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Lin Nan stayed in the hospital for two days before being discharged.During this period of time, because Lin Nan's legs and feet were inconvenient, Qin Chuan offered to pick him up and drop off the bus.

Since they openly expressed their knots in the hospital, the two portraits have returned to the intimate and relaxed state they had in high school.

The only person who expressed dissatisfaction with this relationship was the orange cat at home.Every time Qin Chuan came to Lin Nan's house, the orange cat showed great vigilance towards this unexpected guest. Not only did he not give him a hug, but he even scratched Qin Chuan several times with his paw.The orange cat always squints and stares at Qin Chuan, presumably this big man who is very attentive to the family's excrement shoveler is here to compete with it for the position of head of the family.

A month later, Lin Nan was able to go to work with a cane on his own.The left leg in plaster became a pass, and he enjoyed preferential treatment wherever he went. Many people painted graffiti on the plaster, which turned into a landscape.

That day, Lin Nan came to the meeting wearing a cane, and because he walked slowly, he was the last one to rush to the meeting room.

The boss Nick has been mysterious lately, and he can't find anyone. The invitation to this meeting has copied all the members of Nick's group and Qinchuan group. Everyone has a pretty good idea of ​​what is going to happen.

Sure enough, it was another personnel reorganization. After serving the company for nearly a decade, Nick chose to jump ship and decided to move back to Seattle with his wife and children.The original team members were merged into Qin Chuan's team.

Now Qin Chuan's manpower doubled, and he became Lin Nan's immediate superior.Now every programmer and product manager starts to recalculate how many juniors and how many seniors there are in the new group, thinking about the possibility of continuing to be promoted.

As soon as he announced the establishment of the new team, Qin Chuan launched his plan for this quarter.He understands that if he wants to lead so many proud and arrogant elites from different cultural backgrounds, he must find out a direction to run together as soon as possible in order to gather people's hearts.

The personnel composition of large factories is complex, and the current products are becoming mature, and the projects to be developed and improved are limited.There are only a few promising directions, and there are too many monks and too few porridge.Groups often fight openly and secretly in order to compete for similar items.The winner gets a promotion and raises his salary, while the loser has to start a new job. Otherwise, there will be no work for a quarter, and they will be accused of redundant staff, and even hang on the verge of forced layoffs.

Nick's team was basically maintaining the previous projects in the last quarter, without substantial progress. Although the new project may mean busy, it gave the team members hope for promotion and saved them from being laid off. Pull back from the danger zone.

Qin Chuan's plan is to start building an internal tool to help groups communicate with each other. Although there are already very mature enterprise-oriented B2B products on the market, if external tools are used, the company's data security cannot be guaranteed 100% .

Especially in the past few years, in order not to lose the leading position in the fierce competition, the big factories have secretly held back their big moves. There are several secret groups that even the insiders are not clear about. They are experimenting and catalyzing the next potential profit possibility. ProjectX, a revolutionary new product, was in need of an in-house tool that couldn't go wrong with security and confidentiality.

After the plan was put forward, the team members generally expressed support, and some voices raised doubts.

If it is done well, it will not only be able to catch the ride of the next profitable product, but it may also be packaged as a secondary product for sale.But once there is a loophole in security, the consequences will be very serious.

The scheduled time for the meeting is approaching. Qin Chuan said: "Everyone, get ready. Next week, we will have a 1:1 interview with all the team members to discuss the progress of the project and their respective plans. The meeting ends."

It's finally the weekend, this week is the Thanksgiving holiday, Alex decided to go to Los Angeles to visit his cousin.My cousin was born in liberal arts. After finishing her business degree in the United States, she got married and no longer needed to work hard for a living.Although my cousin does not go to work, she dresses up exquisitely every day.

They were the closest in age in this generation of the family.When I was a child, my cousin always asked Alex to be her own model, put on heavy makeup for him, put him in women's clothing, and dressed him like a doll. Alex is used to being pushed around by her.My cousin has a natural good taste and is good at discovering the beauty of models. She brought Alex into the cosplay circle and participated in various animation exhibitions, and she is also a little famous.

They grew up stumbling and noisy together since they were young, and later came to the United States to study together.As soon as the holidays came, Alex drove his red four-wheel drive jeep, carrying Samoyed Bobo, and went south to visit his cousin.

As soon as Alex got out of the car, his cousin gave him a big hug, jumping up and down like a child, very happy.Then took Alex's arm and went home.

The cousin's short hair has been carefully groomed, and she is wearing a silk top and an ankle-length pleated skirt.Wearing a seasonal bracelet, the lining of the wrist is thinner.She stuffed Alex with all the big and small bags of presents she had prepared for him, and spoke ill of her husband for half an hour as usual.

In the evening, after having dinner at my cousin's house, the two took the Samoyed and went for a walk by the beach.

The beaches of San Francisco in the north of California are often hung with cliffs, blowing cold sea breeze all year round. In contrast, the beaches of Los Angeles in the south are much cuter, attracting tourists all year round. Walking in the sunset by the sea is a kind of breathtaking Relaxed yet lonely feeling.

The two of them sat on the beach with Bobo, staring at the sunset in the pink afterglow, and didn't speak for a long time.The cousin suddenly sighed with emotion: "Your brother-in-law has been away on business trips for half a year, and the time spent at home throughout the year is less than the time spent on business trips. Fortunately, my younger brother like you often visits me. You too, and you are about to run away. After you came out to your family last time, your mother always thought you were confused for a while, so she called me and asked me to find a girl for you."

"I'm doing fine myself. Next time my mom calls you, you'll just hang up or say you didn't answer." Alex was annoyed.The cousin laughed, "Your mother is right to ask you to find a partner. Yes, you don't feel it now. During the Chinese New Year, it will be difficult."

At night Alex lives in the guest room of his cousin's house.The decoration style of the guest rooms is not at all the minimalist style that is popular today.There are crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, exaggerated and colorful wallpapers all around, and the Rococo-style furniture are all found in antique shops.The mattress was so high that one had to climb on it, and the ornate curtain hung above it, as if the princess and the pea were sleeping on it.But in this huge home, as soon as the lights are turned off, it looks extraordinarily lonely.

In fact, Alex has no shortage of dates.My high school boyfriend was the captain of the school's track and field team.Every time at the sports meeting, when the captain of the track and field team stretches his long legs and breaks records repeatedly, the nympho girl standing next to him will scream and say that she is going to have a child for the captain.The love between the two has always been in an underground state. During evening self-study, the two often secretly chat in the stairwell on the top floor and kiss where no one sees.

Later, they went to different cities to go to college. Alex worked very hard to manage this long-distance relationship. He went to see his boyfriend whenever he had a holiday, and saved a lot of air tickets between the two cities.

During the summer vacation after graduating from college, my boyfriend suddenly proposed that the family had arranged a blind date and that he wanted to return to a "normal life".

Alex was awakened by these five words. It turned out that the round-trip air tickets, the places he traveled, the birthday gifts he gave each other, the group photos next to the Christmas tree, and his vision for future life all these years had become "abnormal". joke.These five words were like lead weights, tied to Alex's body, throwing him into the sea, pulling him down continuously until he fell into the abyss. Alex got drunk, didn't cry, didn't make a fuss, and accepted the breakup very calmly the next day.

After Alex went to the United States, his boyfriend quickly got married and had a child. Now he often posts pictures of the child in Moments, but basically he can’t see the mother of the child. Alex didn't block these posts, nor did he like them.

But in the dead of night, this demon from the past came back to eat Alex.

Today Alex woke up from the nightmare again, turned on the light in panic, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his drowsiness completely faded away.

He habitually poured out a melatonin pill from the medicine bottle and took it. In recent years, he has been troubled by sleep disorders, so he keeps this medicine by his side all the year round.I don't dare to try other sleeping pills for fear of becoming dependent.

While waiting for the medicine to take effect, he felt bored, so he opened several dating apps in turn.

In addition to the male account, Alex also has a female account.This girl's account comes from a cousin's drunken bet, guess how many hearts this account can receive.The cousin randomly selected a photo of Alex dressed as Seraphine in the photo album and uploaded it.Fluffy pink curly hair, blue colored contact lenses, a small and upturned nose, wearing a plaid shirt, holding a guitar, rustic and cute.

As expected, this girl's account became very, very popular. On the first day, many people swipe right to give love, and the number of love is increasing exponentially every day.

Anyway, unable to sleep for the time being, Alex switched back to the women's wear trumpet, and before he swiped two, the app popped up a "Super Like" that only members can give as a gift.But the photo that popped up on the screen made Alex's eyes widen, and he dropped his phone to the ground in fright.

The Samoyed who was sleeping next to the bed was woken up by the blow, picked up the phone, bit it and handed it to the owner. Alex grabbed his phone to confirm again and again, yes, this person is Wang Yiding who sang "Borrowing from the Sky for Another 500 Years" at the last party!

"Wang Yiding didn't recognize me? Is there such a big gap between that cosplay photo and me? Or... he wants to punish me!" Alex was curious, wanting to know what kind of medicine Wang Yiding sold in this gourd.So he slid Wang Yiding's profile picture to the right.