Final Chapter Recycler

Bad stories never die. They will collapse into copies, repeat wrong endings, drag living people into the scene, and force everyone to live according to the already written plot. Shen Xu was originally just the owner of a script-killing shop that was about to close down, and a former suspense screenwriter. After he closed the book ten years ago, he forgot about a novel that no one acknowledged existed. Until one morning, at two o'clock sharp. Seven strange guests pushed in the door, claiming to have made an appointment for a book he had never written. The power-off printer spit out receipts, there were more corpses in the locked room, and a line of words appeared on the black bookmark: "The eighth player has entered the game." From that moment on, Shen Xu saw traces of scrapped manuscripts that others could not see. Deleted lines, wrong identities, recurring props, and the last page that every copy desperately hides. But when more and more copies pointed to his lost old manuscript, Shen Xu began to doubt: Is he recycling other people's endings, or reading back his own ending bit by bit?