Rule Failure: I Am the Only Loophole

In the present world, rules suddenly collapse, turning everyday scenes into deadly horror instances that randomly drag ordinary people into them. A single rule determines life or death, and blind followers all meet their doom. Wang Yichen, a former archive intern and ordinary office worker, is forced into the Linjiangyuan horror cage after returning home at midnight. He realizes a cruel truth: the written rules that people believe in are all fake rules designed to lure and kill. In the market's rule-based horror, following rules means survival, breaking them means death. But here, rules come with paradoxes—the more obedient you are, the faster you die. In desperation, Wang Yichen awakens his unique talent [Rule Tracing], allowing him to see through false rules, trace the origin of rules, and capture deadly paradoxes. However, this power comes at a cost: each breakthrough drains his sanity, memory, and physical essence. From then on, he breaks everyone's survival common sense, goes against the rules, and uses paradoxes to break deadly situations. Along the way, he meets the mysterious and cursed Cui Wanwan, recruits struggling survivors, and forms a trace team that refuses to blindly follow rules. Community cages, eerie hospitals, city buses, forbidden campuses—layers of instances form a huge net of rules. The foolish sacrifices of the rule-abiding, the violent rampages of the rule-breakers, and the non-human enforcers hunting in the shadows—human nature's games are more terrifying than the horrors themselves.