Yan Xizhou is born unable to feel fear - to be precise, her fear reaction is "laughing". When her roommate dies of horror after hearing "Rule 1: Don't answer the knock on the door" in the library late at night, she laughs into the air.
Because she heard the second rule: "Rule Two: Liars are forever silenced."
As a graduate student in folklore, Yan Xizhou began to investigate these death rules that accompanies "cognitive pollution." She discovered that behind each rule corresponds to a "collective fear archetype": campus taboos, urban legends, family curses... And the way to crack it is not to escape, but to exploit the contradictions and loopholes in the rules.
As the investigation deepened, she came into contact with the "Rule Hunters" organization in the dark web, and found that she was listed as a key observation target by the "Abnormal Countermeasures Section 7". In a strange incident in a museum, she deliberately violated the rule "Don't look directly into the portrait's eyes" and instead triggered the hidden rule "Anyone who looks at the portrait for more than three seconds can ask one question." She learned key information from a 19th-century portrait: all the rules originated from the game of a being called the "God of Narrative."
Currently, Yanxizhou is facing the most dangerous rule area - "Seven Days Reincarnation Apartment". Here, there will be a new rule that must be followed every day, but one and only one of them is a fatal lie. And she discovered that her gradually disappearing pain seemed to be the key to solving the final mystery...
She practiced smiling in front of the mirror, because tomorrow, she was going to meet the being who made the rules.
Rule 0 reads: "It is forbidden to look at God."
