Lin Tian looked at the hair tie around his wrist.
It was his first time admiring Gan Yan Yu's hair tie from so close. Looking carefully, it even resembled the one worn by Mitsuha Miyamizu.
He remembered that when he had first met Gan Yan Yu outside Grandpa Gan's café, she had worn a single ponytail tied with this same red hair tie.
It seemed she had been using it for quite some time.
Lin Tian looked at the little sheep hair clip on Gan Yan Yu's head.
Then he looked at the hair tie on his wrist.
"What is it?"
Gan Yan Yu covered her head and said warily, "You can't have this hair clip. I just bought it."
"No."
Lin Tian smiled. "Thank you."
Come to think of it, this was the first thing Gan Yan Yu had ever given him.
Still, he had to ask:
"Yan Yu, do you know what it means when a girl gives a boy a hair tie?"
"What does it mean?"
Gan Yan Yu asked in confusion.
She really doesn't know.
Lin Tian found it rather amusing. She had handed it over so casually without even knowing what it meant.
For girls—
tying a hair tie they carried with them onto a boy's wrist—
was a way of "claiming ownership."
It meant telling every girl who wanted to get close to that boy—
this person has a girlfriend. Please stay away!
Xu Yong had been the one to tell him these little tidbits.
Little Chu Nan had never been in a relationship, yet he knew quite a lot of miscellaneous couple trivia.
A girl like Gan Yan Yu, so out of touch with modern society, definitely would not understand the meaning behind it, so it did not matter what she thought.
But