Father Like a Mountain

Father Like a Mountain Plot:

To Chen Mo, his father Chen Dashan, a shoemaker, was a "cold mountain"—when Chen Mo had a fever before the college entrance exam, his father was fixing shoes at the stall; when Chen Mo needed money for studying abroad, his father pulled out a savings book from the bottom of the chest; even Chen Mo's secret painting hobby seemed invisible to him. Until his father suddenly fell seriously ill, Chen Mo found an old iron box: inside were deposit slips for the study abroad fund saved over ten years, and a flattened first prize certificate from the National Youth Painting Competition, with a note on the back: "I’ll tell him when he graduates—I’ve long remembered the things he loves." It turns out those unsaid "don’t care" moments were the gentle warmth a mountain hid for a lifetime.