Imagine this: you’re wading through waist-deep water in the middle of Shanghai. The streets you once knew are gone, swallowed by a flood that feels endless. Around you, everything is broken — cars overturned, shop signs half-submerged, pieces of debris drifting past like forgotten memories. Fires burn strangely on the water’s surface, patches of orange and red dancing across the grey flood, crackling in defiance against the rising tide.In the distance, the Oriental Pearl Tower looms, but not as