Seven invitations, seven strangers, a five-million-dollar prize.
There are only two rules: clear the game and take the money; fail, and surrender the thing you cherish most, your memories, beauty, eyesight, hearing, free will...
It cannot be transferred, copied, or refused.
Lin Mo, a former detective; Su Tang, a blogger caught in an online harassment storm; Chen Mobai, a math professor with Alzheimer’s; Zhao Yihang, an esports player embroiled in a match-fixing scandal; He Xiaoyu, a medical student whose background is a mystery; Gu Nanxing, a CEO with obsessive perfectionism; and Lao Wang, a mysterious retired worker.
Seven people who have never met, chosen for the same reason: they all desperately need this game.
The Mirror Maze, the House of Time, the Silent Theater, the Corridor of Memories... Every stage reads their memories and projects their deepest fears.
Only when the sacrifice truly begins do they understand
This is no game.
It is a consciousness experiment that has been going on for twenty years.
And they are merely the third batch of test subjects.
Reader advisory:
No overpowered hero; every character is an ordinary person.
Multiple POVs and an ensemble cast.
Twist after twist, with an ending that gets more chilling the more you think about it.
Light horror and suspense, with no gore or violence.
