21: Chapter Twenty-One: The Rise to Fame Begins

After everyone left, Ma Jun returned to the office.

As soon as he entered, he heard Qin Yang, who was sitting on the sofa, ask, "Are they all gone?"

"Yes, Boss," Ma Jun replied.

"I really didn't expect that even a potion diluted to one-tenth would have such an effect. Overnight, it could cause such a massive change in people standing at death's door. Ma Jun, tell me, if this were a complete dose, would it have cured them directly?" Qin Yang said in amazement.

"Boss, it's not that exaggerated. Even with a complete dose, the body still needs to be gradually regulated. Most of them are late-stage patients; they can't be cured in an instant, though it would certainly speed up their recovery," Ma Jun replied honestly.

Qin Yang nodded and continued, "Alright, just continue injecting them with this dosage on schedule. However, if we go into production later, we'll need to reduce the dosage even further. Sometimes, having an effect that is too good isn't necessarily a good thing!"

"Understood, Boss," Ma Jun nodded in response.

On the other side, after everyone returned to their respective wards, their joy was simply beyond words.

Take Coffee, for example; as soon as she returned to her ward, she hurriedly took out her phone and opened a Chinese TikTok livestream.

Coffee was a blogger with millions of followers and was extremely popular among the illness-fighting community. As soon as she started broadcasting, netizens began trickling into the livestream room. In less than five minutes, the audience reached four to five thousand people. This was even during a workday; if it were a night or weekend stream, Coffee would definitely be a Streamer with tens of thousands of viewers.

"Hello! My treasures, we meet again!" Coffee smiled at the camera and greeted the audience in the livestream room.

"Coffee is actually livestreaming! Coffee, didn't you go to get treatment? Why are you streaming again so soon? You need to rest properly and cooperate with the doctor's treatment. Don't be headstrong. Just update your status when you have time so we know how you're doing!"

"Yeah! Baby Coffee, although we miss you very much, treatment is the most important thing. You don't have to cater to us!"

"Eh? Something's not right! Don't you guys think Coffee's state is very good today? Her complexion is much better than in her streams from a few days ago. Could it be that she has good news for us?"

"Now that you mention it, it's true. Coffee's complexion is so much better compared to a few days ago. Coffee, Coffee! Could it be that you've really met a miracle doctor?!"

Coffee looked at the bullet comments on the public screen and then replied with a smile, "My treasures are so smart. My condition has indeed improved quite a bit. However, it's not because I met a miracle doctor, but because I used a newly developed medicine."

"I have to apologize to you all for this. Actually, when I posted a few days ago saying I was going for treatment, I was lying to you. In fact, I was participating in a drug trial. This is a newly developed anti-cancer drug. I originally intended to come here with a 'give it a try' attitude, but I didn't expect that just one experimental injection would give me such a heavenly surprise. So, I couldn't wait to share it with you all!"

Coffee's words reached the audience's ears like a clap of thunder!

You have to understand, Coffee was in the late stages of cancer. Do you know what 'late-stage' means? In common terms, it means there is no longer any possibility of treatment. With current medical technology, effective treatment is impossible, and even suppression cannot be achieved. Yet now Coffee was saying that there was a new drug that could treat late-stage cancer patients. This was truly hard to believe!

Immediately, many voices of doubt appeared on the public screen. These people cited various sources, implying that Coffee might have been deceived, suggesting that the drug might contain strong pain-relieving or stimulant elements, such as adrenaline.

Coffee didn't offer any explanation for this. Whether it was real or not, it was her own body, and she was the one who knew best.

Besides the voices of doubt, there were also those begging for the medicine.

For an anti-cancer blogger like Coffee, many of her followers were either patients themselves or had cancer patients in their families. Their purpose for following Coffee was simple: first, to find comfort in a community, seeing that Coffee remained strong and optimistic even with late-stage cancer, which gave them the courage to fight the disease; and second, to get information. Because she had reached the level of a million-follower influencer, she was essentially a successful person in reality. Most people who fall ill are ordinary people who are ill-informed and unable to learn the latest situation regarding their conditions—for example, which new drug is effective or where the best surgery can be performed.

These problems, which were very difficult for ordinary people, were relatively simple for a big blogger like Coffee because Coffee had money! Actually, this wasn't due to the narrow-mindedness of ordinary people, but was simply a fact. In reality, the medical and information resources available to wealthy people are hundreds or thousands of times stronger than those of ordinary people. As a wealthy person, Coffee served as a benchmark. The hospitals she booked, the doctors she saw, and the medications she took would all be imitated by many patients. Well, this could be considered a form of celebrity effect, which is also how livestreaming sales came about.

Returning to the main topic, seeing that Coffee had such obvious results after just one injection, how could those patients still struggling with the disease not be anxious?

Because she had promised Ma Jun, Coffee naturally wouldn't say anything yet. So she replied, "My treasures, don't be anxious yet. Because the drug is newly developed, it's still in the clinical trial phase. I was only able to take the medicine early because I was selected as a trial participant. But don't worry, the trial period is a total of ten courses of treatment, three days each, totaling one month. So, please don't be anxious. I am currently a pathfinder. I will start a livestream after every course of treatment to share my status with everyone. If I can really suppress the disease or be successfully treated, I promise I will tell you the name of the drug. Once I get better acquainted with the drug manufacturer, maybe I can even apply for priority or get discounts for you. In short, my treasures, please wait patiently."

Seeing Coffee explain so clearly, those patients begging for the medicine finally stopped making a fuss. Trial participants—basically anyone who has been sick knows what that's about. Unless it's a last resort, very few people would choose to be a trial participant because the risk is simply too great. As the saying goes, a miserable life is better than a good death, even for terminally ill patients.

Afterward, Coffee stopped talking about her illness and started her regular livestream content. As mentioned before, Coffee loved painting and was very talented and spiritual; this was also related to her hard work. Even during her most difficult periods, she would occasionally pick up her brush to paint. Her livestream content was painting... Several other bloggers with many fans did the same as Coffee, interacting with their fans, but like Coffee, after explaining the reasons, they didn't dare to leak the secret.