A Hundred Ways to Live: Some People Are Already Giving It Everything Just to Stay Alive

To better understand the people, a program called A Hundred Lives was created. The show sent out ten reporters to go from door to door and interview all kinds of people. But to paint a rosy picture, the reporters chose subjects who were either children of wealthy families or successful professionals. When viewers saw this, countless people online complained that it was painfully dull. Just then, Xu Feng, who had transmigrated into this world, steeled himself and took a completely different approach. While the other reporters were still painting a rosy picture, he tore away the fake facade. He filmed A Day in the Life of a Delivery Driver: amid the traffic-clogged streets, they risked death for a few measly coins. He filmed Left-Behind Children: the watchful care of their rural villages and the family bonds on the Loess Plateau brought millions of viewers to tears. He filmed Patients: buried under mountains of medical debt, they went hungry every day and still couldn't scrape together enough for their medicine. As episode after episode aired, countless viewers wept and cried out: “There's nothing easy about being an adult.” “And some people are already giving it everything they have just to stay alive.”