Raise Love-147-The bitterness that comes after bitterness

Kiran remembered the rumor about Ryder comforting someone quite clearly for two reasons.

First, Ryder left halfway through the basketball game that day, and they hadn't won the court yet. Finn Alvarez led them to play the second half.

Second, the results of their second mock exam came out that day.

He was still in second place.

Ryder, who came back early, was sleeping. A few classmates in the class were crying softly on the desk because they didn't do well in the exam.

The pressure in the experimental class was much greater than that in the ordinary class. The whole class was filled with a sense of oppression. Kiran looked down at the grade sheet.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Ryder. He had woken up and was staring out the window in a daze.

Kiran looked over.

He found that across the corridor, in the teaching building opposite, two floors below, the distance was too far, and he could only make out a blurry figure of a girl lying by the window.

That area should be where the liberal arts class was located.

More than two months later, during the college entrance examination, their class was not very lucky. The angle of the math questions was a bit tricky. Just that one question about the "Broken-Arm Venus" made many examinees walk out of the examination room crying and cursing.

They had thought that the admission score line would drop by a few points. But they didn't know if the netizens were exaggerating the difficulty while crying about being poor. When the filing line came out, it increased instead of decreasing.

This meant that the scores of the examinees across the province were higher than expected.

There were even more people who failed the exam.

Later, when the list of students who would repeat the grade was posted, the experimental class gathered together to discuss this matter when they went back to school to collect their files.

Aria's name was on the list.

Everyone was brave enough to joke with Ryder. "Look, now that you've graduated, the world is big, and there are so many temptations outside. That little treasure you've been guarding for several years might be taken away by someone else."

"You can't keep an eye on her anymore."

"Exactly. In the second year of high school, there were rumors about our vice-monitor and the monitor. It was so funny. They had nothing to do with each other at all!"

"Who let our Ryderoo have so much charm? Hahaha. Just communicating about a problem in that stupid competition could spread some ambiguous rumors. It's tough on our vice-monitor."

The vice-monitor was a rather cheerful girl. She scolded back angrily, "Shut up!"

There was really no relationship between the monitor and the vice-monitor.

Except for Kiran, who was at the same desk as Ryder at that time, most of the people in their class didn't know much about it.

Ryder had too many romantic relationships and even more rumors.

There were so many that he was too lazy to explain, and even if he did, no one would listen. With only about sixty days left before the college entrance examination, no one in the experimental class was foolish enough to waste that precious time on falling in love instead of studying.

Since it didn't harm anyone's interests, they simply let the rumors go with the flow.

Ryder lived freely and carefree.

His future was so bright that it was enviable. Even without the guaranteed admission quota, he had no problem at all getting into Harvard University. He was so successful.

He never expected that his beloved girl, whom he wanted to hold in his hands and protect, had once suffered so much because of this.

In the last two days of the review week, Aria didn't even go to the classroom anymore. Since it wasn't convenient to talk and explain questions in the library, the two of them made an appointment to go to the café upstairs. Scraps of discarded draft paper were flying all over the place.

Finally, they finished and understood the last question.

Ryder looked at the little girl who let out a sigh of relief. He hooked the corner of his mouth, reached out, and ruffled her hair. Then he stopped disturbing her and started organizing the messy draft paper.

Aria saved the document in WPS, then carefully marked the answers, packaged them, and sent them to the dormitory group.

[Aria Winslow]: I've marked each type of question in red font. You just need to understand one of each type.

[Aria Winslow]: Don't be lazy and just memorize the answers directly. The teacher might change the numbers, and memorizing the answers is likely to backfire.

After doing all this, Aria finally completely let go of this burden.

Ryder held his phone and twirled it from time to time. He lazily leaned against the sofa, his long legs slightly bent, and his knees gently bumped against Aria's legs.

"Airy——"

He called her in a drawn-out tone.

He had talked so much while explaining the math questions that his throat was a bit hoarse, and it made her ears itch strangely.

"Yeah," Aria smiled, and feeling a little sorry for him, she ordered a cup of cappuccino for him to moisten his throat. She hugged his arm and said softly, "You've worked hard, Darling Rye."

"Ooh."

Ryder glanced at her.

He looked indifferent, noble, and cold.

Aria blinked.

Somehow, she suddenly thought of Mochi, which was left alone at home. After a few seconds of pause, she very sensibly moved closer to him.

Her eyelashes fluttered as she kissed his face.

Ryder lowered his eyes. After the little girl kissed him Like a dragonfly skimming the water with a blushing face and was about to pull away, he finally took action.

He forcefully grabbed her waist and pressed her into his arms, not giving her the slightest chance to run away. He held the little girl and said in a low voice, "Airy, that's not enough."

"..."

Aria was stunned for a moment.

Ryder was amused by the little girl's cute and dazed appearance. He let out a low laugh, placed his warm palm on the back of her neck, and gently rubbed his fingertips in a playful way.

"Tell me yourself, how many days has it been, hmm?"

Aria suddenly felt guilty.

This was her first time experiencing a college final exam, and she didn't have much experience. She was also worried about failing the exam, so she was treating it as a major challenge.

She had indeed ignored him these past few days.

She remembered that the few kisses they had recently were a bit perfunctory.

Thinking of this, Aria's guilt was magnified countless times. She knew that Ryder had always been accommodating to her.

He would never unreasonably disturb her when it wasn't the right time. Instead, he patiently corrected her mistakes and restlessness.

Aria was never a very smart person.

On the contrary, she was rather slow, especially when it came to science subjects. Unlike Ryder, he could immediately see the train of thought for a very difficult question.

But for her, she might not be able to figure it out even in an hour.

To some extent, Ryder had always been like a guiding light for her.

He was like the morning star.

Aria pursed her lips, moved closer again, and kissed the corner of the boy's mouth. Then she buried her face in his chest, feeling relaxed and dependent.

After a while.

She said in a soft and muffled voice, "Thank you, Darling Rye."

"You're welcome."

Ryder lowered his eyes and hooked the corner of his mouth. He knew what she was talking about. He lazily stroked the little girl's black and soft hair. "I'm your boyfriend, so you don't need to thank me."

Aria grabbed the hem of his clothes with her fingers and looked up at him.

The boy's eyes were dark and distant, but there was a softness in his eyes, full of tolerance and doting. The moment he met the girl's clear and inquiring gaze, a pool of quiet spring water suddenly rippled.

His eyelashes drooped slightly, and he smiled. He asked in a low voice, "Got it?"

Aria's heart started pounding wildly.

If he really liked someone, he could really drown that person in his love.

Aria's eyelashes trembled, and her throat felt a bit dry. It took her a long time to find her normal voice and smiled. "... Yeah."

The two of them were sitting in the corner of the café.

There were partitions and high sofa backs on the side as a barrier, and there was a floor-to-ceiling window behind them. Even if someone came to the café, they wouldn't specifically come over here.

They were on the seventh floor.

Her fair fingertips tightly grasped Ryder's collar. She leaned over sideways and bravely kissed his lips.