You'll Only Regret It After I'm Dead

Lin Chen, a man who twisted extraordinary talent and extraordinary controversy into an unbreakable knot. His works were revered as exemplars, while his character was reviled. His detractors claimed that he had a “ghostwriting team” behind him. The truth became a mystery after an accident. He became a vegetable, with only a few months left to live. When the proposal to “extract memories through a brain-computer interface” set the entire internet ablaze, an unprecedented global livestream began. Inside the stadium, one hundred thousand people held their breath, while hundreds of millions of eyes focused on the screens. His past scrolled across the giant display: from his birth in a private hospital to a warm childhood spent under his parents' guidance, learning to “hold fast to the truth,” from the sudden upheaval of his father jumping from a building and his mother losing her mind, at eight years old, Lin Chen shouldered the burden of keeping the family going... As memories pieced themselves together, the man cursed for his “poor character” had once forced a smile while applying medicine to his mother late at night; the genius accused of being “morally corrupt” had once secretly wept alone at night. Under the livestream cameras, the truth gradually came to light: Where had his talent come from? Had he been wrongly condemned? What kind of life, crushed and then pieced back together by fate, lay behind those soul-stirring works? When the final fragment of memory fell into place, the entire internet finally understood: they had condemned him wrongly, and had never truly understood him at all!