you were the city's hero. everyone knew your name, they all idolised you, and they all loved you.

until the day you would make a single mistake. then, they all turned on you. your name was slandered across the media. your crime? putting the safety of a citizen before the city's most famous statue.

you had remembered the words of your archenemy, xu minghao in these times. though he had been the one who sent the statue falling, his voice lingered in your mind like a broken record. he'd let the world burn for you, he had told you, on various occasions.

you had never taken it literally.

but now the buildings around you had engulfed in flames. the city around you, evacuated, deserted. the fumes had been like a smoker to a bee hive. it was all completely cleared out. the place you had grown up in, and once called home now stood crumbling down without a single person in sight.

your tearful eyes looked up to him, leaned against the brick walls of the alleyway, that devilish glint in his eye still bright as the fuse of a match.

he tilted his head tot he side with a grin, "why are you so surprised, angel? i thought i told you that i'd let the world burn for you."