Only Wing

There were still a few hours before the "date", Chu Jia tidied herself up slowly, and after breakfast, she hugged Ami and sat by the bay window in the living room and looked out.

The sun is shining outside the house, even with the windows open, it won't feel cold.Ami lay on her master's lap on her back, drying the thick fluff on her belly.Chu Jia stretched out his hand and rubbed it, and the craving for cigarettes suddenly came up.

Learning to smoke is still a matter of high school, and it turns out that cigarettes are not the exclusive equipment of young and Dangerous.Over the years, Chuga has never tried to quit smoking, but he will not smoke in front of his family or colleagues.

The tin cigarette case was a gift from Junran on his birthday last year, and the lighter was a gift from Qin Chuan.The two betas had maintained a relationship with him over the years, and the friendship continued unabated and extended into deeper realms.

Chu Jia lit a light cigarette, raised his head and exhaled the smoke out of the window.Over there, across a narrow eating street is the gate of the university.The students were coming out in twos and threes, looking here from time to time.

Those are the faces full of vigor and carefree. The flowers in the greenhouse have not experienced the erosion of wind and frost, which is enviable.

Nearly ten years have passed, and the social structure is still undergoing further changes.

With the passing of old people, the birth of babies, and the further improvement of overall fertility, just in the middle of last year, the beta population dropped to less than one-third of the total population for the first time. Alpha replaced beta as the largest population.

In fact, several high-welfare countries in northern Europe have even begun to consider including sex reassignment surgery for beta fetuses in their national medical benefits.

Perhaps in a few decades, there will be no more betas in that country.Only alpha and omega are left, and human beings have returned to the ancient legendary era where only two genders existed.

However, on the other side, in an extremely poor and backward country on the earth, ruled by war and plague, a strange disease is also spreading. This disease can only infect human beings whose external sex is male, making omega Completely lose fertility and greatly reduce alpha's pregnancy success rate.

Some people call this disease "Sariye", which means the killing angel sent by God to punish mankind.Extreme religious believers even believe that there is a hand controlling the total number of human beings in the dark.The advancement of scientific and technological medicine has instead become the reason for the emergence of "Sariel".

It is rare to stand with them and human rights fighters of the beta population.Faced with an increasingly severe population crisis, many people have begun to realize that if they continue to live numbly, what awaits them is only more serious discrimination and even extinction.

A cigarette was exhausted quickly, and Chuga snuffed out the butt in the portable ashtray before the ashes hit the ground.This ashtray has been used for almost ten years, and the inside is still clean.

Unless there are special circumstances, Chuga will carefully clean the ashtray every night before going to bed, remove the soot and stains, and finally dry the water stains.It can be said that this is his most cherished thing.

"I told him you learned to smoke. He gave me the thing the next day."

Jun Ran said this when he handed the ashtray to Chu Jia.

After graduating from high school, Ye Zhechen was sent abroad to study medicine by his family, and it is said that he never came back.At the beginning, the two agreed to go to college together, get a job together, and live together forever. All these young vows eventually came to nothing.

The appointment time with the beta woman is [-]:[-] noon, and it will take a certain amount of time to drive from school to that store.After smoking, Chu Jia put the dozing Ami back on the cushion, and was thinking of looking for a freshener to remove the smell of cigarettes so that he could go outside when the phone vibrated again.

This time the call was from the stepmother, who said that today happened to be the birthdays of the two younger brothers and sisters, and asked him to go home for a meal.Chu Jia rejoiced secretly, and replied that he had invited his girlfriend to dinner just now, and when the other side heard about this matter, he simply said that it was okay not to go home for dinner.

Finding a beta to marry and live a life that follows the rules is indeed the most important priority in the eyes of "those people" than anything else.

It just so happened that the stepmother had just hung up the phone when another call came in.As soon as he pressed the answer button, Jun Ran's lazy voice that had remained unchanged for thousands of years floated into his ears.

"Are you okay tonight? Come out and get together. Both Xiaoru and Qin Chuan are here, see you at the old place."

"Okay." Chu Jia nodded with a smile.

At [-]:[-] noon, the garden restaurant by the lake is sunny.Beside a bush of winter roses in full bloom, a man and a woman who had met less than ten times since the blind date were sitting opposite each other across a clean white dining table.

The meal was served and the drinks were filled. Chuga politely waited for the woman to start first, but there was no movement for a long time.

"I..." The quiet beta woman gently crossed her hands resting on the table: "I made an appointment with the doctor yesterday and decided to go for an operation."

"Ok?"

Chu Jia tried to think about many reasons for the cold scene between them, but he hadn't expected this sentence today.He looked up at the woman's face, motioning for her to continue talking.

"It's the kind of surgery that allows me to conceive a child."

The woman's face was a little red, and she looked down at the red wine in the glass in embarrassment.But Chu Jia was right, her eyes were full of tenderness and happiness at this moment.

But this is not gentleness for him.

After a brief moment of astonishment, Chu Jia understood.

"No offense, but last time I heard you didn't like the operation. Why did you change your mind now?"

The Beta woman hesitated for a moment, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Actually, it's not that I don't like it, but that I can't afford it. I always feel that telling the truth will be looked down upon by you."

It turned out to be like this, Chu Jia laughed, and decided to end the circle and cut into the most critical part: "Can I ask, who is paying for your surgery now."

"It's a director of our company's partner B." The beta woman's face turned red again: "We met half a year ago, he is an alpha."

She paused at this point, but before Chuga could respond, she bowed her head deeply at him.

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry! Let's break up. I'm determined to choose the person I like, and I can no longer deceive myself to fulfill the expectations of my loved ones."

Chuga sat on the other side of the table, watching the carbonic acid in the non-alcoholic drink evaporate little by little, but he didn't feel too sad.

"Okay, then I can only bless you. I wish you a smooth operation and an early marriage."

The Beta woman didn't seem to expect him to respond so readily, and her expression was a little stiff instead: "I'm sorry for wasting so much of your time. If you want to blame me, I can completely understand."

"No wonder, in fact, I should thank you. At least during this period of time, I don't have to worry about going out on blind dates anymore, and it's a lot quieter."

Speaking of this, Chu Jia smiled: "But it will be troublesome in the future, otherwise you will have classmates and friends who were forced to marry to introduce me."

"Is this really good?" The Beta woman frowned her delicate eyebrows: "Are you really planning to just hang around like this for the rest of your life?"

"It's better than spending a lifetime with someone you don't like."

"How do you know if you don't like it or not?"

"..." Chu Jia felt that the conversation had gone into a misunderstanding, so he could only answer with a smile.

The Beta woman also fell silent, took a sip from the red wine glass at hand, and then let out a sigh.

"Some things, I think it doesn't matter to talk about it now... In fact, sometimes I think your smile is quite fake, it just looks very polite, but in fact you don't care about everything in the world."

"It's all other people's stuff, why should I care about it." Chuga shook his head slightly, his drooping eyelashes casting shadows on his cheekbones.

Although they broke up peacefully with their "girlfriend", they agreed that they would not tell Chu Jia's stepmother the news of the breakup for the time being.Maybe this can only buy a few days, but a few days of free breathing is also very valuable.

After leaving the restaurant, Chuga drove back home, took out the ring from the soap box, cleaned it, and put it on his hand.There was a feeling that life had finally returned to normal, he smiled with satisfaction, and ran to the mirror to see his smile.

It's really a bit fake to smile on the surface and not to laugh.He sighed, simply relaxed his facial muscles, sat on the sofa and turned on the TV.

The documentary channel is playing a biographical film about an alpha celebrity who is reading a book while bowing his head to the background music.The book was published by Qin Chuan at the beginning of this year. It expounded in detail his series of ideas and plans for revitalizing the beta population. Unfortunately, the circulation was very small, and the number sold was even more pathetic.

With a cry, Ami dexterously jumped onto the sofa and began to step on the owner's stomach and turn in circles.Chu Jia stretched out his hand and scratched its chin, and suddenly remembered the words "ex-girlfriend" said at noon.

Who said he doesn't care about everything in the world?The cat was all he cared about right now.