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After May served Gwen her plate and chatted for a bit, she made an excuse to go find Peter and Ben, giving Ryan and Gwen so space to be alone.
As soon as May left, Gwen's face imdiately soured, and she spat out the large bite of the sandwich she had just taken in front of May.
She whispered her complaint to Ryan:
"Ryan, the food May makes really is as... unique as ever..."
Ryan swallowed his food and said calmly:
"While it does taste bad, at least it's healthy and non-toxic. It won't be like eating Chinese fast food outside, which is basically slow suicide."
Hearing Ryan's incredibly blunt 'straight man' remarks, even the high-EQ Gwen was left speechless.
With him saying it like that, how was she supposed to enjoy fast food ever again?
However, despite what he said, Ryan still got up, went to the kitchen, fried two eggs for Gwen, and placed them in front of her.
Looking down and slling the fried eggs on her plate, Gwen's eyes lit up as she looked at Ryan with admiration:
"Why is it that you just simply added so salt and rosemary, yet these eggs sll so enticing?"
Ryan said honestly, "Because you just ate sothing terrible. By comparison, even ordinary food tastes delicious."
Hearing this, the bright smile on Gwen's face slowly vanished. She felt completely defeated by Ryan's logic.
At a ti like this, shouldn't he say sothing like 'Because of the power of love, even simple food becos this delicious' to make her heart flutter?
Just listen to what he said! It only tastes good because the previous food was bad?
Is this even sothing a human would say?!
Seeing Ryan continue to eat his unpalatable sandwich without a care, Gwen huffed and picked up her knife and fork, viciously cutting the fried eggs on her plate as if she were cutting Ryan himself.
Stinky Ryan! Stinky Ryan!
Out of the corner of his eye, Ryan saw Gwen's cute expression. The corner of his mouth quirked up slightly as he suddenly asked, "Do you want to go shopping together later?"
"Shopping? Shop your head! You— Huh? What did you say?"
Halfway through her rant, Gwen suddenly looked up, her eyes wide with disbelief as she stared at Ryan.
This solid blockhead, who had been dense for two years, finally had a breakthrough today?
Ryan: No, actually, it's because you've beco an adult...
Ryan smiled slightly and repeated himself: "I asked if you wanted to go shopping together later?"
"Go... yeah, I'll go! But... why so sudden? Then I'll go back and change my clothes first. Right, I need to change!"
Gwen clearly hadn't expected Ryan to suddenly smarten up and ask her out on a date.
For a mont, her face turned bright red. She stood up awkwardly, her limbs feeling out of place, and walked out with a stiff, robotic gait.
But before she could take more than two steps, her wrist was caught by a large hand.
She turned around to see Ryan, the very person who had thrown her heart into such a ss.
Feeling the heat from the large hand on her wrist, Gwen stared dizzily at Ryan's face—the face she had been eyeing for two years. Steam was practically coming off her head!
Is Ryan in such a hurry that he wants to... right here? Should she just go with it, or pretend to be reserved for a bit before accepting?
While Gwen's inner thoughts were jumping back and forth between 'accepting' and 'accepting,' Ryan said, "Finish the eggs. Don't waste food."
Gwen:...This blockhead's breakthrough only went halfway, for his uncle's sake!
In the end, Gwen obediently finished the eggs and didn't go ho to change into pretty clothes.
Instead, she went on her first shopping date ever with Ryan wearing her usual grey sweater, jeans, and turquoise Converse... actually, calling it a date might not be accurate, because... Gwen looked at the Automobile City in front of her, her eyelid twitching violently.
Who takes a girl to an Automobile City for their first date?!
Gwen looked up at Ryan with dead eyes and asked speechlessly, "What did you bring to an Automobile City for? You're not planning to buy a car, are you?"
This was the best possible outco she could imagine in this situation.
Although she definitely wouldn't accept such an expensive gift from Ryan, she would be very happy just knowing he had the thought.
Ryan looked down at Gwen, who was more than a head shorter than him and had to look up to et his eyes. Suddenly, a strange thought popped into his head.
With their height difference, it seed like Gwen could... cough cough...
Imdiately, Ryan shook his head, tossing the strange thought aside, and replied:
"No, I'm planning to get Ben a new car. He's been driving that old clunker since I was born; it's long overdue for retirent. I wanted you to help pick out a new one."
Gwen let out a dry laugh, her expression saying, 'I knew it.'
This guy hadn't smartened up at all; he was clearly just using her as a tool!
However, Gwen could never refuse any of Ryan's requests, so she just humd and agreed anyway.
But as paynt, she demanded that Ryan treat her to a 'pretty al' afterward.
Gwen thought that even if this wasn't a date, she had to make Ryan pay so price!
Ryan naturally wouldn't refuse such a small request.
And it turned out that Ryan's decision to ask Gwen for help was incredibly correct.
If he had co by himself, he probably would have just picked a newer model of the sa sedan Ben used to have.
But Gwen considered that while sedans might have been popular when Ben was young, middle-aged n nowadays generally preferred practical styles like pickup trucks.
So, under Gwen's recomndation, Ryan finally settled on the latest Ford F-150 Raptor R. (The release date of this car is in a parallel Universe; please don't overthink it.)
The price was just over 110,000 USD, which wasn't much different from the 100,000 USD budget he had given Ben yesterday.
It wasn't that Ryan insisted on sticking to that budget—he was worth hundreds of millions now, so it wasn't like he couldn't buy his old man a nice luxury car.
But if he really brought ho a million-dollar luxury car, not only would the old couple give him a piece of their mind, but Ben probably wouldn't even bear to drive it out!
Around 100,000 was the limit of what Ryan estimated the old couple could accept as a one-ti splurge.
By the ti they finished registering the car and getting the paperwork done, it was nearly noon.
Ryan then drove the Ford Raptor to take Gwen to a star-rated restaurant for a 'pretty al.'
The afternoon was Dr. Connors' Q&A session, and as his assistant, Gwen naturally had to go early to help out.
So, after Gwen gave Ryan two temporary ID cards for Oscorp Tower, he drove her to Osborn Enterprises first.
By the ti he got ho, May, Ben, and Peter were already back.
As soon as Ryan walked in, all three were looking at him with mysterious smiles.
Ryan didn't even have to guess to know what they were thinking.
But they were going to be disappointed because Gwen had to go help at Osborn Enterprises in the afternoon, so he and Gwen hadn't gotten to know each other any 'deeper' after lunch.
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