Rule Horror: Fairytale Town

(The more you think about it, the more terrifying it gets. Chills down your spine. Rules horror. School thriller. Highly intelligent heroine) This is a town blanketed by “rules.”

The electronic screen at the school gate updates the survival rules every day:

“Be in the classroom before 7:45.”

“Do not look through the red-skirted girl’s feet.”

“There is no Andersen’s Fairy Tales on the fourth floor of the library.”

No one knows which rules are real and which are traps.

But everyone knows that anyone who breaks a rule will be “taken away” by a fairy tale.

Transfer student Lin Nian had only wanted to keep her head down and survive.

Until she discovered that the person who had sat in her seat before her had “never come back” after the final exams.

Until she met Lin Shen, the laid-back senior, who told her, “At this school, your surname doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you still remember who you are.”

Until she saw three lines written in ballpoint pen on a poster at the stairwell corner:

Do not audition for Cinderella

Do not audition for Cinderella

Do not audition for Cinderella

Lin Nian doesn’t know that her mother also “disappeared” in this town ten years ago.

The first page of the diary she left behind reads:

“If you’re reading this, I’m already gone. But don’t look for me. Go find the rules.”

The rules won’t protect you.

They’ll only tell you how to die a little more slowly.

And the truth Lin Nian is about to discover is this:

This world exists because some “being” is dreaming.

Every fairy tale is something it dreamed.

When it wakes, everything will disappear.

And the rules are the only barrier keeping it asleep.

But the rules are beginning to fail.

Because humanity no longer believes