The moment bloody words appeared on his phone, Su Chen was cooking oden.
“Mandatory entry into the Rules Game. Refuse to play and die.”
Milk bubbled in the refrigerated case, and blood seeped from beneath the faceless customer's hoodie. The rules said the oden broth contained the previous player's fingernails, that he had to lie if the woman in the red dress asked the time, and that he had to hide in the freezer whenever the shelves began arranging themselves.
But on the back of the rules, the three characters “Lin Wanxing,” carved into a fingernail, burned painfully in his eyes. His childhood sweetheart was in another instance, where the rules required her to call him “Big Brother” once every hour, or else...
While everyone else followed the rules to stay alive, Su Chen was determined to tear them apart and fight his way out.
After all, if he wanted to save her, he had to make the rules fear him first.
