Douhai short video platform.

Fifteen million fans simultaneously received the push notification on their phones.

The video views started to skyrocket.

In one minute, it garnered over 10,000 likes.

In five minutes, it garnered over 100,000 likes.

The comments section was in an uproar.

"Holy crap! Jiang Shen has quietly pulled off a major move!"

"Is this a movie trailer? The quality is amazing!"

"The old lady's lines gave me goosebumps and brought me to tears."

"That car chase scene with the blond guy was so intense!"

"When will it be released? I've already prepared the money for the tickets!"

Fans were thrilled and shared the news everywhere.

Everyone is speculating about the release date of this movie.

However, in the bustling comment section, one comment quietly climbed to the top of the hot comments.

The number of likes is climbing at an alarming rate.

[Don't wait any longer, this movie won't be released. Insider information: because the subject matter involves medical issues and illegal drugs, the censorship is stalled and indefinitely postponed.]

This comment immediately caused an uproar in the comment section.

"Why?! Why is such a profound and ethical subject being blocked?"

"I get it. 'I've been sick for three years and lost my house.' This means they've taken a bite out of the profits of some exorbitantly priced pharmaceutical companies."

"Are they not even allowed to film in real life anymore?"

"Jiang Shen is so pitiful. He finally gets to make a movie and he's being targeted."

......

The discussion was extremely heated, and fans were furious.

However, medical themes are somewhat distant from the average netizen; people only feel regret and anger, and it has not yet created a widespread public opinion storm.

Hematology ward of a municipal hospital in Shandong Province.

Thirty-five-year-old Zhang Jianguo lay in a hospital bed.

He was wearing a mask, his face was pale, and his cheekbones were high and prominent.

He looks almost exactly like Lu Shouyi in the trailer.

He has been suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia for four years.

The family's savings had long been depleted by the medical expenses, and they had even sold their house.

The wife and child rented a small room of only a few square meters near the hospital.

The genuine medicine costs 40,000 yuan per bottle.

He couldn't afford it anymore.

Now I can only stay alive by relying on some random folk remedies and cheap medicines.

Zhang Jianguo leaned weakly against the pillow, scrolling through short videos on an old phone with a cracked screen.

This is one of the few pastimes he has each day.

Suddenly, he came across Jiang Yichen's trailer.

At the start, Lü Shouyi took off his mask and handed out an orange.

"Have an orange."

Zhang Jianguo's hands trembled violently.

That expression, that look in his eyes, that way of cautiously trying to please others because he was tormented by illness...

That's so true.

He's practically a carbon copy of himself.

He stared intently at the screen, his breathing becoming rapid.

The video continues playing.

When the old woman appeared, grabbed the policeman's hand, and said those words.

"I have been sick for three years."

"I've been taking the genuine medicine, which costs 40,000 yuan a bottle, for three years."

"I've eaten up the house, and I've ruined my family."

Zhang Jianguo's tears instantly burst forth.

He covered his mouth to stop himself from crying.

There were other patients in the ward, and he didn't want to disturb them.

But I just couldn't stop the tears.

The tears streamed down between his fingers, soaking his hospital gown.

"I don't want to die."

"I want to live."

"Is this okay?"

The old woman's final question completely shattered Zhang Jianguo's psychological defenses.

He looked at the medicine boxes flying everywhere on the screen, and at the blond man whose face was covered in blood.

He understands.

He understands everything.

Only those who have truly experienced the despair of not being able to afford medicine and having no choice but to wait to die can understand the heart-wrenching pain depicted in the video.

Zhang Jianguo wiped away the tears on his face.

He opened the comments section.

I saw the top-rated comment.

[The review process is stalled and has been suspended indefinitely.]

Zhang Jianguo's eyes reddened.

On what grounds?

Why should we film the suffering of these patients but not let others see it?

Why don't they even have the right to live in a movie?

He sat up abruptly.

The IV needle was removed from the back of my hand.

Blood seeped out, but he didn't care.

He picked up the old, worn-out phone and turned on the video recording function.

The camera was pointed at his own withered face.

Zhang Jianguo took a deep breath, a hoarse sound coming from his throat.

"Hello everyone."

"My name is Zhang Jianguo."

"He is a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia."

"I just watched the trailer that Teacher Jiang Yichen posted."

I cried.

"Because what's depicted in that film is me, is the real life of us patients."

He raised his right hand, showing the camera the dense needle marks on the back of his hand.

"I've been sick for four years."

"I can't afford the genuine medicine that costs 40,000 yuan after taking it for a year."

"I sold the house, I sold the car, and I borrowed from every relative I could."

"Now I can only wait to die."

Zhang Jianguo stared directly at the camera, his eyes red-rimmed.

"Some people say that this movie was blocked from censorship because of its sensitive subject matter."

"I don't understand what sensitivity means."

All I know is that it's our fate.

"That's the lives of tens of thousands of families."

"We don't want to die, we want to live."

"This movie is not bad."

"It said what we dared not say, and what no one listened to."

"Please, please let it be released."

Recording complete.

Zhang Jianguo did not edit the video at all; he simply posted the two-minute video online with the tag "I'm Not a Medicine God."

After doing all this, he collapsed onto the hospital bed, panting heavily.

online.

The buzz surrounding Jiang Yichen's trailer continues to grow.

Many influential figures and film critics have also noticed this video.

But everyone is taking a wait-and-see approach.

After all, when it comes to issues like being held up in the review process, no one dares to easily take sides.

Just then, Zhang Jianguo's video came into the public eye.

At first, it only had a few hundred views.

But soon, the video was forwarded by several kind-hearted netizens.

"Look at this, this is a real patient."

"It's so tragic. That look in her eyes is exactly the same as the old lady in the trailer."

In just half an hour.

Zhang Jianguo's videos have seen an exponential surge in views.

One hundred thousand.

million.

five million.

The comment section below went completely crazy.

Countless netizens were shocked by Zhang Jianguo's true story.

"My God, 40,000 yuan a bottle of medicine? Who can afford that!"

"I checked, and the genuine drugs for chronic myeloid leukemia are really that expensive; this is practically robbery!"

"The movies are all true!"

"Why can't it be shown? Does burying their heads in the sand make these patients disappear?!"

"Jiang Shen made a great movie, why is it being blocked!"

"Upvote this! Let more people see it!"

Netizens' emotions were completely ignited.

If the trailer only impressed them...

So Zhang Jianguo's real video directly tore open the bloody reality and laid it in front of everyone.

Anger, sympathy, and incomprehension.

Various emotions intertwined and converged into an extremely large torrent of public opinion.

Weibo, Baidu Tieba, and various forums.

There are discussions everywhere about "Dying to Survive" and patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

#DyingToSurviveReviewStuck#

#ChronicMyeloidLeukemiaPatientsSpeakOut#

#Lifesaving medicine costing 40,000 yuan per bottle#

Several related terms shot up to the top of Weibo's trending topics list at lightning speed.

And they quickly took over the top three positions.

It was followed by the glaring word "explosion".

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