How a 27-Year-Old Streamer Survived a Fall From the 35th Floor

The video ran just over a minute: a young woman in a wheelchair, piano keys under her fingers, telling her followers that she is back. For Wan Wan'an (晚安安), a 27-year-old livestreamer from Changsha in Hunan, the announcement on October 12 closed a recovery that began with one of the falls medicine considers least survivable — a drop from the 35th floor of her residential building in June last year.

The mechanics of her survival, as doctors and reporters reconstructed them, were a chain of improbabilities. Falling shortly after 5 a.m. on June 10, 2025, she first struck a tree more than four metres tall, then landed in shrubbery — two buffers that blunted a descent from roughly the hundred-metre mark. She arrived at hospital with intracranial bleeding, a shattered pelvis, and ruptures of the liver, kidney and bladder — the inventory one medical commenter posted alongside the caution that survival from such falls is extremely rare, and that the case should never be read as proof that a high fall "is fine."

What followed was a fifty-day stay in the intensive care unit at Xiangya Third Hospital of Central South University, a first operation that ran fourteen hours, and about ten surgeries in all. Her right leg could not be saved and was amputated; her treating physicians said every other organ system has essentially recovered, an outcome they described as exceeding expectations. When she woke, she experienced selective memory loss and for a time could not speak; as pain medication was tapered, full-body pain set in, and muscles were so deconditioned that turning over in bed required help. In her own telling, she came close to giving up more than once during rehabilitation.

The return video, which within a day had drawn thousands of likes and a fresh wave of the "miracle" commentary that followed her survival, showed the life she has rebuilt: wheelchair mobile, hand function intact, playing the piano and video games. A prosthetic leg comes next. "This life," she wrote in the announcement, "was snatched back from heaven by the doctors and by everyone who loves me" (translated).

Chinese commenters received the story with the particular mix it demanded: astonishment at the tree, relief at the recovery, and a deliberate refusal to draw the wrong lesson. The most widely shared recap ended not with the tree but with the warning — keep children away from open windows, and do not let despair reach the ledge — a turn that quietly acknowledged what such falls usually mean and usually end.