The Oddity Registry

He Chu wakes up in an urban village, and his cousin's family treats him very well. So well that even though his mother has been dead for three years, his cousin says, "Your mom called to ask about you." So well that when someone knocks on the door in the middle of the night, the voice squeezing in through the gap beneath it is his mother calling him by his childhood name. He wants to move out. Until he picks up an old booklet at the mouth of the alley, opens it to the first page, and finds his name written there. The second page has only one line: "No matter what you hear, do not open the door." But the problem was never whether to open the door. It's how many people on this street are still alive. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Oddity Registry — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠