"The Night Watchman in the Marketplace" is a novel about rules and strange stories rooted in modern Chinese cities. The story begins in an ordinary vegetable market - every stall here has unspeakable "rules": pork stalls must offer blood and meat every day, customers in the rainy season only buy celery in red bags, and after the midnight clock strikes, the market will become a black market for trading memories and lifespans...
Chen Mo, a young vegetable vendor, took over the family stall after his grandfather died mysteriously, but found that he had inherited the blood mission of "Night Watcher". He must survive in this city that has been quietly eroded by rules, from the vegetable market to the old community, from late-night taxis to the abandoned hospital, traveling between seven rule nodes, and uncovering the tragic wishes and conspiracies of three generations of night watchmen.
When the moon begins to bleed, and when close relatives become enemies, Chen Mo faces the final choice: let his humanity be swallowed up by the rules and become a god in the new world; or use his flesh and blood to protect the mortals who cry and laugh in the cracks of the rules?
This is a story about the rules of weighing and human nature, and also the legend of a young vegetable seller who became the "last night watchman".
