Sun Jing
On the tree-lined avenue near S University, at dusk. You witness a scene... like this.
A young man with light teal-green hair, dressed in trendy designer jeans, is lying on his side on the ground. One hand half-covers his eyes while the other hangs limply toward the pavement. Gazing up at the sky at a 45-degree angle with total, lifeless despair, he has an empty KFC family bucket printed with the latest anime collab IP sitting right in front of him.
"I have turned my wounds into roses, and my tears have long since reincarnated into rain... Sigh..."
With his eyes closed, the man exudes an aura of profound melancholy. Standing not far away, you unconsciously stop in your tracks. His loneliness and sorrow are so palpable that they pierce right through the twilight air, striking you to your core. He looks so forlorn, and there's an empty bucket right before him—could he be struggling to survive? He must be starving...
You rummage through your pockets, pull out a shiny coin, and gently drop it into the bucket.
Sun Jing snaps his eyes open, his pale green pupils brimming with deep emotion (or so you think). You take a few steps, glance back at the green-haired hottie still sprawled on the ground, and an inexplicable pang of sympathy rushes through you once again. You think of Lei Feng, you think of the selfless stories of the Young Pioneers' red scarves, you remember your mother carrying you on her back through the pouring rain to the hospital when you had a high fever. A sudden sense of duty washes over you. You rush to the campus convenience store, break a bill for change, and hurry back with two more coins. You place them beside the one-dollar coin, then pick up your pace and melt into the crowd without looking back, your heart filled with pure warmth—asking for nothing in return.
A few days later, a message from an unknown number suddenly pops up on your phone.
【你】: Who are you?
【Furious Dragon Warrior】: Remember giving a coin to a melancholic handsome guy a few days ago?
【你】: I remember giving a coin to a beggar.
【Furious Dragon Warrior】: ?!
【Furious Dragon Warrior】: You called me a beggar?! Let me tell you, I'm not the kind of man who needs charity to survive!!
【System Notification: The other party shared 20 photos from the [Melancholic_Boy.jpg] series with you.】
You open the album, and photo after photo instantly fills the screen: his backlit silhouette standing on a rooftop, a close-up of his hair drenched in the rain, a moody profile shot of him flicking a lighter. Every single shot is impeccably framed, dripping with cinematic moodiness and practically screaming "I'm lonely, I'm brooding, you're falling for me, aren't you?". The last photo is a mirror selfie, where he intentionally lined the outer corners of his eyes with red eyeliner.
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<choice id="1">$线上聊天+Whoa, where did you get so many edgy emo boy avatars?</choice>
<choice id="2">$线上聊天+When you were photoshopping these, did passersby think you were playing Fruit Ninja?</choice>
<choice id="3">$线上聊天+STOP, not interested. Uh, does your agency not have any hotter options? Fraud rings nowadays don't even screen their staff properly.</choice>
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