With elegant speech and confident eyes, 23-year-old Li Xiansen would be no different from other college students if it weren't for the flashing red light on the cochlear implant behind his left ear.

After losing his hearing due to a serious illness when he was a child, Li Xiansen didn't hear the world again until high school with the help of a cochlear implant. He gradually realized his college dream and was nominated for the China University Student Self-improvement Star Award. Not long ago, this student majoring in logistics engineering at Wuhan University of Science and Technology received a notice of intended admission to graduate school at the University of Science and Technology of China. The touching story of a young man with hearing impairment is also spreading on campus.

In 1996, Li Xiansen was born in a remote mountain village in Yunxi County, Hubei Province. At the age of 6, a bout of mumps ruthlessly took away his hearing in both ears. Countless nights, "gentamicin-induced deafness" was like thunder, repeatedly waking up the originally healthy and lively little Xiansen from his dreams.

"Deaf" "Deaf"... Due to hearing loss, Li Xiansen became an alien in the eyes of his friends. The ridicule and cold treatment traumatized his little heart.

"Child, open your heart and talk to nature." The father who teaches elementary school mathematics taught him to start again on the road of life with a trusting smile and kind words.

Carrying grievances and loneliness, Li Xiansen walked into the mountains. Find a flower today, dig up a grass tomorrow, and plant it all over his yard. Cactus, wild chrysanthemum, bamboo, rose... The fragrance of flowers seeped into his heart from the yard. "When I grew up and thought about it, I realized that these flowers and plants I found from the mountains all had similar qualities: unyielding and tenacious growth. The character of flowers and plants also influenced me invisibly." Li Xiansen said.

Every Teacher's Day, Li Xiansen would pick a large bunch of beautiful flowers in the yard, take them to school, and give one to each teacher.

"At such a young age, you know how to be grateful. You will have a bright future!" The praise from the teachers gave him great motivation.

He studied when others were studying and studied when others were playing. With his smart mind and double efforts, Li Xiansen achieved the best result in the township in the primary school graduation examination.

"No one plays with me." In primary school, he talked to flowers and plants in loneliness.

"Tears are salty." In junior high school, he was bullied by his classmates and he poured out his distress in his diary.

"Why can't I hear?" In high school, Li Xiansen couldn't keep up with the teacher's explanation even when he sat in the first row. He was so anxious that tears rolled in his eyes.

Fortunately, in the second semester of his senior year, Li Xiansen received funding from the National Deaf Rehabilitation Project and "opened his ears" again with the help of a cochlear implant.

"If God closes a door for you, it is so that you can kick it open with the greatest strength." His father's encouragement became his motto, motivating him to step on thorns and bumps and move forward.

In college, he was used to spending time in the library; writing competitions, speech competitions, advanced mathematics competitions... From school to national competition platforms, he worked hard to challenge himself; step by step, he studied logistics engineering and won the second, third, and fourth level certificates of the China Computer Rank Examination.

In four years, Li Xiansen has successively won the "National Inspirational Scholarship", the "China University Student Self-improvement Star" nomination award, Wuhan City's "Most Beautiful Blood Donor", Wuhan University of Science and Technology's "Lei Feng Model" and other honors.

"I don't need special care!" According to the "China College English Test Band 4 and Band 6 Examination Management Rules" promulgated by the state, qualified hearing-impaired candidates can apply for exemption from the hearing test. Li Xiansen gave up this preferential policy. With his own efforts, he got a good score of 491 in the Level 6 exam.

In addition to studying, Li Xiansen encouraged himself to open his heart, keep in touch with the society, and embark on a broad road of volunteer service.

Li Xiansen has a photo saved in his mobile phone: a little boy with a crooked neck leans on Li Xiansen's shoulder, grinning innocently, and in the background, the words "Wuhan Jiang'an District Minors Education Base" are particularly eye-catching.

Li Xiansen, who is thoughtful, can always empathize with the misfortunes of others, and pays more attention to the abandoned little boy in the photo. He likes to talk to the children about everything, talk about college life, and talk about how he overcame hearing impairment and walked out of the mountains.

Every time he left the base, there were a few black little heads crowded in the windows of the building behind him, and the reluctance made Li Xiansen feel distressed. Later, he brought all the classmates in the class, and college students and primary school students became pairs.

Li Xiansen also likes to go to the nursing home, clean, help the elderly take a walk, and entertain the elderly... The fruits and milk brought to the elderly were raised by Li Xiansen's classmates who collected express cartons and plastic bottles in the dormitory and sold them.

As the Secretary of the "Voice of Heart Sign Language Association" of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, he organized the "Hand to Hand" activity to teach college students to learn sign language and let students experience the difficulty of communication for the deaf. On the "International Day of Persons with Disabilities" and "Love Ears Day", he used sign language to teach everyone to express their concern and blessings for the disabled.

What many people didn't expect was that he, who was thin, also went to the Jiangnan Branch of Wuhan Blood Center regularly to donate blood components and became the "most beautiful blood donor" in Wuhan.

"Volunteering and public welfare are a long road. I would like to use kindness and warmth as footnotes and work hard to move forward." From being helped to caring for others, Li Xiansen, who was praised by his classmates as a "living Lei Feng", found his spiritual belonging.

In his spare time, he likes to read books and listen to songs. He often sees his own shadow in books. "Life is always unfair, but with his own efforts, the protagonist has a good ending." After reading "Oliver Twist", Li Xiansen wrote his thoughts in his diary.

Speaking of listening to songs, Li Xiansen took out a thick notebook and opened it carefully. It was full of lyrics, stroke by stroke, neatly. "Singing the Motherland", "Walking into the New Era", "Spring Story"... Classic old songs, like sweet springs, nourish the heart of this kind and upright boy.

Li Xiansen also has a small account book, which records his life insights in detail:

On September 20, 2015, during the college entrance English test, counselor Li Yuan bought me a radio with money, which solved my urgent need. College is great!

On March 4, 2016, my homeroom teacher, Ms. Meng Fang, gave me an Oxford dictionary to encourage me to study English well. I must live up to the teacher's expectations.

On May 15, 2017, under the organization of the school, I went to Hong'an County, Hubei Province to receive revolutionary traditional education. I was deeply moved and wrote an essay, which strengthened my determination to join the Communist Party of China.

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Every little bit is a warm detail behind the life of a hearing-impaired student who strives to bloom in the sun.

On March 15 this year, Li Xiansen appeared at the postgraduate reexamination site of the University of Science and Technology of China. "Teacher, can I sit closer to you?" Li Xiansen asked politely because the sound reception range of the cochlear implant is limited.

This made the teachers of USTC notice the difference of this student. With a strong will and a big dream in his heart, Li Xiansen's courage to challenge fate won the praise of teachers.

"Open your ears and you can hear the flowers bloom." Li Xiansen is full of expectations for the future.

Xie Xiaoli, China Youth Daily¡¤China Youth Online reporter Lei Yu

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