The Age of Madness: My Mind Will Never Be Caged

Lin Mo never imagined that refusing to slip her boss a red envelope would get her thrown into a psychiatric hospital.

On the very first day she was labeled with “social anxiety disorder,” she kicked over a tray of pills and used blood to draw the face of Wang Qiang, the man who had framed her. Just then, the Resistance System suddenly bound itself to her, granting her skills like pain suppression and voice-activated lockpicking.

The rules here are strange at every turn: green pills make people hallucinate, the head nurse is hiding altered medical records, and even the mild-mannered Dr. Shen wears the same kind of restraints as the patients beneath his white coat. Even more chilling, the psychiatric hospital is secretly working with the Hengtong Group, where she works, to “deal with” disobedient employees.

When fellow patient Xiao Li appears with a recording of Wang Qiang embezzling funds, and Old Chen sketches an escape route with his cane, Lin Mo finally understands: to get out alive, she must not only fight the prison around her, but tear apart the web connecting the workplace and the asylum.

But the System's alarm suddenly sounds: Shen Yan's true identity is far more dangerous than she could have imagined...