On the day he is laid off, Shen Yan receives two notices: one tells him to get out of the company, while the other holds him responsible for a death.
The compensation form says “three injured, one dead,” yet only three people are listed. The dead person has been erased, but the blame has not, and it lands squarely on Shen Yan.
He uses an insurance timestamp to expose the company’s attempt to shift the blame. Then an old phone, out of service for ten years, rings. The call comes from an abandoned shopping mall, and its screen displays just one rule: If you want to survive while containing anomalies, pay first.
No money? Then you only get half the rules.
On his first job, Shen Yan saves a woman being hunted by a “talking shadow,” then turns around and sends a security guard from his former company in to take his place. Two hundred and eighty thousand yuan hits his account.
From then on, while everyone else pays to escape with their lives, he starts a company to contain anomalies: an elevator that erases names, a last train that carries only memories, a hospital that devours anyone who leaves the lights on... With every job he takes, he gets one step closer to the truth, while Hengyuan Technology racks up another debt to him.
Until the entire city starts forgetting him, and from behind an iron door comes the voice of his father, missing for ten years:
“Don’t save me.”
Shen Yan opens the old contract.
This time, he won’t trade one life for an entire city.
