This is an eternal game between the emperor and the unspeakable, about power, memory and soul.
The evil god drags the emperor into a cruel game: the game between king and minister in the court, and the dangerous dance between prisoners and collectors in the night.
He covets the emperor's soul and consumes his prey's will in his private time. When the prey shows a flaw, he tears off a piece of his soul, torturing and slowly eating away at it night after night.
When the queen began to show an inhuman smile, and when the courtiers' memories were quietly tampered with, Chu Xiao discovered that the stakes in this game were not only his dignity and freedom, but also the "truth" of the entire dynasty.
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Intellectual games and psychological horror: do not rely on bloody and violent descriptions
Complex character relationships: brothers/monarchs on the surface, but actually evil gods and human emperors
The protagonist is not omnipotent. He is constantly defeated and rebuilt in the face of absolute power. The method of resistance changes from force → strategy → memory.
Lightning Protection PointCaution Warning:
1. There is a serious imbalance of power: the protagonist is always in an absolutely weak position and cannot truly defeat the evil god. The resistance is mostly at the spiritual level.
2. Non-traditional HE: Even in the "game ending", the protagonist does not gain freedom, but only reaches a dangerous balance.
3. There is a plot in which an important character is "contaminated/transformed"
4. A sense of powerlessness with a slight Cthulhu element: the insignificance and cognitive subversion of human beings before higher existence run through the entire text.
Core tags:
Psychological horror × inhuman existence (dark direction) × unremitting struggle
Reader comments
I don't know why, I feel so lost and creepy
I seem to be trapped inside, a continuous nightmare, at a loss what to do
It was the final ending that saved me. I suddenly emerged from the suffocation and darkness at the bottom of the sea. I felt blank, tired, and relieved.
The author is kind, a door to life in a desperate situation, reasonable, and redemptive.
To be honest, if it weren't for the satisfying ending and the pitiful amount of candy mixed in a pile of glass shards at the end, I might have been stuck in it for several days.
(I fell asleep while watching it in the afternoon, and I happened to read about chapter 12, and then I found myself as a person in the deep palace. I was really suffocated and desperate, so that my last choice was to commit suicide. I couldn't even die together. I tried, but I was really powerless and super collapsed. If it hadn't been for An's intervention, I really don't know how to break the situation.)
It's a good book
About human unyielding and resistance, dignity and compromise, human rights and gods
There is the reluctance of family affection, the bond of love (between emperors and empresses), and thoughts and insights on the beliefs of Chinese civilization for thousands of years.
Come on
Nice! The first time I read it, I thought the ending was weird, so I went to watch the second draft! After reading it, I feel that the ending is really great! [Petrochemical]
The subject matter is new, the writing is very good, the writing is attractive and can arouse resonance, the second editor if and other extras are well written, the author is very good, why is no one reading it? ! Recommended
I don't know why, I feel so lost and creepy I seem to be trapped inside, a continuous nightmare, at a loss what to do It was the final ending that saved me. I suddenly emerged from the suffocation and darkness at the bottom of the sea. I felt blank, tired, and relieved. The author is kind, a door to life in a desperate situation, reasonable, and redemptive. To be honest, if it weren't for the satisfying ending and the pitiful amount of candy mixed in a pile of glass shards at the end, I might have been stuck in it for several days. (I fell asleep while watching it in the afternoon, and I happened to read about chapter 12, and then I found myself as a person in the deep palace. I was really suffocated and desperate, so that my last choice was to commit suicide. I couldn't even die together. I tried, but I was really powerless and super collapsed. If it hadn't been for An's intervention, I really don't know how to break the situation.) It's a good book About human unyielding and resistance, dignity and compromise, human rights and gods There is the reluctance of family affection, the bond of love (between emperors and empresses), and thoughts and insights on the beliefs of Chinese civilization for thousands of years. Come on
Nice! The first time I read it, I thought the ending was weird, so I went to watch the second draft! After reading it, I feel that the ending is really great! [Petrochemical]
The subject matter is new, the writing is very good, the writing is attractive and can arouse resonance, the second editor if and other extras are well written, the author is very good, why is no one reading it? ! Recommended