Cheng Qingwu has to sleep with the lights on.
He thought it was an artist's quirk, until one night he fell asleep and woke up in a room full of mirrors. There are as many mirrors as there are living people.
A trial is held here every night: seven days in the maze pass in a single night in the waking world. Anyone who violates a death condition will see their mirror grow darker day by day until it shatters at midnight on the seventh day.
There is only one way out: reconstruct the dead person's story and hear the dream they never finished telling.
In the first maze, anyone who writes after the class bell rings will get the answer wrong. Those who make a mistake and fail to correct it will die.
Cheng Qingwu is the only one in the class with an eraser in his pocket.
Wen Shiye, a firefighter who is always watching him and keeps his words few but his actions ruthless, says upon their first meeting, "You've got the wrong person. Someone like you and I could never have met."
But every time Cheng Qingwu looks at him, his temples ache as if a memory is knocking at the door.
The fire at the orphanage sixteen years ago burned away more than six children. It also took a string of keys no one dared mention, and a sentence spoken through a crack in the door all night long:
"Don't sleep. Keep your eyes on my light."
Someone forgot that night. Someone else stood watch for sixteen years.
This time, they'll finish what they left unsaid and see the dream through to its end.
[Reading Guide] Two male leads / main character is the receiving partner / plot-driven suspense / supernatural rules and taboos / infinite flow; one maze and one trial per arc, alternating angst and sweetness, everyone seeks redemption, happy ending.
Theme: Face your mistakes instead of running from them. Comfort the dead with the truth, and light up the long night with love and responsibility.
Goosebumps are rising. Faster, faster, more