Shh, They Like Well-Behaved Children

On the first day after moving into her new apartment, Su Wan found a slip of paper with a list of rules tucked under the door. [Rule One: Please keep quiet after 10 p.m…] [Rule Two: If Auntie Zhang, your neighbor, invites you to dinner, refuse...] Everyone thought the timid new girl would make the perfect victim. Until one day, in absolute darkness and silence, she crushed the grotesque head that had been whispering incessantly. With the same clear, innocent eyes, she looked at the trembling “thing” and whispered, “Shh. It’s my turn now.”

After surviving the desperate “Nest,” she was forced to join the secret government agency known as the Gray Zone Investigation Bureau. From a hospital of warped reflections to an endless staircase of death, to an ancient neighborhood that devours dreams, one forbidden zone after another opened before her. While the world was still fumbling to understand the rules in fear, she had already begun analyzing and exploiting them, until at last... she was defining them.