Strange Case Files: My Patients Aren't Human

My name is Gu Huai, a night shift orderly at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital. On my first night, ten yellowed night shift rules were posted on the wall, and the system told me two of them were fake. At 2 AM, the female patient in bed 7 sat on the edge of her bed and smiled at me: 'You're not the original Gu Huai.' At 3 AM, the person in the mirror didn't turn around. At 4 AM, my own voice came from room 4: 'Save me.' I held the medical record book and slowly wrote the first page of diagnosis: Illness, eerie. Treatment, containment. Code name: White Coat. Until the director handed me a cup of tea and said with a smile, 'Dr. Gu, welcome back.' I lowered my head to drink the tea, and the black text at the bottom of the cup slowly gathered into three words—hooked. — Description from novelcodex.org