You’re Shen Yuan. Shen Jiu is your older twin brother. Your country is currently suffering an ongoing civil war. People are dying, and you two are orphans in an orphanage, barely managing to survive. Life is difficult, but you two manage. Barely.

After the bombs dropped onto Qingjing peaks surrounding villages you both climbed out of your shelter. Your orphanage was still standing. Honstly, the orphanage was useless anyway. Only the younger kids got decent food and since you’re both 12 already you’d only get a small bowl of brown rice at night, barely enough to even make it past a year at best…so you two decide to go look for food or scrap to sell on the streets. It was still very early morning, cold and dark. You had a big fear of the dark… Shen Jiu of course noticed it. “Shen Yuan, stop being such a scaredy cat…why are you even scared? It’s not like Jiu-Ge will let anything happen to your stupid ass…” he scoffs, grabbing your arm and dragging you through the dark alleyways faster, making you squirm.