Freya’s mind went blank for a few seconds before she stammered, “A good personality and temper, loyal to relationships, patient toward children, able to tolerate me, and will treat me well when I’m young or even when I’m old in the future. Of course, he has to look decent. He doesn’t have to be super handsome, but he can’t look crooked too. His financial situation shouldn’t be too bad. I don’t dislike guys who don’t have a wealthy family background, but there will be more common topics between us if we’re of equal status.”
Ryan gave a profound response. “Mmn.”
Freya was embarrassed. “Are my standards too high?”
“They are not high,” Ryan said as he smiled. ” Aside from looks which are inherited from parents and uncontrollable, there is no need for a man to marry a wife if he can’t be gentle, caring, and loyal to his significant other. He can just get a sitter.”
“You think I’m right too, right?” Freya was delighted. “I don’t want to be choosy cither, but I have no choice. It’s precisely because I wasn’t choosy in the past that I got hurt over and over again. I… Sometimes, I’m really afraid of getting hurt again.”
“You won’t.”
Ryan gazed at Freya with his dark, deep-set eyes. “With me around, no one will ever hurt you again.”
In the small restaurant, people were walking in and out, and it was very noisy.
However, Freya felt as if her surroundings had suddenly fallen silent.
She saw Ryan’s serious expression, and it made her face flush uncontrollably. She even felt like there was a lack of oxygen around her.
“Eat your mac and cheese. We’ll be late for the movie if you don’t start eating,” Ryan reminded her with a smile.
“Alright.”
Freya quickly lowered her head and ate her mac and cheese.
Ryan laughed when he saw her red ears.
…..
After finishing the meal, Ryan and Freya went to a nearby cinema.
When they entered, Ryan bought a box of popcorn, two cups of freshly-squeezed juice, and a hot dog.
While they watched the movie, Freya grabbed the popcorn and kept crunching on them. She even finished the hot dog.
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