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You Want My Ring Get On Your Knees
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00:00:02Ever'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 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.
00:00:31In 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.
00:01:12From 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. Anna got a larger portion because her bracelet was green.
00:01:27She needs to replenish energy. Mine was pitifully small because my bracelet was flashing red.
00:01:33Mom, I haven't eaten anything. I'm really hungry.
00:01:38Chloe, 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. And 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! It's totally Anna! She just told me!
00:02:17Mom, I didn't! Sister, why are you accusing me?
00:02:22Mom, my bracelet is green. How 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. It really wasn't me. Please, just believe me this once. Just once.
00:03:00No. Even just a fraction of the tenderness she showed when she looked at Anna.
00:03:08Mom, I really didn't lie to you. Please believe me this time. I'm your daughter.
00:03:15Look at it yourself. Red. Chloe, it's red. It shows excess calories. If you didn't steal food, then who did?
00:03:21Your sister's bracelet is green. She can barely even stand. How could she possibly steal anything?
00:03:26I have to punish a lying child like you.
00:03:37I was wrong. I won't lie again. Mom, please.
00:04:01Mom, will my sister freeze lying there?
00:04:04Her? She won't freeze. Her bracelet is red. She's got excess heat.
00:04:08Anna, don't be like her. Be an honest child.
00:04:14My heart felt like it was being clenched by an icy hand, the pain so intense I could barely breathe.
00:04:21I didn't even have the strength to struggle anymore. My forehead began to burn with heat. Even my breath carried
00:04:28an abnormal warmth.
00:04:30Grace, Chloe doesn't look well. Her face is too red. Could she have a fever? Maybe we should give her
00:04:36some hot water?
00:04:38David, her bracelet is red. This isn't a fever. She secretly ate chocolate and her body temperature rose because of
00:04:45excess calories.
00:04:47She fooled you.
00:04:51You're still lying. Pretending to be sick to gain my sympathy? Looks like you need a real lesson.
00:04:57You're going to the attic right now to reflect on your mistakes.
00:05:10Mom, I really didn't steal the chocolate. I didn't lie.
00:05:24Mom, don't lock me in here. I'll die.
00:05:30When you figure it out, when you admit you stole the chocolate and your bracelet turns green, I'll let you
00:05:36out. Otherwise, you can stay here forever and reflect.
00:05:55Chloe, I'm sorry. I was wrong. I was wrong. I 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. She 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, but the words got stuck in my throat because I
00:06:26knew he wouldn't believe me.
00:06:40Big sister, are you cold? Are you hungry? Don't you really want some hot water and a biscuit?
00:06:47Anna, I'm so cold and hungry. Please give me the water and the biscuit.
00:06:52Give it to you?
00:06:57Oh, right. I almost forgot to tell you. That chocolate? I was the one who ate it. So sweet. So
00:07:02delicious.
00:07:03Too bad you didn't get any. But what can you do? Your core shack is red. Mom only believes me,
00:07:08not you.
00:07:09Want a drink? Then beg me. Say you're a liar that you stole the chocolate. Say it and I'll let
00:07:15you drink.
00:07:16Oops. My hand slipped. Sorry, big sister.
00:07:22I looked at the board beneath me as it frozen solid. Suddenly, I couldn't feel my feet anymore.
00:07:26The dizziness from the fever grew stronger and stronger. My vision blurred.
00:07:30I could clearly feel it, my body heat slipping away little by little, my life draining out of me.
00:07:33But I still couldn't accept it. I still hadn't lived to see the day Mom believed me.
00:07:38Mom, I'm so cold. I'm so hungry. I really didn't lie. Please believe me. Just once. Please.
00:07:45Dad, save me. I'm going to die. Dad!
00:07:50Music started playing downstairs. It 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. She heard me. She just didn't want to listen.
00:08:07With that thunderous music, she blocked her own ears and completely cut off my last path to survival.
00:08:13My hands stopped pounding. In that moment, all my strength, all my hope, all my unwillingness vanished.
00:08:20I was so hungry. So cold. But Mom would never believe me. She would only believe the bracelet.
00:08:28The machine doesn't lie. What a ridiculous sentence.
00:08:33I don't know how much time passed. My body stopped trembling.
00:08:37Instead, a strange warmth began to spread across my skin.
00:08:40A 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. Crack. A faint snapping sound.
00:08:51My little finger broke, but I felt no pain at all. So this is what it's like when a person
00:08:55is freezing to death.
00:08:56You really feel nothing. Mom. I thought again of when I was very young.
00:09:00Venster. Her embrace was so her warm. Her smile was so gentle.
00:09:04I want to go back to that time. I want Mom to hug me just once more.
00:09:08February 14th. 7th day of the blizzard. Mom found the chocolate missing.
00:09:11She said I stole it. It wasn't me, Anna ate it. My bracelet turned red.
00:09:16Mom hit me, shocked me with the bracelet, took my blanket and gave it to Anna. I'm so cold.
00:09:23Chloe, come here. Let Mom hug you.
00:09:31I felt weightless. I looked down. I was floating. And there, below me, I saw myself lying on that frozen
00:09:37pile of cardboard.
00:09:38My right hand was missing a little finger. The dead girl's wrist was still flashing red.
00:09:42Oh. Oh. I'm dead.
00:09:45I looked down. My body was still curled up on the freezing wooden floor.
00:09:48The thermal monitoring bracelet was still tightly fastened around my lifeless purplish wrist.
00:09:53The red light continued flashing tirelessly, reflecting on my pale, expressionless face. Eerie and ironic.
00:09:59I was dead. I died at the age of 10 in a blizzard in the Alps, locked in a freezing
00:10:04attic by my mom I loved most, frozen to death.
00:10:06I hovered there, looking at my own corpse. I didn't cry. I wasn't afraid.
00:10:10There was only a vast, lifeless calm inside me, like a nightmare that had lasted 10 years, finally ending.
00:10:15My 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. Mom, Dad, and Anna were gathered around the table by the
00:10:27fire, smiles on their faces.
00:10:29Smiles I hadn't seen in a long time. The satellite phone on the table was lit.
00:10:34I heard it. Just moments ago, Mom had gotten through to the rescue team.
00:10:39They said the blizzard had weakened. In two days, they would be able to fly up in a helicopter and
00:10:44take us down the mountain.
00:10:45We were saved, except me. I died three days before the rescue arrived. I died just as the storm was
00:10:53about to end.
00:10:53That's great! We can finally leave this awful place! Mom, I want cake! Don't we still have that emergency cream
00:11:00cake in storage? I want to eat it now!
00:11:03Alright.
00:11:08That cake Dad had bought it for me before we came to the mountains. I couldn't bear to eat it,
00:11:12so 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. No 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. Chloe is still locked in the attic. Since rescue is coming soon, maybe we should let her out.
00:11:52Let her have something to eat. She's been locked up for two days.
00:11:57She's been locked up for two days! She should have learned her lesson!
00:12:10My breath stopped instantly. Was she going to the attic? Was she going to see me? Was she finally going
00:12:17to discover that I was dead?
00:12:22Chloe.
00:12:26Chloe, come out and eat!
00:12:28No response.
00:12:30I'm inside! I can't answer you! I'm already dead! If you open the door, you'll see my body! I'm already
00:12:38dead!
00:12:39I looked at Mom with sorrow. If she found out I was dead, would she be sad? Would she regret
00:12:44it?
00:12:45Still sulking? You're already ten, not five. Trying to get my attention this way? Then don't come out.
00:12:51Mom! I'm not sulking! I'm dead! I'm already dead! Look at me! I froze to death! Right there in the
00:12:57attic!
00:12:57I'm not lying! The bracelet is broken! Anna ate it! Look at me!
00:13:02Why did it suddenly get so cold? Is the fireplace not burning strong enough? David, go add some more wood!
00:13:08Mom couldn't hear my voice. She couldn't feel my presence. I was a ghost. A ghost who died at her
00:13:15hands, ignored and forgotten.
00:13:16Don't sound the colder mother. Seriously? Yes!
00:13:20Shouldn't we turn on the heating? The rescue team will be here soon anyway?
00:13:24You're right. Let them see that even in this kind of environment, we can still maintain a scientific standard of
00:13:28living.
00:13:30She went downstairs and turned on the central heating and the floor heating throughout the house.
00:13:36The temperature in the attic rose as well. My body began to decompose faster.
00:13:45The water spread outward, soaking through the cardboard, seeping into the floor.
00:13:50I watched my body grow colder and stiffer, little by little, until signs of decay began to appear.
00:13:57That was my smell. The smell of death. They were going to leave after being rescued. They were going to
00:14:04leave this cabin that had trapped me.
00:14:06They were going to leave my body here, forever in this cold attic.
00:14:11I'll take something to Chloe. She's been in the attic for two days. She hasn't even had a sip of
00:14:15water.
00:14:15Take what? Her red light is on like that. She's got more than enough energy. She won't starve.
00:14:25Dad! Open the door! Hurry! Open it! If you just turn the handle, you'll see that I'm not moving anymore.
00:14:32You'll see my darkened face.
00:14:39Hello? Rescue team? Yes, this is David.
00:14:42What? You can come up the mountain in two days? That's great!
00:14:46The rescue team said the blizzard will completely stop. In two days they'll be able to come up!
00:14:53It was that close, just that tiny bit, just one second. I could have been found. Maybe then, I wouldn't
00:14:59have to keep decaying.
00:15:12Mom was the first to notice.
00:15:15What is that smell? It's disgusting!
00:15:19Oh my god! It stinks! It's coming from the attic!
00:15:22Did my sister go on the floor? Did she do it on purpose? Is she trying to stink us to
00:15:27death?
00:15:32Chloe! What are you doing in there? It stinks!
00:15:51Chloe, didn't you want to disgust us? Fine. Then stay in there with your stink. Don't even think about coming
00:15:57out to pollute our air.
00:16:00The last trace of my attachment to her snapped completely. Just like that strip of tape.
00:16:05She would rather seal the cracks of the door with tape and endure the increasingly unbearable stench, then push the
00:16:11door open and look at her own daughter.
00:16:13I'm right here.
00:16:16Can't you see me?
00:16:22The tape in the end couldn't block the overwhelming stench of a rotting body. Another day passed. It was the
00:16:28day the rescue team had promised to come up the mountain.
00:16:45Chloe! I've had enough of you, you disgusting little brat! What exactly are you trying to do? Making the whole
00:16:52house stink on purpose? Are you trying to torment us? I'm gonna teach you a lesson today!
00:17:10Chloe? Chloe?
00:17:23I'm talking to you, Chloe!
00:17:31Oh!
00:17:34Huh?
00:17:48Chloe?
00:17:50No.
00:17:52No, that's impossible.
00:17:54Chloe.
00:17:55You're pretending, aren't you, Chloe?
00:17:57You'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, feeling for a pulse.
00:18:14Nothing.
00:18:15Only coldness.
00:18:16Only silence.
00:18:17I was truly dead.
00:18:19Dead in the attic she had locked with her own hands.
00:18:21Dead in the cold and hunger she had caused.
00:18:24Dead under the gays.
00:18:25She never once chose to believe.
00:18:27Impossible.
00:18:28The machine doesn't lie.
00:18:31Impossible.
00:18:41They had followed the sound of the screams.
00:18:43The team leader pushed open the attic door and froze the moment he saw what was inside.
00:18:48The body of a ten-year-old girl lay curled up on the cold floor, a bracelet flashing red on
00:18:52her wrist.
00:18:53A woman sat collapsed on the ground, screaming like a madwoman, her eyes unfocused, completely deranged.
00:19:00David 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.
00:19:11How did this happen, how did this happen, how did this happen, how did this happen?
00:19:15He finally understood, behind the door he had almost opened that day, lay his daughter's cold 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 face.
00:19:34She burst into tears, clinging tightly to David's arm, her body shaking like a leaf in the autumn wind, barely
00:19:41able 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 her own sister.
00:19:56Quick! Call a doctor! Seal 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.
00:20:09A doctor pushed through the crowd and entered the attic, crouching beside my body for a long time.
00:20:14Examining carefully, his movements gentle, as if afraid of damaging my already fragile skin.
00:20:20Severe hypothermia.
00:20:23Organ failure.
00:20:24This child was starved for at least a month, and in temperatures well below freezing, she froze to death.
00:20:30Time of death was two to three days ago.
00:20:33It'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, but the strap had fused
00:20:54tightly with my frozen purplish skin, almost as if it had grown into the 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 days
00:21:09finally leave my wrist.
00:21:11This cold shackle that had trapped me for ten days, that had caused my death, finally fell away.
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.
00:21:41From the very first day it was worn, it was already broken.
00:21:44It couldn't measure anything at all, it 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.
00:22:10The bracelet was broken.
00:22:12She was wrong.
00:22:14No.
00:22:15No, that's impossible.
00:22:19No!
00:22:20Impossible!
00:22:22Machines don't lie!
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
00:22:38out of her pocket.
00:22:39It had been hidden there for days, crumpled beyond recognition, still smeared with traces
00:22:44of chocolate, holding the wrapper.
00:22:46The 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!
00:23:14Not me!
00:23:15Ha ha ha ha!
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!
00:23:33Mom gave it to me!
00:23:34I won't take it off!
00:23:35But the doctor gave her no chance to argue.
00:23:38He 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.
00:23:58He 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,
00:24:19from beginning to 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 liar like treasure.
00:24:29Mom 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. It's all fake.
00:24:55Mom suddenly screamed, and then she did something insane.
00:24:59No way! The 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,
00:25:11and snapped it 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. It'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,
00:25:29panic rising in her voice.
00:25:31What? No! My calories can't be over!
00:25:34I didn't exceed anything!
00:25:36Why is it red? I didn't lie!
00:25:39She started speaking faster and faster.
00:25:42It's broken. The doctor broke it. I'll try again.
00:25:45I've never abused her. I 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! You're framing me!
00:25:54Suddenly, she remembered me, ten-year-old me, punished so severely, curled up on the floor,
00:26:00biting 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. You 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! It's red! I'm not a liar! I'm not!
00:26:22But the clasp had locked due to her violent struggle, like a shackle tightly bound to her wrist,
00:26:27just as it had once been tightly bound to mine.
00:26:31A doctor picked up the diary from the floor.
00:26:35He flipped through it, page by page, his expression growing darker and darker.
00:26:41February 14th. Day 7 of the blizzard. Mom found the chocolate missing.
00:26:46She said I stole it. I didn't. It was Anna who ate it.
00:26:48My bracelet turned red. Mom hit me, shocked me with the brazier.
00:26:52Mom locked me in the acnic. Dad took my bring-me-food...
00:26:55But Anna stopped him. Anna poured hot water onto my cardboard bed.
00:26:58I hit the floor and called for Mom. But she turned up the music so loud she couldn't hear me.
00:27:04When I was 9, Anna broke Mom's most precious tech robot and cried saying I did it, without even 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,
00:27:25watching me be locked away with a happy smile.
00:27:27Countless days and nights, Anna stole my toys, tore my drawings, ruined my homework,
00:27:33and then cried to Mom, saying I didn't.
00:27:35Every single time, Mom believed Anna without question,
00:27:39then scolded me, punished me, and made me stand in a cold corner without food.
00:27:46Machines don't lie. Anna's wristband is green.
00:27:50You're just a liar.
00:27:52Mom, I really didn't lie. I'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? Will 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,
00:28:25and the electric shock that coursed through my entire body.
00:28:30She remembered pulling the only blanket off me and wrapping it around Anna instead,
00:28:35and the despair in my eyes.
00:28:39She remembered me banging on the floor, screaming for her help,
00:28:43while she deliberately turned up 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,
00:28:52and the disgust and impatience she felt at the time.
00:28:58She had personally, little by little, pushed her daughter toward death.
00:29:01She 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,
00:29:14looking toward Anna curled up in the corner.
00:29:17It's you! It's all you!
00:29:20She lunged forward like a madwoman, tightly gripping Anna's throat, screaming hysterically.
00:29:27You'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!
00:29:35I'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,
00:29:46pinning her firmly down on the sofa.
00:29:50My dad watched everything.
00:29:52The crazed mother, the terrified Anna,
00:29:55and the blood-stained note in the evidence bag,
00:29:58and finally snapped.
00:30:03You monster!
00:30:04You 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?
00:30:23My body was placed into a black body bag,
00:30:27the zipper slowly closed,
00:30:29sealing away my short ten years of life filled with pain and despair.
00:30:32Don't take her away!
00:30:34Give her river back to me!
00:30:35She ran across the snowfield,
00:30:37her bare feet stepping onto sharp ice shards,
00:30:40instantly cutting her skin.
00:30:42Blood trailed across the white snow,
00:30:44leaving a shocking red path behind her.
00:30:47Chloe!
00:30:48Mom will give you all the food rations!
00:30:50Please, open your eyes and look at me!
00:30:53She reached the landing gear area,
00:30:55desperately jumping upward,
00:30:57trying to grab hold of the edge of the body bag,
00:30:59but she only grasped empty,
00:31:01freezing air,
00:31:02and swirling snowflakes.
00:31:06This incident quickly spread across the world.
00:31:09The rescue team's camera had recorded everything.
00:31:12One of the crew members accidentally uploaded the footage online,
00:31:15and from there,
00:31:17it spread like an unstoppable avalanche.
00:31:28The entire internet exploded.
00:31:31Netizens were in full outrage.
00:31:41And that father too,
00:31:43he did nothing the entire time,
00:31:44just watched his daughter being abused.
00:31:46He deserves to die as well.
00:31:48A flood of insults poured in like an avalanche,
00:31:51crashing down on my mom,
00:31:52my dad,
00:31:53and this shattered family.
00:31:55On the second day after the incident escalated,
00:31:58our villa at the foot of the mountain
00:32:00was completely surrounded by an enraged crowd.
00:32:02The front gate had been splashed with bright red paint.
00:32:05In thick black marker,
00:32:07the words murderers,
00:32:09get out of this city,
00:32:10and justice for Chloe,
00:32:12were written everywhere.
00:32:13The villa windows had been smashed with bricks.
00:32:16Red paint and abusive slogans covered the walls and floors.
00:32:21At the entrance,
00:32:22reporters and furious protesters packed tightly together.
00:32:26Behind them,
00:32:27the crowd held signs filled with insults,
00:32:29chanting loudly until the noise shook the air.
00:32:32Grace,
00:32:32the murderer,
00:32:33get out!
00:32:34You don't deserve to be a mother!
00:32:35Pay for Chloe's life!
00:32:37Evil family,
00:32:39get out of Switzerland!
00:32:40Neighbors had already moved out one after another.
00:32:43The property management even came with legal notices,
00:32:46demanding we leave immediately,
00:32:48saying our presence had severely damaged neighborhood safety and property values
00:32:52and caused extreme disturbance to other residents.
00:32:55Inside the villa,
00:32:56everything was in chaos.
00:32:57The curtains were tightly drawn.
00:32:59The lights stayed off.
00:33:00Only the glow of the television illuminated the pale faces of my dad and my mom.
00:33:04The house phone had been completely overwhelmed.
00:33:06Every call that came through brought waves of insults and curses.
00:33:09Even the mobile phones couldn't be turned on.
00:33:12The moment they were switched on,
00:33:13countless abusive messages and non-stop harassing calls flooded in.
00:33:17It's not my fault.
00:33:19It's not my fault.
00:33:27I'm gonna kill you.
00:33:30It's all your fault!
00:33:31All of it!
00:33:32If it weren't for that damn bracelet of yours,
00:33:34if you hadn't trusted those useless data readings,
00:33:37Chloe wouldn't be dead!
00:33:38We wouldn't have ended up like this!
00:33:39You're a madwoman!
00:33:41A murderer!
00:33:45What right do you have to blame me?
00:33:47You were there to save her!
00:33:48You're an accomplice!
00:33:49You deserve to die, too!
00:34:21Mom and Dad had no choice but to sell the house,
00:34:24the car,
00:34:24and everything valuable in the home
00:34:26to cover legal fees
00:34:27and compensation.
00:34:41How dare you!
00:34:48Stop!
00:34:57Don't touch my thing!
00:34:59Those are mine!
00:35:00Give them back!
00:35:05These items have been seized and auctioned by the court.
00:35:08They no longer belong to you.
00:35:23If you fail to repay the debt,
00:35:24we will file for court enforcement
00:35:26and have you imprisoned it.
00:35:27and have you been
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?
00:37:00Just you.
00:37:01Maybe you should reflect on yourself.
00:37:03When you harmed your sister, when you harmed your...
00:37:06Did 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.
00:37:19I didn't steal it.
00:37:22But I'm afraid of...
00:37:50Mom!
00:37:52Sister...
00:37:53Mom...
00:37:53Help me...
00:37:58This was her rightful punishment.
00:38:03As for Mom, her fate was even more tragic than anyone else's.
00:38:08The defendant should undergo a forensic psychiatric evaluation.
00:38:14I'm not crazy!
00:38:15Everything I do is based on the data from the scientific wristband.
00:38:19I didn't do anything wrong!
00:38:22Mom!
00:38:29Can you explain the behavior at that time?
00:38:33I didn't do anything wrong!
00:38:35The bracelet is broken!
00:38:37Anna lied to me!
00:38:44Chloe!
00:38:46Sorry!
00:38:47It's all my fault!
00:38:52Machines don't lie!
00:38:55Chloe!
00:38:57Chloe!
00:38:59I'm sorry!
00:39:01She 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!
00:39:17I'm not crazy!
00:39:17You're the ones who are crazy!
00:39:19The bracelet was broken!
00:39:20It's not my fault!
00:39:22I'm not insane!
00:39:24I was right!
00:39:26The data doesn't lie!
00:39:27Chloe lied to me!
00:39:29Chloe lied to me!
00:39:29Anna lied to me!
00:39:30I'm not crazy!
00:39:31Let me out!
00:39:33Just like no one had believed me back then, police officers and caretakers walked in carrying
00:39:39restraint 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
00:39:51he would save her.
00:39:52But dad had long since disappeared.
00:39:56In the courtroom, there was not a single person on her side.
00:40:01In that moment, she was truly alone.
00:40:05Just 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!
00:40:22Hey!
00:40:27You ain't back!
00:40:32Chloe!
00:40:35Mom was wrong!
00:40:36Come back!
00:40:37I'm sorry!
00:40:39Chloe!
00:40:41Wait for me!
00:40:50her feet suffered severe frostbite and the tissue completely neckerated the doctors had no choice
00:40:58but to perform an amputation cutting everything below the knees she became a woman without legs
00:41:06completely broken and completely insane
00:41:12in 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
00:41:23collar it was her self-made calorie monitoring bracelet don't touch my light chloe is watching
00:41:31if you take it away she'll get angry
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
00:41:51reliving my personal hell over and over again chloe i'm sorry mom was wrong please come back
00:41:57okay mom 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 chloe mom was wrong mom shouldn't have trusted the red light
00:42:22chloe are you there mom threw the bracelet away mom doesn't believe in it anymore please come back
00:42:29please 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 mom 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
00:42:51begging you to believe me just once where was your remorse
00:42:54mom i don't hate you anymore
00:42:57but i don't love you anymore either in the next life let's not meet again
00:43:07i drifted through the snow storm of the alps snow fell onto my body yet i felt no cold at
00:43:13all
00:43:13i was finally free no red lights no hunger no cold no lies no mom's hatred no anna's framing
00:43:20no dad's in action only boundless freedom just then i heard a familiar bark i looked down
00:43:26a golden sled dog was sitting in the snow wagging its tail looking up at me with bright eyes
00:43:32it was buddy buddy was the dog i once raised
00:43:35a gift from dad on my eighth birthday
00:43:38a gentle golden retriever sled dog
00:43:40my only warmth in childhood
00:43:43when my mom called me a liar and anna bullied me
00:43:47only buddy would run over
00:43:49lie down by my feet
00:43:51and rub its head against my hand
00:43:55staying with me
00:43:56but mom didn't like it
00:43:58she said dogs carry germs and would affect her research
00:44:02before we came to the snowy mountains for vacation
00:44:04she took advantage of a moment when i wasn't paying attention
00:44:07and abandoned bunny in the mountains
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
00:44:35feel 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 10 years
00:44:58one look in the direction of the psychiatric hospital
00:45:01and 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
00:45:14slowly blurring and dissolving
00:45:16my mother's final tears
00:45:17the bracelet's red glow
00:45:19the blood written message on the floor
00:45:21the freezing attic
00:45:22all of it vanished
00:45:24i did not look back the nightmare that had lasted wood for 10 years had finally come to a true
00:45:31end
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
00:45:48i was small
00:45:49wrapped in a soft blanket
00:45:51someone was humming
00:45:53it was a woman's voice
00:45:55gentle
00:45:57slightly off key
00:45:58yet filled with love
00:46:00her fingers lightly brushed across my cheek
00:46:02carrying 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
00:46:14come quickly
00:46:15our daughter just blinked
00:46:17he was tall
00:46:18with healthy wheel-colored skin weathered features
00:46:21but his eyes were exceptionally gentle
00:46:23he 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
00:46:38i'm your dad
00:46:40Charlotte
00:46:41not Chloe
00:46:42no burden
00:46:43no shackles
00:46:45no lies
00:46:46no label of liar
00:46:48just Charlotte
00:46:49a name that meant warmth
00:46:51being cherished
00:46:52and being loved unconditionally
00:46:53i grew up in a home filled with love
00:46:56our house wasn't big
00:46:57but it was clean and warm
00:46:58in the living room
00:47:00there was a large fireplace
00:47:01that burned brightly every winter
00:47:03filling everything with cozy heat
00:47:05there were no heat monitoring bracelets
00:47:07no red or green lights
00:47:09no strict food rationing
00:47:11no cold attic
00:47:12only endless love
00:47:14and unconditional trust
00:47:15when i was three years old
00:47:17my mother made hot cocoa
00:47:19the aroma drifted from the kitchen into the living room
00:47:25no cold
00:47:26no cold
00:47:29no cold
00:47:30no cold
00:47:32i'm here
00:47:35Charlotte
00:47:36you're safe now
00:47:37i'm here
00:47:39dad is here
00:47:40no one will hurt you
00:47:42my throat
00:47:43my throat
00:47:44I don't want hot cocoa
00:47:48not like the hot water in the 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
00:47:58the kindergarten organized a health checkup that included a blood test
00:48:09charlotte it's just a tiny poke it won't hurt look at the other children they're all very brave
00:48:13don't punish me
00:48:14i didn't lie
00:48:15don't shock me
00:48:19sorry my child's experienced trauma we'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
00:48:32did someone hurt you before
00:48:35bracelet
00:48:36red light
00:48:37so cold
00:48:38my baby
00:48:39you must have suffered so much didn't you
00:48:41it's okay now
00:48:43you're home
00:48:45mom and dad are here
00:48:46no one can hurt you anymore
00:48:48from that day on
00:48:50they 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
00:49:06played games with me
00:49:07did therapy exercises with me
00:49:10slowly healing the wounds in my heart
00:49:12they bought me many many colorful beautiful bracelets
00:49:17but they never forced me to wear any 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
00:49:31no electric shock
00:49:32no accusation
00:49:33only 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
00:49:39i 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
00:49:51and checked my temperature
00:50:01mom if i say i feel hot
00:50:04do you believe me
00:50:07i believe you
00:50:08if 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
00:50:17but 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
00:50:30the afternoon i had a fever
00:50:31it started snowing outside
00:50:33dad 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
00:50:42building snowmen with my brother
00:50:43once i had placed the snowman's nose where its eyes should be
00:50:51why
00:50:52it was so the snowman could look down at its own feet
00:50:54otherwise 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 it was soft thick and warm
00:51:06i buried my face in it and took a breath it smelled like fabric softener
00:51:10clean 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
00:51:42her tone was so cautious so eager to please
00:51:46just like me in my previous life almost instinctively i glanced at her wrist
00:51:50she was wearing a cheap green cartoon wristband
00:51:54later i learned that lena's mother was also extremely strict
00:51:57she demanded absolute obedience and absolute honesty
00:52:01if lena made even the smallest mistake she 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
00:52:13i looked at her at 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 writing i am a liar over and over again
00:52:29begging for forgiveness again and again
00:52:34lena it's okay accidents happen let's go tell the teacher together okay the teacher won't be angry
00:52:41but mom said that children who lie are bad kids and they will be punished
00:52:47being honest doesn't mean you never make mistakes it means that when you do make a mistake you're brave enough
00:52:51to admit it
00:52:52and even if you tell the truth you shouldn't be punished for it
00:52:56i i broke the cup i'm sorry
00:52:59the teacher didn't get angry instead she smiled patted both our heads and said it was okay
00:53:06just to be more careful next time from that day on we became best friends
00:53:11i took lena home to meet my parents she looked at my mom and dad so gentle so patient never
00:53:18shouting over small things never punishing a child for making mistakes her eyes were filled with envy
00:53:25lena you don't need to please everyone you're allowed to have your own feelings you can say no
00:53:30you can be scared you can make mistakes none of that is shameful one day lena's mother came to
00:53:36school to pick her up when she saw us together her face immediately darkened
00:53:40she grabbed lena's hand tightly and said sharply did you cause trouble again is charlotte helping you lie
00:53:49auntie lena hasn't done anything wrong she's a very very good child
00:53:54you shouldn't always assume the worst about her she's afraid of you
00:54:01that night she called my mom they talked for a long time and in the end she said thank you
00:54:08thank you your daughter made me realize how terribly wrong i've been
00:54:14little by little lena's mother became gentler she started learning to listen instead of shouting
00:54:21to trust instead of blaming and lena too became more and more confident more and more open in my
00:54:29previous life i was never saved i endured all the pain alone in the darkness but in this life
00:54:35i can save others when i was 10 years old dad took us to the mountains not the alps just
00:54:42ordinary
00:54:42mountains dad was the captain of a mountain rescue team he knew every path in the area knew where the
00:54:48hidden ice was which slopes were dangerous where you could set up camp and where rocklops might happen
00:54:53after rain he led me along an easier trail mom walked behind us camera in hand taking photos from time
00:54:59to time
00:55:04here thank you
00:55:07dad have you ever seen people trapped in snowy mountains yes many times what happened to them in the end
00:55:20some were rescued some weren't the ones who weren't rescued
00:55:27do you still remember them i remember every single one do you know why i chose this job
00:55:35no because i hope that after every snowstorm no one is left alone in the mountains
00:55:40for everyone who gets trapped i hope someone can reach them in time the wind blew down from the
00:55:45mountain carrying the scent of pine trees and a faint coolness from the distant stream but it wasn't
00:55:51the kind of cold that selt into your bones it was breathable refreshing alive a summer kind of cool
00:55:57the coolness of being alive
00:56:02look
00:56:06i stared at that photo for a long time that child was me clean looking outward alive not chloe curled
00:56:14up
00:56:14in the corner of an attic in my previous life that was charlotte standing in the sunlight standing
00:56:18between dad and mom at that moment i remembered the lines in my drawing book i remembered the hands that
00:56:25wrote them i remembered the child who use up her last bit of strength just say i love you so
00:56:31much
00:56:32you don't need a wristband to prove that what you say is true there are people here who believe you
00:56:37even without a wristband even without any device to verify it even if what you say sounds impossible
00:56:42there will still be someone who will catch every word you say there are people here who believe you
00:56:47hey
00:56:50in autumn one of dad's old rescue teammates came to visit bringing his wife and an elderly woman
00:56:56when with them she was his mother even though time had carved deep marks into her face even though it
00:57:02shed the obsession and madness of my previous life even though the eyes that once belonged to a
00:57:07scientist no longer held that burning phoneticism only gentleness and the weight of years i would
00:57:12never mistake her this was grace
00:57:23charlotte what's wrong sweetheart are you feeling unwell at that moment the old woman's gaze also fell
00:57:30on me her originally gentle eyes froze the instant she saw me
00:57:42this is your child yes this is our daughter charlotte
00:57:50i could clearly see the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes the white strands at her thames and the
00:57:58tears pooling in her eyes held back so tightly that they refused to fall
00:58:05charlotte such a beautiful name my throat felt blocked as if something was stuck there
00:58:13i was no longer chloe i am charlotte the charlotte who had grown up wrapped in love
00:58:20seeing that i remained silent a trace of panic flashed in her eyes
00:58:26how old are you
00:58:3210 10 10 that's good at lunchtime she sat directly across from me
00:58:39she carefully used serving chopsters to put food into my bowl
00:58:44auntie you're spoiling charlotte too much you should eat too
00:58:50it's fine when i look at this child i just feel an instant sense of closeness
00:58:55i looked at the pile of food in my bowl my emotions tangled and heavy in my previous life until
00:59:03the day i died i had always hoped just once that she would serve me a bite of food say
00:59:09something
00:59:09gentle to me or believe me even once but now she had done it only it was already too late
00:59:18in the
00:59:19afternoon i paint alone in the sun room
00:59:25charlotte can i sit here for a while i won't disturb you while you draw
00:59:30she carefully walked over and sat down on the wicker chair beside me
00:59:35i know who you are and i also know who i am
00:59:40from the moment i was born i carried all my memories i remember everything i did to you
00:59:49i'm sorry chloe i'm sorry chloe i'm sorry to you i'm really sorry
00:59:59every day i ask myself
01:00:03why didn't i trust you that day in the cabin why did i trust that broken wristband instead of my
01:00:11own
01:00:11daughter i remember slapping you i remember shocking you the way you curled up on the floor begging me to
01:00:20stop i remember locking you in the attic the way you clung to the doorframe begging me not to lock
01:00:30it
01:00:30i remember kicking open the attic door and finding your frozen body
01:00:37and the red light still flashing on your wrist i saw your blood written letter every single word
01:00:46i carved into my heart and carried with me for the rest of my life you asked if there could
01:00:53be another
01:00:54life could i please trust you once could i stop calling you a liar but i didn't even give you
01:01:01that
01:01:01chance i destroyed it with my own hands i'm sorry it was a diary with a sunflower on the cover
01:01:09the flower
01:01:10i had loved most in my previous life chloe no charlotte
01:01:18i know that no matter how many apologies i say it's useless now i took your life
01:01:24i can never repay what i owe you not in this life not in the next i don't dare to
01:01:31ask for your
01:01:32forgiveness i just i just wanted to tell you sorry in person i just want you to know that i
01:01:39understand
01:01:39now love is not measured by machines nor judged by data it is listening to you believing what you say
01:01:45holding you and telling you that your mother is here but i understood all of that far too late
01:01:49too late i'm so sorry charlotte she was crying so hard that her whole body trembled
01:01:57her aged face was covered in tears and regret
01:02:02i looked at her for a long time in my previous life lying on the cold floor of the attic
01:02:08what i had
01:02:09wanted most before dying was a single apology from her a single i believe you but now she was truly
01:02:16standing in front of me saying countless apologies and yet i realized they no longer mattered to me
01:02:22i already had a new life parents who loved me a warm home and a bright future auntie i don't
01:02:29hate you
01:02:30anymore her tears fell even harder her lips trembled as if she wanted to say something but no words came
01:02:36out
01:02:36but i also won't call you mom again the me i am now what is charlotte i have my own
01:02:41parents they
01:02:41love me very much i've received your repentance i don't hate you anymore because i don't want to be
01:02:48trapped by the past i don't want to spend my entire life living inside that snowy mountain nightmare
01:02:54but i also won't forgive you not because of hatred but because what happened does not deserve
01:02:59forgiveness after hearing my words her body swayed she covered her face and let out a broken desperate sob
01:03:08she knew i was right it was too late everything was too late when she locked me in the attic
01:03:16and let
01:03:16me freeze to death where was her remorse then when i kept calling her mom over and over telling her
01:03:23i wasn't lying
01:03:23where was her remorse then when i used my last strength to write a blood letter begging her to
01:03:31believe me just once where was her remorse then now it was all too late that afternoon when jason's
01:03:40family prepared to leave the old woman walked at the very end at the doorway she turned back to look
01:03:46at me once more her eyes were full of tears reluctance and endless loneliness then leaning on her cane she
01:03:51walked away slowly step by step i stood at the door watching her aged hunched body disappear down the
01:03:56street and in my heart there was no ripple at all mom walked over and gently hugged me from behind
01:04:02she didn't ask what had happened she simply patted my head softly no matter what happens your dad and i
01:04:09are here for you that night i lay in bed with steady breathing occasionally shifting as i chased
01:04:17something in my dreams i stared at the ceiling thinking of my previous life chloe chloe they were real
01:04:27the pain was real that cold abandoned time when no one came for me that was real too but i
01:04:35am no longer
01:04:36chloe i am charlotte and i no longer hate grace that winter dad's rescue team completed a high difficulty
01:04:45mission a family of three had been trapped near the 3000 meter snow line and they were all rescued
01:04:52safely no one was injured during the celebration the entire team was eating in the cafeteria mom sat
01:05:00in a corner smiling as she watched him i sat beside mom eating and listening to their stories they talked
01:05:06about the child from that stranded family a boy eight years old when they found him he was curled up
01:05:13in a
01:05:13hollow facing away from the wind his head wrapped tightly in his clothes he knew how to preserve body
01:05:19heat he lasted much longer than we expected after being rescued the first thing the boy asked was
01:05:28where is my mom mom is here that boy's mother is here my mother is here too this is real
01:05:36this is not the long winter for my past life not a wish written in blood this is now this
01:05:43is today mom's
01:05:45hand is still on my shoulder she doesn't know what i'm thinking but she just keeps it there that's enough
01:05:53this is already enough all right very nice when i was 13 i graduated from elementary school and got
01:05:59into the best middle school in the city dad and mom took me to the seaside to celebrate i stood
01:06:06by the
01:06:07ocean the sea wind brushed through my hair carrying a salty taste i spread my arms feeling the wind feeling
01:06:17freedom for a moment i seemed to see my past self
01:06:29i'm just grateful to be alive and to be with you
01:06:35silly girl we're the lucky ones having you as our daughter is the greatest happiness of our lives
01:06:44the suffering of my past life taught me to cherish the happiness of this one
01:06:49the pain that went deep into my bones taught me what true love is and what true trust really means
01:06:56i no longer need to fear the red lights
01:07:00i can laugh i can cry i can freely express my feelings i can love bravely and be loved in
01:07:06return
01:07:07i have parents who love me the best friend and a bright future this is a life i never even
01:07:12dared to
01:07:12dream of in my past life that night on the hotel balcony i took out my diary today i saw
01:07:19the ocean it was vast blue and free i thought of my past self the little girl locked in the
01:07:26attic
01:07:26longing to be loved and believed she would never believe that i could live such a happy life now
01:07:32my parents love me very much they taught me what honesty and courage are lena is now my best friend
01:07:41she
01:07:42is confident and bright her smile like stars in her eyes the old lady is in good health she often
01:07:49calls
01:07:49me and sends me pastries she makes herself buddy is still that silly little guy always pawing at my
01:07:56hand asking me to play with him i no longer hate anyone i am no longer attached to the past
01:08:01those painful
01:08:03memories are like footprints on the beach washed away by the waves but they taught me to cherish every
01:08:09step i take i know that in my past life my mother sister and father all received their due consequences
01:08:17and i at last have broken free from the chains and found true freedom i don't want to see them
01:08:23again
01:08:23i don't want to relive that life again i just want to be charlotte simple happy and loved
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