[Chinese-Style Rule-Based Horror | Folk Customs and Feng Shui | High-Stakes Mind Games | No Characters Getting Stupid for the Plot]
He enters a deserted shrine at midnight and, from the start, is handed ten rules that determine life or death.
Close your eyes when the candle flame dims. Never turn around when someone calls your name from behind. Don’t look directly at the ancestral tablets. Never search for the back door before dawn...
Everyone says that following the rules is the only way to survive.
But Lin Yu sees with his own eyes that every participant who obediently follows the rules ends up as an unnamed ancestral tablet on the offering table.
That’s when he understands: in this all-night vigil game, there has only ever been one truth: the rules are for reference only. You bear the responsibility for deciding whether they’re true.
Impostors use the rules to set deadly traps. The sinister rules change with people’s whims, while desolation takes root and spreads through obsession. Since time immemorial, countless night watchmen have been trapped in cages, sacrificing their souls just to buy the mortal world one more night of peace.
Lin Yu refuses to accept this fate.
He tears up the rules set in stone and turns the deadly game around. With nothing but a mortal’s wits, he exposes trap after trap, and uses his ancestral Lushan feng shui arts to dispel every evil force lurking within the game.
