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Once the rainy season is over, the summer in Los Angeles returns to the sweltering heat. The poisonous sun, like a boiled egg yolk, hangs high above the sky, making people on the street look like sweet potatoes in an oven, sweating profusely from every tiny pore.

In hot weather, people are easily irritable.

However, Yu Nian's mood recently is rarely peaceful.

In the blink of an eye, his "friendship" with Xiao Mocun has lasted for nearly two months.Thanks to Alpha's willingness to accept, the relationship between the two is not only not awkward, but harmonious, like the work of a magazine, plain and real, and absolutely stress-free.

Every ten days or so, Xiao Mocun, a single father, would buy some snacks and cat food for steamed buns, and deliver them to Yu Nian's unit by himself or by an assistant, and they happened to be picked up when he got off work.

Very occasionally, Yu Nian will enjoy a trip to the luxury Audi, avoiding the pain of squeezing the subway.

But most of the time he still refuses to sit unless there are too many things.

On nights like this, they would make a video call by default. Yu Nian set up her mobile phone in advance and spent 10 minutes live broadcasting the live broadcast of steamed buns and snack bars for Alpha.

One ate with relish, and the two watched with relish.

In these 10 minutes, there was another one or two minutes where they could see each other.Yu Nian was embarrassed to wear pajamas again, so she would set the alarm clock to remind herself to change her sweater. The moment she saw Alpha after connecting, her smile would always be like a pebble floating on the lake, with ripples swaying around.

Their most frequent conversations are:

"Are you off work yet? It's getting dark."

"Hurry up, I'll go downstairs after watching you."

This "you" often makes Yu Nian feel in a trance, under the illusion that her husband calls early to report when he works overtime at night, and takes a look at the worrying baby by the way.

For the rest of the time, the camera only focused on the steamed buns.The two of them stared at the small mouth under the transparent beard approaching the open snack bar, first licked it tentatively, and then began to gobble it up, their tongues were too busy.Every time this part came, Yu Nian was laughing and embarrassed in his heart, wanting to give his little head a shudder: I have never deducted your rations, why are you so worthless when you see the expensive snacks bought by your ex-father.

Do you hate the poor and love the rich, stinky cat.

After eating, the steamed buns would always bow into his arms as if to show off, with their mouths desperately leaning against his lips. Every time, a huge crabmeat smell would hit his face, making Yu Nian almost collapse.

It wasn't until recently that the temperature was so high that even people couldn't bear it, that its appetite finally dwindled.

The heat is so hot that the people in the magazine started to order iced drinks from the fruit tea shop every day a week ago.The leader formed a small group, the name of the group was "Hot Places for High Temperature Fees", and the group files had been placed at the top of the drink lists of the three shops for a long time.Among the most popular are red raspberry juice, lime sparkling water and chilled plum juice.

This morning Yu Nian finished his field work early and rushed back to the magazine office from the outside. There was already a long and slender cup of iced drink on the table, with the familiar tea shop logo printed on it.

"Eh?" Yu Nian looked around while putting things away, "Did you order for me?"

"Yes." Li Yu came over with a smile on his face, "I guessed that you were coming back from dinner, so I ordered a drink for you as you asked for yesterday, no, it's just right for you to drink."

Yu Nian tore open the packaging of the straw, inserted it with a little force, and took a sip of the cold and delicious plum juice, his eyes immediately turned into crescent moons.

It's delicious, the finely crushed pulp slides down the throat, sweet and slightly sour.

He took out his mobile phone to transfer money to Li Yu, but found that he missed a missed call 10 minutes ago.

Li Zhenghao?

Why would the assistant of a busy person suddenly call himself?

Yu Nian was stunned for a second and remembered that it seemed that two weeks had passed since the last time he collected snacks.He hurriedly took out a tissue to wipe his hands, and returned to the other party.

"Assistant Li, I'm sorry I didn't hear you on the road just now, are you looking for me?"

"Hey, Mr. Yu." Li Zhenghao sounded like he was running and talking, his voice was like a bellows, "It's about the cat snacks. Mr. Xiao bought another big pack."

The corners of Yu Nian's mouth immediately curved up, as if he had just taken a big mouthful of sour plum juice.

"I haven't finished eating the last one, why did he buy it again..."

Half complaining and half happy.

Assistant Li is as expensive and busy as his boss. During the lunch break, he climbed the stairs: "Mr. Xiao told me to order one year at a time last time, but I still delivered it one by one. But today I was temporarily drawn to the investor meeting." Help, it doesn't matter what time it is at night, and I have to greet this group of foreign ancestors for dinner. Why don't you come and pick it up, Mr. Yu?"

When Yu Nian heard it, he quickly said that it was not in a hurry, not in a hurry, and he was too embarrassed to ask someone to deliver it tomorrow, so he agreed to go to Jindi to pick it up after work if he was too busy.

"Then it's settled first. When you arrive, call me directly, and I'll ask Jersey to pick you up. I'm so sorry, Mr. Yu, I really can't leave here. Please work hard."

"Where is it?" Yu Nian felt even more apologetic.It's a bit embarrassing to mobilize people for a little cat, and even affect several assistant secretaries.But it's not necessary for him to tell Xiao Mocun to send it by post.

As for why he didn't need it, he explained to himself that he was afraid that his brother would be unhappy by sending it by mail.

"That's right." He pursed his lips and added, "Is Mr. Xiao in the company?"

"Mr. Xiao..." Li Zhenghao stopped and gasped, making Yu Nian's heart hang high, "I'm not here, I'm going abroad, didn't I tell you?"

Crack, the soft heart fell to the hard ground.

—

In the afternoon, Yu Nian asked for leave and went to the hospital for a reexamination.

Since the last gland replacement, he has to go to the central hospital every two months for registration, blood draw, and laboratory tests to check if there is any problem with his new gland.

There are not many people on weekdays.After completing all the items at four o'clock, and waiting for the results of the inspection in an hour, Yu Nian greeted Zhou Zhijie and sat in the lobby to kill time.

Strange to say, it seems that his luck has been extremely ups and downs in the matter of the glands. The natural B10859 has brought him countless troubles and pains, but after changing to a replacement, it stopped.

Even more worry-free than the original.

In the tragic cases that have been revealed on the Internet, there is blood dripping between the lines, and tears soaked through the paper.Most of the Betas and Omegas who were forced to have their glands replaced experienced recurrent fevers, stomach ulcers, and pseudoestrus.

So in fact, the sayings of the ancients are not necessarily all wrong.Surviving a catastrophe must have future blessings. For him, replacing the glands and regaining freedom is the beginning of future blessings, which is not a bad thing.

Sometimes he thinks, if he is still B10859, then he and Xiao Mocun are destined not to be friends.Because their relationship is not equal in essence, he needs Xiao Mocun, but Xiao Mocun doesn't need him, and it is impossible for them to fit together emotionally or physically.

After figuring this out, Yu Nian Zeng seemed to be pardoned——

At least in the matter of changing the glands, he can allow himself to forgive Xiao Mocun for being bossy.

All the signs prove that Alpha did spend a little effort to help him find a gland with a high matching degree, saving him a lot of pain, didn't he?

After all, he is still willing to let go and find his own relief.

So now when he came here for an examination, he no longer felt the fear that was difficult to face at the beginning, and even Zhou Zhijie praised him for being more relaxed.

Unexpectedly, it wasn't long before he was relaxed, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in the corner of his sight, pushed the door out from the chief physician's office, and looked down at the pile of orders in his hand.

Yu Nian didn't expect to meet an acquaintance here, so he called out, "Ziyu?"

Hearing the shout, Wen Ziyu stomped his feet, turned around, not only did not show joy on his face, but he looked embarrassed, as if he had been bumped into something ulterior by accident.

Seeing that it was Yu Nian, after hesitating for two seconds, he forced a smile and walked towards his friend.

"Why are you here?"

"I'll check the glands again," Yu Nian got up and said, "What about you?"

"I..." Wen Ziyu hid the medical records behind her back seemingly unintentionally, "It's nothing, I'm not feeling well, come see a doctor."

Originally, his melon-seeded face was so thin that it was sunken in. Although the corners of Fei Yang's eyes remained the same, his face was obviously pale.

Yu Nian looked at him suspiciously, and pulled his wrists from behind to in front of him, "What's not feeling well? I noticed that you've been a little weird recently. I called you last week and you said you didn't go to work and you were resting at home. Not on sick leave?"

The few times I contacted Wen Ziyu recently, she seemed to have something on her mind. She was either lying on the bed or cooking porridge. She was depressed and lost her previous ability and vitality.Yu Nian asked him if he was unhappy at Fanyin, but he refused to say so, only saying that he would digest it by himself so that he would not have to worry about it.

I didn't expect to meet in the hospital by chance today.

After a little association like this, Yu Nian guessed in his heart that he was probably sick.

"It's really nothing." Wen Ziyu twisted his wrists and pulled them out of his hands, avoiding his eyes, "Don't ask."

Seeing his emotional conflict, Yu Nian was even more surprised.

"What's the disease?" He asked with concern, "This is the pheromone internal medicine department. You don't have any problems with the glands, do you?"

Wen Ziyu just dodged: "Don't ask... I, I really can't tell you."

As if there was some big difficulty to hide from him, his eyes were already flushed.

This time it's worth it.Yu Nian couldn't help thinking about the worst, and became even more worried.

"Ziyu." He said seriously, "If you are really sick, you shouldn't hide it from anyone. We have always been best friends, and I know this department very well. What if I can help you?"

"It's not that I don't want to say it." Wen Ziyu's eyes flickered, she was very stubborn, "I really don't want to hurt you."

There was a crying tone in the words, and after he finished speaking, his expression was full of annoyance, as if he deeply regretted that he had slipped his mouth.

Yu Nian was taken aback.

Don't want to hurt me?

"What do you mean by that?" He looked at his friend in a daze, "Why did you hurt me?"

Wen Ziyu's eyes trembled slightly, and her white joints tightly pressed the sheet in her hand, making many folds.

—

The closest coffee shop to the hospital.

They chose to sit down here and discuss in detail, so that Yu Nian could go back to get the test results after the end.

A glass of sweet orange soda in front of each person is the same as those summers in college.

Yu Nian was holding the straw, all his attention was on his friend, and the drink didn't move.

After being urged several times, Wen Ziyu finally made up his mind and pushed the test sheet in front of him, "Since you must know... I dare not keep it a secret."

He accepted the thin yellow slips in doubt, flipped through them a few times, and then his eyes widened in shock.

"You... when did you change your glands?"

He was very familiar with the above inspection items and medication, which almost made him immediately understand where Wen Ziyu's illness started.

"It's been a while." Wen Ziyu leaned back slowly, leaning weakly on the deck, as if he was uncomfortable, "It's just that the sequelae are more serious, especially during this time, I come to the hospital frequently."

Yu Nian's beautiful brows and eyes were frowned, and he asked inexplicably, "Why did you suddenly change your glands? Aren't your glands very healthy?"

The forced replacement of healthy glands is a pain he has experienced himself, and he never thought that his best friend would also suffer from this torture.

As soon as the words fell, Wen Ziyu shivered as if he was afraid of the cold, his chin was retracted, and his hands were wrung together uneasily.

"It's not the glands, it's my stupidity."

This made Yu Nian even more confused.

"Ziyu, don't play charades with me, okay? What's going on?"

He asked anxiously, and Wen Ziyu seemed to be forced to have nowhere to go. After a long while, he raised his head as if he was in a sinking boat, and said quietly: "Yu Nian, my pheromone level is very ordinary, not even level five. Are you here?" I know... When I was in school, many people looked down on me because of this..."

Yu Nian was angry and anxious: "So you go to change the glands?"

"No!" He shook his head hastily, "How could it be? You know me, I don't care at all what irrelevant people think of me. The reason why I changed my glands is because..."

Yu Nian anxiously waited for the next article.

He took a deep breath, and the ending was choked with sobs, "The Alpha pheromone level I love is too high, I am not good enough for him... If you want him to accept me, changing the gland is the only chance."

Humble to the extreme, just like Yu Nian at that time.

After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes in panic, his pupils trembling under his eyelids, as if he couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart, and opened them suddenly a few seconds later, looking over for help, "You can understand this feeling, right?"

Stabbed by this resolute look, Yu Nian froze in place.

How could he not understand this kind of self-doubt and self-sacrifice in love, which he had suffered for many years.

"So I have no choice..." Wen Ziyu struggled.

Feelings stuck in the quagmire.

Yu Nian was confused for a while, trying to focus on figuring out this matter, and asked: "When did you fall in love, why didn't you tell me?"

Some time ago, due to various changes, he did not communicate with Wen Ziyu as frequently as before, and somewhat ignored this friendship.Unexpectedly, the friend who has always had his eyes above the top actually has his own heart, and is as stupid as him.

Wen Ziyu's face was apologetic, and she murmured in a low voice: "It's not considered love... I'm sorry Xiao Nian, I didn't mean to hide it from you... I just, I just can't say this."

"I'm sorry for what." Yu Nian moved forward a few inches, put his right hand on the back of his friend's hand, put down his worries and pretended to relax, "It's just a secret love, what's the big deal. Besides, you don't take me seriously when you say that." Friends, I can help you find a way in terms of money or other aspects, why can't you just say it?"

He thought that the gland replacement surgery and follow-up treatment put financial pressure on his strong friend.

"No." Wen Ziyu stared down at his hand, "I'm afraid you'll blame me for the gland replacement."

"What do I blame you?" Yu Nian was taken aback, "I was worried about your physical damage, but this is your own choice, how could I blame you?"

"It would be great if you don't blame me..." Wen Ziyu's eyes wandered, "Actually, I should have confessed to you long ago."

"That's right." Yu Nian showed a reassuring smile to his friend, "I also had my glands replaced, you should have told me earlier, why carry it alone?"

Thinking of the infatuated expression of the Alpha that his friend just talked about, he joked in a low voice, "Also, you should be the first to tell me when you are in love. Is it possible that because I am divorced, you are afraid that I will be jealous? Tell me quickly. , who is that lucky Alpha, it is worth your sacrifice."

"Colleague? Friend? Have you known each other for a long time?" He asked cheerfully.

"It's true that we've known each other for a long time..." Wen Ziyu's fingers tightened, and he clenched the cup tightly, "You know each other too."

"I know you too?" Yu Nian smiled brightly, "Who is it, from our school, one of those people who chased you before?"

It was as airtight as an iron barrel.

"It's not them..." Wen Ziyu spit out such a sentence, his whole body tensed up, and he didn't speak for a while.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the two sat opposite each other.

Seeing his embarrassment and hesitating to speak, Yu Nian saw his fingers pinching his knuckles nervously, and suddenly had an extremely absurd guess in his heart.

The smile on his face disappeared quietly.

The next moment, the old friend who had known him for many years raised his eyes to look at him, and said with great apology: "It's Xiao Mocun."