Ten Corners of Death

Ten strangers who had never met and received no invitations were all accidentally stranded on the same day at a villa on an isolated island in the middle of Qiandao Lake, thanks to a once-in-a-century torrential storm. That night, the villa’s owner was mysteriously found dead in a hidden underground chamber. The only causeway across the lake had been washed away, all communications were down, and the ten of them were cut off from the outside world, each a suspect. 【A masterpiece told through a 10-by-10 matrix of POVs】Ten perspectives a day, 100 chapters over ten days, with every handoff following the timeline to the letter! A deliveryman casually hiding a seafood knife, a cleaner accidentally breaking a vase, a thief pocketing something on the sly... Countless little careless mistakes, magnified beyond measure by gaps in what each person knows, weave an airtight Rashomon of conflicting accounts. Not a single one of them is stupid! The maintenance worker manipulates the surveillance logs, the medical student performs a precise autopsy, the insurance agent calculates the odds of a crime, and the real estate agent plays the prisoner’s dilemma. Everyone uses their professional expertise to gain an overwhelming edge over the others. The one who’s most close to breaking down is the killer! He only used excessive force in self-defense, but has to watch everyone imagine him as a “cold-blooded killer with a knife,” then scramble to cover his tracks in keeping with their absurd theories. When a meticulous plan collides with the chaos of the butterfly effect, and every piece of physical evidence is contaminated, only the mystery novelist sees the truth: The only person untouched by coincidence is the killer!