After My Son and Husband Died, I Became a Clown to Take My Revenge

Synopsis of The Sickle of Mad Laughter:

When her son fell from the school building, the school called it “academic pressure.” When her husband died in a “car accident,” the driver simply laughed it off. In a single day, Lin Wanqiu's world was reduced to ruins.

She went mad. Completely mad, and frighteningly lucid.

From then on, something took up residence in her mind. It had a hoarse laugh, a twisted intelligence, and eyes that could see into the darkest corners of human nature. It called itself the Joker, and taught her how to boil fear down into poison and grind pain into a blade. It asked her: “When justice becomes a luxury, would you pay for it with your soul?”

Lin Wanqiu couldn't tell whether it was a demon's whisper or her own fractured personality. But when she smiled and pocketed her first “settlement payment,” she knew none of it mattered anymore.

This is a game without rules:

- She makes bullies tear each other apart in hallucinations and forces those who covered for them to break down and confess on livestream

- She weaves a web of judgment with her own hands, dragging powerful elites, corrupt officials, and crooked lawyers into the abyss one by one

- She establishes the “Dark Knights,” only to discover that the monsters she created are starting to slip out of her control

- She rescues girls who have been bullied and teaches them to bare the same eight teeth: “Why so serious?”

Detective Captain Lu Chen is hunting her, but the longer he pursues her, the more horrified he becomes: everything this “madwoman” is cleaning up is a festering sore beyond the reach of the law. And when he finally corners her on a rooftop, Wanqiu turns back with a smile, wearing a genuine clown's makeup.

“You win,” he says.

“Win? The game never ends.”