When Jiang Linchuan is swallowed by a cracked and mottled mirror, he steps into the Eroding Mirror World, a twisted realm built from human regrets and secrets. Here, mirrors are passageways to death and keys to survival; reflections are allies who can glimpse the truth, but also demons that devour one's sanity. To escape the Eclipse Cycle, he is forced to travel through a mirror-bound purgatory: confronting the mysteries of a sanatorium under the guidance of a dead girl whose neck was stitched back together, gambling with the death rules of a faceless doctor, and piecing together the Mirror Core that can rewrite reality while resisting the temptations of his own reflection.
Yet every shard of the Mirror Core forces him to relive the rainy night when drunk driving took the lives of his loved ones. As the blood-red light of the eclipsed moon blankets the corridors, Jiang Linchuan discovers that the most terrifying thing is not the monsters in the mirrors, but his own heart, willing to sink into delusion...
Tags: Mystery and mind games, rule-based horror, psychological thriller, causal paradox
Core hook: Your reflection knows every lie, and you must use lies to kill the truth.
