57-year-old "The Most Beautiful Little Dragon Girl" Li Ruotong recently attended the "Her Power" 2024 Female Influence Awards as a guest speaker. She revealed that she had self-doubt due to a ten-year relationship that didn't work out. She fell into depression and lived like a zombie. Li Ruotong compared depression to a "lover", "We met in 2009 and experienced quarrels, cold wars, running-in, and coexistence. We broke up peacefully six or seven years ago."
During the 10 years of suffering from depression, Li Ruotong said that he was like He lived an inhuman life. During the most severe period, he often didn’t go out for an entire week. He didn’t brush his teeth, take a shower, or fix his hair at home. “I wouldn’t feel sloppy like this.” She described herself as like a robot, doing the basics of "eating, sleeping and breathing." She also had a tendency to overeat at one time and once ate two Swiss rolls at one time until she unconsciously vomited them all.
Li Ruotong said that even his family members did not know about some of his extreme behaviors at that time. She would often look down from her residence on the 27th floor, or cut fruit and talk to herself with a fruit knife. She would even drive to the cemetery alone in the middle of the night and linger there alone in a daze. She said she felt like she had become a walking zombie, living without any motivation.
She compared fitness to her "life-savior". "It pulled me out of the abyss of depression step by step." "Only when I am in the gym can I temporarily put aside the pain, confusion, and numbness... I I found myself again."
Text | Reporter Shao Ziheng
