I Break Free from My Cage

After retiring, Ms. Guan picked up her old volleyball dream again. Not even cancer could stop her.

Back in middle school, Ms. Guan was already a national-level second-tier volleyball athlete. But three invisible forces, the times, her family, and fate, pushed her down another path and cruelly took away her right to pursue her dream.

More than thirty years later, Ms. Guan retired and took up her dream again. She became one of the country's first national-level air volleyball referees, then led her team to the National Games air volleyball finals. But the heavens couldn't stand to see her succeed and cruelly struck her once more, giving her cancer.

But Ms. Guan refused to give in. She was stubborn and fought back. After enduring countless hardships, she finally won a volleyball championship, thirty years after her last, and at last made peace with her body, her family, and her fate.