["In the 26 years of my basketball career, I've learned one thing: on your journey forward, time and life will eventually take everything from you. Strength, speed, explosiveness, reaction ability, and most importantly, your love and passion for the game. What you have to do is not to complain, but to try to avoid these obstacles. If you easily stop because of this, it means you haven't done your duty, and this will undoubtedly make you, and me, regret it deeply. This regret is more crippling than the back injury."]
————Excerpt from Wu Zhixiong's biography of Gan Guoyang, "The Story of Ah Gan," published in 2025.
Gan Guoyang opened his eyes to complete darkness around him. For a moment, he forgot where he was, what time it was, and even who he was.
From many, many years ago, life occasionally felt like a nightmare that troubled him, sending him into disarray.
