"the unicorn is amazing and holy, hoping it can bring good luck and warmth to people." Nini, 23, holds her cell phone. 16 different unicorns follow her fingertips and beat back and forth on the screen. The night before, she just finished dialysis treatment, and resumed a night, and finally had the strength to sit in front of the computer and began to write.
recently, a group of Unicorns was burning on the WeChat expression. They have a small head, large body, color toot, the horns of different colors, make "seek to embrace" "unhappy" "good morning", "love you" and other movements, selling sprout on the screen.
this group, called "fat lad is a unicorn", is made up of 16 sprout unicorns, which have been online recently and have been downloaded by about 200000 users. But little is known about the story behind her. The author of the expression bag, Nini, is a uremic patient. She spent nearly a year plotting for medical expenses.
Nini is a girl after 95, who lives in Ningbo, Zhejiang. 3 years ago, she was diagnosed with uremia. To cure the disease, the family sold 90 square meters of houses, a family of 3 crowded in 40 square meters of small house to live. The mother gave up her job, took full care of her daughter, and her father worked in Ningbo, earning just enough daily expenses. In order to reduce the burden on her family, Nini decided to pick up the brush, build the inner world and raise the cost of treatment for her.
without any basis for painting, she bought the cheapest digital board for 99 yuan. The higher the painting course on the pillow, the pile of albums filled her room. On weekdays, she soaked in the post bar and the forum self study expression creation, encountered the question in the commentary "harassment" the big God class user.
usually, a set of 16 cartoons, which will only take a month to complete, and Nini's time is 10 times that of the others. Many times, this girl is fighting against the disease: "too much toxin" in the body, she can go to sleep at two or two at midnight; she sometimes appears ascitic water, drug allergy and so on.
every week, Nini has to do 3 dialysis sessions, 4 hours at a time. "Back home, the whole person is empty, like airsickness." After a little rest, she crept in front of the computer again. In her mother's eyes, her daughter seldom shed tears. She was full of thoughts, "I will be fine", "I will take care of you all my life". My daughter's understanding made her strong. "I told myself more than once that no matter how hard life is, we must fight with our daughter and face it together!"
for a year, Nini has painted by the side of Nini, and this group of expression packs began to live - the original Unicorn had a round head and a round tummy; the unicorn's hands were bald, then painted with light pink, and made it hold tea cups, stars, oranges, and seemed more human. Its horns will show different colors along with the ups and downs of the mood. Purple is happy, red is angry, blue is surprised...
"this group of expressions is pale pink." She said she liked everything pink, from pajamas, frames to cell phone shells. In the eyes of the girl, pink symbolized warmth and girl's heart, and she wanted to pass the warmth to the people around her.
last year, Nini became a network anchor, but she never showed her face. She put the lens on the desk and brush, and it took two hours. "I used to have very good skin, but my face was dark and yellow after I was sick, and I kept pox." Whenever a visitor is in the house or goes out, Nini always wears a mask, which has become her habit.
five or six square meters room is Nini's studio. "Mark pen starry sky tutorial, try to draw a circle to have the whole sky", "DIY dog year sticker", "geometry, stroke, math teacher are afraid"...... She edited the most interesting parts of the live broadcast with a favorite piece of music and sent it to a short video platform. A year later, there were already 80 thousand fans.
at first, Nini kept telling her fans that she didn't reveal her illness. "I hope they don't think I have anything special." When she couldn't broadcast live because of treatment or rest, she often explained the above lessons and preparing for exams, and told everyone that she was a college student. A few days ago, after a TV interview with Nini's family, her story was only known by some fans, and the reward amount was over 300 thousand yuan.
"I will always hold the brush, not only self reliant, but also want to tell the small fans that life, no matter how difficult, should go straight ahead." Nini said.