Raise Love-110-Sensitive Ryder

Ryder lazily propped his chin and watched her calculate for a while. Unusually, he didn't doze off. He took a notebook from Aria, asked her for a pen, and then lowered his head to write something.

He was flamboyant, and his handwriting was just as bold. By the end of the English class, which they used to slack off in, he had filled several pages.

Ryder closed the notebook and casually took Aria's books for her.

The two went to have a meal. With her hands free, Aria had one hand idly swinging, and Ryder intertwined his fingers with hers. She was a bit curious. "What did you write?"

She reached out to take the notebook and have a look.

"A life-saving artifact." Ryder glanced at her, moved the hand holding the book away, preventing her from seeing it. He grinned. "Not showing it to you yet. Go back to the dormitory and study it yourself."

Aria blinked.

What life-saving artifact? And he wouldn't let her see it, making it so mysterious.

"Airy," seeing that the little girl seemed persistent, Ryder looked down at her. "Am I important, or is this thing important?"

Aria: "..."

What a childish person.

Ryder urged her, "Hurry up and say."

"You're important. You're the most important." Aria twitched the corner of her mouth, feeling both helpless and amused. "Ryder, how old are you this year? You're more childish than a three-year-old."

Ryder lowered his eyelids and gave a soft sneer. "Oh."

"It hasn't been long, and we're not even together yet. I haven't even caught up with you, and my status as your boyfriend is still in the future. Are you already disliking me for being childish?"

His arm leisurely wrapped around her shoulders, as if the moment she dared to say yes, he would take some action.

"......"

Aria's scalp immediately went numb.

She really couldn't handle Ryder's sudden unreasonable behavior. Her heart felt itchy, as if scratched by a cat's paw.

It was both powerless and tender.

He was like a cat that took advantage of being doted on.

After being stared at by him for a while, Aria withdrew her hand awkwardly, put her hands obediently behind her back, and compromised. "Fine, I won't look."

"Don't compare me with study." Ryder snorted, saying lazily.

Study was nothing compared to him.

Aria thought he looked a bit arrogant, yet cute in a way.

Even after having the meal, she was silently pondering a profound question in her heart. Was this how Juliet had such a tight hold on Romeo?

She really couldn't refuse him at all...

As Christmas was approaching, on Christmas Eve every year at Harvard University, the Student Union would host a school-wide carnival. Students from all majors could participate.

Due to the large number of students in the school, the venue was chosen to be the school's playground.

The temperature at night in winter was low, so participation in this carnival was not compulsory. It was up to the students' own will.

However, college students in their prime, except for a few laid-back boys and girls, all loved excitement. They would wrap themselves in thick cotton-padded clothes and drag their roommates to the playground to check in, just like running out to build snowmen and roll in the snow when it snowed.

This might seem a bit childish to people of other age groups, but for college students, it was just right.

Before Christmas, many people on the confession wall and the forum had already started discussing the Christmas Eve carnival. Some even posted videos from last year.

This made the freshmen this year extremely curious. Aria was actually a bit looking forward to it too.

Although she wasn't an overly enthusiastic person, she couldn't help but have the mentality of gossiping and watching the excitement. Moreover, her classmates and Sydney around her in class were constantly talking about it, saying it was very interesting.

She heard that this carnival was also a singles-elimination day.

There was a 'heart-throb' session. Those who wanted to confess their love could take the initiative to stand on the podium and bravely express their feelings to the girl or boy they loved.

Everyone on this night was free to do as they pleased.

In addition, for Aria, there was another more important thing that came earlier than Christmas Eve, and that was Ryder's birthday.

Ryder's birthday was on the Winter Solstice.

This year, the Winter Solstice was on December 21st, only three days before Christmas Eve. Her moon was about to turn twenty soon.

Aria was a bit worried.

She didn't know what gift to give him.

It seemed that Ryder didn't celebrate his birthday much in previous years. She found out by chance when she heard Finn Alvarez complaining in high school.

Finn said that young people should go to a KTV and have a wild celebration on their birthdays, but Ryder refused every year. They didn't know what he was up to.

That's how Aria learned that his birthday was on the Winter Solstice.

Her birthday was on June 1st, Children's Day.

He was a year and almost seven months older than her.

She heard that in the year she was born, her family was not well-off. Whatever her mother wanted to eat, her father would go borrow money to buy it.

After giving birth to her, her mother took a long time to recover. It took a long time for her to get out of confinement, but she herself was very healthy and hardly ever got sick.

Since she could remember, she had a cake on her birthday every year. Her parents would celebrate her birthday and take her out for a big meal.

One year, after she closed her eyes, made a wish, and blew out the candles, her mother jokingly said to her, "Aria, Mom will only celebrate your birthday until you're eighteen. After that, I won't buy you a cake. You'll have to celebrate it yourself when you have money in the future."

Aria laughed, pretending to be angry, and replied readily, "Okay."

But in her heart, she thought unreasonably that she would decide what to do when the time came. However, she didn't expect that she didn't even get to celebrate her fifteenth birthday. Her mother left her.

On her fifteenth birthday, her father bought her a delicate and beautiful chocolate cake, and they celebrated it at her grandmother's house.

Her uncle, aunt, and little sister all came. They were busy cooking a big table of dishes. It was very lively. When they turned off the lights and lit the candles, they all smiled and told Aria to make a wish quickly.

Aria closed her eyes, praying devoutly. She thought, I don't want anything. I don't need to celebrate my birthday anymore. Can you bring mom back? I really miss her so much.

Fortunately, the lights were off because she could hardly hold back her tears.

After making a wish, she blew out the candles and quickly wiped away her tears before the lights were turned on again. How could she cry on her birthday?

But somehow, she had the feeling that when she looked up with red-rimmed eyes, everyone looking at her also had red eyes. She looked at her father and younger brother, and they were smiling at her.

"Happy birthday, Aria."

Aria lowered her eyes and smiled.

Yes, happy birthday. Let's not be sad anymore.

As the day of the Winter Solstice got closer, Ryder didn't seem to mention his birthday at all. Aria didn't know if there was any special experience related to his birthday for him.

But she still wanted to give him something.

Since she found out the date of his birthday, she had really wanted to tell him 'Happy birthday' in person and prepare a gift for him every year.

Sydney noticed that her deskmate had been acting strange in the past few days. During the break, she couldn't help asking Aria, "Sweetie, you don't seem to be in the right state in class these days. You're even getting distracted while reading novels.

"Did something big happen? Did you have a fight with the president??"

Aria looked at her and shook her head. "No."

With his personality, it was impossible for him to fight with her...

"Then what's wrong?"

Aria pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "His birthday is coming up."