short series

Upon Waking, I Learn What Cannot Be Pursued

share time: 2025-12-17 06:02:25

32-year-old Lin Xiaoman keeps having the same dream: going back to her 22-year-old self at the college gate, grabbing her first love Chen Mo who’s leaving for abroad, and saying, "I’ll wait for you." Until a hypnotherapy session, she follows Chen Mo into the real 2023 in a "lucid dream"—he’s holding their one-year-old daughter, his wife is hanging baby clothes on the balcony, and sunlight streams through the curtains onto the smiling faces of the family of three. Lin Xiaoman suddenly squats beside the sycamore tree downstairs and cries: it turns out her obsession was never the unsaid "I like you," but her refusal to admit that some things had already been "unpursuable" since the day he turned to board the plane. This dream finally gives her the courage to open the drawer, take out the unsent postcard, and write on the back: "I’ve let go. May you be happy."

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