**When the fairy tale peels off the sugar coating and reveals the flesh-and-blood truth——**
When former negotiator Lu Li woke up, his left hand was branded with the curse of the fairy tale book. He and four other strangers are dragged into "Fairytale Paradox": a game that twists beautiful stories into horrific rules.
Little Red Riding Hood's village needs to sacrifice a girl to the "wolf" every year, and the wolf is the villager himself; Cinderella's magic comes from the contract that cuts the soul; Snow White's beauty is the plague that spreads jealousy; Sleeping Beauty's sleep is the cage she actively weaves; Rapunzel's tower imprisons something more terrifying than the devil; and Alice's Wonderland houses all those who do not want to wake up...
In this dark forest, innocence is death and kindness comes at a price. To survive, they must:
- Dance with monsters disguised as relatives under the blood moon
- Escape the never-ending dance cycle before twelve o'clock
- Eat a poisoned apple and face your deepest sins in a dream
- Wake up from the temptation of sweet dreams, even if the reality is more cruel
Lu Li soon discovered that every player was not chosen by chance - they all had wounds in their hearts that could not be healed. What's more difficult than passing the level is still choosing to hold each other's hands in this darkness.
"If the price of saving the story was becoming a monster, what would you choose?"
"I choose to rewrite the ending."
