Raise Love-103-Ryder，Hello, good boy

Sydney scooted over, acting coquettishly to ask for forgiveness. "Oh, I'm sorry, baby. I won't laugh at you anymore. Don't be angry, okay?"

Aria played around with her for a while. Seeing that most of the people in the class had left and she was also about to leave, she asked if Sydney wanted to go together.

Sydney told her to go first. "I have to finish this round. I'm almost out of beans. I can't rest easy during the evening self - study if I don't win them back."

"Okay."

Aria checked her phone. Ryder had been very quiet today and hadn't sent her any messages. He should still be sleeping.

He usually slept until around five in the afternoon. If he had classes, he wouldn't sleep because the time was too short for him to get enough rest, and it would give him a headache.

Recently, he had been sending her messages all the time. Sometimes when Aria was in class and didn't check her phone, he would just keep sending messages to himself. By the time she saw them, there would be a lot of them.

This feeling was really strange.

It was as if she had a super clingy pet. When she wasn't around, he would be restless and try to show his presence.

She used to think that Ryder was the type who didn't like sending messages very much.

When replying to messages, he would only use words like "hmm", "ah", "oh", "okay", which were concise and effective but also gave a sense of indifference.

Chatting with someone like that online could easily make people back off.

During every festival, Aria would seize this rare opportunity to talk. She would carefully type out what seemed like a mass - sent blessing and then nervously send it to him.

If she was lucky, she would get a reply.

Aria thought he was really polite and gentlemanly. She almost always got a reply, although it was very brief.

["Hmm, same to you."]

["Thank you, have a good time too."]

["Thanks, be happy."]

The reply content didn't seem to have much meaning and looked like a perfunctory answer, but it unexpectedly made people feel sincere.

Someone like him actually replied to mass - sent messages.

Aria sometimes thought that if he had a slightly worse personality, or if she could find even the slightest thing about him that was annoying, she might not have been infatuated with him for so many years.

He was her nemesis.

This person was especially good at subduing her.

Aria left the teaching building and walked towards the dormitory, sending a message to Ryder to tell him she was going back to the dormitory.

After thinking for a while, she added another sentence.

["Do you want to go to the cafeteria for dinner, or should I buy it and bring it to you?"]

["Reply when I wake up."]

At Harvard University, the evening self - study was cancelled for sophomores. Most people who just woke up didn't feel like moving, especially Ryder.

The distance from the teaching building to Building 7 was only about ten minutes. After sending the message, Aria didn't expect an immediate reply, so she put away her phone and prepared to go back to the dormitory to get a coat.

It was cold at night, and it would be chilly to just wear a sweatshirt.

When Aria came downstairs, she took out cat treats and ham from her bag and went to feed the stray cats lying on the steps near the dormitory, wagging their tails in the sun.

The cats on campus were well - treated. Some students even made small nests for them, padded with soft cushions. Most girls liked small animals and would specially buy cat food and ham to feed them.

They were even better off than the students. Only in winter, when it was too cold, the security office didn't allow them to enter the dormitory.

The small nests couldn't withstand the cold in winter, but it wasn't cold yet as winter hadn't arrived.

Aria squatted down with a small bag in her arms. The cats meowed softly and came over. They weren't afraid of people. Aria opened the cat treats and ham, broke them into small pieces, and fed them to the cats.

A gentle smile hung on the girl's face. She carefully rubbed their little heads with her fingertips, and the cats tilted their heads and rubbed against her affectionately.

Aria couldn't help but think of Ryder.

He was like a proud and noble Persian cat. When he was being clingy and hugged her, he was also affectionate, whispering that he wanted a hug.

There was a popular term that had suddenly become popular recently. Aria didn't know if Ryder had seen it. Every time she thought his clingy and rascally appearance was very similar to that state.

Hug, and then get close.

Feeding the cats took some time. The sky was getting a bit dim, and Aria walked slowly towards Building 3.

That place was right next to the cafeteria.

The food there was even more diverse than in the other cafeteria, and the prices were cheaper. Whether Ryder wanted to go to the cafeteria to eat after waking up or not, it was convenient.

As if seeing through her thoughts, her phone started vibrating the next second.

Aria looked down. It was an Instagram call from Ryder. It seemed he had woken up. She curved her lips.

The screen froze for a moment, and then a boy with a messy hairstyle appeared on the video. Ryder was sleepy - eyed, looking lazy. His eyelids were drooping, half - open.

"... Did you wake up?"

There was no response. It was like a non - moving picture.

The reaction on the other side was very slow. Aria almost thought the network speed was bad and the video had frozen, but the camera was moving.

Aria could hear the noisy sounds on the other side.

"Good grief, he finally woke up."

"I didn't dare to make a sound all afternoon. I was playing games with headphones on, so cautious that I didn't even dare to turn on the mic, for fear that I would blurt out a swear word in excitement."

"I'm even worse. I met a noob. Not only was he bad at playing, but he also had the nerve to say that I didn't support him. He kept blabbering. Seeing that I didn't talk back, he even called me a coward."

Oliver Kim said indignantly, "Damn it, I was so angry that I almost cried!"

Ryan Bennett looked at Oliver Kim, and Oliver Kim looked at Ryan Bennett. Both of them saw the same message in each other's eyes:

Life is really a mess.

Fourth brother, promise us, don't take afternoon naps anymore. It's better to work hard and pursue your girlfriend, okay?

This guy was a light sleeper and couldn't stand noise when asleep.

If he was woken up by the noise, his unruly anger from waking up would flare up, and they might be in big trouble today.

So far, none of them had the ability to soothe this guy's arrogant and fussy anger from waking up.

At this time, Finn Alvarez, who had been silent as a chicken and typing on the computer programming for the whole afternoon, sneered. "What games are you playing? If you all studied hard like me, would you have these annoying experiences?"

"Hmph, you two deserve it!"

Aria, who heard their conversation clearly: "..."

She kind of wanted to laugh.

Would it be impolite to laugh?

She pursed her lips and held it back.

Finally, the non - moving picture in the camera slowly came to life. The person slowly leaned against the wall with his eyelids drooping, bent his legs, and let out a low and hoarse "hmm".

Aria waited patiently.

After a few more seconds, Ryder lazily lifted his eyelids. "I'm awake."

Oh.

He still seemed very sleepy.

Aria's heart almost melted at his just - woke - up look. The usually cool and tough boy, after waking up in his bed, looked so different.

It was completely different from when she saw him on the fourth floor, woken up by the noise. At that time, he was surrounded by a low - pressure aura, suppressing his temper, and was frighteningly cold.

Not like this at all. He was so obedient now.

Even more obedient than the cats that meowed softly and rubbed against her affectionately when she was feeding them downstairs in the dormitory.

"I'm out of class and on my way to the cafeteria," Aria guessed that he hadn't read the message yet and had called her right after waking up. She immediately changed her mind. "Shall I buy the food and bring it to you?"

"... Hmm." He replied in a low voice.