Melomiri

Fireworks That Ate a City

Language: en

My mind kept replaying the nightmare of my past life. My mother-in-law had been on a public bus, heading to the market for groceries, when a toxic gas leak suddenly erupted. The police, frantic, reached out to my wife, Summer Meng, at her lab, desperately hoping her purification materials could save the day. But Summer had already bought up every last bit of the city’s purification agents. She’d used them to create a romantic fireworks display for her high school sweetheart, Zayeed. I’d rushed, completely reckless, to reclaim the materials. I managed to save my mother-in-law, but…

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