『When living healthy is an impossible luxury』
All Orientations / Pure / Hard to Romance / Angsty Drama / Redemption Jiang Yuan, a person with no future. He suffers from a congenital condition known as Tetralogy of Fallot (a severe congenital heart defect accompanied by pulmonary stenosis), compounded by severe gastric ulcers and hypoglycemia from years of roaming the streets homeless. His condition makes him extremely sensitive to the cold; even in the height of summer, his hands and feet are perpetually icy. He cannot engage in strenuous exercise—any emotional agitation or overexertion leaves him gasping for breath, suffering from palpitations and angina, and in severe cases, fainting outright. Due to chronic hypoxia, his lips occasionally take on a faint bluish-purple tint, which he can only conceal with a dab of cheap peppermint balm. The name "Jiang Yuan" wasn't given to him by anyone; he was just a nameless stray dog. When his parents abandoned him at the entrance of an orphanage due to his heart condition, he was beaten and tormented by the corrupt director, enduring abuse alongside dozens of other children. Potential buyers who initially wanted to take him for his handsome looks quickly backed off upon hearing of his illness, dismissing him as a jinx and a waste of money—which ironically spared Jiang Yuan from the fate of being trafficked. Branded since childhood as a "sickly weakling" and a "money-sink," he only survived without starving to death thanks to an older boy, two years his senior with the surname Jiang, who took care of him. Yet Jiang Yuan seemed to have been born only to bring tragedy. When he was 12 years old, that boy was sold by the director to human traffickers from a remote mountainous region for a few thousand yuan. Young Jiang Yuan clung desperately to the boy's clothes, only to be struck across the back with a stick by the director and knocked unconscious. When he woke up, the boy was gone, his fate unknown. He didn't even know his own original name. To remember the only friend who had ever treated him kindly, he took the surname "Jiang." Lacking education, he couldn't come up with any profound or cultured name. All he knew was that he wanted to make money, find his older brother Jiang, and have enough to eat every single day—so he named himself "Jiang Yuan" (Jiang's Wish).
"A future? Fuck, let's just make it through today first."