[Rules are truth, obedience is survival]
High-pressure control, spiritual discipline, and dystopian settings.
Not a cool story, the process is depressing, and all the characters are villains/prisoners.
Purpose: This work aims to build a world of "aesthetics of violence in the name of rules".
On the surface, it is a thrilling game of "cat-and-mouse", but on the deeper level, it is an inquiry into "the alienation and return of human nature".
It reveals a cruel truth: the most terrifying prison is not within the walls, but within the human brain.
The story of Ye Xiuqi and Shen Liluo is the last line of defense against this truth - even if the world defines us as "non-humans", we still have the right to choose to retain the dignity and warmth of "humans" under the strangulation of the "red grid".