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00:00:01Ever's the day we were trapped in the snow-covered mountains, Mom has called me a liar.
00:00:08Not because I actually lied, but because of this thing on my wrist, the Thermal-Me-Monitoring Bracelet.
00:00:17My mother, Grace, is obsessed with technology.
00:00:20The one belief she holds above all else is that data never lies.
00:00:30In an environment like this, every single calorie must be used where it matters most.
00:00:36Anyone showing a red light gets no food for the day.
00:00:43Mine is green.
00:00:46Your bracelet is red! You're recklessly consuming the last remaining calories in this house!
00:00:52Mom, I only had a cup of water this morning. I really don't know why it's red!
00:00:57Shut up!
00:00:59Your body has excess heat. You don't deserve any rations today.
00:01:05Mom, I'm really cold and hungry.
00:01:08The machine doesn't lie, Chloe.
00:01:11From that day on, those words became the most unquestionable truth in that cabin.
00:01:16The red light on my bracelet became like a curse.
00:01:19It declared me over-consuming heat every single day.
00:01:22At noon that day, Mom distributed the food.
00:01:25Anna got a larger portion because her bracelet was green.
00:01:27She needs to replenish energy.
00:01:29Mine was pitifully small because my bracelet was flashing red.
00:01:33Mom, I haven't eaten anything. I'm really hungry.
00:01:37Chloe, machines don't lie. Just to get an extra bite, you're actually trying to deceive me.
00:01:42Look at your sister Anna. Her bracelet is always green.
00:01:45She'd rather stay hungry than steal even a scrip of food.
00:01:47And you? You're a thief!
00:01:48I didn't take any food. I really didn't.
00:01:52If you didn't steal anything, then why did I find the last piece of missing from the storage room this
00:01:58morning?
00:01:58I didn't take it!
00:02:10I ate it.
00:02:13She ate it!
00:02:15It's totally Anna! She just told me!
00:02:17Mom, I didn't!
00:02:19Sister, why are you accusing me?
00:02:22Mom, my bracelet is green.
00:02:24How could I have stolen the chocolate?
00:02:31Not only are you selfish enough to steal food, you even viciously frame your own sister!
00:02:38How did I end up with such a cruel daughter?
00:02:52Mom, I didn't lie.
00:02:54It really wasn't me. Please, just believe me this once. Just once.
00:03:00No.
00:03:02Even just a fraction of the tenderness she showed when she looked at Anna.
00:03:08Mom, I really didn't lie to you.
00:03:10Please believe me this time.
00:03:13I'm your daughter.
00:03:15Look at it yourself.
00:03:17Red. Chloe, it's red. It shows excess calories.
00:03:20If you didn't steal food, then who did?
00:03:21Your sister's bracelet is green.
00:03:23She can barely even stand.
00:03:25How could she possibly steal anything?
00:03:26I have to punish a lying child like you.
00:03:38I was wrong.
00:03:40I won't lie again.
00:03:41Mom, please.
00:04:01Mom, will my sister freeze lying there?
00:04:03Her?
00:04:04She won't freeze.
00:04:05Her bracelet is red.
00:04:07She's got excess heat.
00:04:08Anna, don't be like her.
00:04:10Be an honest child.
00:04:14My heart felt like it was being clenched by an icy hand.
00:04:17The pain so intense I could barely breathe.
00:04:21I didn't even have the strength to struggle anymore.
00:04:25My forehead began to burn with heat.
00:04:27Even my breath carried an abnormal warmth.
00:04:30Grace, Chloe doesn't look well.
00:04:32Her face is too red.
00:04:33Could she have a fever?
00:04:35Maybe we should give her some hot water?
00:04:38David, her bracelet is red.
00:04:40This isn't a fever.
00:04:42She secretly ate chocolate and her body temperature rose because of excess calories.
00:04:47She fooled you.
00:04:51You're still lying.
00:04:52Pretending to be sick to gain my sympathy?
00:04:55Looks like you need a real lesson.
00:04:57You're going to the attic right now to reflect on your mistakes.
00:05:09Mom, I really didn't steal the chocolate.
00:05:12I didn't lie.
00:05:24Mom, don't lock me in here.
00:05:29I'll die.
00:05:30When you figure it out, when you admit you stole the chocolate and your bracelet turns green,
00:05:35I'll let you out.
00:05:36Otherwise, you can stay here forever and reflect.
00:05:55Chloe, I'm sorry.
00:05:56I was wrong.
00:05:57I was wrong.
00:05:58I shouldn't have doubted you.
00:06:02Back then, she loved me too, didn't she?
00:06:14Grace, maybe we should let Chloe out.
00:06:16She hasn't eaten anything today.
00:06:18I had Anna bring her some bread.
00:06:20I wanted to say no one had brought me anything,
00:06:22but the words got stuck in my throat
00:06:25because I knew he wouldn't believe me.
00:06:40Big sister, are you cold?
00:06:42Are you hungry?
00:06:44Don't you really want some hot water and a biscuit?
00:06:47Anna, I'm so cold and hungry.
00:06:49Please give me the water and the biscuit.
00:06:52Give it to you?
00:06:56Oh, right.
00:06:57I almost forgot to tell you.
00:06:59That chocolate?
00:07:00I was the one who ate it.
00:07:01So sweet.
00:07:02So delicious.
00:07:03Too bad you didn't get any.
00:07:04But what can you do?
00:07:05Your core shack is red.
00:07:07Mom only believes me, not you.
00:07:09Want a drink?
00:07:10Then beg me.
00:07:11Say you're a liar that you stole the chocolate.
00:07:14Say it and I'll let you drink.
00:07:16Oops.
00:07:17My hand slipped.
00:07:18Sorry, big sister.
00:07:22I looked at the board beneath me as it frozen solid.
00:07:24Suddenly, I couldn't feel my feet anymore.
00:07:26The dizziness from the fever grew stronger and stronger.
00:07:29My vision blurred.
00:07:29I could clearly feel it,
00:07:30my body heat slipping away little by little,
00:07:32my life draining out of me.
00:07:33But I still couldn't accept it.
00:07:35I still hadn't lived to see the day Mom believed me.
00:07:38Mom, I'm so cold.
00:07:40I'm so hungry.
00:07:41I really didn't lie.
00:07:42Please believe me just once, please.
00:07:45Dad, save me.
00:07:48I'm going to die.
00:07:50Dad!
00:07:50Music started playing downstairs.
00:07:52It was the deafening Symphony No. 5.
00:07:55The intense surging music instantly drowned out my faint cries for help.
00:07:59The sound of me pounding on the floor completely swallowed them.
00:08:02She knew I was calling for help.
00:08:04She heard me.
00:08:05She just didn't want to listen.
00:08:07With that thunderous music, she blocked her own ears
00:08:10and completely cut off my last path to survival.
00:08:12My hands stopped pounding.
00:08:14In that moment, all my strength, all my hope, all my unwillingness vanished.
00:08:20I was so hungry.
00:08:22So cold.
00:08:23But Mom would never believe me.
00:08:25She would only believe the bracelet.
00:08:28The machine doesn't lie.
00:08:30What a ridiculous sentence.
00:08:32I don't know how much time passed.
00:08:34My body stopped trembling.
00:08:36Instead, a strange warmth began to spread across my skin.
00:08:39A false, burning sensation, as if I were no longer cold.
00:08:43I raised my hand and looked at my little finger, frozen to a purplish blue.
00:08:47Without a single ripple in my heart, I bent it forcily.
00:08:49Crack.
00:08:50A faint snapping sound.
00:08:51My little finger broke, but I felt no pain at all.
00:08:53So this is what it's like when a person is freezing to death.
00:08:56You really feel nothing.
00:08:57Mom.
00:08:58I thought again of when I was very young.
00:09:00Venster.
00:09:01Her embrace was so her warm.
00:09:02Her smile was so gentle.
00:09:04I want to go back to that time.
00:09:05I want Mom to hug me just once more.
00:09:08February 14th.
00:09:08Seventh day of the blizzard.
00:09:10Mom found the chocolate missing.
00:09:11She said I stole it.
00:09:13It wasn't me.
00:09:13Anna ate it.
00:09:14My bracelet turned red.
00:09:15Mom hit me, shocked me with the bracelet, took my blanket, and gave it to Anna.
00:09:19I'm so cold.
00:09:23Chloe, come here.
00:09:25Let Mom hug you.
00:09:31I felt weightless.
00:09:33I looked down.
00:09:33I was floating.
00:09:34And there below me, I saw myself lying on that frozen pile of cardboard.
00:09:38My right hand was missing a little finger.
00:09:40The dead girl's wrist was still flashing red.
00:09:42Oh.
00:09:43Oh.
00:09:44I'm dead.
00:09:44I looked down.
00:09:45My body was still curled up on the freezing wooden floor.
00:09:48The thermal monitoring bracelet was still tightly fastened around my lifeless, purplish
00:09:52wrist.
00:09:53The red light continued flashing tirelessly, reflecting on my pale, expressionless face.
00:09:58Eerie and ironic.
00:10:00I was dead.
00:10:00I died at the age of ten in a blizzard in the Alps, locked in a freezing attic by my
00:10:04mom I loved most, frozen to death.
00:10:06I hovered there, looking at my own corpse.
00:10:08I didn't cry.
00:10:09I wasn't afraid.
00:10:10There was only a vast, lifeless calm inside me, like a nightmare that had lasted ten years,
00:10:14finally ending.
00:10:14My soul passed through the attic door like a gust of wind, without the slightest resistance.
00:10:20I drifted down the stairs, into the living room.
00:10:23Mom, Dad, and Anna were gathered around the table by the fire, smiles on their faces.
00:10:29Smiles I hadn't seen in a long time.
00:10:31The satellite phone on the table was lit.
00:10:33I heard it.
00:10:35Just moments ago, Mom had gotten through to the rescue team.
00:10:38They said the blizzard had weakened.
00:10:40In two days, they would be able to fly up in a helicopter and take us down the mountain.
00:10:45We were saved, except me.
00:10:48I died three days before the rescue arrived.
00:10:51I died just as the storm was about to end.
00:10:53That's great!
00:10:54We can finally leave this awful place!
00:10:56Mom, I want cake!
00:10:58Don't we still have that emergency cream cake in storage?
00:11:01I want to eat it now!
00:11:03Alright.
00:11:08That cake Dad had bought it for me before we came to the mountains.
00:11:11I couldn't bear to eat it, so I hid it deep in the storage room.
00:11:14I wanted to wait until the blizzard ended, then take it out and share it with Mom, Dad, and my
00:11:19sister.
00:11:20I had even drawn a picture of our family on the box and written the words,
00:11:24I love Mom.
00:11:27Eat slowly.
00:11:28No one's going to take it from you.
00:11:31Hmm.
00:11:32When we get down the mountain, I'll buy you a bigger, even better cake.
00:11:37I floated in front of them, watching this warm, joyful scene.
00:11:41And somewhere where my heart should have been, there was pain.
00:11:45Oh, right.
00:11:46Chloe is still locked in the attic.
00:11:49Since rescue is coming soon, maybe we should let her out.
00:11:52Let her have something to eat.
00:11:54She's been locked up for two days.
00:11:56She's been locked up for two days!
00:11:58She should have learned her lesson!
00:12:10My breath stopped instantly.
00:12:12Was she going to the attic?
00:12:14Was she going to see me?
00:12:15Was she finally going to discover that I was dead?
00:12:22Chloe.
00:12:26Chloe.
00:12:27Chloe, come out and eat!
00:12:28No response.
00:12:30I'm inside.
00:12:31I can't answer you!
00:12:33I'm already dead!
00:12:35If you open the door, you'll see my body!
00:12:37I'm already dead!
00:12:38I looked at Mom with sorrow.
00:12:40If she found out I was dead, would she be sad?
00:12:43Would she regret it?
00:12:45Still sulking?
00:12:46You're already ten, not five.
00:12:48Trying to get my attention this way?
00:12:50Then don't come out.
00:12:51Mom, I'm not sulking!
00:12:53I'm dead!
00:12:53I'm already dead!
00:12:54Look at me!
00:12:55I froze to death!
00:12:56Right there in the attic!
00:12:57I'm not lying!
00:12:59The bracelet is broken!
00:13:00Anna ate it!
00:13:00Look at me!
00:13:02Why did it suddenly get so cold?
00:13:04Is the fireplace not burning strong enough?
00:13:06David, go add some more wood.
00:13:07Mom couldn't hear my voice.
00:13:09She couldn't feel my presence.
00:13:12I was a ghost.
00:13:13A ghost who died at her hands.
00:13:15Ignored and forgotten.
00:13:19Shouldn't we turn on the heating?
00:13:21The rescue team will be here soon anyway.
00:13:23You're right.
00:13:24Let them see that even in this kind of environment,
00:13:26we can still maintain a scientific standard of living.
00:13:30She went downstairs and turned on the central heating
00:13:33and the floor heating throughout the house.
00:13:36The temperature in the attic rose as well.
00:13:39My body began to decompose faster.
00:13:45Water spread outward, soaking through the cardboard,
00:13:48seeping into the floor.
00:13:50I watched my body grow colder and stiffer,
00:13:53little by little,
00:13:54until signs of decay began to appear.
00:13:57That was my smell.
00:13:59The smell of death.
00:14:00They were going to leave after being rescued.
00:14:03They were going to leave this cabin that had trapped me.
00:14:06They were going to leave my body here,
00:14:08forever in this cold attic.
00:14:10I'll take something to Chloe.
00:14:12She's been in the attic for two days.
00:14:14She hasn't even had a sip of water.
00:14:15Take what?
00:14:16Her red light is on like that.
00:14:18She's got more than enough energy.
00:14:19She won't starve.
00:14:25Dad, open the door.
00:14:27Hurry, open it.
00:14:29If you just turn the handle,
00:14:30you'll see that I'm not moving anymore.
00:14:32You'll see my darkened face.
00:14:39Hello?
00:14:40Rescue team?
00:14:41Yes, this is David.
00:14:42What?
00:14:43You can come up the mountain in two days?
00:14:45That's great!
00:14:46The rescue team said the blizzard will completely stop.
00:14:48In two days, they'll be able to come up.
00:14:53It was that close, just that tiny bit.
00:14:55Just one second.
00:14:56I could have been found.
00:14:57Maybe then,
00:14:59I wouldn't have to keep decaying.
00:15:11Mom was the first to notice.
00:15:15What is that smell?
00:15:17It's disgusting.
00:15:18Oh my God!
00:15:19It stinks!
00:15:20It's coming from the attic.
00:15:22Did my sister go on the floor?
00:15:24Did she do it on purpose?
00:15:25Is she trying to stink us to death?
00:15:32Chloe!
00:15:32What are you doing in there?
00:15:35It stinks!
00:15:36It stinks!
00:15:41Oh my God.
00:15:51Chloe, didn't you want to disgust us?
00:15:53Fine.
00:15:54Then stay in there with your stink.
00:15:56Don't even think about coming out to pollute our air.
00:16:00The last trace of my attachment to her snapped completely.
00:16:03Just like that strip of tape.
00:16:05She would rather seal the cracks of the door with tape
00:16:07and endure the increasingly unbearable stench
00:16:10then push the door open
00:16:11and look at her own daughter.
00:16:13I'm right here.
00:16:15Thank you.
00:16:16Can't you see me?
00:16:22The tape in the end
00:16:23couldn't block the overwhelming stench of a rotting body.
00:16:26Another day passed.
00:16:27It was the day the rescue team
00:16:29had promised to come up the mountain.
00:16:45Chloe!
00:16:46I've had enough of you,
00:16:47you disgusting little brat!
00:16:49What exactly are you trying to do?
00:16:51Making the whole house stink on purpose?
00:16:52Are you trying to torment us?
00:16:54I'm going to teach you a lesson today!
00:17:11Chloe?
00:17:13Chloe?
00:17:24I'm talking to you, Chloe!
00:17:47Chloe?
00:17:50Chloe?
00:17:50No.
00:17:51No, that's impossible.
00:17:53Chloe?
00:17:54You're pretending, aren't you, Chloe?
00:17:56You're lying to Mom again, aren't you?
00:17:59Get up!
00:18:00Mom's not angry anymore!
00:18:02I won't scold you again!
00:18:04Get up!
00:18:04Don't scare me!
00:18:06Please!
00:18:07Her hand trembled as she reached beneath my nose.
00:18:10No breath.
00:18:11Then she reached for my neck,
00:18:12feeling for a pulse.
00:18:14Nothing.
00:18:14Only coldness.
00:18:16Only silence.
00:18:17I was truly dead.
00:18:18Dead in the attic she had locked with her own hands.
00:18:21Dead in the cold and hunger she had caused.
00:18:23Dead under the gaze she never once chose to believe.
00:18:27Impossible.
00:18:28The machine doesn't lie.
00:18:31Impossible.
00:18:40They had followed the sound of the screams.
00:18:42The team leader pushed open the attic door and froze the moment he saw what was inside.
00:18:47The body of a ten-year-old girl lay curled up on the cold floor, a bracelet flashing red
00:18:52on her wrist.
00:18:53A woman sat collapsed on the ground, screaming like a madwoman, her eyes unfocused, completely
00:18:59deranged.
00:18:59David and Anna, who had followed behind, turned deathly pale the moment they saw my body.
00:19:06David's legs gave out, and he collapsed at the doorway, his whole body trembling violently.
00:19:12How did this happen?
00:19:12How did this happen?
00:19:13How did this happen?
00:19:14He finally understood, behind the door he had almost opened that day, lay his daughter's
00:19:20cold corpse.
00:19:22He finally understood that his repeated hesitation and retreat had ultimately pushed me to my death.
00:19:28Anna hid behind David, staring at my bluish, swollen face, and fear finally showed on her
00:19:34face.
00:19:34She burst into tears, clinging tightly to David's arm, her body shaking like a leaf in the autumn
00:19:40wind, barely able to stand.
00:19:43She was finally afraid.
00:19:45She finally understood that her prank, her lies, her framing, had cost a life, had killed
00:19:52her own sister.
00:19:55Quick!
00:19:57Call a doctor!
00:19:58Seal off the scene!
00:19:59The rescue team leader quickly snapped out of it and shouted sharply at the others.
00:20:04Unable to suppress the anger in his voice, the team set up a cordon.
00:20:08A doctor pushed through the crowd and entered the attic, crouching beside my body for a long
00:20:13time, examining carefully, his movements gentle, as if afraid of damaging my already fragile
00:20:19skin.
00:20:20Severe hypothermia.
00:20:22Organ failure.
00:20:24This child was starved for at least a month, and in temperatures well below freezing, she
00:20:29froze to death.
00:20:30Time of death was two to three days ago.
00:20:32It's not my fault!
00:20:35She was lying!
00:20:37She stole food!
00:20:38Look!
00:20:39The bracelet is red!
00:20:41The red light!
00:20:42It says she has excess calories!
00:20:44I follow the data!
00:20:45Machines don't lie!
00:20:47The doctor frowned, crouched down, and carefully tried to remove the bracelet from my wrist,
00:20:52but the strap had fused tightly with my frozen purplish skin, almost as if it had grown into
00:20:58the flesh.
00:20:59Gritting his teeth, the doctor took out specialized tools and carefully pried the bracelet off.
00:21:04Little by little, I floated in mid-air, watching the bracelet that had been on me for ten whole
00:21:09days finally leave my wrist.
00:21:11This cold shackle that had trapped me for ten days, that had caused my death, finally fell
00:21:16away.
00:21:17The doctor held the bracelet, turning it over and over, then opened the casing on the back.
00:21:23After just one glance, he let out a cold laugh, looking up at mom.
00:21:28Ma'am, your so-called infuelable machine has been broken for a long time.
00:21:33The temperature sensor and calorie monitoring module have completely failed.
00:21:37The circuit shorted out, which is why the red light stays on.
00:21:40From the very first day it was worn, it was already broken.
00:21:44It couldn't measure anything at all.
00:21:46It could only keep flashing red.
00:21:47The truth, she had trusted above all else.
00:21:51The things she relied on to judge my life and death, had been a joke from the very beginning.
00:21:59You are lying.
00:22:05I hadn't lied.
00:22:07Not once.
00:22:09The bracelet was broken.
00:22:12She was wrong.
00:22:14No.
00:22:15No, that's impossible.
00:22:19No!
00:22:20Impossible!
00:22:21Machines don't lie!
00:22:23Ah!
00:22:26Look!
00:22:27Anna's bracelet is still green!
00:22:29This proves the system works!
00:22:31This is scientific!
00:22:33At that moment, a female rescue worker walked over to Anna, bent down, and took something out of the pocket.
00:22:39It had been hidden there for days, crumpled beyond recognition, still smeared with traces of chocolate, holding the wrapper.
00:22:47The rescue worker walked up to mom and said coldly,
00:22:51Ma'am, is this the chocolate you said was stolen?
00:22:55We found it in your younger daughter's pocket.
00:22:58All eyes turned instantly toward Anna.
00:23:01Anna's face went pale in an instant.
00:23:08It wasn't me!
00:23:10My sister told me to hide it!
00:23:13She ate it, not me!
00:23:17But this time, no one believed her anymore.
00:23:23Little girl, take off your bracelet and show it to me.
00:23:27Anna froze instantly.
00:23:32No!
00:23:32Mom gave it to me!
00:23:34I won't take it off!
00:23:35But the doctor gave her no chance to argue.
00:23:37He pulled out a screwdriver and pried the bracelet open on the spot.
00:23:42What was inside made everyone gasp.
00:23:44No sensors.
00:23:45No chip.
00:23:46No heat.
00:23:47Monitoring module.
00:23:49Nothing at all.
00:23:50Only two cheap green LED lights and a button battery.
00:23:53The circuit was hardwired, once powered.
00:23:56It is just a two yuan toy.
00:23:57He doctor slammed the shattered bracelet onto the ground in front of mom.
00:24:02His voice trembled with barely contained rage.
00:24:05This bracelet of your younger daughter was designed to always show green from the very beginning.
00:24:09No matter what she said, what she did, or how much she lied, it would always stay green.
00:24:14Ma'am, your so-called scientific survival system, your so-called infuelable data, from beginning
00:24:19to end was nothing but a complete joke, a sick, biased joke.
00:24:23You personally froze your honest daughter to death in that attic while treating a compulsive
00:24:27liar like treasure.
00:24:28Mom looked at the shattered plastic pieces on the ground, at the toy still glowing green,
00:24:34and suddenly, she laughed.
00:24:38She laughed loudly, so loudly that tears came out of her eyes.
00:24:43She doubled over, collapsing onto the floor, her whole body curling up with laughter.
00:24:52Fake.
00:24:53It's all fake.
00:24:55Mom suddenly screamed, and then she did something insane.
00:24:58No way!
00:25:00The bracelet can't be wrong.
00:25:01I didn't eat anything today.
00:25:03My calories couldn't possibly be over.
00:25:06It'll turn green.
00:25:07She grabbed the bracelet, still stained with my blood and fragments of skin, and snapped
00:25:12it onto her own wrist.
00:25:13She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.
00:25:16She raised her wrist, her eyes wild.
00:25:19Look.
00:25:20It'll turn green.
00:25:21The red light flared bright, violent.
00:25:23Mom's confident expression shattered instantly.
00:25:26She slapped at the bracelet, like it was a broken television, panic rising in her voice.
00:25:31What?
00:25:31No!
00:25:32My calories can't be over!
00:25:34I didn't exceed anything!
00:25:36Why is it red?
00:25:37I didn't lie!
00:25:39She started speaking faster and faster.
00:25:42It's broken!
00:25:43The doctor broke it!
00:25:44I'll try again!
00:25:45I've never abused her!
00:25:46I was doing it for her good!
00:25:47I love...
00:25:49Why is it red?
00:25:50I'm telling the truth!
00:25:52Turn green, you piece of junk!
00:25:53You're framing me!
00:25:54Suddenly, she remembered me, ten-year-old me, punished so severely, curled up on the
00:26:00floor, biting my lip to stop myself from screaming.
00:26:03But the red light kept flashing, as if it was speaking to her, again and again.
00:26:08You are a liar.
00:26:09You are a liar.
00:26:10No!
00:26:11Mom suddenly screamed, clawing frantically at the bracelet, trying to rip it off her wrist.
00:26:18Take it off!
00:26:19It's red!
00:26:19I'm not a liar!
00:26:21I'm not!
00:26:21But the clasp had locked due to her violent struggle, like a shackle, tightly bound to
00:26:26her wrist, just as it had once been tightly bound to mine.
00:26:31A doctor picked up the diary from the floor.
00:26:34He flipped through it, page by page, his expression growing darker and darker.
00:26:41February 14th.
00:26:42Day 7 of the blizzard.
00:26:44Mom found the chocolate missing.
00:26:45She said I stole it.
00:26:47I didn't.
00:26:47It was Anna who ate it.
00:26:48My bracelet turned red.
00:26:50Mom hit me, shocked me with the brazier.
00:26:52Mom locked me in the acnic.
00:26:54Dad took my bring-me-food...
00:26:55But Anna stopped him.
00:26:56Anna poured hot water onto my cardboard bed.
00:26:58I hit the floor and called for Mom.
00:26:59But she turned up the music so loud she couldn't hear me.
00:27:03When I was 9, Anna broke Mom's most precious tech robot and cried saying I did it, without
00:27:09even asking.
00:27:11Mom locked me in the storage room for a full day and night with no food or water.
00:27:15I banged on the door, crying that it wasn't me, but she wouldn't listen.
00:27:20And Anna, she was curled up in Mom's arms, eating sweet strawberries.
00:27:24Watching me be locked away with a happy smile.
00:27:27Countless days and nights, Anna stole my toys, tore my drawings, ruined my homework, and then
00:27:33cried to Mom, saying I didn't.
00:27:35Every single time, Mom believed Anna without question, then scolded me, punished me, and
00:27:41made me stand in a cold corner without food.
00:27:45Machines don't lie.
00:27:48Anna's wristband is green.
00:27:50You're just a liar.
00:27:51Mom, I really didn't lie.
00:27:53I've never lied to you.
00:27:55I know you don't like me, but I still love you.
00:27:58If I die, will you regret it?
00:28:00Will you miss me even a little?
00:28:02If there's a next life, can you believe me once?
00:28:07Can you please stop calling me a liar?
00:28:10Every word struck like a heavy hammer, crashing down on on my mom's heart.
00:28:15She covered her face and let out a heart-wrenching cry, like a wounded beast.
00:28:20She remembered the fourth day of the blizzard, the slap she gave me across the face, and the
00:28:26electric shock that coursed through my entire body.
00:28:30She remembered pulling the only blanket off me and wrapping it around Anna instead, and the
00:28:35despair in my eyes.
00:28:39She remembered me banging on the floor, screaming for her help, while she deliberately turned
00:28:44up Symphony of Fate to the maximum volume to block out her own ears.
00:28:49She remembered sealing the cracks of the attic door with tape, and the disgust and impatience
00:28:54she felt at the time.
00:28:57She had personally, little by little, pushed her daughter toward death.
00:29:02She had personally killed the little girl who loved her most, and trusted her most.
00:29:10Mom let out a piercing scream, and suddenly raised her head, looking toward Anna curled up
00:29:16in the corner.
00:29:17It's you!
00:29:18It's all you!
00:29:20She lunged forward like a madwoman, tightly gripping Anna's throat.
00:29:25Screaming hysterically.
00:29:28You're the one who lied.
00:29:29You're the one who stole the chocolate.
00:29:31You tricked me.
00:29:33You killed Chloe.
00:29:34I'm going to kill you.
00:29:37You'll pay for my daughter's life.
00:29:42The rescue staff and doctors rushed in and pulled Mom away, pinning her firmly down on
00:29:48the sofa.
00:29:50My dad watched everything.
00:29:52The crazed mother.
00:29:54The terrified Anna.
00:29:55And the blood-stained note in the evidence bag.
00:29:58And finally snapped.
00:30:03You monster!
00:30:06That was your daughter!
00:30:07Our daughter!
00:30:08You froze her to death with your own hands!
00:30:11How dare you!
00:30:12How could you!
00:30:14It's not my fault.
00:30:17It was the wristband.
00:30:19It was Anna.
00:30:21It's not my fault.
00:30:23My body was placed into a black body bag.
00:30:27The zipper slowly closed, sealing away my short ten years of life filled with pain and despair.
00:30:32Don't take her away.
00:30:34Don't take her away!
00:30:34Give her river back to me!
00:31:01Give her river back to me!
00:31:09You're alive!
00:31:12I'm sorry!
00:31:23I'm sorry!
00:31:28I'm sorry!
00:31:30Don't take her away!
00:31:32I need to teach her my baby.
00:31:32I don't get her back to me.
00:31:32Outrage.
00:31:41And that father too he did nothing the entire time, just watched his daughter being abused,
00:31:46he deserves to die as well. A flood of insults poured in like an avalanche,
00:31:51crashing down on my mom, my dad, and this shattered family. On the second day after
00:31:56the incident escalated, our villa at the foot of the mountain was completely surrounded by
00:32:01an enraged crowd. The front gate had been splashed with bright red paint. In thick black marker,
00:32:07the words murderers, get out of this city, and justice for Chloe, were written everywhere.
00:32:13The villa windows had been smashed with bricks. Red paint and abusive slogans covered the walls
00:32:19and floors. At the entrance reporters and furious protesters packed tightly together. Behind them,
00:32:27the crowd held signs filled with insults, chanting loudly until the noise shook the air.
00:32:32Grace, the murderer, get out! You don't deserve to be a mother! Pay for Chloe's life!
00:32:37Evil family, get out of Switzerland!
00:32:40Neighbors had already moved out one after another. The property management even came with legal notices,
00:32:46demanding we leave immediately, saying our presence had severely damaged neighborhood safety and property
00:32:51values and caused extreme disturbance to other residents. Inside the villa, everything was in
00:32:56chaos. The curtains were tightly drawn. The lights stayed off. Only the glow of the television
00:33:01illuminated the pale faces of my dad and my mom. The house phone had been completely overwhelmed.
00:33:06Every call that came through brought waves of insults and curses. Even the mobile phones couldn't be
00:33:11turned on. The moment they were switched on, countless abusive messages and non-stop harassing
00:33:15calls flooded in.
00:33:17It's not my fault. It's not my fault.
00:33:27I'm gonna kill you.
00:33:30It's all your fault! All of it! If it weren't for that damn bracelet of yours, if you hadn't
00:33:35trusted those useless data of readings, Chloe wouldn't be dead. We wouldn't have ended up
00:33:39like this! You're a madwoman! A murderer!
00:33:45What right do you have to blame me? You were there to save her. You're an accomplice.
00:33:49You deserve to die, too!
00:34:02What's wrong with your account?
00:34:20What's wrong with your starkTINjs now?
00:34:20Yes!
00:34:20Mom and Dad had no choice but to sell the house, the car, and everything valuable in the home to
00:34:26cover legal fees and compensation.
00:34:42How dare you!
00:34:47Stop!
00:34:57Don't touch my things! Those are mine! Give them back!
00:35:05These items have been seized and auctioned by the court. They no longer belong to you.
00:35:23If you fail to repay the debt, we will file for court enforcement and have you imprisoned it.
00:35:29Don't think I monsieur should be insecure from you.
00:36:06Anna, look at Anna.
00:36:09It's not fair.
00:36:45Didn't you love lying?
00:36:46It wasn't me.
00:36:47I didn't kill my sister.
00:36:49Didn't you have that bracelet with the always green signal?
00:36:51Why doesn't anyone believe you now?
00:36:53You deserve it.
00:36:54This is what you get for what you did to your sister.
00:36:56Liar.
00:36:56Thief.
00:36:57Murderer.
00:36:58Why don't they bully anyone else?
00:36:59Just you.
00:37:01Maybe you should reflect on yourself.
00:37:03When you harmed your sister, when you harmed your...
00:37:05Did you ever think this day would come?
00:37:14Let me out.
00:37:15Please let me out.
00:37:16I didn't steal it.
00:37:17I really did it.
00:37:18I knew what it was.
00:37:36I want to look out.
00:37:40I just nicht.
00:37:57This was her rightful punishment.
00:38:02As for Mom, her fate was even more tragic than anyone else's.
00:38:07The defendant should undergo a forensic psychiatric evaluation.
00:38:14I'm not crazy. Everything I do is based on the data from the scientific wristband.
00:38:18I didn't do anything wrong.
00:38:29Can you explain the behavior at that time?
00:38:33I didn't do anything wrong. The bracelet is broken. Anna lied to me.
00:38:44Chloe, sorry. It's all my fault.
00:38:52Machines don't lie. Red light.
00:38:58Chloe, I'm sorry.
00:39:00She had lost the capacity for civil conduct and was unfit to serve a prison sentence.
00:39:07She would be forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for lifelong isolated treatment.
00:39:15I'm not crazy. You're the ones who are crazy.
00:39:19The bracelet was broken. It's not my fault. I'm not insane.
00:39:24I was right. The data doesn't lie.
00:39:27Chloe lied to me. Anna lied to me.
00:39:30I'm not crazy. Let me out.
00:39:33Just like no one had believed me back then, police officers and caretakers walked in carrying restraint straps.
00:39:41The moment Mom saw them, she reacted like a startled beast.
00:39:45She kept retreating, then suddenly tried to run toward Dad's direction, as if hoping he would save her.
00:39:51But Dad had long since disappeared.
00:39:55In the courtroom, there was not a single person on her side.
00:40:01In that moment, she was truly alone.
00:40:04Just like I once was, trapped in the attic with no one to turn to.
00:40:12Before being sent to the psychiatric hospital, she did something insane.
00:40:16That was the day my body was sent to the funeral home.
00:40:19Hey!
00:40:27Chloe, back!
00:40:33Chloe!
00:40:34Mom was wrong! Come back! I'm sorry!
00:40:39Chloe!
00:40:41Wait for me!
00:40:50Her feet suffered severe frostbite, and the tissue completely neckerated.
00:40:56The doctors had no choice but to perform an amputation, cutting everything below the knees.
00:41:02She became a woman without legs.
00:41:06Completely broken.
00:41:08And completely insane.
00:41:11Get out! Chloe!
00:41:13In the psychiatric hospital, she became the strangest patient.
00:41:17No one knew where she got it from, but she found a red plastic ring and wore it around her
00:41:22neck like a collar.
00:41:23It was her self-made calorie monitoring bracelet.
00:41:28Don't touch my light!
00:41:30Don't touch my light! Chloe is watching! If you take it away, she'll get angry!
00:41:35Grace! Grace! Grace! Grace! Grace, it's time to eat.
00:41:39Grace! Grace!
00:41:40Don't punish me, Chloe! I'm sorry!
00:41:43She was reliving my final moments before death.
00:41:47She locked herself inside the same cold attic where I had once been trapped, reliving my personal hell over and
00:41:53over again.
00:41:54Chloe, I'm sorry. Mom was wrong. Please come back, okay?
00:41:58Mom will never trust the bracelet again. Mom will bake you cake, cover you with blankets.
00:42:02I confess. I confess.
00:42:06Red light! Red light!
00:42:08Chloe! Mom was wrong! Mom shouldn't have trusted the red light!
00:42:23Chloe, are you there?
00:42:25Mom threw the bracelet away. Mom doesn't believe in it anymore.
00:42:29Please come back. Please come back. Mom will cook for you. Mom will buy you new dresses.
00:42:33There was no ripple in my heart. Only a dead silence. Regret means nothing to the dead.
00:42:39It was too late.
00:42:40Mom, it's all too late.
00:42:44When I was locked in the attic and frozen to death, where was your remorse?
00:42:48When I used my last strength to write a blood-written plea, begging you to believe me just once, where
00:42:54was your remorse?
00:42:55Mom, I don't hate you anymore. But I don't love you anymore either.
00:43:00In the next life, let's not meet again.
00:43:07I drifted through the snowstorm of the Alps. Snow fell onto my body, yet I felt no cold at all.
00:43:13I was finally free. No red lights, no hunger, no cold, no lies, no mom's hatred, no Anna's framing, no
00:43:20dad's inaction.
00:43:21Only boundless freedom.
00:43:51Just then, I heard a familiar bark.
00:43:53I was going to say, I saw my head against my hand, staying with me.
00:43:56But mom didn't like it. She said dogs carry germs and would affect her research.
00:44:02Before we came to the snowy mountains for vacation, she took advantage of a moment when I wasn't paying attention,
00:44:07and abandoned Bunny in the mountains.
00:44:11Bunny! Bunny!
00:44:15I cried for days and searched for days, but I never found him.
00:44:19It turns out he had always been here, waiting for me at the border.
00:44:30Let's go. Don't look back.
00:44:32I could feel his soft, warm fur, feel his body temperature, feel his heartbeat.
00:44:38This was the living, breathing connection I had longed for most when I was alive.
00:44:47In the distance, a door of light appeared.
00:44:49It was the entrance to the next cycle of reincarnation.
00:44:54I turned back and took one last look at this world that had tormented me for ten years.
00:44:58One look in the direction of the psychiatric hospital, and one look at the wooden cabin that had trapped me.
00:45:04Then I turned around, holding Buddy's paw, and walked step by step toward that door of light.
00:45:10Everything behind me became like a faded photograph, slowly blurring and dissolving.
00:45:16My mother's final tears, the bracelet's red glow, the blood-written message on the floor, the freezing attic.
00:45:23All of it vanished.
00:45:24I did not look back.
00:45:25The nightmare that had lasted wood for ten years had finally come to a true end.
00:45:31Passing through that light, there was no spinning, no chaos, only endless warmth as if I were sinking into a
00:45:37spring stream.
00:45:38Even the pain deep within my soul, those lingering aches and phantom pains, gradually faded away.
00:45:44Buddy's paw in my hand was warm and gentle.
00:45:46When I opened my eyes again, I was small, wrapped in a soft blanket.
00:45:51Someone was humming.
00:45:54It was a woman's voice.
00:45:56Gentle, slightly off-key, yet filled with love.
00:46:00Her fingers lightly brushed across my cheek, carrying the scent of gardenias.
00:46:04Not the cold, disinfectant smell from my mother in my previous life.
00:46:08Not that clinical, distant feeling.
00:46:11You're awake.
00:46:13Honey, come quickly.
00:46:15Our daughter just blinked.
00:46:17He was tall, with healthy, wheel-coloured skin weathered features.
00:46:21But his eyes were exceptionally gentle.
00:46:24He was my father in this sweet life, Martin.
00:46:27He was the same rescue captain from my previous life.
00:46:30The first person to rush into the attic and find my body.
00:46:36Hey Charlotte, I'm your dad.
00:46:40Charlotte, not Chloe.
00:46:42No burden, no shackles, no lies, no label of liar.
00:46:48Just Charlotte.
00:46:49A name that meant warmth, being cherished, and being loved unconditionally.
00:46:54I grew up in a home filled with love.
00:46:56Our house wasn't big, but it was clean and warm.
00:46:58In the living room, there was a large fireplace that burned brightly every winter, filling
00:47:03everything with cozy heat.
00:47:05There were no heat-monitoring bracelets, no red or green lights, no strict food rationing,
00:47:11no cold attic.
00:47:12Only endless love and unconditional trust.
00:47:16When I was three years old, my mother made hot cocoa.
00:47:19The aroma drifted from the kitchen into the living room.
00:47:30Baby, I'm here.
00:47:36Charlotte, you're safe now.
00:47:38I'm here.
00:47:39Dad is here.
00:47:40No one will hurt you.
00:47:42My throat's hurt.
00:47:44Don't want hot cocoa.
00:47:48Not like the hot water in that attic thermos that Anna once poured out.
00:47:52Not something that had been held up to my mouth before being taken away.
00:47:56When I was four years old, the kindergarten organized a health checkup that included a
00:48:01blood test.
00:48:09Charlotte, it's just a tiny poke.
00:48:11It won't hurt.
00:48:11Look at the other children.
00:48:12They're all very brave.
00:48:13Don't punish me.
00:48:14It's okay, Charlotte.
00:48:14I didn't lie.
00:48:15Don't shock me.
00:48:17It's okay.
00:48:19Sorry, my child's experienced trauma.
00:48:21We're going to skip the physical exam for now.
00:48:23We'll take her to a child psychologist and we'll come back when she's ready.
00:48:31Charlotte, did someone hurt you before?
00:48:35Bracelet, red light, so cold.
00:48:38My baby, you must have suffered so much, didn't you?
00:48:42It's okay now.
00:48:43You're home.
00:48:45Mom and Dad are here.
00:48:47No one can hurt you anymore.
00:48:48From that day on, they regularly took me to see a child psychologist.
00:48:54The doctor said I had severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
00:48:59My parents never complained once.
00:49:02They never made me feel like a burden.
00:49:04They stayed with me, played games with me, did therapy exercises with me, slowly healing
00:49:11the wounds in my heart.
00:49:13They bought me many, many colorful, beautiful bracelets, but they never forced me to wear
00:49:20any of them.
00:49:22These are just accessories, Charlotte.
00:49:24Wear them if you like.
00:49:25If you don't, just take them off.
00:49:26No matter what, your dad and I will always love you.
00:49:28I looked at the sparkling bracelet on my wrist.
00:49:30There was no red light, no electric shock, no accusation, only my mother's gentle smile.
00:49:35It took me two lifetimes to finally hear those words.
00:49:37When I was five years old, I once had a fever.
00:49:42I started crying uncontrollably.
00:49:44I feel hot.
00:49:45It wasn't because I felt unwell.
00:49:47It was because what I said.
00:49:49Mom immediately took a thermometer and checked my temperature.
00:50:00Mom, if I say I feel hot, do you believe me?
00:50:07I believe you.
00:50:09If you say you're hot, then you're hot.
00:50:11The thermometer says you're hot, too.
00:50:13Of course I believe you.
00:50:14What if the thermometer didn't say I was hot, but I said I was?
00:50:18Would you still believe me?
00:50:20I would.
00:50:20Your feelings are your own.
00:50:22They don't need any machine to prove them.
00:50:25I held on to those words in my heart for a long, long time.
00:50:29The afternoon, I had a fever.
00:50:32It started snowing outside.
00:50:34Dad wrapped me in a blanket and held me by the window as we watched the snow.
00:50:38Mom loved snowy days the most when I was a child, building snowmen with my brother.
00:50:43Once I had placed the snowman's nose where its eyes should be.
00:50:51It was so the snowman could look down at its own feet.
00:50:55Otherwise, it would never know what it was wearing.
00:50:58I was wrapped in that blanket simply because they wanted me to feel warm,
00:51:02so they wrapped me up in it.
00:51:04It was soft, thick, and warm.
00:51:06I buried my face in it and took a breath.
00:51:08It smelled like fabric softener.
00:51:11Clean, dry, and unmistakably the scent of home.
00:51:14When I was seven, I started elementary school.
00:51:17There was a girl in my class named Lena.
00:51:19She looked exactly like Anna from my previous life.
00:51:22The same eyes, the same face shape.
00:51:29Sister, you're so pitiful.
00:51:37I'm...
00:51:37My name is Lena.
00:51:39You...
00:51:40Do you want to be my friend?
00:51:42Her tone was so cautious, so eager to please.
00:51:45Just like me in my previous life,
00:51:47almost instinctively, I glanced at her wrist.
00:51:51She was wearing a cheap green cartoon wristband.
00:51:54Later, I learned that Lena's mother was also extremely strict.
00:51:58She demanded absolute obedience and absolute honesty.
00:52:01If Lena made even the smallest mistake,
00:52:03she would be locked in her room and denied food.
00:52:06Lena, just like my past self, lived in endless fear and suppression.
00:52:10One day, Lena accidentally broke the teacher's glass cup.
00:52:18I looked at her,
00:52:19at the fear and despair in her eyes.
00:52:21In that instant, I was reminded of my past self.
00:52:24The little girl who lay on the cold floor,
00:52:27writing I am a liar over and over again,
00:52:29begging for forgiveness again and again.
00:52:34Lena, it's okay.
00:52:35Accidents happen.
00:52:36Let's go tell the teacher together, okay?
00:52:39The teacher won't be angry.
00:52:41But, Mom said that children who lie are bad kids,
00:52:45and they will be punished.
00:52:47Being honest doesn't mean you never make mistakes.
00:52:49It means that when you do make a mistake,
00:52:51you're brave enough to admit it.
00:52:52And even if you tell the truth, you shouldn't be punished for it.
00:52:56I broke the cup.
00:52:58I'm sorry.
00:52:59The teacher didn't get angry.
00:53:01Instead, she smiled,
00:53:03patted both our heads,
00:53:04and said it was okay,
00:53:06just to be more careful next time.
00:53:08From that day on,
00:53:09we became best friends.
00:53:11I took Lena home to meet my parents.
00:53:14She looked at my mom and dad,
00:53:16so gentle,
00:53:17so patient,
00:53:18never shouting over small things,
00:53:20never punishing a child for making mistakes.
00:53:23Her eyes were filled with envy.
00:53:25Lena, you don't need to please everyone.
00:53:27You're allowed to have your own feelings.
00:53:29You can say no.
00:53:30You can be scared.
00:53:31You can make mistakes.
00:53:33None of that is shameful.
00:53:34One day,
00:53:35Lena's mother came to school to pick her up.
00:53:37When she saw us together,
00:53:38her face immediately darkened.
00:53:40She grabbed Lena's hand tightly and said sharply,
00:53:43Did you cause trouble again?
00:53:45Is Charlotte helping you lie?
00:53:49Aunty,
00:53:50Lena hasn't done anything wrong.
00:53:52She's a very, very good child.
00:53:54You shouldn't always assume the worst about her.
00:53:56She's afraid of you.
00:54:01That night, she called my mom.
00:54:03They talked for a long time,
00:54:04and in the end,
00:54:05she said thank you.
00:54:08Thank you.
00:54:09Your daughter made me realize
00:54:11how terribly wrong I've been.
00:54:14Little by little,
00:54:15Lena's mother became gentler.
00:54:17She started learning to listen
00:54:19instead of shouting,
00:54:20to trust instead of blaming.
00:54:23And Lena, too,
00:54:25became more and more confident,
00:54:27more and more open.
00:54:29In my previous life,
00:54:30I was never saved.
00:54:31I endured all the pain alone in the darkness.
00:54:34But in this life,
00:54:35I can save others.
00:54:36When I was 10 years old,
00:54:38Dad took us to the mountains.
00:54:40Not the Alps,
00:54:41just ordinary mountains.
00:54:43Dad was the captain of a mountain rescue team.
00:54:46He knew every path in the area,
00:54:47knew where the hidden ice was,
00:54:49which slopes were dangerous,
00:54:50where you could set up camp,
00:54:51and where rock clops might happen after rain.
00:54:53He led me along an easier trail.
00:54:55Mom walked behind us,
00:54:56camera in hand,
00:54:57taking photos from time to time.
00:55:03Here.
00:55:04Thank you.
00:55:07Dad, have you ever seen people
00:55:09trapped in snowy mountains?
00:55:11Yes.
00:55:12Many times.
00:55:14What happened to them in the end?
00:55:19Some were rescued,
00:55:21some weren't.
00:55:22The ones who weren't rescued?
00:55:27Do you still remember them?
00:55:29I remember.
00:55:30Every single one.
00:55:31Do you know why I chose this job?
00:55:35No.
00:55:35Because I hope that after every snowstorm,
00:55:38no one is left alone in the mountains.
00:55:40For everyone who gets trapped,
00:55:42I hope someone can reach them in time.
00:55:44The wind blew down from the mountain,
00:55:46carrying the scent of pine trees
00:55:47and a faint coolness from the distant stream.
00:55:50But it wasn't the kind of cold
00:55:51that selt into your bones.
00:55:53It was breathable,
00:55:54refreshing,
00:55:55alive.
00:55:56A summer kind of cool.
00:55:57The coolness of being alive.
00:56:06I stared at that photo for a long time.
00:56:08That child was me.
00:56:10Clean.
00:56:11Looking outward.
00:56:12Alive.
00:56:12Not Chloe curled up in the corner of an attic
00:56:15in my previous life.
00:56:16That was Charlotte.
00:56:17Standing in the sunlight.
00:56:18Standing between dad and mom.
00:56:20At that moment,
00:56:21I remembered the lines in my drawing book.
00:56:22I remembered the hands that wrote them.
00:56:25I remembered the child
00:56:27who use up her last bit of strength
00:56:29just say,
00:56:30I love you so much.
00:56:32You don't need a wristband
00:56:33to prove that what you say is true.
00:56:35There are people here who believe you.
00:56:37Even without a wristband,
00:56:38even without any device to verify it,
00:56:40even if what you say sounds impossible,
00:56:42there will still be someone
00:56:43who will catch every word you say.
00:56:45There are people here who believe you.
00:56:47Hey.
00:56:50In autumn,
00:56:51one of dad's old rescue teammates
00:56:53came to visit,
00:56:54bringing his wife
00:56:55and an elderly woman
00:56:56when with them.
00:56:57She was his mother.
00:56:59Even though time had carved
00:57:00deep marks into her face,
00:57:01even though it shed the obsession
00:57:03and madness of my previous life,
00:57:05even though the eyes
00:57:06that once belonged to a scientist
00:57:07no longer held that burning phoneticism,
00:57:09only gentleness and the weight of years,
00:57:11I would never mistake her.
00:57:13This was grace.
00:57:22Charlotte,
00:57:23what's wrong, sweetheart?
00:57:25Are you feeling unwell?
00:57:27At that moment,
00:57:28the old woman's gaze also fell on me.
00:57:30Her originally gentle eyes
00:57:31froze the instant she saw me.
00:57:35Oh!
00:57:42This is...
00:57:44your child?
00:57:46Yes, this is our daughter.
00:57:48Charlotte.
00:57:50I could clearly see the wrinkles
00:57:52at the corners of her eyes,
00:57:54the white strands at her Thames,
00:57:57and the tears pooling in her eyes,
00:58:00held back so tightly
00:58:01that they refused to fall.
00:58:04Charlotte.
00:58:06Such a beautiful name.
00:58:08My throat felt blocked,
00:58:10as if something was stuck there.
00:58:13I was no longer Chloe.
00:58:15I am Charlotte,
00:58:17the Charlotte who had grown up
00:58:19wrapped in love.
00:58:20Seeing that I remained silent,
00:58:22a trace of panic flashed in her eyes.
00:58:26How old are you?
00:58:31Ten.
00:58:33Ten?
00:58:34That's good.
00:58:35At lunchtime,
00:58:36she sat directly across from me.
00:58:39She carefully used serving chopsters
00:58:41to put food into my bowl.
00:58:44Auntie,
00:58:45you're spoiling Charlotte too much.
00:58:47You should eat too.
00:58:50It's fine.
00:58:51When I look at this child,
00:58:53I just feel an instant sense of closeness.
00:58:55I looked at the pile of food in my bowl,
00:58:58my emotions tangled and heavy.
00:59:01In my previous life,
00:59:03until the day I died,
00:59:04I had always hoped,
00:59:06just once,
00:59:07that she would serve me a bite of food,
00:59:09say something gentle to me,
00:59:10or believe me even once.
00:59:12But now,
00:59:13she had done it.
00:59:15Only,
00:59:16it was already too late.
00:59:18In the afternoon,
00:59:20I paint alone in the sunroom.
00:59:24Charlotte,
00:59:25can I sit here for a while?
00:59:27I won't disturb you while you draw.
00:59:30She carefully walked over
00:59:32and sat down on the wicker chair beside me.
00:59:35I know who you are.
00:59:37And I also know who I am.
00:59:40From the moment I was born,
00:59:42I carried all my memories.
00:59:45I remember everything I did to you.
00:59:49I'm sorry, Chloe.
00:59:51I'm sorry.
00:59:54Chloe.
00:59:55I'm sorry to you.
00:59:57I'm really sorry.
00:59:59Every day,
01:00:00I ask myself,
01:00:03why didn't I trust you that day in the cabin?
01:00:07Why did I trust that broken wristband
01:00:10instead of my own daughter?
01:00:11I remember slapping you.
01:00:14I remember shocking you.
01:00:17The way you curled up on the floor,
01:00:19begging me to stop.
01:00:22I remember locking you in the attic.
01:00:25The way you clung to the doorframe,
01:00:28begging me not to lock it.
01:00:30I remember kicking open the attic door
01:00:34and finding your frozen body.
01:00:36and the red light still flashing on your wrist.
01:00:41I saw your blood,
01:00:43written letter,
01:00:44every single word.
01:00:46I carved into my heart
01:00:48and carried with me
01:00:49for the rest of my life.
01:00:51You asked
01:00:52if there could be another life.
01:00:55Could I please trust you once?
01:00:56Could I stop calling you a liar?
01:01:00But I didn't even give you that chance.
01:01:02I destroyed it with my own hands.
01:01:05I'm sorry.
01:01:06It was a diary
01:01:07with a sunflower on the cover.
01:01:09The flower I had loved most
01:01:11in my previous life.
01:01:14Chloe, no, Charlotte.
01:01:18I know that no matter
01:01:19how many apologies I say,
01:01:21it's useless now.
01:01:22I took your life.
01:01:24I can never repay what I owe you.
01:01:27Not in this life,
01:01:28not in the next.
01:01:29I don't dare to ask
01:01:31for your forgiveness.
01:01:33I just...
01:01:34I just wanted to tell you
01:01:36sorry in person.
01:01:37I just want you to know
01:01:38that I understand now.
01:01:40Love is not measured by machines
01:01:41nor judged by data.
01:01:43It is listening to you,
01:01:44believing what you say,
01:01:45holding you and telling you
01:01:46that your mother is here.
01:01:47But I understood all of that
01:01:48far too late.
01:01:49Too late.
01:01:50I'm so sorry, Charlotte.
01:01:52She was crying so hard
01:01:54that her whole body trembled.
01:01:56Her aged face was covered
01:01:58in tears and regret.
01:02:02I looked at her
01:02:03for a long time.
01:02:05In my previous life,
01:02:06lying on the cold floor
01:02:08of the attic,
01:02:09what I had wanted most
01:02:10before dying
01:02:10was a single apology from her.
01:02:13A single,
01:02:14I believe you.
01:02:15But now,
01:02:16she was truly standing
01:02:17in front of me
01:02:17saying countless apologies
01:02:19and yet I realized
01:02:20they no longer mattered to me.
01:02:22I already had a new life.
01:02:24Parents who loved me,
01:02:25a warm home,
01:02:26and a bright future.
01:02:27Auntie,
01:02:28I don't hate you anymore.
01:02:30Her tears fell even harder.
01:02:32Her lips trembled
01:02:33as if she wanted
01:02:34to say something
01:02:35but no words came out.
01:02:36But I also won't
01:02:37call you mom again.
01:02:38The me I am now
01:02:39what is Charlotte.
01:02:40I have my own parents.
01:02:41They love me very much.
01:02:43I've received your repentance.
01:02:45I don't hate you anymore
01:02:47because I don't want
01:02:48to be trapped by the past.
01:02:49I don't want to spend
01:02:50my entire life
01:02:51living inside
01:02:52that snowy mountain nightmare.
01:02:54But I also won't forgive you.
01:02:56Not because of hatred,
01:02:57but because what happened
01:02:58does not deserve forgiveness.
01:03:00After hearing my words,
01:03:02her body swayed.
01:03:03She covered her face
01:03:05and let out a broken,
01:03:06desperate sob.
01:03:08She knew I was right.
01:03:11It was too late.
01:03:12Everything was too late.
01:03:14When she locked me in the attic
01:03:16and let me freeze to death,
01:03:17where was her remorse then?
01:03:19When I kept calling her mom
01:03:21over and over
01:03:22telling her I wasn't lying,
01:03:24where was her remorse then?
01:03:26When I used my last strength
01:03:28to write a blood letter,
01:03:29begging her to believe me
01:03:31just once,
01:03:32where was her remorse then?
01:03:35Now it was all too late.
01:03:37That afternoon,
01:03:39when Jason's family
01:03:40prepared to leave,
01:03:41the old woman walked
01:03:42at the very end.
01:03:43At the doorway,
01:03:45she turned back
01:03:45to look at me once more.
01:03:46Her eyes were full of tears,
01:03:48reluctance,
01:03:48and endless loneliness.
01:03:50Then, leaning on her cane,
01:03:51she walked away slowly,
01:03:52step by step.
01:03:53I stood at the door,
01:03:54watching her aged,
01:03:55hunched body disappear
01:03:56down the street,
01:03:56and in my heart,
01:03:57there was no ripple at all.
01:03:59Mom walked over
01:04:00and gently hugged me
01:04:01from behind.
01:04:02She didn't ask
01:04:03what had happened.
01:04:04She simply patted
01:04:05my head softly.
01:04:07No matter what happens,
01:04:08your dad and I
01:04:09are here for you.
01:04:12That night,
01:04:13I lay in bed
01:04:13with steady breathing,
01:04:15occasionally shifting
01:04:16as I chased something
01:04:17in my dreams.
01:04:18I stared at the ceiling,
01:04:20thinking of my previous life.
01:04:23Chloe!
01:04:24Chloe!
01:04:25They were real.
01:04:27The pain was real.
01:04:28That cold,
01:04:29abandoned time
01:04:30when no one came for me,
01:04:32that was real too.
01:04:34But I am no longer Chloe.
01:04:37I am Charlotte,
01:04:38and I no longer hate Grace.
01:04:40That winter,
01:04:42dad's rescue team
01:04:43completed a high-difficulty mission.
01:04:45A family of three
01:04:47had been trapped
01:04:48near the 3,000-meter snow line,
01:04:50and they were all
01:04:51rescued safely.
01:04:53No one was injured.
01:04:54During the celebration,
01:04:56the entire team
01:04:57was eating in the cafeteria.
01:04:59Mom sat in a corner
01:05:00smiling as she watched him.
01:05:02I sat beside Mom,
01:05:03eating and listening
01:05:04to their stories.
01:05:05They talked about the child
01:05:06from that stranded family,
01:05:08a boy,
01:05:09eight years old.
01:05:10When they found him,
01:05:12he was curled up in a hollow,
01:05:14facing away from the wind,
01:05:15his head wrapped tightly
01:05:17in his clothes.
01:05:18He knew how to preserve
01:05:19body heat.
01:05:20He lasted much longer
01:05:21than we expected.
01:05:23After being rescued,
01:05:24the first thing
01:05:25the boy asked was,
01:05:28Where is my mom?
01:05:30Mom is here.
01:05:31That boy's mother is here.
01:05:33My mother is here too.
01:05:35This is real.
01:05:37This is not the long winter
01:05:38for my past life.
01:05:40Not a wish written in blood.
01:05:42This is now.
01:05:43This is today.
01:05:44Mom's hand is still
01:05:45on my shoulder.
01:05:46She doesn't know
01:05:48what I'm thinking,
01:05:49but she just keeps it there.
01:05:51That's enough.
01:05:53This is already enough.
01:05:55Alright, very nice.
01:05:56When I was 13,
01:05:57I graduated from elementary school
01:05:59and got into the best
01:06:00middle school in the city.
01:06:01Dad and mom took me
01:06:03to the seaside to celebrate.
01:06:05I stood by the ocean.
01:06:07The sea wind brushed
01:06:09through my hair,
01:06:10carrying a salty taste.
01:06:13I spread my arms,
01:06:14feeling the wind,
01:06:16feeling freedom.
01:06:18For a moment,
01:06:19I seemed to see
01:06:20my past self.
01:06:25Charlotte,
01:06:26what are you thinking about?
01:06:30I'm just grateful
01:06:31to be alive
01:06:32and to be with you.
01:06:34Silly girl,
01:06:35we're the lucky ones.
01:06:37Having you as our daughter
01:06:38is the greatest happiness
01:06:39of our lives.
01:06:44The suffering of my past life
01:06:46taught me to cherish
01:06:47the happiness of this one.
01:06:49The pain that went deep
01:06:51into my bones
01:06:52taught me what true love is
01:06:53and what true trust
01:06:54really means.
01:06:56I no longer need
01:06:57to fear the red lights.
01:07:00I can laugh,
01:07:01I can cry,
01:07:02I can freely express
01:07:03my feelings.
01:07:04I can love bravely
01:07:05and be loved in return.
01:07:07I have parents who love me
01:07:08the best friend
01:07:09and a bright future.
01:07:10This is a life
01:07:11I never even dared
01:07:12to dream of
01:07:12in my past life.
01:07:13That night,
01:07:14on the hotel balcony,
01:07:16I took out my diary.
01:07:17Today I saw the ocean.
01:07:20It was vast,
01:07:21blue,
01:07:22and free.
01:07:23I thought of my past self,
01:07:24the little girl
01:07:25locked in the attic,
01:07:26longing to be loved
01:07:28and believed.
01:07:29She would never believe
01:07:30that I could live
01:07:31such a happy life now.
01:07:32My parents loved me
01:07:34very much.
01:07:35They taught me
01:07:36what honesty
01:07:36and courage are.
01:07:39Lena is now
01:07:40my best friend.
01:07:42She is confident
01:07:43and bright,
01:07:44her smile like stars
01:07:45in her eyes.
01:07:46The old lady
01:07:47is in good health.
01:07:48She often calls me
01:07:49and sends me pastries
01:07:50she makes herself.
01:07:52Buddy is still
01:07:53that silly little guy,
01:07:54always pawing at my hand
01:07:56asking me to play with him.
01:07:57I no longer hate anyone.
01:07:59I am no longer
01:08:00attached to the past.
01:08:02Those painful memories
01:08:04are like footprints
01:08:04on the beach,
01:08:05washed away by the waves.
01:08:07But they taught me
01:08:08to cherish
01:08:09every step I take.
01:08:10I know that in my past life,
01:08:12my mother,
01:08:13sister,
01:08:14and father
01:08:14all received
01:08:15their due consequences.
01:08:17And I, at last,
01:08:18have broken free
01:08:19from the chains
01:08:20and found true freedom.
01:08:21I don't want to see them again.
01:08:23I don't want to relive
01:08:24that life again.
01:08:25I just want to be Charlotte,
01:08:27simple,
01:08:28happy,
01:08:28and loved.
01:08:29I don't want to see them again.
01:08:29I don't want to see them again.
01:08:30Vielen Dank.
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