In this game, the one person you’re not allowed to play is yourself.
Main Characters
Chen Mo: Thirty-two, a criminal investigator. Calm and restrained on the surface, he is actually skilled at engineering “perfect accidents,” though he never gets his hands dirty. After being drawn into the game, he is forced to confront the darkest depths of his own heart.
Zhao Yucheng: Thirty-two, a criminal investigator and Chen Mo’s partner of twenty years. Never without a cigarette, he talks too much but has a soft heart. His materialist beliefs have been shattered by all kinds of bizarre events over the past three years. Catchphrase: “What the hell is this thing now?”
Lei Jun: Chen Mo’s childhood friend, a former special police officer. An action man in charge of security at Point Zero. Hot-tempered, but fiercely loyal.
Zhou Wenchuan: Chen Mo’s childhood friend, a tech geek who knows all kinds of instruments and equipment, as well as “unorthodox tricks.” He handles intelligence analysis and technical support.
M: A mysterious entity.
A: A mysterious entity.
T: A mysterious entity.
Y: A mysterious entity.
A man with antisocial personality disorder has spent his entire life “playing the role” of a normal person. When the game forces him to face his true self, can he keep acting? If even the “self” is something he made up, then where is the real him?
Excerpts from the story
“You’re a door, too.”, Liu the Lame
“Sound is a key... and a lock, too.”, Words inscribed on the park altar
“Can I still survive?”, Liu the Lame’s last question before he died
“In this game, the one person you’re not allowed to play is yourself.”, Lin Yuan
“Being eliminated isn’t death. Being forgotten is.”, Lin Yuan
No romance (ship whoever you want)
