He lifted his head and recounted the most desperate of experiences with the calmest of tones.
"It's broken, it's broken, it's broken..."
The sentence was repeated three times.
Dongshan was a veteran.
He knew how to use a fire hydrant.
But he couldn't save her.
It's hard to imagine how desperate Dongshan felt at that moment.
Such a small fire hydrant, yet it caused the death of his wife.
This couple had always been patching up this broken world.
But in the end, they were pierced through the heart by its shards.
"By the time I finally rescued my wife, she was on her last breath," he said.