Aria had almost understood the problem just now, so she didn't disturb Kiran anymore. She pulled the book over and started calculating on the draft paper.
She glanced at Ryder, then lowered her head and wrote something on the blank part of the draft paper. After that, she touched her pocket, took out two White Rabbit Creamy Candies, and put them on the draft paper.
She gently pushed them towards him.
Ryder slowly retracted his gaze from sizing up the boy across from him, took the candies, and lowered his head to look at the paper the little girl had handed him.
—I still need to do my math homework. It might be boring for you. Can you wait for a while by yourself?
There was a small stick - figure smiley face following this.
Ryder looked at it and hooked his lips into a smile.
He reached out and took a spare pen that Aria had placed there. With his eyelids drooping, he played with the draft paper lazily, quickly wrote a few lines at the bottom, and pushed it back to her.
—I know all of this.
—If you have anything you don't understand, don't ask him. Ask me.
—Airy, I'm very jealous. If you ask other boys for help, I'll get jealous. Two candies won't soothe me.
Aria was in the middle of a rather complicated step in her calculation. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw his movement and the paper being pushed back to her. She was distracted and took a quick look. After reading a few lines, she paused.
Soothe?
She didn't try to soothe him because of this!
She just remembered that he liked candies. Fearing that he might be bored, she subconsciously gave him something sweet to make his waiting more pleasant.
How could he get jealous just because she was having a serious discussion about a problem...
Are boys so annoying when they're chasing someone? What would happen if they really started dating in the future...
It took Aria several seconds to come back to her senses. Her scalp tingled from what he wrote. She didn't dare to look up at Kiran across from her. The fair tips of her ears on both sides had uncontrollably turned red.
She pursed her lips, lowered her head, and slowly wrote a word.
—Oh.
When she looked at the math problem again, the steps she had almost worked out to get the result had long been forgotten.
Her mind was full of his jealousy and the fact that he couldn't be soothed.
Good looks really can be a distraction.
She was silent for a moment, then resignedly turned over the draft paper and started calculating again.
I don't know if Ryder had really been fulfilling his promise to chase her in the past month. Every morning, he would run to the downstairs of her dormitory very early to bring her breakfast.
Aria usually got up quite early, but when she went downstairs, she could always see him on the steps beside the dormitory apartment on time.
Most of the time, he looked sleepy, leaning lazily against the wall, absent - mindedly staring at the ground. But he could always quickly notice her appearance, and a smile would quickly spread in his eyes.
Aria really liked this scene because the way he looked at her was so gentle, with bright and dazzling light in his eyes.
There was a road beside Building 7. It had an upward slope, and at the top was Building 5. When girls from the two buildings passed by, they would always take a few more glances at him and leave whispering.
As if he didn't care, he would stuff the still - warm breakfast into her hands.
He had somehow remembered her preferences. The breakfast was always bought in different varieties, so she wouldn't get tired of it, and he never bought anything she didn't like.
Sometimes when he had classes in the morning or other things to do, after giving her the breakfast, he would reach out and ruffle her hair, then leave.
When he was free, he would accompany her to class. Then, he would unceremoniously squeeze her into the innermost seat and lie on the table to catch up on sleep, sleeping soundly.
Aria was completely blocked by him.
He was like a dragon guarding a treasure, not allowing anyone to get close to her.
At first, she felt like she was walking on clouds, everything seemed illusory and not real. Later, she became expectant and happy, gradually getting used to his presence.
It was as if all her previous disappointments were patiently filled by him. Finally, she had a place in his eyes.
The moon that was once high in the night sky, cold and proud, was now willingly falling into her arms.
It was like a dream.
She just never thought that one day, something she didn't even dare to dream about would suddenly come true.
Ryder was biting a White Rabbit Creamy Candy, quietly lying on the table playing with his phone.
When Aria encountered a problem she couldn't solve in her homework again, she would take the initiative to move closer and nudge him, then point to the math problem.
She had become much closer to him. Her mindset had changed. Compared to Kiran, an acquaintance with just a nodding relationship, asking Ryder made Aria feel more at ease.
She didn't have to worry about being too stupid, or that he would be annoyed if she didn't understand after one explanation and needed him to explain it a second time.
Anyway, Ryder already knew that she wasn't very smart.
The first time he explained a problem to her, she was nervous. But she found that not only did he not seem annoyed, but he was in a really good mood.
There was an uncontrollable look of joy in his eyes.
Aria couldn't figure him out.
But it didn't stop her from knowing that he was extremely patient when explaining problems to her.
Hehe.
The little girl didn't know that Mr. Ryder just loved to see her confused expression, with her brows furrowed, looking at him in a dependent and pitiful way.
It was incredibly cute.
Ryder was a very good teacher. He would observe and adapt to Aria's progress according to her needs, choosing the most suitable way to explain a certain problem.
As a result, Aria's speed of doing homework became much faster, and the half - understood knowledge points became clear. ωWω.GoNЬ.οrG
She slowly let out a breath.
With the most headache - causing calculus problem solved, the three roommates waiting for help in the dormitory were also taken care of. Her mind relaxed accordingly.
Aria closed the math book and put it aside. She then did an English long - and - difficult - sentence filling exercise. Seeing that he wasn't needed anymore, the boy sat quietly beside her.
He propped his chin up, his eyes focused on her.
His gaze was very gentle, so gentle that its presence was almost negligible, just enough not to disturb the little girl's study.
After Aria finished, she checked the time. It was already eleven o'clock. When she turned her head to look at Ryder, she suddenly remembered something funny.
It seemed that the generation closest to the post - 00s all inevitably went through a non - mainstream period.
At that time, Instagram was as cold as snow in winter, while QQ was extremely popular. Almost everyone was using QQ, and the online names were really strange.
She had used so many of them. She created her QQ number very early, in the fifth grade, back in 2012.
The online name she used when creating the account was "Happy Little White Rabbit". Later, she went for a sad and literary style and impulsively changed it to "Black - and - White, Melancholy of Style". The her in primary and junior high school was so non - mainstream that it made people sigh.
In the summer of 2014, "Swords of Legends" was broadcast and became a huge hit. She and Maya Brooks followed the trend and changed to couple names.
After changing, they were very pleased with themselves, thinking they were a perfect match—
"Don't touch me, I have the Burning - Silence Fiendish Qi お", "I'll touch you, I'm the Spirit Maiden of Youdu が"
After so many years, now that she suddenly thought of it, Aria felt so embarrassed that she could almost dig out two magic castles.
Another memory that was quite deep was that there was a saying at that time, "May I have a straight - A student to teach me math, physics, and chemistry."
And the matching part was, "May I have a struggling student to teach me how to play 'Prototype'."
Aria and Maya Brooks also used these.
At that time, she was so annoyed by science subjects. The math teacher scolded her every day for not listening carefully in class or doing her homework seriously.
At that time, she thought that if only she could have a straight - A student by her side.