short series

Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart

share time: 2026-01-30 06:04:08

Lin Xiaoman is a "client tool" in an advertising company, drained daily by absurd requests like "colorful black" from clients, yet hiding a dream of drawing comics about left-behind children—a执念 from her own childhood as a left-behind kid. Until her grandma calls: her nephew Xiaoyu skipped school because no one was watching him, and even tore up her elementary school comic book. She rushes home overnight, facing grandma's complaint "Can drawing feed you?", Xiaoyu's rebellion "You never cared about me", and the company's ultimatum: "Either come to work tomorrow or resign." Squatting under the old locust tree of her childhood, touching the torn comic paper, she realizes: the "stability" she'd clung to for three years had long lost her "pure heart" to draw on her hometown's fields. When she grits her teeth and sends her resignation, then picks up a brush to draw Xiaoyu, her phone suddenly pings: a charity foundation is urgently looking for a comic author with the theme of "left-behind children"...

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