Rule Horror: I Never Kneel to Ghosts

Mountain Gate Rules: Bite your tongue and smear blood between your brows.

He smeared a field mouse's blood there and survived.

Dormitory Rules: The night watch must never leave their post.

He fell asleep first. By dawn, a paper doll had appeared at the foot of his bed.

Cafeteria Rules: No talking while eating.

He wrote a note to ask his senior brother: When did someone last die in the sect?

His senior brother wrote back two words: Every day.

Ling Yan had a pair of eyes no one else possessed.

He could see the hidden word written above every folk rule:

Loophole.

But he only learned later that those who could see the loopholes could also be seen by the rules.