Rules of Weird Tales: Once Upon a Time

(It's scary to think about it. My scalp is numb. Strange rules. Campus thriller. High IQ heroine.) This is a small town covered by "rules". The electronic screen at the school gate updates the survival rules every day: "Arrive at the classroom before 07:45" "Don't look at the feet of the girl in the red dress" "There is no "Andersen's Fairy Tales" on the fourth floor of the library" No one knows which rules are true and which are traps. But everyone knows that those who violate the rules will be "taken away" by the fairy tale. Transfer student Lin Nian originally wanted to live a low-key life. Until she discovered that the previous person who sat in this position "never came again" after the final exam. Until she met the undisciplined senior Lin Shen, who said: "In this school, your last name is not important. What is important is whether you still remember who you are." Until she saw three lines written in ballpoint pen on the poster at the corner of the stairs: Don't audition for Cinderella Don't audition for Cinderella Don't audition for Cinderella Lin Nian didn't know that her mother also "disappeared" in this town ten years ago. The first page of the diary left behind reads: "If you see this, I'm gone. But don't look for me, look for the rules." Rules will not protect you. The rules only tell you how to die slowly. The truth that Lin Nian is about to discover is: This world exists because a certain "being" is dreaming. All fairy tales are dreamed by it. When it wakes up, everything will disappear. And rules are the only barrier to keep it sleeping. But the rules are failing. Because humans no longer believe