Kaleidoscope of Death Vol. 1 ◎Xi Zi Xu

Open the wrong door… and you may never return.

One ordinary day, Lin Qiushi discovers a black door in the corridor outside his flat—a door that shouldn’t exist. When he steps through, he finds himself in a world governed by a deadly set of rules, where cryptic villagers speak in riddles, and the only way out is to take their obscure “tests”. The reward for passing: a key. The penalty for failure: death.

From haunted villages to blood-soaked puzzles, Lin must solve increasingly strange and grotesque mysteries just to live another day. But he’s not alone. Enter Ruan Nanzhu—gorgeous, enigmatic, and unexpectedly lethal—who shows up in his room one night and whisks him into a secretive organisation of seasoned door-crossers.

With each door they pass through, the truth behind the world grows darker, and the line between ally and monster begins to blur.

Grim, gripping, and laced with razor-sharp banter, Kaleidoscope of Death is a danmei survival thriller where logic is your only weapon, trust is your greatest gamble—and laughter might be your last defense.

“The initial abnormality was his cat at home refusing to let him pat.
Lin Qiushi realised that incongruity began to permeate everything in his surroundings.
Then one day, when he pushed open the door to his home, he found that the hallway he was familiar with had turned into an extended corridor.
At the ends of this corridor, there were twelve metal doors, each identical to each other.
This is how the story began.”