Chen's POV

In the dark, there were flickering lights. People danced in the streets to the loud music. My beating heart was accompanied by a loud bass. Loud cheers among us grow inaudible as unrecognizable faces emerge from the darkness.

I discovered a semblance of calm in this environment, where the deafening music had become my drug for forgetting about the pain I’d been through. Just to forget about the tears I used to cry.

I sat at the bar, bored, and drank a shot of whisky while listening to the music and watching the people rejoice; all the while, my eyes searched for the person who texted me in...