First, thank you to Tom (Moderator) and this community for the incredible reception of Part I.
My English writing is still limited (IELTS 6.0), so Part II is also a sentence-by-sentence AI translation. This is an extended version. I added a bit more details that weren't in my original Chinese posts.
Here is the original Chinese version I wrote https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/22190111. You can see the raw narrative before it was translated.
Thank you for reading a story from a non-native speaker trying to bridge the gap with tools.