This director is vindictive.

Chapter 369 That Twenty-Year-Old Rusty "Mom"

He Hongwei's eyes reddened as he looked at the audience and said, "Perhaps we should always remember these kinds of people."

"The geometer Apollonius summarized the theory of conic sections, which was applied to the theory of planetary orbits by Kepler 1,800 years later."

The mathematician Galois founded group theory in 1831, and it was applied to physics more than a century later.

The matrix theory, established in 1860, was applied to quantum mechanics sixty years later.

One hundred and seventy years after its invention, non-Euclidean geometry became the core foundation of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

He paused for a moment, then continued, "In 1999, He Xi independently completed the theory of microcontinuity. 150 years later, this theory finally led to the emergence of the equations for the grand unified field theory."

After he finished speaking, the entire room fell silent. Each of those names represented a tragic figure from that era.

Others cannot resonate with it, but these people can!

These people and their research were buried and labeled as "useless" in their time, just like He Xi!
He Hongwei said emotionally, "He Xi didn't speak for the next twenty years. The doctor said he had completely lost his ability to speak. But I have a recording here, which was made by the hospital as part of his medical record before he died. It was only two days after his mother passed away."

We will never know whether He Xi lost his support after his mother's death, or whether he was mentally unstable but still subconsciously...
Perhaps the only way he could repay his mother was by hoping to outlive her.

"Let's hear it."

The entire hall fell silent; everyone at the Nobel Prize ceremony listened intently.

The background noise was loud, with many people talking. It seemed that several doctors were present.

Suddenly a deep voice said, "Give up. He's beyond saving. It's 10:07 now. Write the time down."

A young voice said, "Okay, I'll get ready."

Just then, the young voice suddenly rose, as if he had heard something incredible, and he exclaimed, "My God, the patient is talking! He's talking!"

"impossible!"

The deep voice said, "He hasn't spoken a word in twenty years, and besides, he wouldn't have the strength to speak at all."

But the next moment, he suddenly stopped, as if he had made a discovery.

The surroundings quieted down, and then you could hear a damp, rusty voice speaking forcefully.

"Mom—Mom—" the voice called out in a low, somewhat indistinct voice.

"Mom—Mom—" he called out again, his voice crystal clear.

"Boom!" In the movie, everyone in the audience was shocked by this sound. They were not shocked by He Xi's research, but by the greatness of maternal love!
The same was true at the premiere.

At this moment, almost all the audience members had tears in their eyes.

After that incredibly clear "Mom" was uttered, many people could no longer hold back their tears.

These tears are not for any particular occasion, but for that mother, that mother who loved her son wholeheartedly until the very end of her life.

Even in her madness, He Xi could never forget the greatness of a mother's love.

That ordinary, untalented mother who couldn't even understand an electricity bill, at this moment, seemed to be the shadow of countless mothers. This is maternal love!

The scene flashes back, and in the dappled light and shadow, fragments of Xia Qunfang and He Xi's moments emerge—

The setting sun bathed the park bench in gold, and young Xia Qunfang held He Xi, who had just turned one year old, awkwardly humming an off-key nursery rhyme.

He Xi reached out to grab a stray hair from her temple, and she smiled as she pulled out a crumpled candy wrapper, folding it into a crooked paper crane. The paper crane swayed in the wind, and He Xi's eyes shone like stars.

Frost clung to the glass windows of C University Library. Xia Qunfang stood on tiptoe outside the window, clutching a hot steamed bun she had bought on the way.

She saw He Xi's back as she hunched over her desk, writing furiously, the pencil scratching softly on the draft paper.

When the administrator chased her away, she hurriedly stuffed the buns into the hands of a passing student, saying, "Please give this to my son... don't say I gave it to him."

In the elementary school library, that hunchbacked figure quietly appeared, secretly stuffing the unsold copy of "Micro Continuum Original" into the pile of books.

"We sold another one today!" She returned home and excitedly shared the good news with her son!
But when the night was deep and quiet, she looked at the light still on in her son's room and stood outside the door with worry in her eyes. She raised her hand as if to knock, but in the end she did not do so.

He Xi frantically lit matches in the room, burning away his life's work. Watching this scene, she couldn't stop crying. She knew that what was being burned was her son's hope!
Twenty years later, at dusk, Xia Qunfang combed He Xi's hair with a broken wooden comb.

He stared blankly ahead, his eyes vacant, while she, as she had done for twenty years, carefully picked the grains of rice off his collar and hummed that off-key children's song.

The comb teeth caught a strand of her white hair, and He Xi suddenly grabbed her hand with trembling hands. Her Adam's apple bobbed, but she could only make broken, breathy sounds.

The image freezes on Xia Qunfang's hospital bed as she lay dying.
The movie credits rolled.

The audience at the premiere was in tears!
Many young viewers felt cheated; the more joy they had before, the more upset they were now.

My heart is pounding!

The movie doesn't actually have any particularly sentimental parts.

Xia Qunfang's love for He Xi is only shown through a few short scenes.

She wasn't a mother who was good at expressing herself, but everyone could feel her deep love for He Xi. This love lasted until the end of her life!

When the credits rolled, no one stood up or applauded at the premiere.

They all seemed to be still immersed in that heavy maternal love, unable to extricate themselves.

Suddenly, an Easter egg appeared.

At Xia Qunfang's bedside as she lay dying.

Suddenly she opened her cloudy eyes, and a light appeared before her.

The next moment, she arrived in the future, or perhaps the future of another time and space.

She saw her son and was overjoyed, wanting to go to him.

But they caught nothing.

She saw her son, the son she was so proud of, standing on the Nobel Prize podium, holding the trophy high.

Great attention!

She saw her son, and he and Jiang Xue walked hand in hand into the wedding hall.

She even saw herself, happily accepting their tea ceremony.

She saw news reports that He Xi's "Micro-Connection Original" was being circulated by countless people.

She saw
Finally, back in her hospital bed, she closed her eyes, but this time, she slept peacefully.

Even in his last moments, a smile still graced his lips.

Chen Mo ultimately gave such an ambiguous ending, an imperfect ending, but at least a decent one.

She didn't use technology to explain why she saw those things.

They also didn't tell the audience whether those things were true or not.

That's how it was presented to Xia Qunfang, and that's how it was presented to the audience.

In Chen Mo's view, at this point, whether it was technology or not, whether it was true or false, was really irrelevant to Xia Qunfang.

Because she never understood those things, those complicated formulas.

Therefore, there is no need to use technology to answer this question. Every mother simply hopes that her child can grow up safely, live happily, and have a fulfilling life!
This is the dream and hope of mothers all over the world!
So, it doesn't matter anymore, it really doesn't matter anymore!
"Clap clap clap clap!" Suddenly, an audience member stood up, clapping enthusiastically with tears in their eyes!

His applause was like a starting gun; soon, at the premiere, one, two, three, a whole audience rose to their feet and applauded.

The movie is over.

The plot of "The Heartbroken" is not particularly rich or colorful.

It even seems somewhat rudimentary for a film.

But that was enough.

After the film premiere, the first wave of viewers left their thoughts on WeChat Moments, Weibo, and film review sections.

"From Xia Qunfang's tears when He Xi burned the books, to her dying cry of 'Mom,' Chen Mo used the simplest lens to tear open the guilt of all children—aren't we also treating our mothers' sacrifices as 'micro-continuities in a junkyard'?"

"Chen Mo is a liar. The initial promotion was all about fun and laughter, which gave us the illusion that this was not a tragedy, but a comedy sci-fi movie."

But as a result, completely unprepared, I was made to cry!

"As a sci-fi fan, to be honest, I was a little disappointed! Because the whole movie really has nothing to do with science fiction! The only science fiction element is time travel, but that's not the theme of the movie at all."

The theme of this movie should be maternal love!
But I still cried.

I'd been holding it in. I held it in when Xia Qunfang cried, I held it in when Xia Qunfang combed He Xi's hair, but when He Xi called out that clear "Mom," I absolutely couldn't hold back anymore!

"The movie's marketing is absolutely toxic. It truly exemplifies the idea that tragedies often begin with a sweet and heartwarming ending. It's so cunning."

When the kissing snot was being promoted, it became a meme that everyone laughed at.

But when I actually saw He Xi frantically kissing the snotty handkerchief, I literally cried my eyes out! And I hadn't brought any tissues!

"I watched the midnight showing. After the movie ended, I texted my mom at 3 a.m. saying, 'Mom, I'm coming home for dinner this weekend!'"

I thought my mom wouldn't see it, since it was so late, but to my surprise, she called the next moment, asking me repeatedly if something had happened, if I had been wronged, or if things weren't going well at work.

Turns out, my mom had set up a special notification for my WeChat on her phone, and I cried my eyes out in the middle of the night!

"When I saw Xia Qunfang asking her son from behind how much money he had, I couldn't help but cry. That was her twenty-seven years!"
He Xi really shouldn't have gone crazy. His hard work was denied, his love died, but he still had the most important thing in him: his mother's love!
He selfishly used his mother's savings earned over 27 years to publish a book, and even more selfishly, he went insane and shut himself off from the world. But he forgot that he left all the suffering to his mother!

(End of this chapter)