The whistle stopped, and the whistle hit the table with a "clang" sound. Ryder didn't move. He just drooped his eyelids loosely and looked down at her from above.
Aria blinked, driving away the remaining sleepiness. After a moment, the water mist in front of her eyes dispersed, and her vision became clear.
A shadow.
And the broad body in front of her.
She was immediately startled.
Before she could figure out what was going on, her line of sight instinctively moved upward and met a pair of pitch-black, deep and boundless eyes.
"..."
She opened her mouth.
Ryder raised his eyebrow bones with a half-smile, chuckled lazily, "Why, did you forget me after waking up from sleep?"
"... No."
Aria moved backward quickly and vigilantly.
After pulling away, she belatedly felt the gradually rising temperature on her face and the accelerating heartbeat.
The girl's quick and vigilant backward movement made Ryder's half-smiling gaze dim for a moment. He licked the pointed tooth on the side and laughed, "Just be ungrateful, huh?"
Avoiding him as if he were a flood or a fierce beast.
In broad daylight, could he eat her?
Really something.
Aria's sleepiness completely dissipated. Remembering that Ryder had maintained the half-kneeling position to massage her legs for more than an hour, but she had fallen asleep comfortably.
The position of kneeling on one knee was very tiring.
When the instructor asked her to squat during her military training, she couldn't hold on for long before having to change legs and still couldn't support it.
She couldn't stand it in less than five minutes.
But now, not only did she not feel any discomfort in her two small and slender legs that had been slightly sore and uncomfortable these days, but also she had been lazy the entire afternoon today.
She felt that she should be able to sleep well tonight.
All of this, she had to thank Ryder.
Thinking of this, she subconsciously glanced at the boy's straight and slender legs. Her eyelashes trembled, and she raised her eyebrows.
She smiled happily, "Ryder, thank you."
"Not ungrateful."
"Oh -" Ryder elongated his tone, carelessly, "Is that so?"
Aria nodded. She thought for a moment and said, "I'll treat you to dinner tonight, okay?"
Ryder's legs were no longer as numb at this moment. He leaned back in the chair lazily and carelessly, "Sure."
Each class had already lined up and after a few questions, they were dismissed. There was still evening training at night. No one went to pick up the water cups and stools. They all walked out of the playground in pairs and groups.
Aria looked at the gate of the playground and then looked back.
The boy was still slumped in the chair.
She sighed silently, the corners of her lips curved slightly. She knew that Ryder was tired. This person was especially afraid of being tired.
But when he squatted down to massage her legs, he was sudden and forceful. She didn't know how to pull him up and also had a bit of a girl's selfishness, unable to resist thinking too much.
He said that he hadn't massaged others like this, which meant that even his girlfriend hadn't received this kind of treatment.
Her heart was incredibly soft.
It seemed that ever since entering the university and entering the life with him, everything was developing in a good direction.
Nothing could be better than this.
She gently sized up the boy with closed eyelashes and knew that he didn't want to move now. So she asked him, "Otherwise, I'll go to the cafeteria to buy the food back. You can eat here?"
Ryder lifted his eyelid, "Huh?"
"Go." He wasn't polite at all and ordered the food, "Spicy hot pot, less vinegar and less spicy. Plus a cup of lemonade."
Aria, who thought he would be polite for a moment: "..."
She: "Okay."
Before she had walked a few steps, Ryder said again, "I don't eat carrots. For green vegetables, only cabbage. Add a fried dough stick. Put more quail eggs. Others are up to you."
Aria: "..."
"Put less sesame paste. It's greasy."
Aria: "......"
That's, really, so casual.
She walked on the way to the cafeteria, took out her mobile phone, lowered her head, clicked on Baidu, and searched for what cabbage looked like.
The page turned for a few rounds.
Several green-filled pictures appeared in front of her.
Cabbage.
Round, green, very beautiful.
She suddenly realized that her favorite vegetable all along was called cabbage. They had very cleverly reached an agreement on the taste of green vegetables.
There were many people in this dining hall near the playground.
The popular spicy hot pot restaurant was on the second floor. Their business was good and there were many people. Aria squeezed for a long time before getting a small basket and clips. She also stood on the periphery for a while and only stepped forward to select when there were fewer people.
The boy had a big appetite. She didn't know how much Ryder ate and was afraid of buying too little and making him hungry. So she wasn't stingy at all and kept putting things into the small basket.
It attracted frequent glances from the people beside her.
She paused for a few seconds, suppressed her embarrassment, and weighed it with her head held high. Added a few more pieces of cabbage and handed it over.
Then, even more embarrassingly, she took the second basket and started to select her own.
When paying, she even wanted to hide herself.
The mechanical sound of receiving money was too clear. Maybe they hadn't seen many people spending more than fifty yuan on spicy hot pot at one time. Many people looked over curiously.
Aria: "..."
Really annoying.
The fruit drink store was next door. While waiting for the number, she went to get two cups of iced lemonade. After about half an hour, Aria returned with her hands full of things.
On the way, she met a classmate who greeted her and looked at the pile of things in her hands in surprise, "Didn't you eat in the cafeteria?"
"No." Aria smiled, "A friend is with me."
"Oh, then go quickly."
The classmate quickly walked away, holding her companion's hand.
Aria sighed, changed the positions of the things in her two hands, and walked briskly towards the podium.
From afar, she saw the black figure lying on the table.
She thought Ryder had fallen asleep again and subconsciously lightened her footsteps. However, as soon as she approached, the person turned his head.
He raised his eyebrows, "You're back?"
"Well, there were quite a lot of people." She explained while avoiding his hand that was about to receive, carefully placed the two meal boxes and the lemonade on the table.
Relieved, she rubbed her somewhat sore wrist.
Ryder saw her rubbing her wrist that was as soft as boneless and suddenly paused. His tone was subtly asking, "Was it very heavy?"
Aria: "..."
Obviously, he wasn't intentionally asking this question to be beaten.
Aria looked at his sincere-looking eyes and suddenly remembered what his roommate said once - It's about the same for him to be spoiled by his girlfriend.
She knew that this young master probably rarely carried things for girls.
And he knew very little about the differences between men and women.
Aria was strangely relieved.
She always felt that for someone like Ryder, no matter who spoiled him, it wouldn't be excessive. He shouldn't be wronged.
The moon, aside from hanging high above, even if it occasionally fell, should also fall into someone's arms, untouched by the mundane.
The moon saw that she didn't speak and became impatient from waiting, starting to poke her face with his fingers dissatisfiedly.
"It's okay. A little." Aria skipped this topic, pulled the chair and sat down. Lowered her head to distinguish, opened the meal box and pushed it in front of him, handed him the chopsticks.
Finally, inserted the straw into the lemonade for him and let out a breath. Only after finishing this series of actions did she deal with her own.
Ryder looked at her, his gaze calm.