Between men and women, being together is about becoming partners in life, raising children, tilling the land—beyond that, there's not much else to talk about. Although no one had ever put it to Jiang He in these exact terms, it was an impression that came to her quite naturally.
That was, until she learned about some strange things.
Take kissing, for instance, a behavior of extreme intimacy; she discovered it to be such a marvelous thing in the world. After experiencing it just once, Jiang He felt amazed and, at the same time, somewhat enlightened.
No wonder some of the people in Xu Qing's videos yearned for a kiss even when close to death...
Still, she could not understand what was so appealing about touching legs—it instinctively seemed to her an unflattering act, vulgar, even harder to accept than kissing.
