At three o'clock in the morning, the singing of "Emperor's Flower" came from the abandoned theater.
Everyone who pushed the door in died.
When Wu Chen, an investigator from the Folk Customs Administration, took over the case, he only thought it was an ordinary A-level incident. But he found a yellowed notepad backstage at the theater, with half of the last page torn out.
What was ripped out? Who tore it?
He followed the clues and discovered a hidden network spanning seventy years.
Eleven locations, eleven incidents of out-of-control rules, all have the shadow of the same person behind them.
The man in gray. Codenamed "The Contract Breaker". File number 000, sealed by the founder of the Authority.
No one knows where he comes from or what he wants to do. Everywhere he went, he had something to say to someone. That sentence accurately hit the most vulnerable part of the other party's heart, causing them to personally tear up a contract that had been protected for a hundred years.
The theater in Nanyu, the ancestral hall in Yanjing, the Nuo temple in western Hunan, the ancestral altar in Qiandi...
Eleven guardian spirits were twisted by him into life-seeking monsters.
Eleven human lives are his experimental data.
During Wu Chen's investigation, he discovered that what the man in gray really wanted was not to kill someone. It is the creation of gods.
He wants to use eleven rules to open a door.
What is behind the door, no one knows.
Wu Chen's master left him a message before disappearing:
"Rules don't harm people, people harm others."
This sentence was said by the man in gray to another person seventy years ago.
After hearing this, the man kept guard for the rest of his life, and his heart was broken when he died.
Now, it's Wu Chen's turn.
