Today was a very special day for me.
To put it in a more chuuni way, it could be called the "Day to Unveil a New Chapter of Life."
Old readers who had read my previous books, Wasteland Survival Rules and Alien Relic Hunter, probably knew that before those two, I had abandoned a Steampunk novel called Embers of the Old World. One reason was that its performance had not been ideal, but the main reason was that on July 15, 2019, I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, subtype M5B.
I truly did not want to relive the pain of treatment. I felt like some novel protagonist—several times, I had one foot through the Gates of Hell, yet somehow I had always survived... During that time, I witnessed quite a few fellow patients who had once shared a ward with me pass away... Fortunately, my luck was fairly good. My Gene Mutation type was Low Risk, and my body responded well to chemotherapy. I did not even need a Stem Cell Transplant; chemotherapy alone brought me to Complete Remission.
Readers with some medical knowledge probably knew that if cancer did not recur for five years, it counted as a "Clinical Cure"... And today happened to be the fifth anniversary of my original diagnosis.
Over these five years, many people had helped me—my parents, doctors and nurses, relatives, friends both offline and online... as well as many strangers I had never met... Illness had made me feel the malice of fate, but at the same time, it had also made me feel the kindness of people.
I still remembered that just after my treatment ended, someone suggested posting my story on platforms like Bilibili or Weibo. They said I could catch the Traffic Dividend that way. There were plenty of