*Trending Scene*: Meng Ziyi Has Collapsed from Illness! Who Can Withstand 16 Hours of Nonstop Work?

It’s blown up again! This time, the trending topic isn’t about a new drama premiering, but about someone being worked straight into the hospital! Two days ago, after wrapping up on set, Meng Ziyi suddenly felt unwell and was rushed to the hospital. All filming scheduled for that day was canceled. As soon as the news broke, netizens’ emotions instantly hit the roof. Her studio later explained that she had developed a high fever and dehydration caused by acute gastroenteritis. After treatment, she is no longer in serious condition and is now resting and recuperating. Seeing this, my first reaction was just one sentence: this isn’t a minor cold, this is her body forcibly hitting the pause button.

Here’s the key point: what really set everyone off wasn’t just this one illness, but the sheer intensity of her workload over the past two years, which is honestly outrageous. Public information shows that in the past two years, her longest single break was only two days. Even during the 2026 Spring Festival, she only had New Year’s Eve and the first day of the lunar new year off, and then immediately went back into high-intensity work. Filming during the day, rushing through work in the early morning, nonstop variety show appearances, nearly perfect attendance all 30 days of every month, plus another 7 days of cross-province work trips—on average, she was working more than 16 hours a day. Just looking at that schedule feels like she’s being treated as some kind of perpetual motion machine.

Since early March, she has been involved in filming multiple TV and film projects, commercial shoots, and variety show recordings. She had just finished Shang Gongzhu and then seamlessly joined the set of Jiangmen Duhou, all while juggling brand events as well. Even more ridiculously, on the very day she collapsed, she had originally planned to continue shooting ads after wrapping up in the early hours of the morning. All I can say about this schedule is that it’s more brutal than many gamers pulling all-nighters to grind through a new release—and she’s fighting high-intensity boss battles every single day.

But! This is far from the first time her body has raised a red flag. Previously, she had already had to suspend work due to food poisoning and a peritonsillar cyst, and at one point her weight dropped below 90 jin. Given that she is 170 cm tall, seeing those numbers together is genuinely jarring. In 2025, doctors recommended surgery for her tonsillar cyst, but she only took anti-inflammatory injections for one day before returning to work; after injuring her cervical spine during filming, doctors told her to stay in bed for three days, but she rested for only one. This “never leave the front line over a minor injury” kind of grind may look like dedication in the short term, but in the long run, it could very well be self-destructive.

Now for the crucial part: the reason this sparked such widespread discussion is that it’s not an isolated case at all. Since the start of this year, multiple artists including Dilraba Dilmurat, Li Yitong, and Wang Churan have reportedly fallen ill from overwork, which shows that the issue is no longer about one person being unable to hold on, but about the pace of the industry itself being pushed to the extreme. This time, fans launched a “Health Comes First” initiative on the Super Topic forum, calling on studios to stop “trading lives for schedules.” I think that voice is both very realistic and very necessary, because no matter how much exposure you get or how packed your schedule is, the basic prerequisite is that the person has to still be standing.

From an outsider’s perspective, the entertainment industry right now feels a bit like a high-pressure ranked match: everyone is afraid of disconnecting, and no one dares to rest. But people’s health bars are not unlimited. Short-term bursts can be sustained by sheer willpower, but long-term operation can only rely on scientific scheduling. Reasonable rest is not laziness—it’s how you extend the lifespan of a career. If this wave of discussion can push production crews, platforms, and studios to reexamine the logic behind their scheduling, that would be truly meaningful; otherwise, today it’s Meng Ziyi, and tomorrow it could be someone else who gets wrung dry.