Winter of Plum Blossom

When both of them sat down at the table in the restaurant, the biochemical box had already been taken away, and Mei Ling was still sitting there with an impatient face.

"Dally, I don't know, I thought Xiao Zhe was in heat, and you couldn't get down."

Mei Zhe stared wide-eyed, grabbed the chopsticks at hand and threw it at his father's head, "My father is not here, Daddy, are you speaking human language?"

Mei Ling sat across from him carelessly, not even hiding, let one of the chopsticks hit him on the head and bounce off.

"Why are you embarrassed? Why do you think Chen Yue said he would stay in the United States for two weeks?"

Mei Zhe turned his head suspiciously to look at Chen Yue, and the latter's eyes flickered again.

...What did this man say at that time?

... "I'm going to stay here for about two weeks anyway, and you can arrange the rest of the time."

... "Why do you have to stay for two weeks? Aren't you busy with things over there?"

... "Except that I can't meet clients, the things I can do here are the same as in China. Why can't I stay for two weeks?"

After making trouble for a long time, the whole world knew what he was doing here, but he didn't find anything.

Mei Zhe had a rare desire to hit someone.

Mei Ling stood up, "Your father is busy these days, let me tell you, don't run around."

"Especially you! You know exactly what the estrus period will look like that year after the initial differentiation. If you force your will, carefully produce an SSS-level pheromone, marking you will exhaust Chen Yue to death."

Mei Zhe was trembling with anger, he had never seen such a vulgar and straightforward father who spoke in front of his son.

Chen Yue hurriedly interrupted, "Don't worry, I will always stay with Mei Zhe."

"And you! Hurry up and mark everyone, don't worry, what coffee to buy! If I were you, I would never leave my Omega."

Mei Ling waved his hands while talking, as if he was very worried, "I drove away the rest of the family, your father is in the laboratory, I will go to the team, this place belongs to you."

After speaking, he didn't even stop for half a minute, picked up a simple camouflage bag at his feet and walked out of the gate in a few steps.

Mei Zhe didn't move, and Chen Yue didn't dare to move either.

Dazed for a while, Mei Zhe's face became more and more red, and then he jumped up and left. Chen Yue rushed up and grabbed him, "Where are you going?"

"Go to the lab."

"No, your father said that I must stay with you every step of the way. I should not be able to enter your laboratory."

Chen Yue pulled this awkward Omega over, coaxing in a low voice, "Why don't you go to the laboratory, let's study your pheromone gene expression at home?"

Mei Zhe: "..."

... Are you showing off your face?

"At least two more days! You...you..."

Mei Zhe really wanted to say, can't you wait for two days?But the words just couldn't come out.

Chen Yue laughed and pulled him back to the dining table, "I don't cook very well. You can eat a couple of casual bites first, and then we go to Castro for dinner. The Italian food I ate there last time tasted alright. Then you Take me to the place where you used to play?"

Mei Zhe lowered his head and thought for a while, "Okay."

"Let's go by car, don't ride a bike, I have to preserve my strength..." Before he finished speaking, Mei Zhe grabbed Chen Yue's chopsticks and hit him on the head this time.

Mei Zhe squinted his almond eyes and looked fiercely, "You can't do it, so why don't I do it?"

There are many distinctive shops on Castro Street. Apart from the ubiquitous rainbow flag, what Chen Yue was most impressed with was a movie theater with a long CASTRO light box sign at the entrance, which can be seen from a long distance.

Now the two of them were sitting in a bar down the street from the movie theater, Major drinking juice, he drinking.

Many of the bars here are brightly lit, and you can see couples in pairs, not necessarily same-sex couples, but also many heterosexual couples, such as Chen Yue and Mei Zhe.

Watching the two handsome men at the next table who don't know whether they are the same sex or the opposite sex kiss deeply, Chen Yue also touched Mei Zhe's cheek with his lips.

"You said you've come to play before? With whom?"

Mei Zhe looked a little blank, "Sometimes I come by myself, sometimes I come with others."

Chen Yue felt that there was still something in Mei Zhe's heart, and he could feel that those things were stuck there, so that Mei Zhe still only had the sunshine on the surface, but could not see the shadow under the sun.

Think about it, since we met until now, what Mei Zhe has shown him most of the time is the warm, calm and magnanimous side of the sun. So far, Chen Yue has only seen him suffering in pain, but he has never seen him sad or sad. I've seen him cry.Chen Yue didn't believe that he had no pain, and he didn't want him to bear all the pain alone and bury it deep in his heart.

"There are so many bars, why come to Castro?"

Mei Zhe thought for a long time with bewildered eyes, and answered irrelevantly, "When did you start liking me?"

Chen Yue thought about it seriously, "I don't know. I just remember that I found out that I like you when my elder brother got married."

"So you found yourself liking a Beta?"

Chen Yue thought for a while, then smiled, "Yeah... I was a little scared at the time."

"Afraid of... the question of sexual orientation?"

Chen Yue stretched out his hand to cover the back of Mei Zhe's hand. His hand was cool and easy to touch, "No. Sexuality has never been a problem for me. What I was afraid of at the time was that if I liked you, I was sorry for you."

Mei Zhe recalled Chen Yue's incoherent speech that day, the "you" and "he" in his mouth might be the same self, but the two same "you" and "you" might be different Mei Zhe.

If it wasn't for him, anyone who changed him would not be able to understand what Alpha was saying.

Mei Zhe also laughed, looked at the men and women passing by on the street, AABBOO, and sighed, "I have spent a long time trying to figure out what kind of person I plan to spend my life with."

"When I was very young, my dad told me that the study of ABO sex and pheromones should not ignore the subjective will of human reproduction. He once suggested that I study love psychology by myself when I was in the fifth grade of elementary school."

Chen Yue was dumbfounded, Alpha's father-in-law was already very straightforward today, but he didn't expect Omega's father-in-law to be more aggressive.Fifth grade elementary school... ten years old? 11 years old?

Mei Zhe didn't realize that Chen Yue's thoughts had gone so far, so he continued.

"In fact, I don't know much about these things, but after I choose pheromone research as my research direction, I have to face this problem. Researching myself is the best way."

"First, I found out I wasn't sexually interested in women, so half the population didn't."

"Next, I sadly found out that I didn't have any sexual interest in Omega either. Being a genetically excellent Beta male meant that I wouldn't have offspring because..."

"The rest are all reproductively isolated from me."

"After I had this understanding, I realized that my thesis in the fifth grade of elementary school was indeed nonsense, unless I was willing to sacrifice my marriage for the sake of human genes."

"I've never been that great of a person, so I came to Castro to see how reproductively isolated couples are doing."

Chen Yue ordered another glass of wine, casually ordered a bottle of water for Mei Zhe, unscrewed it and handed it to him.

"And the result? Do you think they are doing well?"

Mei Zhe poured water into the glass and took a sip, "I can't see it. I don't feel it."

"Then you came more than once?"

Mei Zhe seemed a little drunk, and said in a daze, "I wanted to try at that time... Will there be someone..."

Chen Yue understood the meaning behind Mei Zhe, and suddenly understood why this man was so proficient in flirting with anyone.

Sourness rose, "Oh, so Alpha has to queue up to go to the cinema from here?"

Mei Zhe turned his head to look at him, smiled and rubbed his cheek against his face, "No. What's interesting is that Alphas are basically not interested in me, and there are groups of Betas and Omega in line."

He added, "Even in Castro."

"What's even more strange is that I found that I'm not interested in Alpha either."

Chen Yue was thoughtful, "There are only Beta males left. So, baby, are you... serious about flirting with that barista?"

Mei Zhe shook his head with a smile, "Actually, it's good to be a beta male. It's very safe. As long as you remember not to provoke women, basically there will be no serious consequences for flirting with anyone."

Chen Yue was afraid for a while, how much thought had his two fathers put on this deadly Omega to stay here until now?

He pulled Mei Zhe into his arms, rubbed against the back of his neck, and said bitterly, "You're still looking for death all over the place like this?"

Major broke free and shrugged, "I'm not interested in anyone."

Then he smiled, and his lips lightly passed over Chen Yue's lips, "Except you."

He turned sideways, leaned his head on Chen Yue, and said in a low voice, "It's not that I didn't know that the estrus period was coming soon, I just didn't think about it..."

Chen Yue also turned around, pulled him closer, wrapped him in his arms, and said, "You didn't think about whether you want to be an Omega or a Beta in this life."

Mei Zhe was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and sighed, "Yeah...you, don't you mind?"

Chen Yue shook his head, "I told your father, I'm here to give you a choice. If you need it, I'm here. It doesn't mean that you only have one choice."

Mei Zhe stretched out his arms, covered Chen Yue's arms, and embraced himself together.

"Whether I'm a Beta or an Omega, do you love me the same?"

Chen Yue was categorical, "Of course, I love you, not your pheromones."

Mei Zhe lowered his head and laughed, "Then you have to be careful, if I choose Beta..."

Chen Yue was a little puzzled, "Why do I have to be careful when you choose Beta?"

"Because... I want to be on top..." Mei Zhe's tone was drawn out with a smile.

Chen Yue gritted his teeth, "Then you should choose Omega."

Mei Zhe smiled, stretched his waist, and sat up straight, "I really want to drink too..."

"You're allergic to alcohol."

"It won't die again."

"Shall I drink it at home? Be good, I made a Sangria before I left, put it in the refrigerator, and drink it at home."

Major nodded, and folded his hands under his chin again.Chen Yue knew that this was Mei Zhe's thinking posture, he hadn't figured it out yet.

"I understand why you are hesitant about Omega's identity. Except for your special pheromone, this society is not friendly to Omega. Many so-called respect for Omega actually regard Omega as weak."

"What I don't understand is why you didn't just choose Beta? What is making you hesitate?"

"If it were me, you don't have to worry, I don't care if you are an Omega or a Beta. I started liking you when you were a Beta. My parents and my eldest brother and sister-in-law are both married with AB, and my family won't say anything I don't think your two fathers would care."

Mei Zhe narrowed his eyes, "You're wrong, my father and the rest don't suggest that I choose Beta."

"Why? Because of your research?"

"Research is my reason, not my father's reason."

Chen Yue laughed. This research freak is unwilling to become a Beta because he wants to study his own Omega pheromones. This is an irrefutable reason!