She is a ‘hot streamer’ who has a TikTok channel with 17.8 million viewers and 600,000 followers. Huyen's videos with comments about games and advice about love attract millions of viewers.

Her story of battling cancer twice and buying her own home in Hanoi has garnered significant interest. The extraordinary resilience of the young woman with a radiant smile has earned widespread admiration.

When Huyen turned 11 years old, she was diagnosed with primary bone cancer, and had to undergo surgery to remove two-thirds of her left leg and receive chemotherapy to eliminate cancer cells. Overcoming this daunting illness, Huyen continued her study. In 2017, and moved to Hanoi to study graphic design.

In the following years, Huyen worked tirelessly. She started work at a design company before venturing into streaming for several online games. She worked up to 20 hours a day sometimes.

With her charming appearance and nice way of talking, she has become famous on social networks, which has brought her multiple advertising contracts and significantly increased her income.

In 2021, Huyen bought a house in Hanoi, her first valuable asset, from an acquaintance.

In 2023, when her life and career became stable, Huyen unexpectedly discovered she had lung cancer and once again had to struggle with illness for survival.

"I underwent treatment from April to June 2023, but then I felt despair. The condition got worse and I had to come back to hospital in January 2024 and have been staying here since then,” she said.

“I'm currently on medication to prevent recurrence and will soon be discharged," Huyen shared the good news with netizens.

Love story with man who declared love nine times

Alongside her story about struggling against disease, Huyen is also famous for her ‘small rain lays great dust’ romantic love story.

In a recent video, Huyen revealed, "I have a boyfriend. Surprising, right? A sick girl, who has battled cancer twice, has a boyfriend! And I'm even known as a 'love destroyer.' The fact that I have a love and a movie-like love story is so hard to believe."

Her boyfriend, Tran Hai, 31, from Ha Tinh, first met Huyen in 2017 when they worked together at a corporation. Huyen was a graphic design intern, while Hai was an information technology officer.

They met at the corporation's birthday party, where Hai was attracted to Huyen at first sight, though she didn't notice. In March 2018, after Huyen quit her job and Hai moved abroad, they began talking.

"He sent messages asking me to design banners, and only on the third time did he mention we had worked together. Later, he confessed he liked me right at the first meeting," Huyen recalled.

In 2018-2019, Hai declared his love to Huyen nine times via text and in person. During that time, he sometimes returned to Vietnam to visit her.

In Hai’s eyes, Huyen’s serious illness, bone cancer and leg amputation is not a problem. He even admired her resilience.

"At first, he was serious and shy about his confessions. Later, he was more relaxed and cheerful. He's introverted, not overly romantic, but very sincere in love,” Huyen recalled.

“At that moment, I was immature and I only liked romantic people, so I wasn’t moved by him," Huyen said.

In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, Hai could not return to Vietnam, while Huyen spent most of her time to work, so they did not keep contact. Three years later, Hai returned to Vietnam to work and once again contacted her, at the time when Huyen once again discovered her serious illness.

Learning about her illness, Hai spent all his time to take care of her. During her hospital treatment for lung cancer, he was by her side, keeping her spirits up.

When Huyen returned home to rest, Hai took her to Moc Chau, Ha Giang, Da Lat and HCM City, or anywhere she wanted to go.

He was willing to quit his full-time job to work as a freelancer, as this allowed him to care for his girlfriend. 

Whenever Huyen experienced hair loss, sensitive skin, and other side effects from chemotherapy, Hai comforted her. "After treatment, your hair will grow back, your skin will heal. In my eyes, you're always beautiful," he told her.

Thanh Minh