My Death Was Known Three Years Later

Three years after a young man's death, his mother finally removes him from her block list and transfers twenty dollars for living expenses. When no reply comes, she grows furious, unaware that her son froze to death in the snow three years earlier, unable to afford hospital care for a ruptured stomach.

Bound by an unseen force to watch his mother and younger brother, he sees her rent a three-bedroom apartment for his brother, buy the family dog its own room, and take three jobs so his brother can eat crab and lobster. On the day his brother becomes the top scorer in the state, she kneels before livestream cameras, weeping and begging for forgiveness, while viewers flood the broadcast with insults aimed at the son who never answers.

What no one knows is that he once ranked first in the state-wide mock exams, until his father's car accident and his mother's endless blame consumed everything. Now he wants only to be reborn and sever this bond forever.