On October 14, 2025, a message about the death of the red lemon broke out on social platforms.
Lemon, whose real name is Chen Me Ying, is a girl from Chongqing who is only 39 years old this year.She fought with breast cancer for two years and finally could not wait for the miracle to happen.
What's even more sad is that just last month-September 17th, 2025, she was still lying in a hospital bed for her birthday, smiling and singing her favorite song.
Unexpectedly, only a month later, her condition suddenly deteriorated and her life ended.
When the diagnosis was confirmed in 2024, Chen had the most dangerous type of breast cancer – “tri-negative breast cancer.”
This kind of cancer is not only vicious, but also very easy to recur. Moreover, there are basically no specific drugs at present, so it is very difficult to treat, and many patients have a poor prognosis.
At the beginning of the treatment, the situation was optimistic, and she performed chemotherapy and surgery according to the norm, resulting in control of the condition.
She also revealed the sunshine smile on social platforms, fans also rose to 1.7 million, many people thought she saw hope, the dawn was in front of her eyes.
But fate didn't let her go. During the reexamination on June 25th, the doctor found that the cancer cells had spread to the bone, which belonged to bone metastasis. It is clearly believed in medicine that as long as distant metastasis occurs, especially when bone marrow is eroded, the possibility of cure is almost lost.
In the next few months, her life was filled with pain: at first, she had intermittent fever, which slowly developed until she could not get out of bed at all; then she could only rely on infusion to maintain vital signs, and her whole body's functions rapidly declined.
The last time she appeared in the public eye was September 22. At that time, her voice was almost inaudible, she was obviously thin and her face was very haggard.
In order to continue her life, she has never been broadcast live before, but now lives live singing mountains every day.
Her voice was hoarse and her face was pale, but whenever someone gave a gift, she immediately bowed and said "thank you all".
She said, “To leave a little bit of life for mom and daughter” – because her daughter is in high school, is the most crucial stage.
Doctors have long told her that this cancer does not respond to hormone drugs and targeted drugs, and once chemotherapy is stopped, the condition will rebound quickly, and it is most easily transferred to bones and lungs.
But she managed to survive for more than a year by herself, several months longer than the doctor's estimate of survival.
Click on her account again today, and the last video stops at the end of September. In the video, she was wrapped in a thick blanket and sang "Azalea," her voice as soft as a leaf floating in the wind.
Someone left a message in the comment area: "Sister Lemon, I'm here"; Others say, "I will live well for you".
It is understood that Chen Xiaoyu, born in 1986, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2023 due to persistent abdominal pain to go to the hospital for examination.
For less than two years, she has been seeking medical treatment, but because of the high medical costs it is difficult to bear, she can only give up chemotherapy and turn to conservative treatment. During this time, she shared her experiences with cancer on social platforms, hoping that netizens would help her fight for a chance to survive.
A netizen who has been following her said: "The main reason is that she cannot raise money for treatment, and her family conditions are particularly difficult. If he had had the money to find authoritative experts for surgery from the beginning, the outcome might not have been like this. If you have money, at least you won't be so passive in treatment."
It really makes people feel sad and sorry to die at such a young age.
In the last stage of her life, the one thing Chen Meiying could not worry about most was her daughter, who was about to take the college entrance examination.
The daughter does not actually understand what "cancer" is, only know that the mother's body has a "bad guy". she will put candy in her mother's hand every day after school, and the mouth will say "breast" as a "breastline", although it is wrong, but this kindness looks, can make the hospital room for a while a little laugh.
In order not to affect the rehearsal of her daughter, Chen Me Ying even in the night can not sleep, cry out, but also bite a tooth without a word. three days before her death, she was still awake, in the class group message said: "Mommy this week can not come, you yourself pay attention."
Her mobile phone memo reads, "I can't let my baby affect the college entrance examination because of me. Even if she leaves, she has to hold on until she finishes the exam." Her last sentence before she died was also the same question: "How did my daughter do in the exam today?"
Chen Me Ying is determined to fight cancer, not because she is stronger than others, but because she understands - not fighting can only wait for death. on the surface, she is strong, in fact, every day is like walking on the tip of the knife: borrow money, check the medical report, endure the pain, these three things cycle every day.
You see her laughing and singing in the video, it's just that she hides her pain; but when you turn off the video, she may be lying on her bed with the infusion, closing her eyes. her body pain, her night pain, no picture, no filter, and no one really wants to face.
The most heartbreaking thing is that she was less than 40 years old when she left. Some people comfort themselves by saying, "I'm in good health", but who can say for sure?
The question is: Do you really have regular health checkups? Do you take the warning signals sent by your body seriously? Once you are diagnosed with a serious illness, do you have enough medical insurance? Are family members capable of facing the collapse caused by a diagnosis?
In Lemon's last video, someone asked her, "Are you afraid?" She only replied, "It's useless to be afraid."
Some say she is looking out, and some feel she is completely desperate.Different people see different oneself.
She did not pretend to be optimistic, nor did she complain. Every time she sends a video, she reminds herself-the wind outside the window, the daily meal, the eyes of her mother and daughter, these are still there. These are the reasons why she persevere.
At the beginning of the treatment, fans kept leaving messages to encourage her. Some people praised her for being brave, while others said she was particularly strong. However, courage can't withstand the weakness of the body, and strength can't stop the pain caused by drugs.
Thirty thousand days is the whole of a person’s life.
The chemotherapy caused her hair to fall, her face became pale, and her voice was often silent. Sometimes she didn't post videos for a few days, and still tried to smile at the screen when she appeared. No one knew how she had survived those nights - the pain came and the anxiety was overwhelming. She said that she wanted to work hard, try a little more, and only hope to grow up with her daughter.
On the Internet, there are many anti-cancer bloggers like "Lemon". They don't want to attract traffic, but want to record their true selves, and they also hope to use their own experiences to give some courage and direction to those who are also struggling with the disease.
There are no filters in their videos, and there is no false filtering life, only pain, helplessness, survival, and a little hope that they refuse to give up.
The story of "Lemon" also reminds us once again that breast cancer can really not be ignored. Doctors repeatedly stressed that breast cancer can be cured as soon as it is detected and treated early. but many people do not check, do not pay attention, and once it is discovered, it is late.
Lemon is only 39 years old. It should have been the best stage of her career and family, but she left in a hurry because of cancer, which made countless netizens feel sorry and reluctant. But the videos she left behind, the way she was still trying to smile in the face of suffering, will always stay in everyone's hearts.
I hope that "Lemon" will no longer have illness in another world and can sing and live freely. I also hope that those who are still on the road to cancer can continue to persevere and find hope.
I hope that medicine will develop faster and faster, so that when facing cancer, more people can no longer rely on "carrying", but can really see the chance of life.
Chen Me Ying's story is not just a record of an anti-cancer video blogger, but also an ordinary mother, an ordinary woman, who uses her best to fight fate.
There was no exaggerated language in her video, no intentional incitement, only the expression of her daily pain, the voice of her efforts to maintain hope, and the eye of her family.
As she wrote in her last sentence,
"If one day I am no longer here, I hope you will remember that I lived seriously."