Rules Authority

At 2:14 in the morning, Song Zhiyan received a text message. "Welcome to the Rules Bureau. Your first rule: Don't look in the mirror after 12 midnight." He went and took the photo. The man in the mirror - half a beat too slow. --- Song Zhiyan is a graduate of a Ph. D. In mathematics. Three years ago, his tutor plagiarized his thesis, and he dropped out of school in silence, taking away a conclusion: all systems claim to be self-consistent, and all systems lie. Now he had a much larger system in front of him. The Rules Administration cuts reality into countless "copies". Every street, every room, every mirror might have rules written into it. The consequence of violation is not death—it is the erasure of existence itself. Song Zhiyan was involved in it, and he had only three weapons: mathematical deduction, paradox detection, and a brain that absolutely refused to accept fate.