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The Laughable Copycat, My Desperation

share time: 2025-10-05 06:00:32

Xiao Tang, an 11th-grade student, is the class joke—copying the monitor's outfits, the top student's notes, even her best friend's WeChat posts. Everyone mocks her for "having no identity." Until a class party, when drunk Xiao Tang breaks down crying and shows her phone: her single mother is terminally ill, and the doctor advised, "Let her see you're doing well." To her mom, "doing well" means "as excellent as the monitor" and "as sociable as her friend." She didn't want to copy—she just wanted her mom to live a little longer. Then transfer student Lin Chuan pulls out a stack of notes—Xiao Tang's records of secretly watering the class succulent for three months, her anonymous encouraging messages to classmates. "You've always had your own light; you just hid it to warm your mom." When the laughter fades, Xiao Tang realizes: she'd been so busy trying to be someone else that she forgot how precious she already was.

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