The two of them finally chose a newly - released youth romance movie.
Ryder originally wanted to choose a horror movie, looking forward to seeing the little girl crying pitifully and burrowing into his arms out of fear of ghosts.
Who knew that Aria, who had been absent - minded, came to her senses just in time. She leaned closer to his phone and asked, "Darling Rye, which one shall we watch?"
"..."
Ryder's fingertip, which was about to click on a certain horror movie, slipped. His free hand pressed on the little girl's head, and with an unchanged expression, he casually pressed on the one next to it...
A certain romance movie.
He tapped the screen and said lazily, "This one."
"Oh, okay." Aria took a look. As long as it wasn't a horror movie, she was actually fine with anything. She wasn't picky.
Ryder, whose plan had fallen through, was listless and a bit annoyed.
Aria was extremely afraid of ghosts.
She had been timid since she was a child. When she went out to play and it got dark in the evening, she didn't dare to go home alone. Her friends always accompanied her and never left her alone.
She didn't dare to go to the toilet by herself at night. She would hold a flashlight. It was okay when she went, but when she came back, she would run back quickly, as if being chased by a dog, for fear that there were evil spirits chasing her.
In junior high school, she became obsessed with suspense and horror novels. She was timid but had a big appetite for such things.
Once, she was so bold that she suddenly had the idea of going to a haunted house with her friends. They had already paid the money, but when the music in the haunted house rang at the last moment, Aria's legs went weak immediately.
She was almost crying while clinging to the door, refusing to go in no matter what. Maya Brooks and another friend tried their best to drag her, but they couldn't move her.
A person's will in a survival state was incredibly strong. Later, Maya Brooks said that she suspected at that time that Aria had been possessed by something, because the soft - spoken girl had turned into a strongman out of the blue.
Aria was both amused and exasperated.
The two novice young - couple, who had wasted a lot of time looking at the dating strategies, entered the cinema right on time.
There were many people watching this movie, and the front rows were almost full.
Aria stood at the door and looked inside.
She shook the hand that Ryder was holding hers with and asked in a small voice, "Ryder, which seats are ours?"
Ryder looked at the tickets and pulled the little girl inside.
They passed the third row, the fourth row...
Finally, when they reached the second - last row, Aria was stunned. Ryder finally stopped slowly and raised his chin.
"Choose one."
Aria was taken aback and didn't react. "Huh?"
The advertisement sound before the movie started was a bit loud. Ryder pressed the little girl into his arms and repeated next to her ear, "You can choose any seat in these two rows."
"..."
Only then did Aria notice that besides the popcorn and drinks in Ryder's hands, what was underneath...
It didn't seem to be two movie tickets, but a stack.
Judging by the thickness, it was probably about two millimeters thick.
... One movie ticket cost fifty. There must be more than ten tickets in his hand. So just for a simple movie, they spent at least five hundred?
Plus the snack package...
Aria suddenly felt a little dizzy.
The boy beside her looked calm and composed.
At this time, the advertisement just ended, and the main part of the movie started. Aria blinked in shock and quickly pulled Ryder to take a nearby seat.
After sitting down, she turned her head and looked at the leisurely boy in disbelief, lowering her voice, "Why did you buy so many tickets?"
Were they going to use them to make soup?!!
Ryder tugged at the corner of his lips, tapped the phone screen, and handed it to Aria to look at. He looked at her with an innocent expression, "The strategy said that sitting at the back has more privacy."
After a pause.
He leaned over to whisper in the little girl's ear, lowering his voice, his lips close to her ear, speaking in a low and expectant voice, "We can kiss."
Aria: "..."
Aria: "......"
Aria was very angry, but in the cinema, she could only speak in a super - low voice, almost like a whisper, which instead sounded a bit like coquetry. "Ryder!"
"Yeah." Ryder chuckled softly.
He reached his hand from behind through the little girl's neck, held the side of her artery, and made her turn her face. He pressed her head towards him.
He rubbed his lips affectionately against hers, nibbling and biting gently.
Before Aria could get angry, he said in a low voice, "Shh, the movie has started. Be quiet and don't disturb others. Be good."
Good my head.
Aria was sometimes really amused by his antics.
Ryder, this super childish guy.
He was the best at taking advantage of the situation. She puffed out her cheeks and simply ignored him, focusing on the movie seriously.
Ryder stared at the screen in front for a while. He wasn't really interested in this kind of movie. He preferred horror movies.
After watching it patiently for a few minutes, his gaze soon shifted to the little girl beside him. He leaned over, hooked her fingers, trying to get her attention.
Aria ignored him.
He wasn't annoyed. He pinched her fingers, from the thumb to the little finger, then intertwined their fingers and playfully bit one.
Aria blushed and called him, "Darling Rye!"
"... Hmm?" Ryder replied casually, playing around. He lowered his head and kneaded each of her five fingers one by one.
"If you keep messing around, I'll really get angry." After being glared at angrily by Aria several times, he finally gave up and resigned himself to watching the movie.
The male lead wasn't as handsome as him.
The female lead wasn't as cute and beautiful as his girl.
The plot wasn't as exciting as their love story.
What was wrong with this male lead? How could he let the girl he had liked mutually since high school break up and run away? When they had a fight, he should have coaxed her.
Useless.
If he had this script, his son would be old enough to play around by now.
This was a youth - campus tragic - ending movie.
The male and female leads finally separated due to differences in their views on the future. One wasn't confident enough, and the other wasn't firm enough. When they met again many years later, the male lead was already married and had a wife.
The female lead also had a ring on her hand.
Did love still matter?
Sometimes, if you take a wrong step, you miss out.
At the end of the movie, a sentence slowly emerged on the screen - "May all lovers in the world get married."
Aria had a low tear - point. Tears fell down one by one.
Ryder had no more thoughts to criticize the plot. With a solemn face, he handed tissues to the little girl. Sometimes, when the little girl cried too much, she wouldn't even take the tissues.
There were soft sobs in the cinema.
Ryder's eyes were gloomy. He helplessly leaned closer and gently wiped the little girl's tears, coaxing in a low voice, "Stop crying, okay?"
"It's all fake in the movie," he wiped the corner of the little girl's eye with his fingertip, his voice low and gentle. "Look, we're together, aren't we? So everything has a good ending."
"Right?"
Aria sniffled.
When the movie ended, people got up in an orderly manner and almost all left. Only Ryder was still patiently coaxing.
When there were only the two of them left, he simply picked Aria up and let her sit on his lap. He gently kissed the little girl's moist eyes. "Be good, stop crying."
"If I had known you would cry like this while watching the movie, I wouldn't have brought you here." He said with a low laugh. "It would have been better to watch a horror movie."
That way, he could protect her.
Unlike now, when she cried, he didn't know how to comfort her. ωWω.GoNЬ.οrG