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She didn’t know where she was going until she got there. The Meteor Garden. The rusty gate. The rotunda.

Dao Ming Feng stood up. She was taller than Shancai expected. She walked around the desk, her heels clicking like gunshots. She stopped inches from Shancai’s face.

It started, as these things often do, with a popsicle. meteor garden -2001-

It was the first time he’d used her real name.

He laughed again, that rusty, wonderful sound. And somewhere in the distance, the first train of the morning rattled across the city, and the summer of 2001—the summer of lychee popsicles and cello music and the end of the world—began in earnest. She didn’t know where she was going until she got there

The summer of 2001 tasted like lychee popsicles and the metallic tang of first heartbreak. For Dong Shancai, it was the summer the world ended and began again, all within the overgrown, forgotten geometry of the old meteor garden.

And that, Shancai thought, was enough. For now. The rotunda

He was sitting on the edge of the central fountain, which had been dry for years. His back was to her, but she knew that posture, that expensive haircut, the way his shoulders tensed like a drawn bowstring. Dao Ming Si. In his hands was a beat-up cello, the varnish peeling, a far cry from the carbon-fiber monstrosity she’d seen him play at the school talent show. He was playing a Bach suite, but he was mangling it. He’d stop, curse—a word so foul it made her ears burn—and start again. His fingers, which usually balled into fists to threaten underclassmen, moved with a desperate, clumsy tenderness over the strings.

“Stay away from my son. Or I will destroy everything you love. Starting with your father’s stall. – D.F.”

“Because you don’t own it,” she said. “You don’t own anything here.”