Turning the Tables! The Midnight Courier's Rules

Name: Turning the Tables! The Midnight Courier's Rules
Author: Qian Lan

逆袭！午夜快递员守则

by Qian Lan (乾兰)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 176k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery & Supernatural
Updated: 7mo ago
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[Rule-based horror + mystery and suspense + one female lead + smart characters + not a power fantasy] Enter at your own risk.

A rule-based horror story revealing the truth of the worlds of the living and the dead through the eyes of a midnight courier. It begins with the first red parcel he is forced to deliver, then takes him through an eerie city twisted by the System, into contact with all kinds of dead souls and their obsessions, face-to-face with the elders’ merciless oppression, and toward the forbidden truth at the heart of the System...

Lin Feng, an ordinary delivery rider, received a call from the dead three months after his grandfather’s “accidental” death. An old Nokia that should have been scrapped, a nonexistent “fourth floor,” and a red parcel addressed to him by name: The Midnight Delivery Rules opened before him, and the role of “Ferryman” was thrust upon him.

He didn’t want to be anyone’s Ferryman, and he didn’t want to deliver the obsessions of dead souls. He just wanted to find out how his grandfather had really died.

But the rules gave him no choice. Red parcels can only be delivered, never accepted; if they’re late, you bear the consequences. Knock three times, then wait for a cat to meow. If a passerby strikes up a conversation, do not respond... Every rule was a survival law written in blood. And the words his grandfather had left at the end of the handbook became his only guide: “Only understanding can pierce the fog; only caution can keep you alive.”

By chance, he discovered that his grandfather’s “accident” had been no accident at all, but a carefully planned sacrifice. And he himself had long since been set up as the most crucial piece on the board.

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