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    One night, Lu Guang dreams of the fire.

    This time, he’s inside the house, tugging Xiaoshi out to the open. Anywhere, he thinks, far away from this heat. From the greedy flames that take it all and leave nothing. Cheng Xiaoshi, ever the fool, pulls away.

    “Our photos,” he shouts, over the embers. “Our memories, Lu Guang!’

    “Leave them,” Lu Guang begs, even as he feels Xiaoshi slipping away. “We can make new ones. We have our whole lives ahead to make more!”

    A burning house, and a foolish lover who walks straight to his death.

    Memories make a man, Lu Guang, his teacher used to say. It’s what we keep living for.

    Wrong, Lǎo Shī, he thinks helplessly, watching as the flames get harsher. His hand burns empty, when it had been so full just a moment ago. Memories do not make a man, they kill him.

     

    Or Cheng Xiaoshi keeps dying, Lu Guang keeps going back.

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