Buying Time to Study

[Time Shop Writing Contest]

Fifth-grader Xiao Shumiao has a secret: there's a time shop hidden inside its clock.

One minute in the real world equals ten minutes in the shop! While everyone else is tearing their hair out over math problems, Xiao Shumiao has already worked through a hundred test papers in the shop.

Perfect score!

First place!

Praise from the teacher!

Envy from classmates!

Xiao Shumiao thinks it's found a shortcut to success.

Until one day, it notices its pant legs have gotten shorter, its voice has turned hoarse, and it can't even bite into its favorite dried fish...

It turns out that the gifts fate gives you come with a price, marked in secret long ago.

Now that the child prodigy has become a little old man, can Xiao Shumiao get its lost childhood back?

This is a fairy tale about "shortcuts and their cost," dedicated to every child hurrying through time:

It's okay to slow down.

Theme: Time isn't meant to be compressed, but experienced.