Su Cheng's horror stories have taken the internet by storm.
Adults are afraid to walk alone at night after reading them, children are afraid to cry, and fans call him the “king of supernatural horror.” But no one knows that the chilling tales he writes were never made up out of thin air.
The school rules in an abandoned school that claim lives, the paper figure that turns around in the depths of an old alley, the nonexistent stop on a midnight bus, the seventh body that appears at a funeral home... Every story is something he experienced firsthand, written by his own hand after crawling back from the gates of hell.
The more wildly readers follow his work and the hotter his stories become, the faster he gets dragged into his next horror instance.
At his new book launch, a reporter asks him, “Mr. Su, what's the secret to writing such realistic horror stories?”
Su Cheng falls silent for a long time.
His fingertips are still stained with blood he hasn't managed to wipe away, and his smile looks more pained than a grimace.
“The secret?”
“The secret is... staying alive.”
