01 · Family · playable now
When the Waterline Rose
A storm is crossing the limestone hills. Four surveyors are underground, and the waterline has begun to move.
3 stops · 12–18 min · co-reading · age 9+Enter the cave story →Interactive stories for curious lives
Step into the story.
Leave with your own trail.
Meet a person already in motion. Follow what changes, examine the evidence, and choose only when the story truly needs you. No quiz. No profile.- Free to readNo account required
- 12–18 minFirst playable journey
- Your trailNo profile or forced choices
Start with the scene, not the lesson.
A storm above a cave. A bird beyond the window. A bakery after closing.
Wan Juan Lu turns the worlds around us—and stories from farther away—into journeys you can enter on a phone, one scene and one returning detail at a time.Choose your first door
Find something familiar. Then go somewhere new.
01 · Start close to home
Familiar worlds. One detail changes.
02 · Family mystery · playable now
The Quiet Roof Next Door
On Bea’s last night in the apartment, the roof is empty. Grandpa left one instruction in the sketchbook: if the bird returns, turn the page.
3 scenes · 8–12 min · family co-readingWait with Bea at the window →
03 · City life · playable now
The Market Before Dawn
Before the city wakes, six people are already building its morning. Follow one missing crate through their intersecting lives.
3 scenes · about 10 min · linked handoffsEnter the market before sunrise →
04 · Night work · playable now
The Missing Batch
The bakery is locked, but the flour count is short. Follow a card, a rack photograph and one note in a receipt margin.
3 entries · 7–10 min · evidence dossier · no choicesOpen the closing ledger →
05 · Natural history · playable now
The Tree with Blank Branches
The archive closes in thirty-three minutes. Help Mara move an unfinished evolutionary display without inventing its missing links.
3 scenes · about 10 min · evidence choicesEnter the closing archive →
06 · Audio story · playable now
Three Sounds Left in Room 402
The moving truck arrives in forty-eight minutes. Mara has one blank recording and an empty room that still knows how to speak.
3 continuous scenes · about 8 min · optional audio · no choicesListen at the door of Room 402 →02 · Then travel farther
Journeys from China.
07 · History · playable now
One Day in Chang’an
Enter at Mingde Gate before sunrise. By curfew, the city will have tested every shortcut you tried to take.
12 scenes · city map · history journeyEnter Chang’an before curfew →
08 · Literature · opening next
Ten Turns with Su Shi
A family table, an examination hall, a flood, a prison case and three exiles—follow what his words did in the world.
10 places · poems, letters and public lifeEnglish edition in production
09 · Adults 16+ · darker cultural story
The Eighteen Rooms Below
Speech becomes paper. A mirror keeps only what was done. At the final gate, the record must still be yours.
3 stops · imagined Chinese underworld · no divinationOpen the 16+ underworld story →Preview the 16+ story campaign →First 30 readers · free public pilot
Choose how you want to enter.
Read the story first. If you want, leave a 30-second anonymous response at the end. We record no name, email, phone number, story choice or private writing.A family adventure
Age 9+ readers and adults can compare what they noticed before making each cave decision.
Enter the cave together →A quiet mystery
Follow Bea through one last evening next door. The pressure is small; the returning details are not.
Wait at the window →A story made of sound
Three continuous scenes for headphones, a shared screen or a room listening together. No choices required.
Listen at Room 402 →
For teachers, facilitators and teams
Your First 90 Days as a Manager
A stalled delivery. A difficult one-to-one. One seven-day experiment. This 45-minute facilitated journey is the next English pilot.Brief in review · not yet playableWhat stays the same in every journey
Story first.
A meaningful action—or none.
Something worth keeping.
Read freelyPublic journeys do not end behind a paywall.Pay for a complete workFamilies and facilitators receive something usable, not another diagnosis or outline.Keep human judgmentAI can organize material and offer lenses. It does not decide what a person should value.
Join the free pilot: review a story or choose what opens next →