The Haunted Domain: Breaking Free from Obsession

Name: The Haunted Domain: Breaking Free from Obsession
Author: Ling Xin808

诡域，破执

by Ling Xin808 (凌心808)

Status: Completed
Length: 91k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery High-Concept
Updated: 1mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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[Infinite Flow] + [Rule Horror] + [Dungeons] + [Survival]

A perpetually damp letter, stained with sandalwood incense, drags Shen Yan into the Weird Domain.

A midnight bus heads for an abandoned Republic-era station. A rusty clock sways as twelve threshold gates open, each tied to one of humanity's cardinal sins. Here, life and death are not left to fate, but governed by cold, unyielding rules. Yet beneath the scar over the left eye of Shen Yan, a book restorer at the archives, lies an abnormal power of perception: he can see writing that has been smudged, altered, or hidden in the rules, exposing every deadly trap. The price: every time he solves a puzzle, he permanently loses a memory from his life in the real world.

He has no overwhelming combat strength and no overpowered System. He survives by making the most of every detail, navigating the ghostly infants in a maternity ward, the buried bones in a corpse-nurturing house, the repeating cycle of a deadly evening study session, and the living sacrifice in an ancient village by a withered pond. His companions include an ER nurse descended from a family sworn to guard the thresholds, a mute child who can hear the thoughts of eerie beings, and the first person to solve a dungeon, half human and half ghost.

As the dungeons unlock one by one, Shen Yan realizes that the Weird Domain was never a hunting ground of horror. It is a civilizational filter that sorts all living things. The so-called Mirror of Freedom holds, in every crack, a cardinal sin that people refuse to admit. And the letter that drew him into this game turns out to be a confession of atonement he wrote himself ten years ago, addressed to his own self a century in the future.

The twelve threshold gates finally open. This confrontation across a century will not be won through slaughter, but by whoever dares to face their most shameful self.

When the rules collapse, Shen Yan stands at the summit of the Weird Domain. “I accept neither heaven's will nor fate. I answer only to my own heart.”

From then on, the Weird Domain no longer forces anyone to kill. Entry is by choice alone. Good and evil will each find their due, and every obsession will find its way home.

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