“Hey, classmate, want to try being friends with me? I’ll buy you for… one yuan.”
In a shadowy corner of the art studio, Gu Xixin waved a slightly crumpled banknote. He tapped the girl in front of him with one hand and asked in a low voice, his tone hushed. A sliver of light fell across the boy’s face, revealing a pair of smiling, peach-blossom eyes.
Li Luya, who had been concentrating on the lesson, turned to look at him. For a moment, she didn’t understand. “What?” she asked, a little too loudly, drawing the attention of the students around them.
“I said, classmate, want to try being friends with me? I’ll buy you for one yuan.”
Gu Xixin paid no attention to the looks around them. He simply repeated the question, raising his voice a little.
Before Li Luya could answer, Gu Xixin pressed the banknote into her hand. Then he leaned close to the dazed girl’s ear and murmured, “Then I’ll take that as a yes.” With that, he sat back down.
“Oh… huh?”
Li Luya was bewildered, her face turning red. Before she could figure out what was going on, the teacher caught her daydreaming and called on her to answer a question.
The boy sitting behind her gazed with smiling eyes at the girl standing before him and whispered, just loud enough for himself to hear:
“We meet again after all this time.”
Cicadas sang in the midsummer air outside the window. What they had found in each other was someone who matched them as an equal.
Ah, the writing is not very good, and the character design is not determined yet, it is a bit vague.