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There are a total of 769 male insects on temporary assignment and 237 female insect employees in the office, six of whom are Wei Shao's direct subordinates and can easily come into contact with him at work.

Of course, if Wei Shao doesn't want to, this connection can be severed - the office can still function without these male insects.

Wei Shao scanned the information of his six subordinates and finally fixed his eyes on one of them. The young man in the bare-headed photo had a delicate face and gentle eyes.

It was Thalia, the clerk who had stirred up the quarrel between him and Philo that day.

The assistant put the file on Wei Shao's desk, saw the information in Wei Shao's hand, and interrupted, "Ah, it's Talia."

Wei Shao raised his eyes and looked at him: "Well, what do you have to say?"

The assistant then remembered that Wei Shao was not a female colleague, but a male. He was terrified that he had said something wrong. "I'm sorry, Mr. Deputy Director. I just remembered that something happened at Talia's home recently. His female brother got cancer and needed money urgently. Talia was very worried recently."

Wei Shao glanced at him with a half-smile, and put the documents in his hand back into the drawer: "Ask Talia to come over."

The assistant was slightly startled, then quickly nodded: "Okay."

After a while, there was a knock on the office door. After Wei Shao answered, Talia walked in.

He looked much more haggard than before, and his hair was no longer tied straight like before, but simply tied up. A few strands of hair in front of his forehead hung down beside his cheeks and chin, adding a sense of fragility.

Wei Shao raised his head and glanced at him, saying casually, "Sit down."

Talia said in a panic: "Sir, this doesn't seem appropriate..."

Wei Shao took a sip of water and said, "You can stand if you want."

"..." Talia pursed her lips and asked softly, "You are looking for me, do you have anything to tell me?"

Wei Shao looked at him and asked, "I heard that something happened at home. Is your brother sick?"

Talia's eyes dimmed slightly, "Yeah, cancer."

Wei Shao casually asked, "Where does your brother work?"

"He just graduated not long ago and was originally planning to pass the civil service exam to enter the Ministry of Truth in the Parliament Library, but now he can only live in the hospital." Talia said, her eyes slightly red.

"Cancer treatment is expensive, right? Are you having financial difficulties?"

Talia looked embarrassed and her voice was stammering.

Wei Shao crossed his fingers and placed them on his knees, and concluded, "There must be one, otherwise you wouldn't have found my assistant and asked him to pass on the message for you."

Talia's face turned pale.

"He should have a good relationship with you... Well, it may be that you gave him some benefits?" Wei Shao looked at him, "Of course, what I am most curious about is why you came to me."

Talia's expression was very ugly: "Sir, I don't understand what you are talking about..."

"I don't like my subordinates playing tricks on me, Talia," Wei Shao said in a slightly cold tone, "It's not difficult for me to get rid of a small clerk who makes me unhappy."

Talia bit her lip tightly. After a while, she walked up to Wei Shao and begged humbly, "Sir, I know I was wrong. Please don't do that."

Wei Shao's tone softened: "Answer my question, Talia."

"Yes." Talia choked slightly, "I bribed Noel and hope he can mention me more in front of you, because I want to be your female servant and want your help..."

Wei Shao looked at him with pity in his eyes: "Talia, there is no provision in the marriage law that male insects must help female insects solve family difficulties. This is a very stupid plan."

Talia nodded with red eyes: "Yes... but you are different from ordinary male insects. I know you are a good person... so..."

"That's even more stupid," Wei Shao shook his head. "Talia, every bug can only trust and rely on itself in this world. I've read your resume. You have a bachelor's and master's degree from Imperial Star University. You are excellent. You should know this."

Talia lowered her head in embarrassment and smiled bitterly: "Yes..."

Wei Shao: "How much is left for your brother's medical expenses?"

Talia paused, staring at Wei Shao blankly, with anticipation and anxiety in her eyes: "If the operation goes well, seven hundred thousand..."

Wei Shao nodded: "I can help you make up the difference - by the way, what did your brother study in college?"

Talia's lips trembled slightly, but she still controlled her emotions and answered: "Law."

"Not bad. Once you recover, there's no need to bother taking the exam. I'm still short of a legal officer. The salary won't be worse than the Ministry of Truth." Wei Shao looked at him. "How is it?"

Talia was stunned for a while before she came back to her senses: "Do you want me to help you with something?"

Wei Shao asked back: "You don't want to?"

Talia didn't hesitate: "No, sir, I do."

As long as he could save his brother, he was willing to agree to any of Wei Shao's conditions.

"That's enough," Wei Shao smiled slightly, "Talia, follow me well, and you will get everything you want."

-

Talia has been in the office for a long time, knows a lot, and is efficient. With Talia, the time Wei Shao wasted in the office was reduced by eighty percent.

The Zerg do not have the concept of the Spring Festival, but the night of December 31st is considered New Year's Eve.

In previous New Year's Eves, Philo always spent them with Ludel, and this year was similar, except that Wei Shao was added.

Philo was cooking in the kitchen while Wei Shao helped him prepare the food. In the living room's movie theater, the New Year's Eve party organized by the Dixing TV Station was playing. The lively sounds of singing, dancing and music filled the entire space.

Ludel sat on the carpet, laughing at the skits, his red hair swinging back and forth.

"Pass me the shovel."

"Oh." Wei Shao turned around and handed him the spatula on the shelf, then stood up again. "After you finish this dish, I'll fry the rest, okay?"

Philo paused and said, "No need."

Wei Shao didn't want to say that he was afraid that he would get tired, so he just said, "Let me try."

"You won't do it."

Wei Shao was not convinced. He had seen Philo do it so many times, and his eyes seemed to have learned it: "I can do it."

Philo frowned and turned around: "I'll let you try next time. Ludel is here today, and if you waste the ingredients, there won't be enough."

Wei Shao thought he was being unreasonable: "You haven't seen me cook, how do you know I can't do it?"

Philo sighed.

He glanced at the sofa, and after making sure that Ludel would not turn his head, he walked up to Wei Shao, raised his head and gently bit Wei Shao's lips, and said vaguely: "Don't make trouble, be good."

"..." Wei Shao's eyes suddenly widened.

Philo had already turned back to cooking. Wei Shao came back to his senses, his heart itching as if a feather was tickling him, but he didn't say a single nice word: "How could you kiss me without my consent? We are not in a relationship anymore... This is inappropriate and ambiguous."

Philo turned off the fire with a snap, his face grim: "So what do you want?"

Wei Shao also glanced at the sofa, then quickly closed the kitchen sliding door and said seriously, "It's courtesy, I want to kiss her back."

…

“Bang!”

Ludel picked up the cup that had fallen to the ground stiffly, and said as he quickly walked away, "I'm sorry, you...you continue."

Wei Shao: “…”

Philo wiped his mouth hard with his sleeve, making his already red lips even redder.

Wei Shao coughed lightly: "I just thought about it, kissing is actually an obligation within a sex partner relationship——"

"Bang!"

Philo rushed him out of the kitchen and slammed the door behind him.

Wei Shao thought that Fei Luo was never shy when they were alone, but he became so shy in front of strangers. He was indeed a hypocrite.

With a smile on his face that he himself didn't even notice, he sat down at the dining table - although he was thick-skinned, it was not thick enough to sit next to Ludel at this time as if nothing had happened.

Wei Shao opened the terminal and saw the "Happy New Year" sent by Chen He more than ten minutes ago, so he replied.

He suddenly thought of someone.

Is Ji Peiyan alone now?

Although Ji Peiyan was a bit of a scoundrel, he was still his only fellow villager in this world. After thinking for a moment, Wei Shao walked to the balcony and made a phone call to greet him.

Thirty seconds passed before the call was answered and Wei Shao said "Hello" lazily.

Another three or four seconds passed before a voice came from the other side: "Wei Shao?"

The voice was much lower than Ji Peiyan's, and it was obvious that it was not Ji Peiyan himself.

Wei Shao frowned: "Chen He? Did I call the wrong person?"

"That's right. What do you want to talk to Teacher Ji about?"

Wei Shao subconsciously asked: "Where is Ji Peiyan?"

"He's not available to answer the phone right now. Just tell me if you have anything to say." Chen He's tone was a little impatient, as if he was patiently talking to Wei Shao.

Wei Shao then noticed that Chen He's breathing was unstable while he spoke, as if he had just done strenuous exercise.

Thinking of this phone call...

Wei Shao was silent for two seconds, then said expressionlessly, "Excuse me, please continue. By the way, I wish you a happy new year."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

He was standing on the balcony, enjoying the snowy breeze, and suddenly he could empathize with Ludel just now.

-

Ji Peiyan's previous statement that he wanted to be a love security guard for Wei Shao and Fei Luo was not just talk. He sold his body and asked Chen He a lot about Marshal Carlos' past.

"It's a pity that he can't find out what I didn't write down," Ji Peiyan said on the other end of the communication. "Most bugs don't know what the situation is. They only know that the late emperor and a few nobles who keep their word have unanimously convicted Carlos of treason."

"Yes, I understand." Wei Shao was not surprised. "By the way, I have something else to ask you."

"you say."

"I found that there are many proposals in the House of Commons to further develop inhibitors. Logically, such an important bill should be submitted to the House of Lords," Wei Shao said in a deep voice, "Is there something fishy going on?"

"..." Ji Peiyan was silent for a while, "You want to check?"

When Wei Shao heard his tone, he knew that he must know something, and he suddenly felt annoyed and powerless.

Ji Peiyan is a slippery old fox. If the other party had not found out about it himself, he would never tell them on his own initiative. If the other party mentioned it, he would just evade the question and simply say, "I don't know the plot beyond the content of the novel."

Ji Peiyan's Zerg novel is entirely about the love story between Philo and Kwei, with almost no serious plot.

Wei Shao often listened to it with anger and clenched fists, but he could not hear any useful information.

Ji Peiyan: "Don't scold me in your heart first, I'm really not sure. When I wrote this book, I was in a very bad state. I just wanted to write some crazy love and hate, so I almost didn't write anything about the plot logic. I just made the settings in my mind..."

--here we go again.

Wei Shao: "Ji Peiyan, get to the point."

"Don't be impatient, listen to me slowly," Ji Peiyan said, "I felt that this setting was unreasonable no matter how I thought about it. How could female insects be so powerful yet fall to the bottom? So when I wrote it, I deliberately exaggerated the class contradiction rather than the contradiction between males and females, and also implied that male insects were noble but not respected in this setting. In this way, the ruling class used the blood of female insects to violently control female insects, and the so-called Male Insect Protection Act and Marriage Law were also tools to achieve control."

Wei Shao said slowly: "So once an inhibitor without side effects is developed, this system will..."

Collapsed with a loud bang.