Ordinary college student Lin Yuan discovers a blank ancient book in the library and is pulled into the “Abyss of Rules,” a strange dimension made up of the ruins of countless shattered worlds. Every world here has deadly absolute rules: you must not stay in front of a mirror for more than three seconds; you must repeat yesterday's actions; you must not count the lights in the hallway... Those who break the rules suffer a “backlash of the rules” more terrifying than death.
Lin Yuan unexpectedly awakens as the only “loophole-bearer” unbound by the rules, gaining the forbidden ability to alter them. Along with Su Wanqing, the campus beauty being consumed by the rules, he struggles to survive in worlds such as a mirrored campus, a city of flesh, a corridor through time, and a gods' game arena. Gradually, he discovers that the Abyss is actually a dream of “the rules themselves,” and that it is sinking. If it reaches reality, it will unleash ultimate chaos.
As Lin Yuan grows from a loophole-bearer into a creator, he faces a final choice: become the rules themselves and save the world, or remain himself and watch everything be destroyed? Su Wanqing's bond with him shifts from that of the benefactor who saved him, to an infected symbiote, and then to a bridge between dream and reality. Their connection transcends memory and identity in the cracks between the rules. When memories can be altered, transferred, and stored, “Who am I?” becomes more perilous than “Whom do I love?”
This is not a traditional journey of cultivation and leveling up. It is an evolution of understanding: “understand the rules → exploit the rules → rewrite the rules → create the rules.” In a world ruled by absurd absolutes, the only freedom is to become a loophole in the rules themselves.
