[Web novel editor + uncanny beings + logical deconstruction + episodic stories + teamwork + level-headed male lead + urban supernatural powers + cognitive contamination + guardians of order]
My name is Chen Xu. I'm an award-winning web novel editor, famous for picking apart every logical flaw. I was thrown out by the editor-in-chief for being too fussy.
As I wondered how I could live out the rest of my life on my savings, a mysterious man named Shen Yan came to see me. He handed me a black ID card bearing the words “Social Anomalies Control Bureau.”
“We handle certain ‘special’ social problems,” he said. “For example, someone is convinced he's a doomsday war god and is stockpiling weapons to ‘purify’ the city. Someone else dances a never-ending ballet in an abandoned theater day after day, wearing the floor down to a depth of a centimeter. And someone has a ‘Cross-Dressing Master System’ and believes completing its missions will grant him superpowers...”
I pushed up my glasses. Weren't these the same clichéd plot holes I saw in manuscripts every day?
After joining the bureau, I discovered my colleagues were a bizarre bunch. Tech witch Tang Lin modified my glasses into a logic detector, while Ling Yue, our muscle, named her gun “Rationality.” My job was to use my professional skills as an editor to deconstruct these “uncanny beings,” born from humanity's extreme obsessions, see through the “core narratives” that sustained them, and puncture their story bubbles with cold logic.
When madness becomes reality, logic is my only weapon.
