Charles froze, utterly bewildered.

"Ten million?"

He remembered that when he tracked her down in the desert, she only had a few hundred thousand followers. How had she reached ten million in just three months?

Charles couldn't resist opening the app to check her profile.

He found that she had uploaded an extensive gallery of her travels.

Every single image was breathtaking, crisp, and filled with life.

Charles tapped on her profile picture.

It was a solo shot of her standing in a vibrant field of lilies.

Sera was wearing a flowing, pale pink sun dress, surrounded by blooms, looking completely radiant and full of joy.

There wasn't a single trace of illness on her face.

Charles had never seen Sera look so luminous and full of life.

In his memories, Sera had always seemed muted, moving through their apartment with a careful, timid hesitation, entirely devoid of vitality.

The thought struck a painful chord in his chest, and he finally typed out a message to her.

"How has your body been feeling lately?"

The text was sent, but it instantly met with a harsh reality.

A bright red exclamation mark popped up next to his bubble.

Sera had blocked his number entirely.

Charles let out a self-deprecating laugh.

After a long pause, he went back to social media, scrolling through her feed over and over again.

In that moment, he finally understood how massive the world truly was.

Every meaningful encounter was a rare miracle.

Yet he had thrown away the one person whose entire world had revolved around him.

He didn't sleep a wink that night.

The next day.

Sera was currently standing on a majestic snow-topped mountain trail, waiting for the famous crater lake to reveal itself.

While waiting for the mist to clear, she opened her phone to respond to direct messages from her followers.

Halfway through her replies, her screen suddenly flashed with a message notification from Charles on another app.

Sera cast a detached glance at it, left it unanswered, and promptly blocked his account.

Lifting her gaze once more, she found that the crater lake had finally revealed itself.

The water was surrounded by swirling ribbons of mist, its deep, sapphire blue surface perfectly reflecting the drifting clouds and the jagged, snow-covered peaks around it.

A biting wind swept across her face, yet Sera didn't feel cold at all.

Staring at the majestic snow mountains and the pristine water, she felt an immense wave of clarity wash over her heart, dissolving every lingering worry into nothingness.

Sera captured an extensive batch of photographs.

It wasn't until her hands grew too numb to properly operate the camera lens that she finally decided to make her way down the mountain.

While she was in a shuttle heading back to her resort, her phone rang.

It was Dr. Blake, cutting straight to the point. "Sera, it's been three months, and I haven't seen you come in for a single follow-up exam. Please make sure you find time to get checked, even if it's at a different clinic. You need to be responsible for your own health."

"Your body is your only asset. If you want to keep traveling, you need to maintain your health, right?"

Sera nodded silently, offering no resistance.

"Understood, I'll look into it. Thank you."

Upon returning to her resort, she immediately scheduled a comprehensive medical evaluation at a top-tier local hospital.

The following morning.

Sera arrived at the clinic early, completed a full panel of tests, and sat patiently outside the consultation room waiting for her results.

Three hours later, the physician called her into the office.

"Miss Moss, according to your comprehensive evaluations, your body is completely healthy. There are absolutely no underlying issues."

"As for the uterine cancer you mentioned, it appears the facility that handled your initial panel committed a severe error. You were completely misdiagnosed."

Sera felt her mind go entirely blank at the physician's words.

She froze in place, her fingertips trembling faintly, her eyes wide with absolute disbelief.

It took a long, quiet moment before she could finally find her voice.

"Doctor, are you absolutely certain?"

"The chest pains I had, the nosebleeds, the dull ache in my lower abdomen... what about all those symptoms?"

The physician offered a reassuring, gentle smile to put her at ease.

"They were likely induced by extreme stress. When a person remains under high pressure for an extended period, the body begins to push back. Comparing your initial scans with today's panel, you are in perfect health. That original tissue growth has dissolved naturally."

"And as you mentioned, your condition has been wonderful over the past month, and those symptoms have completely vanished. When your mental state clears up, your physical health naturally follows. So please don't worry, your body is completely fine."

When Sera returned to her resort, she felt as though she were floating through a dream.

Her emotional state today was remarkably similar to the day she had first been handed her terminal diagnosis.

Except this time, the conclusion was a beautiful one.

She didn't sleep a single wink that night.

To absolutely verify the incredible turn of events, she went out of her way to schedule comprehensive evaluations at two separate, prominent medical centers.

The physicians at both facilities delivered the exact same verdict.

"Miss Moss, your body is perfectly healthy. You do not have cancer."

Clutching the pristine medical clearance reports in her hands, the heavy weight that had pressed down on her soul finally lifted entirely.

She treated herself to a bottle of premium red wine she had been preserving for a special occasion.

Back in her suite, she stood before the massive floor-to-ceiling windows, taking a slow sip of the rich wine as she looked down at the endless, bustling surge of city traffic.

Her mind automatically drifted back to the past.

Before the fake cancer scare, she had spent her entire life compromising and suppressing her own feelings.

Faced with her supervisor's relentless corporate manipulation, she had stayed silent, paralyzed by a misplaced sense of loyalty and career anxieties.

Enduring her in-laws' passive-aggressive barbs and mocking insults, she had swallowed her pride, constantly sacrificing her own sanity just to preserve a fragile domestic harmony.

Subjected to Charles's freezing, emotional distance over the years, she had continuously brainwashed herself into staying.

She had spent her entire existence running on the rigid tracks laid down by her late parents, never possessing the courage to utter a single word of refusal.

But the moment she believed death was imminent, those heavy shackles had vanished into thin air.

In the face of mortality, every ordinary anxiety became entirely trivial.

Back then, a single profound realization had taken root in her mind.

The second life begins the exact moment you realize you only get one.

Fortunately, her second life was turning out to be incredibly vibrant and beautiful.

Sera let out a soft, genuine laugh at the thought, draining her glass as a wave of unshakeable peace washed over her.

Gazing up at the brilliant moon suspended in the night sky, she murmured to herself.

"Thank you, universe, for playing such a massive trick on me. It finally forced me to open my eyes."

"Since I'm going to live, then from this day forward, Sera Moss is officially stepping into a brand-new future."

Setting her empty wine glass down, she picked up her phone.

She logged into the municipal portal and officially scheduled a divorce consultation for herself and Charles.

She hadn't pushed for a divorce sooner solely because she refused to squander her precious remaining days on legal proceedings.

But now that she had a long, beautiful life ahead of her, she had no intention of letting a toxic, broken marriage drag her down.

Before returning to Seattle, Sera traveled out to a coastal city, booking a luxury five-day ocean cruise.

The cool, crisp sea breeze washed over her, allowing her mind and body to relax completely.

While out on the open water, she turned off her phone entirely, immersing herself in the peaceful rhythm of the voyage.

No internet access, no incoming notifications.

She relied solely on her eyes and her camera lens to document the breathtaking oceanic vistas.

The moment she disembarked and powered her phone back on, the very first notification that flashed across her screen was a message from Charles.

"How has your body been feeling? Did you go in for your follow-up evaluation?"

Sera chose not to ignore him this time. Instead, she dialed his number directly.

The call was answered almost instantly, Charles's crisp, detached voice cutting through the line.

"Where are you right now? How are your test results?"

Sera scrolled through her airline app to secure a flight as she replied, "I'm landing in Seattle tomorrow. Wait for me at the apartment, we have matters to settle."

On the other end of the line, Charles's throat tightened slightly, though his tone remained perfectly measured.

"Understood. I'll be waiting at the arrivals terminal to pick you up tomorrow."