share time: 2025-12-17 06:01:57
Eighty-year-old Zhou Yumei had been a "shadow of the family" all her life—taking care of her paralyzed in-laws, sending three children to college, and never owning a new dress. But after a cerebral infarction, her children abandoned her in a leaky old rural house, calling it "peaceful retirement." Late at night, touching the floral cloth her mother secretly gave her, she suddenly recalled her 17-year-old dream of becoming a tailor—a dream shattered when she married a man 10 years older for her brother’s bride price. At dawn, Zhou Yumei sold her dowry silver bracelet and headed to the county town with a cane: she wanted to find her old tailor teacher, make a red dress, dance in the park, and redo the life she hadn’t lived. But at the station, her youngest son chased her, yelling: "Mom, are you crazy? You’re embarrassing us!" Clutching the money, Zhou Yumei retorted firmly for the first time: "I’ve been crazy all my life. Now I’m finally awake!"
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