Deadly Rules? Rejected!

Xu Yan, a compliance specialist who has just been laid off, somehow lands a job at the highest-paying company in the city. On his first night, he discovers that Article 40 of the employee handbook reads: New employee Xu Yan. Expected resignation date: today. Overtime here can kill you. Being late costs you your life. And you're not allowed to ask where the cafeteria meat comes from. Everyone else follows the rules to stay alive. Xu Yan goes back to what he knows best: auditing the rules. “Personalized clauses were not publicly announced. They exceed your authority, and their wording is undefined. The procedure is noncompliant. Rejected.” With a brass stamp in hand, he becomes the only person in the entire haunted building who can reject its rules. One by one, he stamps out the deadly clauses. One by one, he pulls his colleagues back from the brink after their lives have been spent. Then, in the revision records, he finds an employee number: G-0007. The former compliance officer who came before him. The one who wrote every rule. The ink on Xu Yan's stamp, the standards he uses to review the rules, even the desk where he sits, were all left behind by that person. You think you're rejecting the rules I wrote? Every procedure you use was left here for you by me. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.