So, this is what it means to pledge my body to someone?
Tang Yuran silently noted all these steps and then reached out to pat Tang Nan on the shoulder, "Nannan, well done!"
"Sister, who are you planning to pledge your body to?" Tang Nan asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"It's nothing, let's keep building the blocks." Tang Yuran blinked and picked up the fallen blocks from the ground, sat down, and started building again.
The next day, the weather wasn't too good.
Early in the morning, the sky began to drizzle with fine rain, which soon turned into a downpour.
The air carried a hint of misty moisture.
Because of the rain, the children in the classroom couldn't go out to play.
Among the restless children, only Gu Yu remained unmoved, sitting at his desk.
After all, whether it rained or not, he never went out to play, so there was no difference to him.
Tang Yuran sat next to Gu Yu, brewed her courage for a while, and finally spoke up, "It's raining outside."
Gu Yu looked up at her, glanced quickly, and then lowered his head again, continuing to play with his snowflake puzzle toy.
"Um, is your name Gu Yu because you were born on a rainy day??" Tang Yuran tried hard to find a topic to talk about.
"..." Gu Yu's hands, which were building the snowflakes, paused for a moment, and then he continued working as he spoke, "No, my name is the 'Yu' from 'island,' not the 'Yu' from 'rain.'"
"Oh..." Tang Yuran nodded her head as if she understood but didn't really get it.
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
"Um... thanks for pulling me back yesterday, otherwise I would have had a nasty fall," Tang Yuran said, laying her head on the desk and looking at Gu Yu sideways.
"You were already crying pretty badly," Gu Yu said with a deadpan expression.
"Cough cough... um..." Tang Yuran laughed awkwardly, finally voicing the thoughts she'd been holding in for a long time, "So... I have no way to repay my debt for saving my life, all I can offer is to pledge my body in return."
Gu Yu froze in his actions.
After a while, he turned his head, looked at Tang Yuran laying her head on the desk, fell silent for a moment, and then hesitatingly said, "Have you been watching too many dramas??"
"What?" Tang Yuran was caught off guard and didn't understand at first.
"Isn't that a line that only appears in dramas??" Gu Yu curled his lip and continued to play with the snowflakes in his hand.
"Well... anyway, that's the idea I was trying to convey." Tang Yuran said earnestly.
"Oh, pledge your body?" Gu Yu looked down at the mound of snowflakes on the table and casually said, "Do you even know what it means to pledge your body?"
"I do!" Tang Yuran's eyes sparkled upon hearing his question.
"What does it mean?" Gu Yu turned and asked with an indifferent expression.
Tang Yuran suddenly sat up straight from the desk, without saying a word, she reached out and hugged Gu Yu's neck, and without any hesitation, she kissed his lips. With a loud "smack," the whole room could hear it, and Gu Yu was completely stunned.
Yet Tang Yuran was smiling with her eyes curved, looking at him and saying, "Just like that, a kiss first."
"... First??" Gu Yu tugged at the corner of his mouth, just about to ask what else she was going to do when Tang Yuran's chubby little hands were already forcefully caressing his pale and handsome cheeks, saying, "And then a touch like this."