The Book of Eerie Laws

At midnight, an abandoned phone booth suddenly rings, and whoever answers vanishes without a trace. This is just one of the “fragments of rules” leaked from The Book of Strange Laws. When these reality-warping “urban legends” become man-eating traps, Lu Li unexpectedly obtains a torn page and awakens a dangerous ability: [Rewrite].

He can briefly alter the rules of a supernatural domain, but the price is his own flesh and blood, memories, and even humanity. As he struggles alone through eerie realms, including a wishing well that devours lies and a concert hall where music means death, Lu Li soon discovers that monsters aren't the only ones coveting The Book of Strange Laws. The Cult of Unity, which seeks “divine revelation”; the “Cleaners,” sworn to purify everything; and the profit-driven “Players”... all these factions drag him into an even deeper whirlpool.

Will he become a coder of the rules, or be utterly transformed by them? In the city’s shadow, where death lurks at every turn, Lu Li must wield this double-edged sword and search for a way to survive on the tightrope between rewriting the rules of the supernatural and paying a terrible price. The world's underlying code awaits his daring rewrite.