★ A breakout hit on Fanqie Novel (China's leading free-reading platform), ranking in the Top 3 of the female-oriented suspense fiction chart, with 210,000 peak concurrent readers and a 9.4 rating.
★ Adapted into a short drama series (46 episodes, 3 min each) exclusively on Hongguo Short Drama (a ByteDance platform). Pre-launch reservations exceeded 2.11 million, with peak热度 of 4,578. Directed by Xia Qiji (a celebrated photographer known for her striking visual aesthetic), the series reimagines classic fairy tales like The Little Mermaid and Cinderella as survival horror games. Media has called it “a groundbreaking reimagining of classic fairy tales.”
★ Protagonist Tu Nan infiltrates the fairy tale game world to investigate her friend's disappearance, only to discover that the female NPCs are actually missing women from the real world. She rallies the victims to destroy the system that controls them. No romance—pure female-led psychological thriller.
★ The narrative echoes the survival rebellion of The Hunger Games, blends with the NPC awakening of Westworld, and channels the dark fantasy of Alice in Wonderland. Each dungeon stands alone with its own puzzles, moral dilemmas, and high-stakes twists.

Earth is inexplicably plunged into a crisis of supernatural game worlds. The rules of these games govern life and death—once selected, players are forced into realms of uncertainty and danger. Failure in the game means death in reality. Tu Nan is one of the many unfortunate souls chosen.
She draws the “Fairy Tale” theme, launching a series of adventures that twist familiar stories into something far darker.
In The Little Mermaid dungeon, Tu Nan becomes Ariel, voiceless and walking on knives with every step. She discovers that Prince Eric, seemingly charming, is in truth a disturbed killer—behind the disappearance of maidservants lies a horrifying truth. With grit and wit, she kills Eric and escapes, gaining a strange artifact: the “Fairy Tale Illustrated Handbook”—a talking book.
Next comes the Cinderella dungeon, where Tu Nan plays Laila. This is a faction-based scenario filled with complex interpersonal dynamics and fierce rivalries. She detects suspicious behavior in Cinderella herself and, through keen observation, exposes her disguise to clear the dungeon.
She then enters the Princess and the Pea dungeon with her teammates. This one has only one rule: “Ta‘s will supersedes all rules.” The manor teems with horrors: carcasses in the sheepfold, weeping lambs, players transformed into sheep… Through meticulous deduction, Tu Nan shatters Lilith’s dreamscape and uncovers the manor‘s dark secret—the Lady has been harvesting hearts to cure Lilith‘s illness, with players as the donors. Upon clearing the dungeon, Lilith gifts Tu Nan her “heart,” which proves to be the dungeon core itself—a discovery that deepens her understanding of the entire game world.
Along the way, Tu Nan forges deep bonds with veteran players like Xu Duoyi and Tang Yuan. To boost her survival odds, she trains at the Fairy Tale Hospital, earns her nurse’s badge, and befriends Snow White and Rapunzel, even helping Snow White ascend to the throne.
As the pieces fall into place, Tu Nan uncovers the truth: the game world is a “game” run by higher-dimensional beings. The characters are NPCs; when they malfunction, the Fairy Tale Hospital repairs and redeploys them. Only by destroying the hospital can the cycle end. Tu Nan and her allies expose its atrocities, bring it down, and free the trapped NPCs—who begin to awaken.
The administrators fight back, hunting awakened NPCs and ramping up dungeon difficulty to eliminate Tu Nan and her team. But with help from Snow White and other awakened characters, the resistance swells. Finally, the administrators are forced to issue an ultimatum: whoever clears the final fairy tale dungeon will banish the fairy tale games from Earth forever. Tu Nan and her companions take on the challenge, survive every trial, and ultimately triumph.

Zongyou Qingcong is a signed author on Fanqie Novel, specializing in female-oriented infinite-flow suspense fiction. Her representative work, Welcome to the Dark Fairy Tale World, ranked in the Top 3 of the platform‘s female suspense chart, drew 210,000 peak concurrent readers, and holds a 9.4 rating. The short drama adaptation premiered exclusively on Hongguo Short Drama in April 2026, directed by Xia Qiji.
Her work is known for its distinctive blend of “female-oriented + infinite-flow + dark fairy tale + strong female protagonist.” Readers describe her style as “curious and thrilling—high-intensity but not scary, totally addictive,” and praise the heroine as “incredibly clever and composed, never screaming in panic, fiercely independent and brave, no love interest to save her, solving puzzles with pure intelligence from start to finish.”