The Old Gods Never Walk at Night

Grandma taught Shen Du all kinds of old rules since he was a child: don't put chopsticks in rice, don't look back when walking at night, and don't look in the mirror in the middle of the night. He listened to it for twenty-two years and turned a deaf ear. After her mentor Gu Yan disappeared, he left behind a notebook. Shen Du opened it and found that those old rules were the survival contracts signed between the ancestors and the old gods thousands of years ago - each one sealed an ancient being who fed on fear. Rules are forgotten and old gods awaken. Grandma sealed his eyes before she died, and the mentor lived by himself as the 301st rule. Every step of Shen Du's investigation was tearing apart the seal he had paid for with his life. There are only three words on the last page of the notebook: Don't look for me. He didn't listen. Later, two words appeared on the note: Don't be afraid. He decided to learn to make rules - to change his mentor out of the rules with his own hands, even at the cost of writing himself into them.