[Apocalypse + No Romance + Slow Burn + A Touch of Cosmic Horror + Exploring the Rules]
When the apocalypse arrived, knowledge became deadly. Poetry collections could slit your throat, and cookbooks sprouted tentacles, but plenty of lucky people also gained extraordinary powers from them.
After the entire county fell, the library managed by Su Lin became the only safe haven. While others were hunted by books, he used a copy of the Dao De Jing to “reason” with books gone berserk.
Everyone thought Su Lin was a fool sitting on a mountain of treasure without making use of it, and they eyed the books in his collection covetously. When countless Readers arrived to besiege him, hoping to overwhelm him by sheer numbers, Su Lin looked at the faint light glowing from the philosophy, history, literature, and nature sections behind him and fell into thought.
Yes, according to the rules, a Reader can only resonate with one book.
But I’m the librarian. I just want to give all the books left abandoned and homeless a warm place to call home. What do those rules have to do with me?
