The Five-Year-Old Hears Fallen Heroes Call Her Home, Leaving the Whole Internet in Tears

[Adorable Child] [Modern-Day Imagination] [Fallen Heroes Come Home] [Ensemble Stories] [The Whole Internet in Tears] [No Romance, Family Affection]

Five-year-old Jiang Suining has a secret.

Whenever she touches an old object left behind by a fallen hero, she can feel the cold, pain, and longing they experienced in their final moments. From the broken echoes, she can also piece together the coordinates of where they lie in eternal rest.

Everyone says she's making it up.

That is, until she clutches a rusty canteen and points at a barren mountain, crying, "The uncles aren't beneath the memorial. They're still waiting to come home."

Three days later, a nameless fallen hero missing for seventy-six years is found.

From snowy mountains and isolated islands to deserts and ruins, little Suisui carries her red schoolbag and ventures into the depths of the echoes again and again.

She returns a button to an old person who never got to see their son again, gives a brother who was thinking of his little sister before he died the words, "Don't be afraid," and helps countless people who left no names behind reclaim the names that belong to them.

Later, the whole country joins in illuminating the "Archive of Ten Thousand Household Lights."

And at last, among a million echoes, Suisui hears her mother, missing for two years.

"Suisui, don't cry."

"Mom is waiting for you too. Take me home."