Midnight Peace-of-Mind Convenience Store is a suspense novel combining urban legends, rule-based horror, and psychological terror. The story follows Lin Fan, an ordinary office worker who, after working late one night, inadvertently steps into a “Peace-of-Mind Convenience Store” on a street corner, its lights a ghastly white.
But this is no ordinary convenience store. A cashier with a perpetual smile who never blinks, a freezer that reeks of decay yet sells only “fresh” cakes, and bizarre rules that demand payment in ghost money... These are only the beginning of the nightmare.
When Lin Fan tries to escape and uncover the truth, he discovers that the convenience store vanishes by day as if it had never existed, and everyone else denies it was ever there. Only the ghost money refuses to leave him. Impossible to destroy, it clings to him like a parasite, returning to his side again and again, accompanied by deeper filth and whispers.
Worse still, the store’s “rules” seem to have been activated by his transactions. What kind of “price” did the three yuan he paid in ordinary currency count as? And what did he “buy back” with the “top-up” he made using ghost money? The horror no longer confines itself to a street corner in the dead of night. It begins seeping into his daily life, his home, and even the lives of his neighbors. The store seems alive, following him like a shadow and closing in step by step.
Lin Fan is forced into a terrifying bargain with an unseen force. Amid this suffocating fear, he must uncover the horrific rules and truth behind the “convenience store.” Otherwise, what awaits him will be far worse than a simple “insufficient balance”...
