An iron staircase, rusted and out of nowhere, appeared inside the house. The wall bore the inscription: "Climb this staircase all the way to the top, or bear the consequences."
One floor, one instance. It opens once every ten days. Thirty-six flights of stairs lead to the top, where a door hides an endgame from which few return alive.
Randomly assigned teammates, rules full of twists, seemingly murderous supernatural entities, and human tragedies buried beneath it all.
In the endless cycle of the counting rhyme lies the truth about a child who fell to their death. In the wedding ropes of a ghost marriage lies a woman's will to resist. Beside the cold dishes at the banquet of a hundred ghosts lies an old man's unfinished longing...
Jiang Yu clutched the counting charms in his palm, ash and bloodstains clinging to his chestnut hair. His amber, peach-blossom eyes reflected the darkness in the stairwell, yet a glimmer of light never went out.
"The climb isn't about stairs, but human nature; the fight isn't against ghosts, but obsessions."
Thirty-six flights. You only win if you survive.
Theme: Hold fast to a kind heart, face fear and obsession, seek the truth, and protect life.
