Deep in the thick fog, a century-old town that has disappeared from the map only welcomes one kind of people - stray visitors.
Lin Yuanzhou, a master of law, accidentally broke into this strange town ruled by strange rules due to a navigation failure. On the stone tablet at the entrance of the town, there are ten rules written in blood and death:
Do not look directly into the eyes of others for more than three seconds after dark.
When someone calls your full name, don't look back or answer.
Every year before and after the Ghost Festival, no one is allowed to enter the old house in Zhenxi.
Violators will be haunted by "marks of the rules". When the marks of the rules spread from the tiger's mouth to the heart, the person will become a part of the rules and be "martyrdomed" forever.
Here, the extinguishing of every oil lamp means turning a page in the book of rules; every talisman affixed to your chest determines your identity and price. On the back of Lin Yuanzhou's talisman paper, there is written the word "Dai" - those who keep the rules and die for those who follow the rules. When he discovered that his cousin had disappeared here with the same character 40 years ago, he understood that this was not a simple survival game.
When everyone thought that the only way to survive was to become a slave to the rules, Lin Yuanzhou chose to use his sharpest weapons—logic and legal thinking—to interrogate the rules themselves. Not only does he have to survive in this weird town, but he also has to find the biggest loophole in the rule book and ask a question that no one has dared to ask in four hundred years: "Who is the one who set the rules?"
"Those who follow the rules will eventually become those who set them." Is the inscription on the stone tablet a curse or a way out? When Lin Yuanzhou peeled back the truth layer by layer, he discovered that the real terror was not following the rules, but becoming the person who wrote them.
