The relationships of the characters in Ask the Heart are: Fang Shoran is Zhou Xiaofeng's sister, while Lin Yi likes Fang Shoran, and in the end, Fang Shoran helps Zhou Shoran to find her kinship and embraces love with Lin Yi, and Lin Yi and Zhou Shoran reap the rewards of their friendship.
Zhou Shin-feng is an associate chief physician of the Department of Cardiology at Dongli Hospital, an introverted personality with a strict self-discipline in his work and life, and is the key training target of the department head Bai He and the hospital leadership, and is the backbone of the Department of Cardiology. Fang Xiaoran is Zhou Xiaofeng's younger sister, who enrolls in Dongli Hospital to become a cardiac intensive care unit doctor in order to pursue her own aspirations and to ease her brother's relationship with her mother.
Lin Yi, on the other hand, is a recently recruited cardiac surgeon who had previously focused only on performing surgeries at Xili Hospital and lacked communication and collaboration with his colleagues, which his immediate leader and teacher, Noah Cao, believes is not conducive to his growth, and therefore recommends him to work at Dongli Hospital's newly-established cardiac center.
"Ask the Heart" is an urban medical-emotional topical drama directed by Lai Chi, starring Zhao Yuting and Mao Xiaotong in the lead roles, with a special appearance by Chen Chong, and starring Chen Hao Yu, Zhou Nomang, Yan Xiaobing, House Bin and Zhao Jun, with a special appearance by Jin Shijia. The drama was aired on October 7, 2023 on CCTV 8 and simulcast on Tencent Video.
Behind the scenes of "Ask the Heart"
Writer Zhou Yifei said that in the early stages of creation, he visited more than 10 tertiary hospitals, exchanged in-depth with nearly 50 first-line cardiologists, added more than 130 healthcare microblogging, and invited a number of medical consultants to follow up on the whole process of creating the show, from the outline to the script, and from the selection of cases to the deliberation of each line. In November 2022, the drama was finalized.
Before the shooting of the drama began, the lead actors entered a number of tertiary hospitals in advance for more than a month of internships and observation, following the doctors to sit, treatment, learning how to communicate with patients, and accumulate experience. The creative team not only built 8,000 square meters of old, middle-aged and young hospitals of different generations, of which the heart center department and ICU studio covers an area of 3,000 square meters, purchased and rented more than 200 sets of professional medical equipment, such as ventilators, anesthesia machines.
Every surgical scene and every professional action during the filming process was professionally guided by the senior doctors of the tertiary hospitals, and the filming in the operating room of the real tertiary hospitals lasted for 25 days, with a total of 491T of footage shot.