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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.
00:01:22At noon that day, Mom distributed the food.
00:01:25Anna got a larger portion because her bracelet was green.
00:01:27She needs to replenish energy.
00:01:30Mine 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. 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 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!
00:02:10I ate it.
00:02:14She ate it! It's totally Anna! She just told me!
00:02:17Mom, I didn't!
00:02:19Sister, why are you accusing me?
00:02:22Mom, my bracelet is green. 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?
00:02:53Mom, I didn't lie. It really wasn't me.
00:02:56Please, just believe me this once. Just once.
00:03:00No.
00:03:02Even just a fraction of the tenderness she showed when she looked at Anna.
00:03:08Mom, I really didn't lie to you. 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?
00:03:22Your sister's bracelet is green. She can barely even stand. How could she possibly steal anything? I have to punish
00:03:28a 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. Anna, don't be like her. Be an honest
00:04:11child.
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. She fooled you.
00:04:51You're still lying. Pretending to be sick to gain my sympathy? Looks like you need a real lesson. You're going
00:04:57to 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.
00:07:01So sweet. So delicious. Too 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.
00:07:17Oops, 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.
00:07:38Mom, 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. A false burning sensation, as if I were no longer
00:08:43cold.
00:08:43I raised my hand and looked at my little finger, frozen to a purplish blue. Without a single ripple in
00:08:48my heart, I bent it forcibly.
00:08:50Crack. A faint snapping sound. My little finger broke, but I felt no pain at all.
00:08:53So this is what it's like when a person is freezing to death. You really feel nothing.
00:08:58Mom.
00:08:58I thought again of when I was very young. Then stir. Her embrace was so her warm. Her smile was
00:09:03so 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.
00:09:13It wasn't me. Anna ate it. My bracelet turned red. Mom hit me, shocked me with the bracelet, took my
00:09:18blanket and gave it to Anna.
00:09:19I'm so cold.
00:09:24Chloe, 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.
00:09:43Oh. 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.
00:10:00I was dead. I died at the age of ten 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 ten 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.
00:10:27Smiles on their faces. Smiles I hadn't seen in a long time.
00:10:31The 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 wanna 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,
00:11:13so I hid it deep in the storage room.
00:11:15I wanted to wait until the blizzard ended, then take it out and share it with Mom, Dad, and my
00:11:20sister.
00:11:21I 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 gonna 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.
00:11:49Since rescue is coming soon, maybe we should let her out. Let her have something to eat.
00:11:54She'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.
00:12:31I'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!
00:12:58I'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.
00:13:20Shouldn'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.
00:13:36The temperature in the attic rose as well. My body began to decompose faster.
00:13:45Water 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.
00:14:03They 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.
00:14:15Take 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!
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.
00:14:57Maybe then, I wouldn't have to keep decaying.
00:15:11Mom was the first to notice.
00:15:15What is that smell? It's disgusting!
00:15:18Oh my god! It stinks! It's coming from the attic! Did my sister go on the floor? Did she do
00:15:25it on purpose? Is she trying to stink us to death?
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.
00:16:17Can'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!
00:16:47I've had enough of you, you disgusting little brat!
00:16:49What exactly are you trying to do? Making the whole house stink on purpose? Are you trying to torment us?
00:16:54I'm gonna teach you a lesson today!
00:17:12Chloe? Chloe?
00:17:24I'm talking to you, Chloe!
00:17:26I'm talking to you, Chloe!
00:17:32I'm talking to you, Chloe.
00:17:48Chloe!
00:17:50Chloe!
00:17:52No, that's impossible!
00:17:54Chloe!
00:17:55You're pretending, aren't you, Chloe?
00:17:57Chloe?
00:17:57You're lying to mum again, aren't you?
00:18:00Chloe-
00:18:00Mom'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
00:18:11Then she reached for my neck feeling for a pulse nothing only coldness only silence
00:18:17I was truly dead dead in the attic. She had locked with her own hands
00:18:21Dead under the days she never once chose to believe
00:18:27Impossibly. The machine doesn't lie.
00:18:31Listen
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
00:18:47The body of a ten-year-old girl lay curled up on the cold floor a bracelet flashing red on
00:18:53her wrist a
00:18:53A woman sat collapsed on the ground screaming like a mad woman her eyes unfocused completely deranged
00:19:00David and Anna who had followed behind turned deathly pale the moment. I saw my body
00:19:06David's legs gave out and he collapsed at the doorway his whole body trembling violently
00:19:15He finally understood behind the door. He had almost opened that day play his daughter's cold corpse
00:19:21He 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
00:19:38Her body shaking like a leaf in the autumn wind barely able to stand
00:19:44She was finally afraid she finally understood that her friend her lies her framing had cost a life
00:19:51had killed her own sister
00:19:56Quick call a doctor seal off the scene the rescue team leader quickly snapped out of it and shouted sharply
00:20:03at the others
00:20:04Unable to suppress the anger in his voice
00:20:07The team set up a cordon a doctor pushed through the crowd and entered the attic
00:20:12Crouching 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 this child was starved for at least a month and in temperatures well below freezing she froze to
00:20:29death
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 followed the data
00:20:45Machines don't lie
00:20:47The doctor frowned
00:20:48Crouched down
00:20:49And carefully tried to remove the bracelet from my wrist
00:20:53But the strap had fused tightly with my frozen purplish skin
00:20:56Almost as if it had grown into the flesh
00:20:59Gritting his teeth
00:21:00The doctor took out specialized tools and carefully pried the bracelet off
00:21:04Little by little
00:21:05I floated in mid-air
00:21:06Watching the bracelet that had been on me for ten whole days finally leave my wrist
00:21:11This cold shackle that had trapped me for ten days
00:21:14That had caused my death
00:21:16Finally fell away
00:21:17The doctor held the bracelet
00:21:19Turning it over and over
00:21:21Then opened the casing on the back
00:21:23After just one glance
00:21:24He let out a cold laugh
00:21:26Looking up at mom
00:21:28Ma'am your so-called infuelable machine
00:21:31Has been broken for a long time
00:21:33The temperature sensor and calorie monitoring module have completely failed
00:21:37The circuit shorted out
00:21:38Which is why the red light stays on
00:21:41From the very first day it was worn
00:21:42It was already broken
00:21:44It couldn't measure anything at all
00:21:46It could only keep flashing red
00:21:48The truth
00:21:48She had trusted above all else
00:21:51The things she relied on to judge my life and death
00:21:54Had 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
00:22:13No
00:22:15No
00:22:15No that's impossible
00:22:20No
00:22:20Impossible
00:22:21Machines 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
00:22:34A female rescue worker walked over to Anna
00:22:36Bent down
00:22:37And took something out of the pocket
00:22:40It had been hidden there for days
00:22:41Crumpled beyond recognition
00:22:43Still smeared with traces of chocolate
00:22:45Holding the wrapper
00:22:47The rescue worker walked up to mom
00:22:49And 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
00:23:17But this time
00:23:18No one believed her anymore
00:23:23Little girl
00:23:24Take off your bracelet
00:23:25And show it to me
00:23:27Anna froze instantly
00:23:32No mom 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
00:23:39and 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
00:23:52and a button battery
00:23:53The circuit was hardwired
00:23:55Ons powered
00:23:56It is just a two yuan toy
00:23:57He doctor slammed the shattered bracelet
00:24:00onto the ground in front of mom
00:24:02His voice trembled with barely contained rage
00:24:04This bracelet of your younger daughter
00:24:07was designed to always show green from the very beginning
00:24:09No matter what she said
00:24:11what she did
00:24:11or how much she lied
00:24:12it would always stay green
00:24:14Ma'am your so-called scientific survival system
00:24:17your so-called infuelable data
00:24:19from beginning to end
00:24:20was nothing but a complete joke
00:24:21a sick biased joke
00:24:23You personally froze your honest daughter to death in that attic
00:24:26while treating a compulsive liar like treasure
00:24:29Mom looked at the shattered plastic pieces on the ground
00:24:32at the toy still glowing green
00:24:34And suddenly she laughed
00:24:38She laughed loudly
00:24:40So loudly that tears came out of her eyes
00:24:43She doubled over
00:24:44collapsing onto the floor
00:24:46Her whole body curling up with laughter
00:24:52Fake
00:24:52It's all fake
00:24:55Mom suddenly screamed
00:24:56And then she did something insane
00:24:59No way!
00:25:00The bracelet can't be wrong
00:25:01I didn't eat anything today
00:25:03My calories couldn't possibly be over
00:25:06It'll turn green
00:25:07She grabbed the bracelet
00:25:09still 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?!
00:25:32No!
00:25:33My calories can't be over!
00:25:34I didn't exceed anything!
00:25:36Why is it red?!
00:25:38I didn't lie!
00:25:39She started speaking faster and faster
00:25:42It's broken!
00:25:43The doctor broke it!
00:25:44I'll try again!
00:25:45I've never abused her
00:25:46I was doing it for her good
00:25:48I love
00:25:49Why is it red?!
00:25:50I'm telling the truth!
00:25:52Turn green, you piece of junk
00:25:53You're framing me!
00:25:55Suddenly she remembered me
00:25:56Ten-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
00:26:05As if it was speaking to her
00:26:06Again and again
00:26:08You are a liar
00:26:09You are a liar
00:26:10No!
00:26:12Mom suddenly screamed
00:26:13Clawing frantically at the bracelet
00:26:16Trying to rip it off her wrist
00:26:18Take it off!
00:26:19It's red!
00:26:20I'm not a liar!
00:26:21I'm not!
00:26:22But the clasp had locked due to her violent struggle
00:26:25Like a shackle
00:26:26Tightly 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
00:26:37His expression growing darker and darker
00:26:41February 14th
00:26:42Day seven of the blizzard
00:26:44Mom found the chocolate missing
00:26:45She said I stole it
00:26:47I didn't
00:26:47It was Anna who ate it
00:26:48My bracelet turned red
00:26:50Mom hit me shocked me with the brazier
00:26:52Mom locked me in the acnic
00:26:53Dad took my bring me food
00:26:55But Anna stopped him
00:26:56Anna poured hot water onto my cardboard bed
00:26:58I hit the floor and called for mom
00:26:59But she turned up the music so loud she couldn't hear me
00:27:04When I was nine
00:27:05Anna broke mom's most precious tech robot
00:27:08And cried saying I did it
00:27:09Without even asking
00:27:10Mom locked me in the storage room
00:27:12For a full day and night with no food or water
00:27:15I banged on the door
00:27:16Crying that it wasn't me
00:27:18But she wouldn't listen
00:27:19And Anna
00:27:21She was curled up in mom's arms
00:27:23Eating sweet strawberries
00:27:25Watching me be locked away with a happy smile
00:27:27Countless days and nights
00:27:29Anna stole my toys
00:27:30Tore my drawings
00:27:32Ruined my homework
00:27:33And then cried to mom
00:27:34Saying I didn't
00:27:36Every single time
00:27:37Mom believed Anna without question
00:27:39Then scolded me
00:27:40Punished me
00:27:41And made me stand in a cold corner without food
00:27:45Machines don't lie
00:27:48Anna's wristband is green
00:27:50You're just a liar
00:27:51Mom I really didn't lie
00:27:53I've never lied to you
00:27:55I know you don't like me
00:27:56But 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
00:28:04Can you believe me once?
00:28:07Can you please stop calling me a liar?
00:28:10Every word struck like a heavy hammer
00:28:12Crashing down on on my mom's heart
00:28:16She covered her face and let out a heart wrenching cry
00:28:18Like 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 and 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 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
00:29:02She had personally killed the little girl who loved her most
00:29:05And 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!
00:29:21She lunged forward like a madwoman
00:29:23Tightly gripping Anna's throat
00:29:25Screaming hysterically
00:29:28You're the one who lied
00:29:30You'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
00:29:51My dad watched everything
00:29:52The crazed mother
00:29:54The terrified Anna
00:29:55And the bloodstained note in the evidence bag
00:29:58And finally snapped
00:30:03You monster!
00:30:06That was your daughter!
00:30:07Our daughter!
00:30:08You froze her to death with your own hands!
00:30:11How dare you!
00:30:12How could you?
00:30:15It's not my fault
00:30:24My body was placed into a black body bag
00:30:27The zipper slowly closed
00:30:28Sealing away my short 10 years of life filled with pain and despair
00:30:32Don't take her away!
00:30:34Give her river back to me!
00:30:36She ran across the snow field
00:30:37Her bare feet stepping onto sharp ice shards
00:30:40Instantly cutting her skin
00:30:41Blood trailed across the white snow
00:30:43Leaving 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!
00:30:52She reached the landing gear area
00:30:55Desperately jumping upward
00:30:56Trying to grab hold of the edge of the body bag
00:30:59But she only grasped empty, freezing 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
00:31:16And from there, it spread like an unstoppable avalanche
00:31:28The entire internet exploded
00:31:31Netizens were in full outrage
00:31:41And that father too
00:31:42He 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, my dad, and this shattered family
00:31:55On the second day after the incident escalated
00:31:58Our villa at the foot of the mountain was completely surrounded by an enraged crowd
00:32:02The front gate had been splashed with bright red paint
00:32:05In thick black marker, the words murderers
00:32:08Get out of this city, and justice for Chloe, were written everywhere
00:32:14The villa windows had been smashed with bricks
00:32:16Red paint and abusive slogans covered the walls and floors
00:32:21At the entrance reporters and furious protesters packed tightly together
00:32:26Behind them, the 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
00:32:35Pay for Chloe's life
00:32:37Evil family, get out of Switzerland
00:32:40Neighbors had already moved out
00:32:42One 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
00:32:54Inside the villa, everything 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
00:33:30It'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 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
00:34:21Mom and dad had no choice but to sell the house, the car, and everything valuable in the home to
00:34:26cover legal fees and compensation
00:34:42How dare you
00:34:48Stop!
00:34:57Don't touch my things!
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, we will file for court enforcement and have you imprisoned it
00:35:28done
00:35:40You dirty
00:35:41that day
00:35:42Life is in the wrong place
00:35:43you-ende
00:35:47Anne
00:35:52God
00:35:56Health
00:36:10It'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 didn't.
00:37:19Let me out.
00:37:24Let me out.
00:37:38I missed you.
00:37:39I think this is what you did.
00:37:40Let me out.
00:37:41Let me out.
00:37:42My boy.
00:37:44I'll buy the children.
00:37:45You run out.
00:37:46Let me out.
00:37:46I got it.
00:37:48Come on.
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.
00:38:29Can 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, sorry.
00:38:47It's all my fault.
00:38:52Machines don't lie.
00:38:55Red light.
00:38:58Chloe, I'm sorry.
00:39:00She had lost the capacity for civil conduct and was unfit to serve a prison sentence.
00:39:07She would be forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for lifelong isolated treatment.
00:39:15I'm not crazy.
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 he
00:39:51would 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!
00:40:33Chloe, mom 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
00:41:02knees.
00:41:03She became a woman without legs.
00:41:06Completely broken.
00:41:09And completely insane.
00:41:11It's glowing!
00:41:14In 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!
00:41:35Grace!
00:41:36Grace?
00:41:38Grace, it's time to eat.
00:41:39Red light!
00:41:40Rose, don't punish me, Chloe!
00:41:42I'm sorry!
00:41:44She was reliving my final moments before death.
00:41:47She locked herself inside the same cold attic where I had once been trapped, reliving my
00:41:52personal 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.
00:42:03I 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.
00:42:40Mom, it's all too late.
00:42:44When I was locked in the attic and frozen to death, where was your remorse?
00:42:48When I used my last strength to write a blood-written plea, begging you to believe me just once, where
00:42:54was your remorse?
00:42:55Mom, I don't hate you anymore.
00:42:57But 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.
00:43:10Snow 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.
00:43:23Just 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
00:43:31eyes.
00:43:32It was Buddy.
00:43:33Buddy was the dog I once raised.
00:43:35A gift from Dad on my eighth birthday.
00:43:38A gentle golden retriever sled dog.
00:43:41My only warmth in childhood.
00:43:43When my mom called me a liar and Anna bullied me, only Buddy would run over, lie down by my
00:43:51feet, and rub its head against my hand, staying with me.
00:43:57But 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, she took advantage of a moment when
00:44:06I wasn't paying attention and abandoned Bunny in the mountains.
00:44:15I cried for days and searched for days, but I never found him.
00:44:20It turns out he had always been here, waiting for me at the border.
00:44:30Let's go.
00:44:31Don't look back.
00:44:32I could feel his soft, warm fur.
00:44:35Feel his body temperature.
00:44:37Feel 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.
00:44:50It was the entrance to the next cycle of reincarnation.
00:44:54I turned back and took one last look at this world that had tormented me for ten years.
00:44:59One look in the direction of the psychiatric hospital, and one look at the wooden cabin
00:45:03that had trapped me.
00:45:04Then I turned around, holding Buddy's paw, and walked step by step toward that door of light.
00:45:11Everything behind me became like a faded photograph, slowly blurring and dissolving.
00:45:16My mother's final tears, the bracelet's red glow, the blood-written message on the floor,
00:45:22the freezing attic, all of it vanished.
00:45:24I did not look back.
00:45:25The nightmare that had lasted wood for ten years had finally come to a true end.
00:45:31Passing through that light, there was no spinning, no chaos, only endless warmth as if I were
00:45:36sinking into a spring stream.
00:45:38Even the pain deep within my soul, those lingering aches and phantom pains, gradually faded away.
00:45:44Buddy's paw in my hand was warm and gentle.
00:45:46When I opened my eyes again, I was small, wrapped in a soft blanket.
00:45:52Someone was humming.
00:45:54It was a woman's voice.
00:45:56Gentle, slightly off-key, yet filled with love.
00:46:00Her fingers lightly brushed across my cheek, carrying the scent of gardenias.
00:46:05Not the cold, disinfectant smell from my mother in my previous life.
00:46:08Not that clinical, distant feeling.
00:46:11You're awake.
00:46:13Honey, come quickly.
00:46:15Honey, our daughter just blinked.
00:46:17He was tall, with healthy, wheel-coloured skin weathered features.
00:46:21But his eyes were exceptionally gentle.
00:46:24He was my father in this sweet life, Martin.
00:46:27He was the same rescue captain from my previous life.
00:46:30The first person to rush into the attic and find my body.
00:46:36Hey, Charlotte.
00:46:39I'm your dad.
00:46:40Charlotte, not Chloe.
00:46:43No burden, no shackles.
00:46:45No lies.
00:46:46No label of liar.
00:46:48Just Charlotte.
00:46:49A name that meant warmth, being cherished, and being loved unconditionally.
00:46:54I grew up in a home filled with love.
00:46:56Our house wasn't big, but it was clean and warm.
00:46:59In the living room, there was a large fireplace that burned brightly every winter, filling everything
00:47:04with 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 and unconditional trust.
00:47:15When I was three years old, my mother made hot cocoa.
00:47:19The aroma drifted from the kitchen into the living room.
00:47:31Baby, I'm here.
00:47:34I'm here.
00:47:35Charlotte, you're safe now.
00:47:38I'm here.
00:47:39Dad is here.
00:47:40No one will hurt you.
00:47:41My throat turns.
00:47:44Don't want hot cocoa.
00:47:48Not like the hot water in the attic thermos that Anna once poured out, not something that
00:47:53had been held up to my mouth before being taken away.
00:47:56When I was four years old, the kindergarten organized a health checkup that included a
00:48:02blood test.
00:48:09Charlotte, it'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.
00:48:15It's okay, Charlotte.
00:48:15I didn't lie.
00:48:16Don't shock me.
00:48:17It's okay.
00:48:20Sorry, my child's experienced trauma.
00:48:22We'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?
00:48:36Bracelet, red light, so cold.
00:48:38My baby, you must have suffered so much, didn't you?
00:48:42It's okay now.
00:48:44You're home.
00:48:45Mom and dad are here.
00:48:47No one can hurt you anymore.
00:48:49From that day on, they regularly took me to see a child psychologist.
00:48:55The doctor said I had severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
00:49:00My parents never complained once.
00:49:02They never made me feel like a burden.
00:49:05They stayed with me, played games with me, did therapy exercises with me, slowly healing the wounds in my heart.
00:49:13They bought me many, many colorful, beautiful bracelets, but they never forced me to wear any of them.
00:49:23These 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.
00:49:31There was no red light, no electric shock, no accusation, only my mother's gentle smile.
00:49:35It took me two lifetimes to finally hear those words.
00:49:38When I was five years old, I 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.
00:49:49Mom immediately took a thermometer and checked my temperature.
00:50:01Mom, if I say I feel hot, do you believe me?
00:50:07I believe you.
00:50:09If you say you're hot, then you're hot.
00:50:11The thermometer says you're hot too.
00:50:13Of course I believe you.
00:50:15What if the thermometer didn't say I was hot, but I said I was?
00:50:18Would you still believe me?
00:50:20I would.
00:50:21Your 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.
00:50:32It started snowing outside.
00:50:34Dad wrapped me in a blanket and held me by the window as we watched the snow.
00:50:39Mom loved snowy days the most when I was a child, building snowmen with my brother.
00:50:44Once I had placed the snowman's nose where its eyes should be.
00:50:52It was so the snowman could look down at its own feet.
00:50:55Otherwise, it would never know what it was wearing.
00:50:58I was wrapped in that blanket simply because they wanted me to feel warm, so they wrapped me up in
00:51:04it.
00:51:04It was soft, thick, and warm.
00:51:06I buried my face in it and took a breath.
00:51:09It smelled like fabric softener.
00:51:11Clean, dry, and unmistakably the scent of home.
00:51:14When I was seven, I started elementary school.
00:51:17There was a girl in my class named Lena.
00:51:19She looked exactly like Anna from my previous life.
00:51:23The same eyes, the same face shape.
00:51:29Sister, you're so pitiful.
00:51:37I'm, my name is Lena.
00:51:40You, do you want to be my friend?
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.
00:51:51She was wearing a cheap, green cartoon wristband.
00:51:54Later, I learned that Lena's mother was also extremely strict.
00:51:58She demanded absolute obedience and absolute honesty.
00:52:01If Lena made even the smallest mistake, 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.
00:52:18I looked at her, at the fear and despair in her eyes.
00:52:22In that instant, I was reminded of my past self.
00:52:25The 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.
00:52:36Accidents happen.
00:52:37Let's go tell the teacher together, okay?
00:52:39The teacher won't be angry.
00:52:42But, 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.
00:52:49It means that when you do make a mistake, you're brave enough to admit it.
00:52:52And even if you tell the truth, you shouldn't be punished for it.
00:52:56I broke the cup.
00:52:58I'm sorry.
00:52:59The teacher didn't get angry.
00:53:02Instead, she smiled, patted both our heads, and said it was okay, just to be more careful
00:53:07next time.
00:53:08From that day on, we became best friends.
00:53:11I took Lena home to meet my parents.
00:53:14She looked at my mom and dad, so gentle, so patient, never shouting over small things,
00:53:20never punishing a child for making mistakes.
00:53:23Her eyes were filled with envy.
00:53:25Lena, you don't need to please everyone.
00:53:27You're allowed to have your own feelings.
00:53:29You can say no.
00:53:30You can be scared.
00:53:32You can make mistakes.
00:53:33None of that is shameful.
00:53:34One day, Lena's mother came to school to pick her up.
00:53:37When she saw us together, her face immediately darkened.
00:53:40She grabbed Lena's hand tightly and said sharply,
00:53:43Did you cause trouble again?
00:53:45Is Charlotte helping you lie?
00:53:49Auntie, Lena hasn't done anything wrong.
00:53:52She's a very, very good child.
00:53:54You shouldn't always assume the worst about her.
00:53:57She's afraid of you.
00:54:01That night, she called my mom.
00:54:03They talked for a long time, and in the end, she said thank you.
00:54:10Your daughter made me realize how terribly wrong I've been.
00:54:14Little by little, Lena's mother became gentler.
00:54:17She started learning to listen instead of shouting.
00:54:21To trust instead of blaming.
00:54:23And Lena, too, became more and more confident.
00:54:28More and more open.
00:54:29In my previous life, I was never saved.
00:54:31I endured all the pain alone in the darkness.
00:54:34But in this life, I can save others.
00:54:36When I was ten years old, Dad took us to the mountains.
00:54:40Not the Alps, just ordinary mountains.
00:54:44Dad was the captain of a mountain rescue team.
00:54:46He knew every path in the area.
00:54:48Knew where the hidden ice was.
00:54:49Which slopes were dangerous.
00:54:50Where you could set up camp.
00:54:52And where rock clops might happen after rain.
00:54:54He led me along an easier trail.
00:54:55Mom walked behind us, camera in hand.
00:54:58Taking photos from time to time.
00:55:04Here.
00:55:06Dad, have you ever seen people trapped in snowy mountains?
00:55:12Yes.
00:55:12Many times.
00:55:14What happened to them in the end?
00:55:20Some were rescued.
00:55:21Some weren't.
00:55:23The ones who 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 I chose this job?
00:55:35No.
00:55:36Because 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.
00:55:44The wind blew down from the mountain, carrying the scent of pine trees and a faint coolness
00:55:49from the distant stream.
00:55:50But it wasn't the kind of cold that seped into your bones.
00:55:53It was breathable, refreshing, alive.
00:55:56A summer kind of cool.
00:55:58The coolness of being alive.
00:56:06I stared at that photo for 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 in the corner of an attic in my previous life.
00:56:16That was Charlotte.
00:56:17Standing in the sunlight.
00:56:18Standing between dad and mom.
00:56:20At that moment, I remembered the lines in my drawing book.
00:56:23I remembered the hands that wrote them.
00:56:25I remembered the child who use up her last bit of strength just to say,
00:56:30I love you so much.
00:56:32You don't need a wristband to prove that what you say is true.
00:56:35There 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.
00:56:45There are people here who believe you.
00:56:48Hey.
00:56:50In autumn, one of dad's old rescue teammates came to visit, bringing his wife and an elderly woman when with
00:56:57them.
00:56:57She was his mother.
00:56:59Even though time had carved deep marks into her face, even though it shed the obsession and madness of my
00:57:04previous life,
00:57:05even though the eyes that once belonged to a scientist no longer held that burning phoneticism,
00:57:10only gentleness and the weight of years, I 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, the old woman's gaze also fell on me.
00:57:30Her originally gentle eyes froze the instant she saw me.
00:57:42This is your child?
00:57:46Yes, this is our daughter, Charlotte.
00:57:50I could clearly see the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes,
00:57:54the white strands at her thames,
00:57:57and the tears pooling in her eyes,
00:58:00held back so tightly that they refused to fall.
00:58:05Charlotte, such a beautiful name.
00:58:09My throat felt blocked, as if something was stuck there.
00:58:13I was no longer Chloe.
00:58:15I 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?
00:58:31Ten.
00:58:33Ten?
00:58:34That's good.
00:58:35At 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.
00:58:47You should eat too.
00:58:50It's fine.
00:58:52When I look at this child, I just feel an instant sense of closeness.
00:58:56I looked at the pile of food in my bowl, my emotions tangled and heavy.
00:59:01In my previous life, until the day I died,
00:59:04I had always hoped, just once, that she would serve me a bite of food,
00:59:09say something gentle to me, or believe me even once.
00:59:12But now, she had done it.
00:59:16Only, it was already too late.
00:59:18In the afternoon, I paint alone in the sunroom.
00:59:25Charlotte, can I sit here for a while?
00:59:28I 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.
00:59:45I remember everything I did to you.
00:59:49I'm sorry, Chloe.
00:59:51I'm sorry.
00:59:55Chloe, I'm sorry to you.
00:59:57I'm really sorry.
01:00:00Every day, I ask myself,
01:00:03why didn't I trust you that day in the cabin?
01:00:07Why did I trust that broken wristband instead of my own daughter?
01:00:12I remember slapping you.
01:00:15I remember shocking you.
01:00:17The way you curled up on the floor, begging me to stop.
01:00:22I remember locking you in the attic.
01:00:25The way you clung to the door frame,
01:00:28begging me not to lock it.
01:00:30I remember kicking open the attic door and finding your frozen body and the red light still flashing on your
01:00:41wrist.
01:00:41I 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.
01:00:51You asked if there could be another life.
01:00:55Could I please trust you once?
01:00:57Could I stop calling you a liar?
01:01:00But I didn't even give you that chance.
01:01:02I destroyed it with my own hands.
01:01:05I'm sorry.
01:01:07It was a diary with a sunflower on the cover.
01:01:10The flower I had loved most in my previous life.
01:01:14Chloe, no, Charlotte.
01:01:18I know that no matter how many apologies I say, it's useless now.
01:01:22I took your life.
01:01:25I can never repay what I owe you.
01:01:27Not in this life, not in the next.
01:01:30I don't dare to ask for your forgiveness.
01:01:33I just, I just wanted to tell you sorry in person.
01:01:37I just want you to know that I understand now.
01:01:40Love is not measured by machines nor judged by data.
01:01:43It is listening to you, believing what you say, holding you and telling you that your mother is here.
01:01:47But I understood all of that far too late.
01:01:49Too late.
01:01:51I'm so sorry, Charlotte.
01:01:53She was crying so hard that her whole body trembled.
01:01:56Her aged face was covered in tears and regret.
01:02:02I looked at her for a long time.
01:02:05In my previous life, lying on the cold floor of the attic,
01:02:09what I had wanted most before dying was a single apology from her.
01:02:13A single, I believe you.
01:02:15But now, she was truly standing in front of me, saying countless apologies.
01:02:19And yet I realized, they no longer mattered to me.
01:02:22I already had a new life.
01:02:24Parents who loved me, a warm home, and a bright future.
01:02:28Auntie, I don't hate you anymore.
01:02:30Her tears fell even harder.
01:02:32Her lips trembled, as if she wanted to say something, but no words came out.
01:02:36But I also won't call you mom again.
01:02:39The me I am now what is Charlotte.
01:02:40I have my own parents.
01:02:42They love me very much.
01:02:43I've received your repentance.
01:02:45I don't hate you anymore, because I don't want to be trapped by the past.
01:02:50I don't want to spend my entire life living inside that snowy mountain nightmare.
01:02:54But I also won't forgive you.
01:02:56Not because of hatred, but because what happened does not deserve forgiveness.
01:03:01After hearing my words, her body swayed.
01:03:03She covered her face and let out a broken, desperate sob.
01:03:08She knew I was right.
01:03:11It was too late.
01:03:12Everything was too late.
01:03:15When she locked me in the attic and let me freeze to death, where was her remorse then?
01:03:19When I kept calling her mom, over and over, telling her I wasn't lying, where was her remorse then?
01:03:26When I used my last strength to write a blood letter, begging her to believe me just once, where was
01:03:33her remorse then?
01:03:35Now it was all too late.
01:03:38That afternoon, when Jason's family prepared to leave, the old woman walked at the very end.
01:03:44At the doorway, she turned back to look at me once more.
01:03:47Her eyes were full of tears, reluctance, and endless loneliness.
01:03:50Then, leaning on her cane, she walked away slowly, step by step.
01:03:53I stood at the door, watching her aged, hunched body disappear down the street, and in my heart, there was
01:03:58no ripple at all.
01:03:59Mom walked over and gently hugged me from behind.
01:04:03She didn't ask what had happened.
01:04:04She simply patted my head softly.
01:04:07No matter what happens, your dad and I are here for you.
01:04:12That night, I lay in bed with steady breathing, occasionally shifting as I chased something in my dreams.
01:04:18I stared at the ceiling, thinking of my previous life.
01:04:23Chloe! Chloe!
01:04:26They were real. The pain was real.
01:04:28That cold, abandoned time when no one came for me, that was real too.
01:04:34But I am no longer Chloe.
01:04:37I am Charlotte, and I no longer hate Grace.
01:04:41That winter, Dad's rescue team completed a high-difficulty mission.
01:04:45A family of three had been trapped near the 3,000-meter snow line, and they were all rescued safely.
01:04:53No one was injured.
01:04:55During the celebration, the entire team was eating in the cafeteria.
01:04:59Mom sat in a corner, smiling as she watched him.
01:05:02I sat beside Mom, eating and listening to their stories.
01:05:05They talked about the child from that stranded family, a boy, eight years old.
01:05:11When they found him, he was curled up in a hollow, facing away from the wind, his head wrapped tightly
01:05:17in his clothes.
01:05:18He knew how to preserve body heat.
01:05:20He lasted much longer than we expected.
01:05:23After being rescued, the first thing the boy asked was,
01:05:28Where is my mom?
01:05:30Mom is here.
01:05:31That boy's mother is here.
01:05:33My mother is here too.
01:05:35This is real.
01:05:37This is not the long winter from my past life.
01:05:40Not a wish written in blood.
01:05:42This is now.
01:05:43This is today.
01:05:44Mom's hand is still on my shoulder.
01:05:47She doesn't know what I'm thinking, but she just keeps it there.
01:05:52That's enough.
01:05:53This is already enough.
01:05:55All right, very nice.
01:05:57When I was 13, I graduated from elementary school and got into the best middle school in the city.
01:06:02Dad and Mom took me to the seaside to celebrate.
01:06:06I stood by the ocean.
01:06:08The sea wind brushed through my hair, carrying a salty taste.
01:06:13I spread my arms, feeling the wind, feeling freedom.
01:06:18For a moment, I seemed to see my past self.
01:06:26Charlotte, what are you thinking about?
01:06:30I'm just grateful to be alive and to be with you.
01:06:35Silly girl, we're the lucky ones.
01:06:37Having 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.
01:07:00I can laugh, I can cry, I can freely express my feelings.
01:07:04I can love bravely and be loved in return.
01:07:07I have parents who love me, the best friend, and a bright future.
01:07:10This is a life I never even dared to dream of in my past life.
01:07:14That night, on the hotel balcony, I took out my diary.
01:07:18Today, I saw the ocean.
01:07:20It was vast, blue, and free.
01:07:23I thought of my past self, the little girl locked in the attic, longing to be loved and believed.
01:07:29She would never believe that I could live such a happy life now.
01:07:33My parents loved me very much.
01:07:35They taught me what honesty and courage are.
01:07:40Lena is now my best friend.
01:07:42She is confident and bright, her smile like stars in her eyes.
01:07:47The old lady is in good health.
01:07:49She often calls me and sends me pastries she makes herself.
01:07:53Buddy is still that silly little guy, always pawing at my hand asking me to play with him.
01:07:57I no longer hate anyone.
01:07:59I am no longer attached to the past.
01:08:02Those painful memories are like footprints on the beach, washed away by the waves.
01:08:08But they taught me to cherish every step I take.
01:08:11I 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.
01:08:21I don't want to see them again.
01:08:23I don't want to relive that life again.
01:08:26I just want to be Charlotte, simple, happy, and loved.
01:08:30I don't want to see them yet.
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