Programmer Li Ming gets trapped after working overtime in a bizarre place called the Asylum. Its absurd rules are updated daily, and violators are punished. Li Ming meets people like Xiao Li and Lao Wang, gradually discovering that the Asylum is actually a cognitive experiment facility for Project Eden. The Director controls everything, seeking to reshape human thought through the rule system. Struggling to stay sane while searching for the truth, Li Ming grows from a passive victim into a “gardener,” navigating the divide between the System’s control and human nature. When the truth about the experiment intertwines with his own past, he must choose: submit completely, fight back, or find a third path through the madness? This work explores the eternal struggle between rules and freedom, sanity and madness, the individual and the system.
