Chen Jiu, a twenty-eight-year-old corporate drone, transmigrates into a city of strange tales where rules kill.
The city is trapped in eternal night. The streets eat people, streetlights read minds, and shadows betray their owners.
Every rule is a life-or-death test. Obeying doesn't guarantee survival, while breaking one means certain death.
He's shameless enough to haggle with evil spirits, stubborn enough to lose a hand rather than admit defeat.
He's shrewd enough to exploit loopholes in the rules, and fiercely protective enough to risk his life to save his companions.
He nearly dies upon entering the city, accidentally breaking the rule "Never look up" and falling victim to his own treacherous shadow.
He meets an old hand who tries to trick him, but turns the tables, exposes the deception, and forces the man to submit.
He hears of a mystery involving twenty floors of scrolls. Solving it can rewrite the rules and send him back to reality.
To survive, he ventures into the first floor's mystery, cleverly cracks the rules, and obtains his first clue.
In this strange domain that has devoured countless people, he vows to wield the rules as a blade and defy fate.
