Final Exam: As I Lay Dying, I Turned in a Blank Paper

Death isn't the end. It's a make-up exam, and the cruelest part is that the test takes away your memories of "why you want to live."

Repeat student Chen Yan drowns while saving a child who fell into the water. He wakes in a city with no living people, holding only an exam admission ticket: candidate number 0417, with 1 minute and 52 seconds left to live. This place is called the Final Exam Hall. Playing card suits are the subjects, and death is called "expulsion." His only talent is spotting grammatical errors in the rules: change one character and he can turn the tables, but the price is putting up a memory of his family as collateral. He can go home once he earns three thousand points. But when he finally can't remember his mother's face, he understands what the final question is asking: Do you still want to be graded?