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Back to 2003: I Want Mom to Hear the Future

share time: 2025-11-15 00:30:38

28-year-old Lin Xiaoman whispered "I miss your voice" to her late mom's hearing aid at the "silent farewell"—and woke up in the summer of 2003. There stood 18-year-old Su Xiaotang, her mom, who could still hear the cats meowing. Touching the butterfly hairpin in Xiaotang's hair (she never wore it after losing her hearing), Lin remembered the tragedy from the diary: next week, Xiaotang would chase her cheating boyfriend to a construction site, get hit by a steel pipe, and lose her hearing forever. Disguised as a cousin from the countryside, Lin followed Xiaotang everywhere: exposing the scumbag's affair with her best friend, taking her to Jay Chou's concert (Xiaotang later only watched subtitles), and teaching her to say "I won't be my brother's ATM" to her patriarchal grandma. But when Xiaotang smiled and said "Xiaoman, I want to be a teacher," Lin's phone popped up a 2023 calendar reminder—"Mom's hearing aid birthday"—and her feet started sinking into the ground. Time was punishing her "intervention," but looking at the light in Xiaotang's eyes, Lin clutched the concert ticket: even if she disappeared, she'd make sure Mom heard every "I love you" in the future.

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