short series

Hard to Return Home on National Reunion Night

share time: 2025-10-11 00:32:31

Lin Xiaoman, an emergency doctor, has clutched her New Year’s Day flight ticket for three months—it’s a "reunion promise" to her grandma, who’s terminally ill with cancer: they’ll make hot dumplings together for New Year’s Eve. But on New Year’s Eve night, a highway pile-up floods the hospital with injured, including a pregnant woman with placenta previa who’s bleeding heavily, her life and her baby’s hanging by a thread. Should she drop the scalpel and rush to the train station to see her grandma one last time, or hold the patient’s hand and gamble on a miracle? As the operating room light turns on, Grandma sends her final voice message: "Xiaoman, the patient needs you more." What she doesn’t know is that Grandma is sitting in the living room, reheating dumplings again and again, arranging them into small piles, staring at the front door. On this night of national celebration, some guard the reunion at the table, some guard life and death on the operating table—and her "home" has always been where she’s needed.

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