【1. When the alarm rings at seven in the morning, please get up immediately.】

【2. Lights out promptly at eleven in the evening. After lights out, please keep quiet and make sure you are in bed. If someone calls you, do not respond and do not let others know you are not asleep.】

【3. There are no bed checks in the dormitory. If you encounter dormitory personnel checking, do not open the door.】

【4. There is no red soap in the bathroom, if you see it, please throw it into the trash can immediately.】

【5. There are no mirrors in the dormitory.】

【6. People in the mirror do not speak. If you hear someone in the mirror speak, immediately close your eyes and cover your ears for a minute.】

【7. Do not exchange clothes with anyone.】

【8. There is no mutton in the cafeteria. If you accidentally eat it, do not enter the dormitory within three hours.】

【9. If you find a roommate eating mutton in the dormitory, immediately take a shower in the bathroom. If the bathroom is occupied, use the spray above the sink to spray your whole body.】

【10. Do not refuse your roommate's requests.】

【11. Do not trust anyone!】

On the first day of university, I entered the dormitory, looking at the dormitory rules posted on the door, and fell into contemplation. Who played this prank? I looked at the three roommates who were already there and asked, "Did you guys put this up?"

Xia Ruyue, who was unpacking, Zhang Lin, who was watching a drama series, and Zhao Xinyue, who was painting, all turned to look at me in unison, with confused expressions. "Put what up?"

I pointed to the dormitory rules on the door, "This."

Xia Ruyue shook her head, "There's nothing on the door."

Suddenly, Zhao Xinyue approached me abruptly, her eyes fixed on mine, "What did you see?"

I was startled, rubbed my hands nervously, thinking, why is this new roommate so strange? How could such a big rule be invisible here?

I was about to read out the contents of the rules when I noticed Zhao Xinyue shaking her head at me at the end. I swallowed the words in my mouth and said, "It's nothing, forget it."

My heart was full of doubts. Why didn't Zhao Xinyue let me speak? What was the matter with Xia Ruyue and Zhang Lin pretending not to see it?

I asked Zhao Xinyue on my phone, but she only said not to let others know I could see those rules, and said nothing else.

In the evening, I was chatting on the phone with my boyfriend. I was about to mention the strange dormitory rules to him, but then I remembered the message from Zhao Xinyue. In the end, I didn't say anything, and it wasn't until Zhao Xinyue reminded me to turn off the lights that I reluctantly hung up the phone.

My boyfriend Jiang Zhou and I met online after I finished the college entrance exam. He was gentle and considerate, understanding. We quickly fell in love. After he found out about my exam results, he recommended his school to me. Although I hadn't heard of this school, it matched my scores well, and I didn't want to be separated from my boyfriend, so I applied to this school.

It was a busy day today, and I haven't seen Jiang Zhou yet. We agreed to have dinner together tomorrow, and he was going to show me around the campus.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the lights in the dormitory went out on time. The noisy dormitory building suddenly became quiet, as if someone had flipped a switch, and I could only hear the sound of my own heartbeat.

Just as I was about to say something, the dormitory rule number 2 suddenly flashed through my mind.

【Lights out promptly at eleven in the evening. After lights out, please keep quiet and make sure you are in bed.】

I closed my mouth, in the quiet environment, emotions are magnified, and the abnormalities ignored during the day would suddenly appear in my mind. I had to force myself to fall asleep.

Ding ding ding, the alarm went off.

I turned over to continue sleeping, but Zhao Xinyue forcefully woke me up. I looked at her somewhat annoyed, but she didn't say anything, just pointed to Xia Ruyue and Zhang Lin, who were already up. They looked at me expressionlessly, their faces appearing somewhat eerie.

An inexplicable fear spread through my body. I quickly got out of bed. Seeing me get up, Xia Ruyue and Zhang Lin returned to their friendly selves, smiled at me, and urged me to hurry up and wash up as we had early morning self-study at seven-forty.

I hurriedly responded, but in my mind, I still saw their expressionless faces from earlier.

The cold water splashed on my face woke me up. I tried to clear my mind. The whole world seemed to come alive with the ringing of the alarm.

As I watched my roommates chatting and laughing, I thought to myself that I must not have been fully awake before, hallucinating.