last love

Before leaving the grocery store, Zhuo Yuan suddenly remembered something, took out another thick folder from his purse and handed it to Wen Ke: "Oh yes, this..."

He paused, and explained: "I took your app proposal to the company for evaluation by the project team before, and I thought it was still not good enough, so I took it back first."

Wen Ke took it and opened the familiar brown folder. The first page was designed by himself. It was not as serious as ordinary reports, but designed as the opening screen of the mobile app, with the name of the app in the center—— Last love.

In the transparent file bag on the side of the folder was the USB flash drive where he had copied the files. Although he had prepared the pdf, he still printed out the hardware for Zhuo Yuan's convenience, but it almost seemed untouched.

He looked at the folder for a while, then raised his head and glanced at Zhuo Yuan lightly: "Zhuo Yuan, in fact, you haven't shown the project at all, have you?"

"What did you say?" Zhuo Yuan froze for a moment, and immediately folded his hands in front of his chest, showing a defensive displeasure.

Wen Ke didn't answer Zhuo Yuan's question, but stood up: "I won't have lunch, I have an appointment."

He didn't even say "goodbye", but calmly took off a yellow sticky note from the folder and pasted it on the menu in front of Zhuo Yuan, then turned and walked out of the box without looking back.

Zhuo Yuan looked at Wen Ke's back in a daze, and only then remembered that he reached out to pick up the post-it note in front of him, and saw Wen Ke's delicate and beautiful handwriting on it:

Zhuo Yuan, I'm not sure about the content on the eighth and No.18 pages of the PDF, please help me go through it before handing it over to the project team. Ps. If you have stomach problems these days, you should drink more mild hot drinks and remember to take medicine.

Zhuo Yuan suddenly remembered——

When Wen Ke gave him the folder, he had told him several times that he must read it before giving it to the project team, because it was his first app proposal and he was afraid of making mistakes.

No wonder Wen Ke just opened the folder and glanced at it, and he could see that he hadn't handed it over to the project team at all, and the post-it notes on the first page hadn't been taken off.

Zhuo Yuan's heart tightened, and for the first time he felt that his means and tricks were a little invisible in front of Wen Ke.

Wen Ke sent a message to Han Jiangque first after leaving the Japanese grocery store. Just now Zhuo Yuan said that Han Jiangque had been looking for trouble, and he was somewhat worried, so he hurriedly asked Han Jiangque if he was okay.

Han Jiangque replied quickly: I'm fine.Wen Ke, I want to see you.

Wen Ke held the phone and looked at it for a long time, until his fingers were a little numb, but there was still no reply.

He felt nervous and very awkward.

He could be very calm when facing Zhuo Yuan, but even if Han Jiangque only sent a few words of information, his heart would be caught in an inexplicable battlefield.

Han Jiangque was too direct, even through a message, Wen Ke could almost see those dark and focused eyes.

In front of him, there is almost no room for ambiguity and ambiguity that adults leave for each other, so it is naturally impossible for people to mediate.

While Wen Ke was hesitating, Han Jiangque sent two more messages:

Do you still live in Hailanxuan?

Wen Ke, I have something to tell you.

The phone buzzed and vibrated, and Wen Ke could almost feel the stubbornness and anxiety of the other party at this moment. He couldn't help thinking, what is Han Jiangque going to say?

The afternoon sun shone on him, and he felt a little dazed for a moment.

After a long time, Wen Ke finally typed a reply slowly: I moved out and now live in Sega.

……

Wen Ke wasn't just perfunctory Zhuo Yuan, he did ask Xu Jiale to clean up Sega's house in the afternoon, during this pheromone weak period, Xu Jiale would also stay with him temporarily.

When Sega bought this house many years ago, the price was very affordable. Now that the location is more prosperous, the house price has soared by [-] to [-]% compared to before.

Wen Ke had been renting this house to a Beta female white-collar worker before. He was a rare good landlord, and he would try to come to the tenant for any needs.Under such a relationship, the female white-collar worker lived for nearly two years, and did not decide to move out until she got married.

Wen Ke had been taking the time to refurbish the whole house. He planned to raise the rent and rent it out again, but he didn't expect that he would use it first.

He hired the housekeeping company to do a thorough cleaning. After the housekeeping staff left, Wen Ke and Xu Jiale tidied up their things again.

The work is not heavy, but it is also very hard.

Except for clothes and some daily necessities, Wen Ke didn't bring too many things here. Fortunately, he was renovating Sega's house before. The furniture and everything are new, so he won't live in a cramped place.

However, there are quite a lot of various materials and books. Xu Jiale helped Wen Ke sort them into bookshelves, and asked by the way, "How is your dating app doing?"

"Well, I've been working on it one after another, but now it should be..."

Wen Ke shrugged embarrassingly, and became vague.

When he was looking for information and making preparations, he often bothered Xu Jiale.

Wen Ke was always serious about what he was doing, but it was also because of his seriousness that he really felt extremely uncomfortable being fooled by Zhuo Yuan so perfunctorily.

Xu Jiale didn't ask any further questions, but said comprehensibly: "It's okay, life is full of setbacks, and that's not bad."

Wen Ke couldn't help but smile a little.

After tidying up in the evening, Xu Jiale slumped on the freshly changed sheets in the guest bedroom, and said, "Hurry up and buy me dinner, Wen Ke, you've been exploiting me for a whole day—"

"Okay." Wen Ke nodded and asked, "Take out or go out to eat?"

"Get takeaway, lazy."

Maybe God also cooperated with Xu Jiale's laziness, and it rained heavily at this moment, so Wen Ke ordered a lot of barbecue and a cold beer, and the two of them sat in the restaurant that had just been cleaned up to eat together.

Xu Jiale also opened a can for Wen Ke. In fact, Wen Ke basically didn't drink alcohol, but today he suddenly felt in the mood to drink a little.

"To...to Bei Dao." Xu Jiale touched the cans with him, thought about the toast for a while, and finally said lazily: "Because he wrote down a famous line: At that time we had dreams, about literature, about love , about travel across the world. Now we drink late at night, and the clinking of glasses is the sound of shattered dreams—”

A really weird and depressing toast.

But Wen Ke wanted to laugh inexplicably, so she also said, "To Bei Dao."

He didn't have the courage to drink it all up, so he only drank half a can.

Xu Jiale has always been a weirdo.

He is handsome and comes from a wealthy background. He is supposed to be the most confident and eye-catching Alpha, but he is really sad and lazy.

Wen Ke remembered that everyone in high school wrote essays on the topic "My Dream", and Xu Jiale wrote: I don't want to make a lot of money, and I don't want to have a lot of power.I have no dreams and I don't like planning for my life.

At that ambitious age, Xu Jiale was a freak, but also surprisingly funny.

Until now, Xu Jiale still has a few sentences that he often utters, one is: I hope my father doesn't spend all the money left by my grandfather, so that I don't have to work hard.

The second one is: Don't fight, let others win. This sentence is even in English. The original sentence is Don'tfight, letotherswin.

Wen Ke always thought that Xu Jiale was too funny.

For so many years, every time he thinks of Xu Jiale, no matter how sad he is, he always wants to laugh.

After laughing, he felt a little vicissitudes. As he got older, he felt that Xu Jiale seemed to have his own reasons.

But it can't be said that it was fate, or that Xu Jiale was really smart personally. He later went to the United States to study anthropology, and got a doctorate all the way, specializing in the emotional connection between AO.

He married a beautiful Omega in the same undergraduate class in the United States, and everything went smoothly until a few years later, they divorced due to emotional discord and fought a lawsuit over the children.

Wen Ke had a few phone calls with him at that time, and Xu Jiale was still Sangsang, so it seemed that divorce was very common, as if it was a small matter in Sangsang's life.

However, the divorce probably had a bit of a blow to Xu Jiale. He suspended his plan to be a teaching assistant in this school, but chose to return to China for a while.

But because we are all adults, sometimes we learn not to delve too deeply into each other's pain points.

Just like Wen Ke's divorce, he just told Xu Jiale briefly, and he didn't say anything that was too careful.

The large floor-to-ceiling windows were crackled by the heavy rain, but the room was very warm, filled with the aroma of barbecue and beer, making people feel a little sleepy.

But it's sleepy and comfortable, not really wanting to sleep, but from a kind of lazy relaxation.

Xu Jiale lit a cigarette, which was thin and long. He said it was a women's cigarette, so it was relatively light.

Wen Ke asked: "Do you smoke women's cigarettes abroad?"

"Yes." Xu Jiale shrugged indifferently.

Wen Ke suddenly took a cigarette out of the pack, "I'll try it too."

Xu Jiale raised his eyebrows, reached out and set Wen Ke on fire.

It was really light, but Wen Ke took a puff and choked on it.

"Xu Jiale, I kind of want to have my glands removed."

He squinted, half-jokingly.

The expression on Xu Jiale's face remained unchanged, and he asked, "Why?"

"Because..." Wen Ke looked at the chandelier above his head in a daze, "I don't want to be an Omega."

"why?"

Xu Jiale asked again.

"Because I don't want to be marked," Wen Ke murmured, "I also don't want...to be in heat. I don't want to be in heat. It would be nice if I don't have to be in heat again."

He repeated the last few words repeatedly, like a drunken raving.

"Is it not good to be in heat?" Xu Jiale asked: "Wen Ke, I'm learning this. In theory, if an Alpha's peak orgasmic pleasure can be enjoyed is 7, then in contrast, the peak of an Omega's orgasm can be enjoyed is 10. Among the six sexes of human beings, the only one who can enjoy the most extreme pleasure is the Omega in estrus. Do you think this is not good?"

"You don't understand..." The corners of Wen Ke's eyes were choked up in the smog, "Xu Jiale, you don't understand how terrifying it is to be in heat in front of Zhuo Yuan..."

He curled up in the chair, buried his red face between his bent knees, and his voice was almost choked: "Then I need someone and rely on someone, but when he looks at me, his eyes... his eyes are just like that." Like, think I'm ridiculous - look at me like a clown, and then ask me: "Wen Ke, do you really want it? You look so pitiful. Please beg me?" I'm insulted, but I still ask him, because my physical needs control me, it's like drowning, if I don't struggle hard, I will die..."

Wen Ke slammed the cigarette down in the ashtray.

These words, he has never said to anyone, the most fatal blow that marriage gave him, the most secret pain, he locked the roughest sand and stones in his body like a tightly closed clam, But today, he couldn't hold back anymore.

"I have no taste, Xu Jiale..."

He looked at the man across from him with red eyes: "I'm too bad. I cling to Zhuo Yuan when I'm in heat, but Zhuo Yuan won't be attracted at all. He asked me: Why don't you have any fragrance at all? I don't know how to answer." , I can only touch him, but it is very embarrassing. When I am in heat, I realize that I am not attractive or cute in the eyes of alpha. There is only lewdness, only lewdness, it is too embarrassing...Xu Jiale, six years Come down, I don't have confidence anymore, I would rather take inhibitors than face the eyes of this Alpha in estrus, I really feel that I don't want to be an Omega anymore, I am too powerless, when faced with this kind of physiological needs , Omega is always the weak."

"I understand." Xu Jiale leaned forward. Under the light, his light brown eyes were gentle, but also with a hint of sadness: "Wen Ke, I understand. You know Jin Chu's reason for divorcing me. What is it?"

"I don't know." Wen Ke shook his head.

"Omega's desires are concentrated in the estrus period, but it is almost difficult to be provoked at ordinary times. This is a physiological characteristic, and I am very aware of this. I don't think there is anything wrong. We are nearly 90.00% compatible. This is a match made in heaven. In bed It has always been very harmonious. But one day, after Jin Chu passed the estrous period, he suddenly told me that he felt very empty."

"I was a little surprised and asked him why. He said that he felt that sex was only because of estrus, and he didn't want to make out with me except for his physical needs. Then he asked me if it was just the genital cavity with a high degree of fit that needed me, not him My heart wants me, does that mean we don't really have any love?"

Xu Jiale was very calm: "Wen Ke, at that moment, I felt very sad. This seemed to be the first time in my life that I felt sad. I always knew that I loved Jin Chu, because Alpha has no estrus period, and I have always felt sad. The judgment of wanting him is clear. But at that time, I knew for the first time that Omega would lose his judgment on feelings, because estrus is just needed, and after a long time, he can't tell whether it is a physical need or an emotional need. And I can't help it."

"So later he resolutely divorced me. You know, Jin Chu is a very special person, and the things he decides rarely change. I lost him because of some reasons that I couldn't control myself. "

When Xu Jiale said this, he shrugged sadly as usual: "Look, Alpha also has strange difficulties. Everyone has—"

"Being a human... is actually very pitiful."