Xia’s folk beliefs and karmic ties into the most terrifying rules of the abyss! At the Paper Doll Village, wedding candies from a ghost marriage make you willingly marry into the underworld with just one bite. In the Nine-Story Ghost Tower, a drop of blood wine from a ghost wedding condemns you to the endless Avici Hell. As Western contestants wail in despair and suffer mental breakdowns under the rules, Lu Yuan sits quietly in the control room, watching the creases of paper offerings appear on his fingertips. “You’re still playing games and looking for shortcuts?” “The abyss already sees you as food.” Western experts collectively lose it: “This isn’t a game at all. It’s a crushing, higher-dimensional attack of Chinese-style horror!” Lu Yuan smiles faintly, his heart rate holding steady at sixty beats per minute. “Mortal fear comes from ignorance. And I am the Way of Heaven.” This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.