You wanted honest and experienced opinions or everyone to just rubber stamp your plan?

Cathay is probably the worse job in the expat market for a low time pilot, you will be a second officer (If you're lucky, you will get to play with CPDLC once in a while) and you will be paid peanuts while living in a crazy expensive city! You want adventure traveling abroad and even the time to actually live abroad if you like, get a job at one of the ACMI operators that grant you all your days off in a row, and commute to your adventure city, you will do much better economically and professionally! China doesn't have jobs for low time pilots and now all companies in China have stopped hiring.