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The Ultimate Humiliation Caught on Camera in YOU WANT MY RING GET ON YOUR KNEES Complete Series
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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 May 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.
00:00:37Anyone showing a red light gets no food for the day.
00:00:43Mine is green.
00:00:47Your 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.
00:01:23At noon that day, Mom distributed the food.
00:01:25Anna got a larger portion because her bracelet was green.
00:01:28She needs to replenish energy.
00:01:30Mine was pitifully small because my bracelet was flashing red.
00:01:34Mom, I haven't eaten anything. I'm really hungry.
00:01:38Chloe, machines don't lie.
00:01:40Just 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 strip of food.
00:01:47And you, you're a thief!
00:01:49I 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!
00:02:11I ate it.
00:02:14She ate it! It's totally Anna! She just told me!
00:02:18Mom, I didn't!
00:02:19Sister, 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!
00:02:39How did I end up with such a cruel daughter?
00:02:47Mom, I didn't lie. It really wasn't me.
00:02:56Please, just believe me this once. Just once.
00:03:01No.
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. Please believe me this time. I'm your daughter.
00:03:14Look at her.
00:03:15Look at it yourself. Red. Chloe, it's red. It shows excess calories. If you didn't steal food, then who did?
00:03:22Your sister's bracelet is green. She can barely even stand. How could she possibly steal anything?
00:03:27I have to punish a lying child like you.
00:03:38I 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.
00:04:09Anna, 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.
00:04:22I didn't even have the strength to struggle anymore. My forehead began to burn with heat. Even my breath carried
00:04:29an 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.
00:05:25Mom, 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.
00:06:03Back 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
00:07:03delicious.
00:07:03Too bad you didn't get any. But what can you do? Your core shack is red.
00:07:07Mom only believes me, not you. Want a drink? Then beg me. Say you're a liar that you stole the
00:07:13chocolate.
00:07:14Say it, and I'll let you drink. Oops. 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.
00:07:27The 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.
00:07:39Mom, I'm so cold. I'm so hungry. I really didn't lie. Please believe me. Just once. Please.
00:07:46Dad, save me. I'm going to die. Dad!
00:07:51Music 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.
00:08:29The 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. A false burning sensation, as if I were no longer
00:08:43cold.
00:08:44I 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 forcely. 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.
00:08:58Mom. I thought again of when I was very young.
00:09:00Then stir. 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. She said I stole it. It wasn't me,
00:09:14Anna ate it. My bracelet turned red. Mom hit me, shocked me with the bracelet, took my blanket and gave
00:09:18it to Anna. I'm so cold.
00:09:24Chloe, come here. Let Mom hug you.
00:09:32I felt weightless. I looked down. I was floating. And there below me I saw myself lying on that frozen
00:09:37pile of cardboard. My 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. The thermal monitoring bracelet was still
00:09:51tightly fastened around my lifeless, purplish wrist. The red light continued flashing tirelessly, reflecting on my pale, expressionless face. Eerie
00:09:59and ironic.
00:10:00I 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. I hovered there, looking at my own corpse. I didn't
00:10:09cry. 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. I drifted down the
00:10:22stairs, into the living room. Mom, Dad, and Anna were gathered around the table by the fire, smiles on their
00:10:28faces. Smiles 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. They said the blizzard had weakened.
00:10:41In two days, they would be able to fly up in a helicopter and take us down the mountain. We
00:10:45were saved, except me. I died three days before the rescue arrived. I died just as the storm was about
00:10:53to 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!
00:11:02Alright.
00:11:08That cake Dad had bought it for me before we came to the mountains. I couldn't bear to eat it,
00:11:13so I hid it deep in the storage room. I wanted to wait until the blizzard ended, then take it
00:11:18out and share it with Mom, Dad, and my sister. I had even drawn a picture of our family on
00:11:23the box and written the words,
00:11:24I love Mom. Eat 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. And somewhere where my heart should have been, there
00:11:44was 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
00:12:18to 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
00:12:45it?
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.
00:13:17Don't sound the colder money. See us, babe!
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
00:13:29living.
00:13:30She went downstairs and turned on the central heating and the floor heating throughout the house.
00:13:37The 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.
00:14:01They were going to leave after being rescued. They were going to leave 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.
00:14:16Take 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!
00:14:29If you just turn the handle, you'll see that I'm not moving anymore. You'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.
00:14:58Maybe then, I wouldn't have to keep decaying.
00:15:12Mom was the first to notice.
00:15:16What 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 than 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?
00:16:54I'm gonna teach you a lesson today!
00:17:11Chloe?
00:17:13Chloe?
00:17:24I'm talking to you, Chloe!
00:17:48Chloe?
00:17:52No. No, that's impossible. Chloe?
00:17:55You're pretending, aren't you, Chloe? You're lying to Mom again, aren't you?
00:18:00Get up! Mom's not angry anymore! I won't scold you again! Get up! Don't scare me! Please!
00:18:07Her hand trembled as she reached beneath my nose. No breath. Then she reached for my neck, feeling for a
00:18:13pulse. Nothing. Only coldness. Only silence. I was truly dead.
00:18:18Dead in the attic she had locked with her own hands. Dead in the cold and hunger she had caused.
00:18:24Dead under the gaze. She never once chose to believe.
00:18:27Impossible. The machine doesn't know. What is it?
00:18:41They had followed the sound of the screams. The team leader pushed open the attic door and froze the moment
00:18:46he saw what was inside. The body of a ten-year-old girl lay curled up on the cold floor.
00:18:51A bracelet flashing red on her wrist. A woman sat collapsed on the ground. Screaming like a mad woman. Her
00:18:58eyes unfocused completely deranged.
00:19:00David and Anna, who had followed behind, turned deathly pale the moment he saw my body. David's legs gave out,
00:19:07and 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.
00:19:35She burst into tears, clinging tightly to David's arm, her body shaking like a leaf in the autumn wind, barely
00:19:42able to stand.
00:19:44She was finally afraid. She finally understood that her prank, her lies, her framing, had cost a life, had killed
00:19:52her own sister.
00:19:56Quick! Call a doctor! Seal off the scene!
00:20:00The rescue team leader quickly snapped out of it and shouted sharply at the others.
00:20:05Unable to suppress the anger in his voice, the team set up a cordon.
00:20:09The doctor pushed through the crowd and entered the attic, crouching beside my body for a long time, examining carefully,
00:20:16his movements gentle, as if afraid of damaging my already fragile skin.
00:20:20Severe hypothermia. Organ failure. This child was starved for at least a month, and in temperatures well below freezing, she
00:20:29froze to death.
00:20:31Time of death was two to three days ago.
00:20:33It's not my fault! She was lying! She stole food! Look! The bracelet is red! The red light! It says
00:20:42she has excess calories! I follow the data! Machines 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
00:21:10finally 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. Not once.
00:22:10The bracelet was broken. She was wrong.
00:22:14No, no, that's impossible.
00:22:20No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:22:22no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:22:27Look! Anna's bracelet is still green!
00:22:29This proves the system works! This is scientific!
00:22:33At that moment, a female rescue worker walked over to Anna, bent down, and took something out of her 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!
00:23:15Ha ha 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! Mom gave it to me! I 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.
00:23:46No chip.
00:23:47No 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.
00:24:10No 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 to end was nothing but
00:24:21a 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, and suddenly, she laughed.
00:24:39She 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.
00:25:02I 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 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, panic rising in her voice.
00:25:31What? No! My calories can't be over!
00:25:35I 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.
00:25:48I love... Why is it red?
00:25:50I'm telling the truth!
00:25:52Turn green, you piece of junk! You're framing me!
00:25:55Suddenly, she remembered me.
00:25:57Ten-year-old me.
00:25:58Punished so severely.
00:25:59Curled 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.
00:26:07Again 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! 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.
00:26:42February 14th.
00:26:43Day 7 of the blizzard.
00:26:44Mom found the chocolate missing.
00:26:46She said I stole it.
00:26:47I didn't.
00:26:48It was Anna who ate it.
00:26:49My 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.
00:27:00But she turned up the music so loud she couldn't hear me.
00:27:04When I was 9,
00:27:05Anna broke Mom's most precious tech robot
00:27:08and cried saying I didn't, 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.
00:27:28Countless days and nights, Anna stole my toys, tore my drawings, ruined my homework,
00:27:33and then cried to Mom, saying I didn't.
00:27:36Every single time, Mom believed Anna without question,
00:27:39then scolded me, punished me,
00:27:41and made me stand in a cold corner without food.
00:27:46Machines don't lie.
00:27:48Anna's wristband is green.
00:27:50You're just a liar.
00:27:52Mom, I really didn't lie.
00:27:54I'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?
00:28:03If 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,
00:28:13crashing down on on my mom's heart.
00:28:15She covered her face and let out a heart-wrenching cry,
00:28:19like a wounded beast.
00:28:20She remembered the fourth day of the blizzard,
00:28:23the 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
00:28:33and wrapping it around Anna instead,
00:28:35and the despair in my eyes.
00:28:39She remembered me banging on the floor,
00:28:42screaming for her help,
00:28:43while she deliberately turned up Symphony of Fate
00:28:46to the maximum volume to block out her own ears.
00:28:49She remembered sealing the cracks of the attic door with tape,
00:28:53and the disgust and impatience she felt at the time.
00:28:58She had personally, little by little,
00:29:00pushed her daughter toward death.
00:29:02She had personally killed the little girl
00:29:04who loved her most,
00:29:05and trusted her most.
00:29:10Mom let out a piercing scream,
00:29:12and suddenly raised her head,
00:29:15looking toward Anna curled up in the corner.
00:29:17It's you!
00:29:19It's all you!
00:29:21She lunged forward like a madwoman,
00:29:23tightly gripping Anna's throat,
00:29:26screaming hysterically,
00:29:28You're the one who lied.
00:29:29You're the one who stole the chocolate.
00:29:32You 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.
00:29:43The rescue staff and doctors rushed in
00:29:45and pulled Mom away,
00:29:47pinning her firmly down on the sofa.
00:29:51My dad watched everything,
00:29:53the crazed mother,
00:29:54the terrified Anna,
00:29:56and the bloodstained note in the evidence bag,
00:29:58and finally snapped.
00:30:03You monster!
00:30:06That was your daughter, our daughter!
00:30:09You froze her to death with your own hands!
00:30:11How dare you!
00:30:12How could you!
00:30:15It's not my fault.
00:30:18It was the wristband.
00:30:20It was Anna.
00:30:22It's not my fault.
00:30:24My body was placed into a black body bag,
00:30:27the zipper slowly closed,
00:30:29sealing away my short ten years of life
00:30:31filled with pain and despair.
00:30:33Don't take her away!
00:30:34Give her river back to me!
00:30:35She ran across the snowfield,
00:30:38her 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,
00:31:00but she only grasped empty,
00:31:02freezing air,
00:31:03and 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,
00:31:16and 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,
00:31:53my 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.
00:32:03The front gate had been splashed with bright red paint.
00:32:06In 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.
00:32:14The villa windows had been smashed with bricks.
00:32:17Red paint and abusive slogans
00:32:19covered the walls and floors.
00:32:21At the entrance,
00:32:22reporters and furious protesters
00:32:24packed 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, the murderer, get out!
00:32:34You don't deserve to be a mother!
00:32:36Pay for Chloe's life!
00:32:38Evil family,
00:32:39get out of Switzerland!
00:32:41Neighbors 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.
00:33:07Every call that came through brought waves of insults and curses,
00:33:10even 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.
00:33:30It's not my fault.
00:33:31It's all your fault.
00:33:32All of it.
00:33:33If it weren't for that damn bracelet of yours,
00:33:35if 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.
00:33:40You're a mad woman.
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.
00:33:51Philippe can't help you?
00:33:51No!
00:33:56No!
00:33:58No!
00:34:02No!
00:34:08I don't know.
00:34:09I won't!
00:34:11Stop!
00:34:11Hello!
00:34:112014
00:34:11Mary
00:34:13help me!
00:34:19Help me,
00:34:21Mom and dad had no choice but to sell the house, the car, and everything valuable in the home to
00:34:27cover legal fees and compensation.
00:34:42How dare you!
00:34:48Stop!
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.
00:35:27Don't sit at home!
00:35:28Ah!
00:35:28Hurgh!
00:35:32Yol Yolngh!
00:35:35Yolngh!
00:35:37Yolngh!
00:35:45Yolngh!
00:35:47Yolngh!
00:35:50Yolngh!
00:35:52Yolngh!
00:35:53Yolngh!
00:35:55Yolngh!
00:36:10It's not fair.
00:36:45Didn't you love lying?
00:36:47It wasn't me.
00:36:48I didn't kill my sister.
00:36:49Didn't you have that bracelet with the always green signal?
00:36:52Why 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.
00:36:57Thief.
00:36:58Murderer.
00:36:58Why don't they bully anyone else?
00:37:00Just you.
00:37:01Maybe you should reflect on yourself.
00:37:04When 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 didn't.
00:37:26I can't.
00:37:51I'm sorry.
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.
00:38:16Everything I do is based on the data from the scientific wristband.
00:38:19I didn't do anything wrong.
00:38:22Mom!
00:38:30Can 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.
00:38:45Chloe, sorry.
00:38:47It's all my fault.
00:38:50It's all my fault.
00:38:53Machines don't lie.
00:38:55Red light.
00:38:58Chloe, I'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.
00:39:17You're the ones who are crazy.
00:39:19The bracelet was broken.
00:39:21It's not my fault.
00:39:22I'm not insane.
00:39:25I was right.
00:39:26The data doesn't lie.
00:39:28Chloe 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
00:39:40restraint 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.
00:40:02In 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.
00:40:20Hey!
00:40:27Chloe!
00:40:33Chloe!
00:40:35Mom was wrong!
00:40:36Come back!
00:40:37I'm sorry!
00:40:39Chloe!
00:40:41Wait for me!
00:40:51Her 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.
00:41:03She became a woman without legs.
00:41:06Completely broken.
00:41:09And completely insane.
00:41:11Hey!
00:41:12Chloe!
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
00:41:22her neck like a collar.
00:41:24It was her self-made calorie monitoring bracelet.
00:41:28Don't touch my light!
00:41:30Chloe is watching!
00:41:31If you take it away, she'll get angry!
00:41:36Grace!
00:41:37Grace?
00:41:38Grace?
00:41:38It's time to eat.
00:41:39Red light!
00:41:40Grace!
00:41:41Don't punish me, Chloe!
00:41:42I'm sorry!
00:41:44She was reliving my final moments before death.
00:41:48She locked herself inside the same cold attic where I had once been trapped, reliving
00:41:52my personal hell over and over again.
00:41:54Chloe, I'm sorry.
00:41:56Mom was wrong.
00:41:57Please come back, okay?
00:41:58Mom will never trust the bracelet again.
00:42:00Mom will bake you cake, cover you with blankets.
00:42:02I confess.
00:42:04I confess.
00:42:06Red light!
00:42:07Red light!
00:42:08Chloe!
00:42:09Mom was wrong!
00:42:11Mom shouldn't have trusted the red light!
00:42:23Chloe, are you there?
00:42:25Mom threw the bracelet away.
00:42:27Mom doesn't believe in it anymore.
00:42:29Please come back!
00:42:30Please come back!
00:42:31Mom will cook for you!
00:42:32Mom will buy you new dresses!
00:42:34There was no ripple in my heart.
00:42:36Only a dead silence.
00:42:37Regret means nothing to the dead.
00:42:39It was too late.
00:42:41Mom, 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,
00:42:54where was your remorse?
00:42:55Mom, I don't hate you anymore.
00:42:58But I don't love you anymore either.
00:43:00In the next life, let's not meet again.
00:43:08I drifted through the snowstorm of the Alps.
00:43:11Snow fell onto my body, yet I felt no cold at all.
00:43:14I was finally free.
00:43:15No red lights, no hunger, no cold, no lies, no mom's hatred, no Anna's framing, no dad's inaction.
00:43:22Only boundless freedom.
00:43:24Just then, I heard a familiar bark.
00:43:26I looked down.
00:43:27A golden sled dog was sitting in the snow, wagging its tail, looking up at me with bright eyes.
00:43:32It was Buddy.
00:43:33Buddy was the dog I once raised.
00:43:36A gift from Dad on my eighth birthday.
00:43:38A gentle golden retriever sled dog.
00:43:41My only warmth in childhood.
00:43:43When my mom called me a liar and Anna bullied me,
00:43:47only Buddy would run over,
00:43:50lie down by my feet,
00:43:52and rub its head against my hand,
00:43:55staying with me.
00:43:57But mom didn't like it.
00:43:59She said dogs carry germs and would affect her research.
00:44:02Before we came to the snowy mountains for vacation,
00:44:05she took advantage of a moment when I wasn't paying attention
00:44:08and abandoned Bunny in the mountains.
00:44:10Bunny!
00:44:12Bunny!
00:44:15I cried for days and searched for days,
00:44:18but I never found him.
00:44:20It turns out he had always been here,
00:44:22waiting for me at the border.
00:44:25Bunny!
00:44:26Bunny!
00:44:30Let's go.
00:44:31Don't look back.
00:44:32I could feel his soft, warm fur,
00:44:36feel his body temperature,
00:44:37feel his heartbeat.
00:44:38This was the living, breathing connection
00:44:41I had longed for most when I was alive.
00:44:47In the distance, a door of light appeared.
00:44:50It was the entrance to the next cycle of reincarnation.
00:44:54I turned back and took one last look at this world
00:44:57that had tormented me for ten years.
00:44:59One 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,
00:45:06holding Buddy's paw,
00:45:07and walked step by step toward that door of light.
00:45:11Everything behind me became like a faded photograph,
00:45:14slowly blurring and dissolving.
00:45:16My mother's final tears,
00:45:18the bracelet's red glow,
00:45:20the blood-written message on the floor,
00:45:22the freezing attic.
00:45:23All of it vanished.
00:45:24I did not look back.
00:45:26The nightmare that had lasted Wood for ten years
00:45:29had finally come to a true end.
00:45:31Passing through that light,
00:45:32there was no spinning,
00:45:34no chaos,
00:45:35only endless warmth
00:45:36as if I were sinking into a spring stream.
00:45:38Even the pain deep within my soul,
00:45:40those lingering aches and phantom pains,
00:45:43gradually faded away.
00:45:44Buddy's paw in my hand was warm and gentle.
00:45:47When I opened my eyes again,
00:45:48I was small,
00:45:50wrapped in a soft blanket.
00:45:52Someone was humming.
00:45:54It was a woman's voice.
00:45:56Gentle,
00:45:58slightly off-key,
00:45:59yet filled with love.
00:46:00Her fingers lightly brushed across my cheek,
00:46:03carrying the scent of gardenias.
00:46:04Not the cold,
00:46:05disinfectant smell from my mother
00:46:07in my previous life.
00:46:08Not that clinical,
00:46:10distant feeling.
00:46:12You're awake.
00:46:14Honey,
00:46:14come quickly.
00:46:15Our daughter just blinked.
00:46:17He was tall,
00:46:19with healthy,
00:46:19wheel-colored skin,
00:46:20weathered features.
00:46:21But his eyes were exceptionally gentle.
00:46:24He was my father in this sweet life,
00:46:26Martin.
00:46:27He was the same rescue captain
00:46:29from my previous life.
00:46:30The first person to rush into the attic
00:46:33and find my body.
00:46:37Hey, Charlotte.
00:46:39I'm your dad.
00:46:40Charlotte.
00:46:41Not Chloe.
00:46:43No burden,
00:46:44no 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.
00:46:54I grew up in a home filled with love.
00:46:56Our house wasn't big,
00:46:57but it was clean and warm.
00:46:59In 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,
00:47:08no red or green lights,
00:47:09no strict food rationing,
00:47:11no cold attic.
00:47:13Only endless love
00:47:14and unconditional trust.
00:47:16When I was three years old,
00:47:18my mother made hot cocoa.
00:47:19The aroma drifted from the kitchen
00:47:21into the living room.
00:47:31Baby,
00:47:32I'm here.
00:47:35Charlotte,
00:47:37you're safe now.
00:47:38I'm here.
00:47:39Dad is here.
00:47:40No one will hurt you.
00:47:42My throat hurts.
00:47:44I don't want hot cocoa.
00:47:48Not like the hot water
00:47:50in that attic thermos
00:47:51that Anna once poured out,
00:47:52not something that had been
00:47:54held up to my mouth
00:47:55before being taken away.
00:47:56When I was four years old,
00:47:58the kindergarten organized
00:48:00a health checkup
00:48:01that included a blood test.
00:48:10Charlotte,
00:48:10it's just a tiny poke.
00:48:11It won't hurt.
00:48:12Look at the other children.
00:48:13They're all very brave.
00:48:14Don't punish me.
00:48:15I didn't lie.
00:48:16Don't shock me.
00:48:17It's okay.
00:48:20Sorry,
00:48:20my child's experienced trauma.
00:48:22We're going to skip
00:48:22the physical exam for now.
00:48:23We'll take her
00:48:24to a child psychologist
00:48:25and we'll come back
00:48:26when she's ready.
00:48:32Charlotte,
00:48:32did someone hurt you before?
00:48:36Bracelet,
00:48:36red light,
00:48:38so cold.
00:48:39My baby,
00:48:40you must have suffered
00:48:41so much,
00:48:41didn't you?
00:48:42It's okay now.
00:48:44You're home.
00:48:46Mom and Dad are here.
00:48:47No one can hurt you anymore.
00:48:49From that day on,
00:48:51they regularly took me
00:48:52to see a child psychologist.
00:48:55The doctor said
00:48:56I had severe
00:48:57post-traumatic stress disorder.
00:49:00My parents
00:49:01never complained once.
00:49:02They never made me
00:49:04feel like a burden.
00:49:05They stayed with me,
00:49:06played games with me,
00:49:08did therapy exercises with me,
00:49:10slowly healing the wounds
00:49:12in my heart.
00:49:13They bought me many,
00:49:15many colorful,
00:49:16beautiful bracelets,
00:49:18but they never forced me
00:49:20to wear any of them.
00:49:23These are just accessories,
00:49:24Charlotte.
00:49:24Wear them if you like.
00:49:25If you don't,
00:49:26just take them off.
00:49:26No matter what,
00:49:27your dad and I will always love you.
00:49:28I looked at the sparkling bracelet
00:49:30on my wrist.
00:49:31There was no red light,
00:49:32no electric shock,
00:49:33no accusation,
00:49:34only my mother's gentle smile.
00:49:35It took me two lifetimes
00:49:36to finally hear those words.
00:49:38When I was five years old,
00:49:39I once had a fever.
00:49:42I started crying uncontrollably.
00:49:44I feel hot.
00:49:46It wasn't because I felt unwell.
00:49:48It was because what I said.
00:49:50Mom 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.
00:50:09If you say you're hot,
00:50:10then you're hot.
00:50:11The thermometer says you're hot too.
00:50:13Of course I believe you.
00:50:15What if the thermometer
00:50:16didn't say I was hot,
00:50:17but I said I was?
00:50:18Would you still believe me?
00:50:20I would.
00:50:21Your feelings are your own.
00:50:22They don't need any machine
00:50:24to prove them.
00:50:26I held on to those words
00:50:27in my heart
00:50:28for a long, long time.
00:50:30The afternoon I had a fever.
00:50:32It started snowing outside.
00:50:34Dad wrapped me in a blanket
00:50:35and held me by the window
00:50:37as we watched the snow.
00:50:39Mom loved snowy days the most
00:50:41when I was a child,
00:50:42building snowmen with my brother.
00:50:44Once I had placed the snowman's nose
00:50:46where its eyes should be.
00:50:52It was so the snowman
00:50:53could look down
00:50:54at its own feet.
00:50:55Otherwise,
00:50:55it would never know
00:50:56what it was wearing.
00:50:59I was wrapped in that blanket
00:51:00simply because they wanted me
00:51:02to 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
00:51:08and took a breath.
00:51:09It smelled like fabric softener.
00:51:11Clean, dry, and unmistakably
00:51:13the scent of home.
00:51:14When I was seven,
00:51:16I started elementary school.
00:51:17There was a girl in my class
00:51:19named Lena.
00:51:19She looked exactly like Anna
00:51:21from my previous life.
00:51:23The same eyes,
00:51:24the same face shape.
00:51:29Sister,
00:51:30you're so pitiful.
00:51:37I'm,
00:51:37my name is Lena.
00:51:40You,
00:51:41do you want to be my friend?
00:51:43Her tone was so cautious,
00:51:44so eager to please.
00:51:46Just like me
00:51:47in my previous life,
00:51:48almost instinctively,
00:51:49I glanced at her wrist.
00:51:51She was wearing
00:51:52a cheap green cartoon wristband.
00:51:54Later,
00:51:55I learned that Lena's mother
00:51:56was also extremely strict.
00:51:58She demanded
00:51:59absolute obedience
00:52:00and absolute honesty.
00:52:01If Lena made
00:52:02even the smallest mistake,
00:52:04she would be locked
00:52:05in her room
00:52:05and denied food.
00:52:07Lena,
00:52:07just like my past self,
00:52:08lived in endless fear
00:52:09and suppression.
00:52:10One day,
00:52:11Lena accidentally broke
00:52:12the teacher's glass cup.
00:52:18I looked at her,
00:52:19at the fear and despair
00:52:21in her eyes.
00:52:22In that instant,
00:52:23I was reminded
00:52:23of my past self.
00:52:25The little girl
00:52:26who lay on the cold floor,
00:52:27writing I am a liar
00:52:28over and over again,
00:52:30begging for forgiveness
00:52:30again and again.
00:52:34Lena,
00:52:35it's okay.
00:52:36Accidents happen.
00:52:37Let's go tell
00:52:38the teacher together,
00:52:39okay?
00:52:39The teacher won't be angry.
00:52:41But,
00:52:42Mom said that children
00:52:43who lie are bad kids
00:52:45and they will be punished.
00:52:47Being honest doesn't mean
00:52:48you never make mistakes.
00:52:49It means that when
00:52:50you do make a mistake,
00:52:51you're brave enough
00:52:52to admit it.
00:52:52And even if you tell
00:52:53the truth,
00:52:54you shouldn't be punished
00:52:54for it.
00:52:56I broke the cup.
00:52:58I'm sorry.
00:53:00The teacher didn't get angry.
00:53:02Instead,
00:53:03she smiled,
00:53:04patted both our heads,
00:53:05and said it was okay,
00:53:06just to be more careful
00:53:07next time.
00:53:08From that day on,
00:53:09we became best friends.
00:53:12I took Lena home
00:53:13to meet my parents.
00:53:15She looked at my mom
00:53:16and dad,
00:53:16so gentle,
00:53:17so patient,
00:53:18never shouting
00:53:19over small things,
00:53:20never punishing a child
00:53:21for making mistakes.
00:53:23Her eyes were filled
00:53:24with envy.
00:53:25Lena,
00:53:26you don't need
00:53:26to please everyone.
00:53:27You're allowed
00:53:28to have your own feelings.
00:53:29You can say no,
00:53:31you can be scared,
00:53:32you can make mistakes.
00:53:33None of that is shameful.
00:53:34One day,
00:53:35Lena's mother
00:53:36came to school
00:53:36to pick her up.
00:53:37When she saw us together,
00:53:39her face immediately darkened.
00:53:40She grabbed Lena's hand
00:53:42tightly and said sharply,
00:53:44Did you cause trouble again?
00:53:45Is Charlotte helping you lie?
00:53:49Auntie,
00:53:50Lena hasn't done anything wrong.
00:53:52She's a very,
00:53:53very good child.
00:53:54You shouldn't always
00:53:55assume the worst about her.
00:53:57She's afraid of you.
00:54:01That night,
00:54:02she called my mom.
00:54:03They talked for a long time,
00:54:05and in the end,
00:54:06she said thank you.
00:54:10Your daughter made me realize
00:54:11how terribly wrong
00:54:12I've been.
00:54:14Little by little,
00:54:15Lena's mother
00:54:16became gentler.
00:54:17She started learning
00:54:18to listen
00:54:19instead of shouting,
00:54:21to trust
00:54:22instead of blaming,
00:54:23and Lena,
00:54:24too,
00:54:25became more
00:54:26and more confident,
00:54:28more and more open.
00:54:29In my previous life,
00:54:30I was never saved.
00:54:32I endured all the pain
00:54:33alone in the darkness,
00:54:34but in this life,
00:54:35I can save others.
00:54:37When I was 10 years old,
00:54:39Dad took us
00:54:39to the mountains,
00:54:40not the Alps,
00:54:42just ordinary mountains.
00:54:44Dad was the captain
00:54:45of a mountain rescue team.
00:54:46He knew every path
00:54:47in the area,
00:54:48knew where the hidden ice was,
00:54:49which slopes were dangerous,
00:54:51where you could set up camp,
00:54:52and where rock clops
00:54:53might happen after rain.
00:54:54He led me along
00:54:54an easier trail.
00:54:56Mom walked behind us,
00:54:57camera in hand,
00:54:58taking photos
00:54:58from time to time.
00:55:04Here.
00:55:07Dad,
00:55:08have you ever seen
00:55:09people trapped
00:55:10in snowy mountains?
00:55:11Yes.
00:55:12Many times.
00:55:14What happened
00:55:15to them in the end?
00:55:20Some were rescued,
00:55:21some weren't.
00:55:23The ones
00:55:23who weren't rescued?
00:55:27Do you still remember them?
00:55:29I remember.
00:55:30Every single one.
00:55:32Do you know why
00:55:33I chose this job?
00:55:35No.
00:55:36Because I hope
00:55:37that after every snowstorm,
00:55:38no one is left alone
00:55:39in the mountains.
00:55:40For everyone
00:55:41who gets trapped,
00:55:42I hope someone
00:55:43can reach them in time.
00:55:44The wind blew down
00:55:45from the mountain,
00:55:46carrying the scent
00:55:47of pine trees
00:55:48and a faint coolness
00:55:49from the distant stream.
00:55:50But it wasn't
00:55:51the kind of cold
00:55:52that 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
00:55:58of being alive.
00:56:02Look.
00:56:06I stared at that photo
00:56:08for a long time.
00:56:09That child was me.
00:56:10Clean.
00:56:11Looking outward.
00:56:12Alive.
00:56:13Not Chloe curled up
00:56:14in 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
00:56:19dad and mom.
00:56:20At that moment,
00:56:21I remembered the lines
00:56:22in my drawing book.
00:56:23I remembered the hands
00:56:25that wrote them.
00:56:25I remembered the child
00:56:27who use up
00:56:28her last bit of strength
00:56:29just to say,
00:56:30I love you so much.
00:56:32You don't need a wristband
00:56:34to prove that
00:56:34what you say is true.
00:56:35There are people here
00:56:36who believe you.
00:56:37Even without a wristband,
00:56:39even without any device
00:56:40to verify it,
00:56:41even if what you say
00:56:42sounds impossible,
00:56:43there will still be someone
00:56:44who will catch
00:56:44every word you say.
00:56:46There are people here
00:56:47who believe you.
00:56:48Hey.
00:56:50In autumn,
00:56:51one of dad's
00:56:52old rescue teammates
00:56:53came to visit,
00:56:54bringing his wife,
00:56:55and an elderly woman
00:56:57when with them.
00:56:58She was his mother.
00:56:59Even though time
00:57:00had carved deep marks
00:57:01into her face,
00:57:02even though it shed
00:57:03the obsession and madness
00:57:04of my previous life,
00:57:05even though the eyes
00:57:06that once belonged
00:57:07to a scientist
00:57:07no longer held
00:57:08that burning phoneticism,
00:57:10only gentleness
00:57:10and the weight of years,
00:57:11I would never mistake her.
00:57:13This was grace.
00:57:22Charlotte,
00:57:24what's wrong, sweetheart?
00:57:25Are you feeling unwell?
00:57:27At that moment,
00:57:28the old woman's gaze
00:57:29also fell on me.
00:57:31Her originally gentle eyes
00:57:32froze the instant
00:57:33she saw me.
00:57:42This is your child?
00:57:46Yes,
00:57:47this is our daughter,
00:57:48Charlotte.
00:57:51I could clearly see
00:57:52the wrinkles
00:57:53at the corners
00:57:53of her eyes,
00:57:54the white strands
00:57:56at her thames,
00:57:57and the tears
00:57:58pooling in her eyes,
00:58:00held back so tightly
00:58:02that they refused
00:58:03to fall.
00:58:05Charlotte,
00:58:06such a beautiful name.
00:58:09My throat felt blocked,
00:58:11as if something
00:58:11was stuck there.
00:58:13I was no longer
00:58:15Chloe.
00:58:16I am Charlotte,
00:58:17the Charlotte
00:58:18who had grown up
00:58:19wrapped in love.
00:58:20Seeing that I remained silent,
00:58:22a trace of panic
00:58:23flashed in her eyes.
00:58:27How old are you?
00:58:31Ten.
00:58:33Ten?
00:58:34That's good.
00:58:35At lunchtime,
00:58:37she sat directly
00:58:38across from me.
00:58:39She carefully used
00:58:41serving chopsters
00:58:42to put food
00:58:43into my bowl.
00:58:44Auntie,
00:58:45you're spoiling
00:58:46Charlotte too much.
00:58:47You should eat too.
00:58:50It's fine.
00:58:52When I look
00:58:52at this child,
00:58:53I just feel
00:58:54an instant sense
00:58:55of closeness.
00:58:56I looked at the pile
00:58:57of food in my bowl,
00:58:59my emotions tangled
00:59:00and heavy.
00:59:01In my previous life,
00:59:03until the day I died,
00:59:05I had always hoped,
00:59:06just once,
00:59:07that she would serve me
00:59:08a bite of food,
00:59:09say something gentle to me,
00:59:10or believe me
00:59:11even once.
00:59:12But now,
00:59:13she had done it.
00:59:16Only,
00:59:17it was already too late.
00:59:19In the afternoon,
00:59:20I paint alone
00:59:21in the sunroom.
00:59:25Charlotte,
00:59:26can I sit here
00:59:27for a while?
00:59:28I won't disturb you
00:59:29while you draw.
00:59:31She carefully walked over
00:59:32and sat down
00:59:33on the wicker chair
00:59:34beside me.
00:59:35I know who you are
00:59:37and I also know
00:59:39who I am.
00:59:40From the moment
00:59:41I was born,
00:59:43I carried all
00:59:43my memories.
00:59:45I remember
00:59:46everything I did
00:59:47to you.
00:59:49I'm sorry,
00:59:51Chloe.
00:59:52Chloe,
00:59:52I'm sorry.
00:59:54Chloe,
00:59:56I'm sorry to you.
00:59:57I'm really sorry.
01:00:00Every day,
01:00:01I ask myself,
01:00:03why didn't I trust you
01:00:05that day in the cabin?
01:00:07Why did I trust
01:00:08that broken wristband
01:00:10instead of my own daughter?
01:00:12I remember slapping you.
01:00:15I remember shocking you.
01:00:17The way you curled up
01:00:19on the floor
01:00:20begging me to stop.
01:00:22I remember locking you
01:00:23in the attic.
01:00:25The way you clung
01:00:26to the door frame
01:00:27begging me not to lock it.
01:00:31I remember kicking
01:00:32open the attic door
01:00:34and finding your frozen body
01:00:37and the red light
01:00:39still flashing
01:00:40on your wrist.
01:00:42I saw your blood
01:00:43written letter
01:00:45every single word
01:00:46I carved into my heart
01:00:48and carried with me
01:00:50for the rest of my life.
01:00:51You asked
01:00:52if there could be
01:00:54another life.
01:00:55Could I please
01:00:56trust you once?
01:00:57Could I stop
01:00:57calling you a liar?
01:01:00But I didn't even
01:01:01give you that chance.
01:01:02I destroyed it
01:01:04with my own hands.
01:01:05I'm sorry.
01:01:07It was a diary
01:01:08with a sunflower
01:01:09on the cover.
01:01:10The flower
01:01:11I had loved most
01:01:12in my previous life.
01:01:14Chloe.
01:01:15No.
01:01:16Charlotte.
01:01:18I know that
01:01:19no matter how many
01:01:20apologies I say
01:01:21it's useless now.
01:01:23I took your life.
01:01:25I can never repay
01:01:26what I owe you.
01:01:27Not in this life.
01:01:29Not in the next.
01:01:30I don't dare to ask
01:01:32for your forgiveness.
01:01:33I just
01:01:34I just wanted
01:01:36to tell you
01:01:36sorry in person.
01:01:38I just want you
01:01:38to know that
01:01:39I understand now.
01:01:40Love is not measured
01:01:41by machines
01:01:42nor judged by data.
01:01:43It is listening to you
01:01:44believing what you say
01:01:45holding you
01:01:46and telling you
01:01:46that your mother
01:01:47is here.
01:01:47But I understood
01:01:48all of that
01:01:49far too late.
01:01:50Too late.
01:01:51I'm so sorry Charlotte.
01:01:52She was crying
01:01:54so hard
01:01:55that her whole
01:01:55body trembled.
01:01:57Her aged face
01:01:58was covered
01:01:58in tears
01:01:59and regret.
01:02:02I looked at her
01:02:03for a long time.
01:02:05In my previous life
01:02:07lying on the cold
01:02:08floor of the attic
01:02:09what I had wanted
01:02:10most before dying
01:02:11was a single
01:02:11apology from her.
01:02:13A single
01:02:14I believe you.
01:02:15But now
01:02:16she was truly
01:02:17standing in front
01:02:17of me
01:02:18saying countless
01:02:19apologies
01:02:19and yet I realized
01:02:21they no longer
01:02:22mattered to me.
01:02:23I already had
01:02:23a new life.
01:02:24Parents who loved me
01:02:25a warm home
01:02:26and a bright future.
01:02:28Auntie
01:02:28I don't hate you anymore.
01:02:31Her tears fell
01:02:32even harder.
01:02:33Her lips trembled
01:02:33as if she wanted
01:02:34to say something
01:02:35but no words came out.
01:02:37But I also won't
01:02:37call you mom again.
01:02:39The 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
01:02:44your repentance.
01:02:46I don't hate you anymore
01:02:47because I don't want
01:02:48to be trapped
01:02:48by the past.
01:02:50I don't want to spend
01:02:51my entire life
01:02:52living inside
01:02:52that snowy mountain
01:02:53nightmare.
01:02:54But I also won't
01:02:55forgive 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.
01:03:04She covered her face
01:03:05and let out
01:03:06a broken
01:03:06desperate sob.
01:03:08She knew I was right.
01:03:11It was too late.
01:03:13Everything was too late.
01:03:15When she locked me
01:03:16in the attic
01:03:16and let me freeze to death
01:03:18where was her remorse
01:03:19then?
01:03:19When I kept
01:03:20calling her mom
01:03:21over and over
01:03:22telling her I wasn't lying
01:03:24where was her remorse
01:03:25then?
01:03:26When I used
01:03:27my last strength
01:03:28to write a blood letter
01:03:30begging her to believe
01:03:31me just once
01:03:32where was her remorse
01:03:34then?
01:03:35Now it was
01:03:36all too late.
01:03:38That afternoon
01:03:39when Jason's family
01:03:40prepared to leave
01:03:41the old woman
01:03:42walked at the very end.
01:03:44At the doorway
01:03:45she turned back
01:03:46to look at me
01:03:46once more.
01:03:47Her eyes were full
01:03:47of tears,
01:03:48reluctance
01:03:49and endless loneliness.
01:03:50Then leaning
01:03:50on her cane
01:03:51she walked away
01:03:52slowly,
01:03:52step by step.
01:03:53I stood at the door
01:03:54watching her aged
01:03:55hunched body
01:03:56disappear down the street
01:03:57and in my heart
01:03:58there was no ripple
01:03:59at all.
01:03:59Mom walked over
01:04:00and gently hugged me
01:04:01from behind.
01:04:03She didn't ask
01:04:04what had happened.
01:04:05She simply
01:04:05patted my 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
01:04:14with 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
01:04:21previous life.
01:04:23Chloe!
01:04:25Chloe!
01:04:26They were real.
01:04:27The pain was real.
01:04:29That cold
01:04:30abandoned time
01:04:30when no one
01:04:31came for me
01:04:32that was real too.
01:04:34But I am
01:04:35no longer Chloe.
01:04:37I am Charlotte
01:04:38and I no longer
01:04:40hate Grace.
01:04:41That winter
01:04:42dad's rescue team
01:04:44completed a
01:04:44high difficulty mission.
01:04:46A family of three
01:04:47had been trapped
01:04:48near the
01:04:493,000 meter snow line
01:04:50and they were
01:04:51all rescued safely.
01:04:53No one was injured.
01:04:55During the celebration
01:04:56the entire team
01:04:57was eating
01:04:58in the cafeteria.
01:04:59Mom sat in a corner
01:05:00smiling as she
01:05:01watched him.
01:05:02I sat beside mom
01:05:03eating and listening
01:05:04to their stories.
01:05:06They talked about
01:05:06the child from
01:05:07that stranded family
01:05:08a boy
01:05:098 years old.
01:05:11When they found him
01:05:12he was curled up
01:05:13in a hollow
01:05:14facing away from
01:05:15the wind.
01:05:16His head wrapped
01:05:17tightly in his clothes.
01:05:18He knew how to
01:05:19preserve body heat.
01:05:20He lasted much
01:05:21longer than we
01:05:22expected.
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
01:05:33is here.
01:05:34My mother is here
01:05:35too.
01:05:35This is real.
01:05:37This is not the
01:05:38long winter
01:05:39for my past life.
01:05:40Not a wish
01:05:41written in blood.
01:05:42This is now.
01:05:43This is today.
01:05:45Mom's hand
01:05:45is still on my
01:05:46shoulder.
01:05:47She doesn't know
01:05:48what I'm thinking
01:05:49but she just
01:05:50keeps it there.
01:05:52That's enough.
01:05:53This is already
01:05:54enough.
01:05:55Alright, very nice.
01:05:57When I was 13
01:05:57I graduated from
01:05:59elementary school
01:05:59and got into the
01:06:00best middle school
01:06:01in the city.
01:06:02Dad and mom
01:06:03took me to the
01:06:04seaside to celebrate.
01:06:06I stood by the
01:06:07ocean.
01:06:08The sea wind
01:06:09brushed through
01:06:09my hair
01:06:10carrying a salty
01:06:11taste.
01:06:13I spread my arms
01:06:15feeling the wind
01:06:16feeling freedom.
01:06:18For a moment
01:06:19I seemed to see
01:06:21my past self.
01:06:26Charlotte,
01:06:27what are you
01:06:27thinking about?
01:06:30I'm just
01:06:31grateful
01:06:31to be alive
01:06:33and to be with
01:06:34you.
01:06:35Silly girl,
01:06:36we're the lucky
01:06:36ones.
01:06:37Having you as
01:06:38our daughter
01:06:38is the greatest
01:06:39happiness of our
01:06:40lives.
01:06:44The suffering
01:06:45of my past life
01:06:46taught me to
01:06:47cherish the
01:06:48happiness of
01:06:48this one.
01:06:50The pain that
01:06:51went deep into
01:06:51my bones taught
01:06:52me what true
01:06:53love is and
01:06:54what true
01:06:54trust really
01:06:55means.
01:06:56I no longer
01:06:57need to fear
01:06:58the red lights.
01:07:00I can laugh,
01:07:02I can cry,
01:07:02I can freely
01:07:03express my
01:07:04feelings.
01:07:04I can love
01:07:05bravely and be
01:07:06loved in return.
01:07:07I have parents
01:07:08who love me the
01:07:09best friend and
01:07:10a bright future.
01:07:10This is a life I
01:07:11never even dared
01:07:12to dream of in
01:07:13my past life.
01:07:14That night,
01:07:15on the hotel
01:07:15balcony, I took
01:07:17out my diary.
01:07:18Today I saw the
01:07:19ocean.
01:07:20It was vast,
01:07:22blue, and free.
01:07:23I thought of my
01:07:24past self, the
01:07:25little girl locked
01:07:26in the attic, longing
01:07:27to be loved and
01:07:28believed.
01:07:29She would never
01:07:30believe that I could
01:07:31live such a happy
01:07:32life now.
01:07:33My parents love me
01:07:34very much.
01:07:35They taught me what
01:07:36honesty and courage
01:07:38are.
01:07:40Lena is now my
01:07:41best friend.
01:07:42She is confident
01:07:43and bright, her
01:07:44smile like stars in
01:07:46her eyes.
01:07:47The old lady is in
01:07:48good health.
01:07:49She often calls me
01:07:50and sends me
01:07:50pastries she makes
01:07:51herself.
01:07:53Buddy is still
01:07:53that silly little
01:07:54guy, always pawing
01:07:56at my hand asking
01:07:56me to play with
01:07:57him.
01:07:58I no longer hate
01:07:59anyone.
01:08:00I am no longer
01:08:01attached to the
01:08:01past.
01:08:02Those painful
01:08:03memories are like
01:08:04footprints on the
01:08:05beach, washed away
01:08:07by the waves.
01:08:08But they taught me
01:08:09to cherish every
01:08:10step I take.
01:08:11I know that in my
01:08:12past life, my
01:08:13mother, sister, and
01:08:14father all received
01:08:15their due consequences.
01:08:17And I at last have
01:08:19broken free from the
01:08:20chains and found
01:08:21true freedom.
01:08:22I don't want to see
01:08:23them again.
01:08:23I don't want to relive
01:08:25that life again.
01:08:26I just want to be
01:08:27Charlotte, simple,
01:08:28happy, and loved.
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