short series

Melodies of the 1980s

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In the dormitory area of a state-owned machinery factory in 1985, 18-year-old Lin Xiaoman secretly saved money to buy tapes and hid her late mother's old recorder—a treasure from her mother's days as a song-and-dance troupe singer and her "weapon" for the factory's children's singing competition. But her father Lin Jianguo, a machine repairman, locked the tapes in a drawer and scolded her for "being frivolous." It wasn't until Xiaoman found her father's old diary that she learned: years ago, her mother had a fight with him over her singing dream, and after her accidental death, her father had been guilt-ridden for not fulfilling her wish to "sing on a bigger stage." On the eve of the final, her father quietly left the repaired recorder on her bed, along with a piece of paper copied with the lyrics of *Youth, O Youth*. On competition day, when Xiaoman sang her mother's melody, her father in the audience held the recorder with red eyes—turns out, the "voice" that understood her most had always been hidden in her father's unspoken love.

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