Pictures of the Year International

Yang Xing is in the massage room where he works. Beijing, China. Nov. 27, 2024 38-year-old Yang Xing is from Liaoning. He is a blind masseur. He studied shooting at a sports school during his middle school years and won the championship in the Chinese Youth Shooting Competition and the Liaoning Province Shooting Competition. But at the age of 13, a series of complications were caused by fighting injuries, making him become completely blind at the age of 17. He had to learn massage and later opened a blind massage parlor. In 2013, Yang Xing met a girl online and they met over a month later. This girl was a college student studying art. At first, she didn't believe that Yang Xing was blind. After meeting him, she was attracted by Yang Xing's sincerity and stability. She believed that people like Yang Xing would not be too fickle. Two months later, they started dating, over a year later they got married and then had two daughters. But in 2022, they divorced due to trivial matters in their daily lives. That year, Yang Xing, who was in a bad mood, left his hometown and came to Beijing. He has been working in a massage parlor ever since.