Nine Ranks of the Strange World: Wei-Jin's Twenty-Layered Rule Purgatory

When the apocalypse arrives, survival hinges on a single rule: obey or die. Eight nations are shackled to the fates of ancient dynasties, and China draws the chaotic Wei-Jin era—a period of bloodshed, treachery, and collapse. Xie Zhao, an ordinary man armed with knowledge of sociology, physics, and psychology, must navigate twenty brutal levels of rule-based purgatory where one misstep means instant death. Each failure triggers catastrophic disasters back home: earthquakes, plagues, famines. With only three lives to spare, he fights not just for survival, but for his nation's very existence in…