The Nation Calls on Its Little Darling to Bring the Heroes Home

[Little One Hands Herself Over to the Country] [Bringing Fallen Heroes Home] [The Whole Internet in Tears] [Episodic Story] [Healing and Redemption] [National Team’s Beloved Mascot] [Modern-Day Fantasy] [Family Bonds] [Suspense and Twists] [Anti-Drug Police] [Love of Country and Home] [Heart-Pounding and Tearjerking] [No Romance, Little One at the Center] [Short Episodes with Gripping Hooks] [Searching for the Fallen] [Mountains and Rivers Archive Team]

Three-and-a-half-year-old Jiang Tangxing was a tiny little girl found at the gates of a martyrs’ cemetery.

She didn’t cry or fuss. She just hugged an old tin box and said in her baby voice, “Uncle, don’t be scared. Tangxing will take you home.”

No one knew she could hear echoes from beneath the earth and see little red stars shining on the belongings of the dead.

A rusty button could lead her to a soldier who had lain asleep in the snowy mountains for seventy years.

A broken police badge could let her hear the anti-drug officer’s final words: “Don’t let the traffickers get away.”

An unsent letter home could bring an unknown fallen hero back to the dreams of his white-haired mother.

At first, the whole internet accused her of staging a publicity stunt.

That is, until a national task force stepped in, DNA tests confirmed a match, and a missing hero finally came home.

That day, the three-year-old stood in the rain and gave the hero a crooked salute. “Reporting in! Tangxing didn’t lose them.”

From then on, the Mountains and Rivers Archive Team was formed.

The little one, a forensic pathologist, police officers, a retired police dog, a bereaved mother, and an old soldier set out together to find the remains of fallen heroes.

Ancient battlefields, snowy mountains, borderlands, sunken ships in the deep sea, dense forests where drug traffickers hide, flood-control embankments, aerospace test sites...

Not a single name should be forgotten. Every loyal hero deserves to come home.

She was tiny, yet she moved all of China.

Whenever she spoke, the whole internet was in tears.

She said, “Heroes don’t