On April 29, Year 7 of the New Era, the Rules descended. Blood-red writing appeared on the walls. Anyone who broke a rule died. Thirty-seven rule-bound domains swallowed the cities, and social order collapsed.
Lin Ye, a night watchman at a funeral home, awakened the “Eye of Rules” on the anniversary of his mother's death. He could see the deadly rules no one else could.
The hands of his pocket watch were forever stopped at 18:23, the moment his mother made her sacrifice. Deep inside the funeral home, the tomb keeper whispered, “Among the people your mother saved was my son.” The Federation's Bureau of Rule Safety wanted to control his ability, while the “Collectors” wanted to take his eyes.
When their team suffered its first casualty, when Xiaoyu cried and asked, “Why us?”, when the pocket watch suddenly began ticking one day...
Lin Ye understood: to make sense of the Rules, he first had to understand why his mother had chosen to die.
Rule-based horror + mystery and mind-bending twists + team survival + tests of human nature
