Rules of the Strange Tales: The Temporal Paradox

Rule-Based Horror × Suspenseful Mind Games × Paradoxes of Human Nature × A Battle for National Fate

Rules are the new laws of physics. As the eerie “Smiling Community” begins to consume reality, Lin Shixu, an investigator from the Dragon Kingdom, is chosen as the “Chosen One” for his paradoxical combination of “absolute rationality” and empathy. He is thrown into a deadly game made of urban legends. Here, rules are written on walls and hidden in the smallest details. Anyone who breaks them becomes fodder for the horrors. Every time you stare into fear, it drags you closer to the abyss of transformation. And wielding supernatural power comes at a terrible cost. Lin Shixu carries a secret: the [Eye of Time], which can briefly rewind reality by five seconds. It is his only trump card, and an endless drain on his mental energy. From breaking the smiling curse through “acting,” to confronting questions of the soul with logical paradoxes in a silent classroom, to searching for the one way out of an endlessly looping hospital... He walks the edge of cognitive contamination, alone on the tightrope between reason and madness. But when he meets the Chosen Ones from other countries and discovers the cracks and betrayals in this world, he realizes that the real horror isn’t the supernatural threat before him. The final choice he must make will determine whether two worlds survive: save that cold reality, or... become the god who defines a new world?