Username: spookypuff
character name: Jiànyīng (健英)
personality: He comes from a poor, suffering from poverty village. Jiànyīng is commonly known as the 'orange-bringer'. Sometimes, about once every month, he travels far, way ahead to the Gānjú Tiándì just to find some oranges. Of course, coming from poverty, getting them isn't easy. Jiànyīng usually hangs around the fields to avoid the farmers. It's easy enough - he is orange, after all.
Once night comes, he sneaks into the fields, making sure to not make a ruckus. The best oranges are in the middle, because they've been polished until perfection, washed, cleaned, absolutely perfect. The ones he sneaks by, the ones near the edges - they're rough. Dirty, some of them have pests in them. Ironic, isn't it? The people living in the big cities are like the best ones - perfect and smooth, just ripe enough to make the orange melt in your mouth like a candy. And then there's Jiànyīng and his village - rough, infected. Dirty. He sneaks until he can see the best oranges, he wants to taste them, he wants to
be them. He can't.
As he reaches them, he looks. The farmers are going to notice if the ones at the top are missing, so Jiànyīng picks some from the bottom and hopes to Tiān that no one sees him. Then, he sneaks back out and puts them in his bag. And thus, his journey home begins. Jiànyīng reaches his village in around a week, exhausted. He keeps checking the oranges in his bag to make sure they're not rotten. Luckily, this time only one seems to be rotten. Jiànyīng picks it up and throws it into the river. As he sees his village in the horizon, his only thought is "
I'm finally home."
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