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Chinese couple’s surgery fundraising highlights how sudden fame ignites support, backlash

South China Morning Post 02 September 2026 12h ago
Chinese couple’s surgery fundraising highlights how sudden fame ignites support, backlash
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A woman in China, suffering from severe scoliosis, has gone viral after accusations that she is “making money by doing nothing” surfaced. This scrutiny followed the revelation that her boyfriend, Yan Ruize, worked gruelling food-delivery shifts to fund her much-needed surgery. He Ling, 23, hails from southwest China’s Sichuan province and was diagnosed with congenital scoliosis – a sideways curvat
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