The novel tells the story of Qi Xia and others who are forcibly drawn—without choice and without the possibility of refusal—into a terrifying alternate world. This world is defined by an extremely hostile survival environment and an unusually rigid hierarchy of power, whose formation is nevertheless marked by contingency and absurdity. Within it, they are compelled to participate in life-and-death games governed by inflexible rules and brutal costs, endlessly repeating in cycles of ten days. At the same time, the characters persistently seek solutions, search for the origins of the world’s creation, and continuously attempt to escape. Ten Days of Doom reflects the condition of modern individuals trapped within harsh and oppressive structures of order, having lost the capacity to transition into a new stage of existence and thus forced to circulate endlessly within the remnants of the past. The novel offers a profound depiction of a widespread contemporary spiritual predicament, while more sharply engaging with deeper layers of critical inquiry.