Rule Horror: Starting with the Faceless Bride

[Rule-Based Horror + Mystery and Deduction + Episodic Stories + Twists on Human Nature]

If you're a scaredy-cat, read this during the day. If you hear knocking at midnight, don't answer right away.

Shen Xu only lost his memories. He never expected to also have a bride who had been waiting for him for seven years.

At midnight, a wedding photo arrived at his doorstep.

The groom was him. The bride had no face.

On the back was written: "Your beloved has been waiting for you for seven years."

He didn't even know whether he'd ever been married, so he had no choice but to follow the address.

The mansion had long been sealed, yet someone inside was waiting for him to move in.

His room was ready, his "beloved" had been arranged for him, and a set of rules had been thoughtfully left on the table:

After midnight, don't ask her name.

Don't watch her take off her makeup.

Don't meet her eyes in the mirror.

The lights-out bell rang for the third time.

A woman outside the door knocked softly. "A Xu, open the door."

Shen Xu had planned to follow the rules and hold out until dawn.

But some rules here are real and some are fake. Some can save your life, while others are written by ghosts to trick you into opening the door.

Worse still, even if he escapes the mansion, another letter will arrive.

A pawnshop for the dead, a mirror double, an apartment where everyone sleeps forever...

Every time he escapes one strange tale, the next letter finds him again.

He wants to uncover the seven years he has forgotten.

But why are all these places waiting for him to come back?