Ten billion people around the world are simultaneously pulled into a live broadcast of national destiny trials.
Each country is forcibly assigned one contestant, who is sent into a series of increasingly difficult rule-based horror scenarios.
Qinghe Boarding Apartments, the last train on Netherworld Route 13, Eternal Night Ren'ai Hospital, the Temple at the Source of the Rules... Every place is a death trap woven from lies and taboos.
There is no bloody slaughter here, only a silent, eerie transformation.
Breaking a rule does not cause instant death. Instead, fingers, skin, and even one's perception slowly twist out of shape until the horror story devours the victim completely. The entire ordeal is broadcast live without a blind spot. The people of each country can only watch helplessly as their contestant heads for destruction, followed by natural disasters, the collapse of national fortune, and widespread suffering in their homeland.
Every contestant awakens a unique talent. Some can see through NPCs' weaknesses, some can sense where danger lies, and some can cleanse mild transformations. No talent is inherently stronger than another; it all depends on how well it suits the challenge of survival.
Lin Yan, the contestant from the Dragon Kingdom, awakens the talent best suited to rule-based horror: [Tracing the Rules to Their Source].
The first time he breaks a rule, he can uncover the truth behind the violation and the source of the transformation, gaining one chance to save himself.
There is no invincible domination or mindless wish fulfillment, only the pursuit of truth at the edge of forbidden territory and desperate escapes as transformation spreads.
Misunderstandings, silence, and fear can all become death sentences. Every rule conceals a deadly threat, and every choice puts the nation's fate on the line.
When Lin Yan steadies his breathing in the darkness and the strange patterns on his fingertips quietly fade, the world finally realizes
This Dragon Kingdom youth, who never makes a mistake, will wield the rules as his blade and his talent as his shield, protecting his country's destiny and crushing every eerie forbidden zone.
