The Strange Tale Scribe

A mysterious book kiosk hidden in an old alley contains the unfinished lives of countless "people."

Qi Xun is a failed horror writer, haunted by trauma and constantly taking medication, pushed to the brink by life.

He applies for a lucrative night-watch job, but the neighbors warn him to stay away, saying the place is cursed.

Qi Xun smiles faintly. "What's scarier than being broke?"

But when he opens an old book, he plunges into a sealed illusion.

Humans and ghosts are trapped in the same game, and truth is impossible to distinguish from lies.

Is clearing the game about redemption, atonement, or an even deeper cycle of reincarnation?