The moment folklorist Chen Mo writes his thesis, a hundred bridal-clad mannequins in a mountain village come to life and hunt him down. In despair, he discovers that human perception can distort reality: to define something is to make it manifest! To suppress a cannibalistic staircase born of rumors and internet meme monsters, he wields his pen like a blade, using topology to seal space and virology to unravel curses. When the Containment Society turns him into a weapon and blood-red words from the stars crawl across his body, Chen Mo declares war on the world: “If knowledge is the original sin, then I will offer myself as the wedge that nails this bizarre world in place!” Yet the ink dripping from his pen is writing him into the most dangerous contained entity of all...
