Lin Yanqiu spent eighteen years turning himself into a sophisticated machine.
When he was six years old, his father walked into an abandoned mental hospital and never returned. From that day on, he used reason to mark the coordinates of all emotions and disassemble the world into calculable data - until he met Gu Lanjin.
The man had a pair of bottomless black eyes and smiled like a cat patrolling its territory. He pressed a worn lucky coin into his palm: "Welcome to Jingyuan, from today on, you are an observer."
In the dark and abandoned hospital, rules are the only rules of survival. Stay still after the lights are turned off, the reflection in the mirror cannot respond, and the potion is limited to three copies per day - there is a lie behind every rule, and every exit leads to a deeper trap.
There he found his father, who had been trapped for eighteen years, and heard an answer half a lifetime late through the door.
After coming out, he joined Gu Lanjin's team of defectors. Intelligence dealer Jiang Wang always holds a lollipop in his mouth, and social fear alchemist Yin Sushang can fold a rental house into a 120-square-meter fortress. They traveled between life and death, and the distance between him and Gu Lanjin changed from testing and exploiting to mutual redemption on the verge of losing control.
When the truth is revealed layer by layer, and when the ultimate purification is about to begin, Lin Yanqiu must make a choice - continue to be that watertight machine, or become the only person who can define Gu Lanjin's existence.
"The rules say there is no exit from this court. But that doesn't count."
Calm and crazy architect × dangerous Gu system guide. Find loopholes in the rules and traps.
Intent: Use "rules" as a mirror to see the boundaries between human nature and freedom - when the entire world has been written into established procedures, is there still a trust that allows you to dare to rewrite the code of your own destiny?