Chapter 1 Chapter 1 "Jin Man, I remember you...
"Jin Man, I remember you're about to be discharged from the hospital. Have you packed your things? If it's inconvenient, I'll ask my wife to take you downstairs."
"After all, you had surgery, and the doctor said you shouldn't be too tired. Oh, your family is really something. If they don't come to visit you, at least hire a nurse for you."
In the hospital, two old men were comforting a young Alpha, who was their roommate. He was young and gentle, with delicate features and a very warm smile. He should be very popular.
But he was all alone when he was in the hospital. He was supposed to have family members come to pick him up yesterday, but for some reason they didn't come.
He waited foolishly until midnight, and when the nurse changed shifts, she saw him sitting alone by the window, eating an apple, staring at the parking lot downstairs.
I probably waited like this all night, and when we met the next day, there were red bloodshot eyes and my face was pale.
"You forgot yesterday, so you won't come today?"
The old man stood up for him. Everyone will grow old one day. It’s bad enough that they, the old people whose bodies are half buried in the ground, are despised, but why is no one caring about young people like this?
Jin Man was very cheerful: "I found a caregiver, but I just couldn't get used to it, so I quit."
The old man didn't believe it and said angrily:
"That won't do. You're family after all. How can you not come to see me once? Glandular surgery is like walking on the edge of life and death."
Grandma Li pinched the old man hard, signaling him to stop talking nonsense. The old man almost jumped up in pain and shut up reluctantly.
"It's just a minor operation, how can it be a matter of life or death?"
Jin Man didn't care, but when he turned around and looked at the text message on his phone, he couldn't help feeling disappointed.
The text message sent on the mobile phone was three days ago. He asked about the child's recent situation. In fact, he wanted to talk to Lu Yanlin because he was uncomfortable with the wound, but the other party never replied.
He didn't call. The last time he called, Lu Yanlin hung up without hesitation. After calling a few times, he was blocked.
Jin Man was not a person who could hide his thoughts. He asked the reason at the dinner table that day, but the man just said lightly:
"If there's anything between you and me, just talk about it face to face. Is today's call important?"
"Well, not really."
Jin Man answered like this. I have forgotten the specific reason, but the alienation and coldness in his tone clearly meant that there was no need to call me for trivial matters.
Jin Man felt uncomfortable, but did not pursue the matter. He then thought that Lu Yanlin had been too busy with work to rest for a long time. It was understandable that he was emotionally unstable during the critical period of his career development. He should provide more support.
After figuring it out, whenever Jin Man had something to say, he would ask the other party's secretary to convey it.
However, some time ago, Lu Yanlin's secretary tactfully said that he was too busy and could no longer answer his calls.
"Well, or...why don't you contact Mr. Lu yourself?"
Jin Man was speechless. He couldn't say that Lu Yanlin didn't answer his calls at all. Thinking that Lu Yanlin might have instructed his secretary to do so, Jin Man was tactful and never contacted him again.
There was a follow-up to the blocking incident. Lu Yanlin later released him and told him that his situation was special at the time and he couldn't answer the phone, but Jin Man kept calling him, so he blocked him.
Lu Yanlin only bowed her head on this matter, and rarely did she close her eyes and kissed him actively.
At that time, he was secretly happy for several days, but in the following months, Lu Yanlin did not return home, and the omega's estrus period was directly passed through powerful inhibitors. When Jin Man learned about this, his mood suddenly turned cold.
That kiss felt more like compensation than Lu Yanlin's sincere apology.
Jin Man still remembers that feeling of loss.
He wanted to be closer to his family and prove that he could support a family like other Alphas.
Lu Yanlin has a cold personality, but he also worked his way up from nothing to his current position, slapping the faces of those who wanted to laugh at him, and even taking revenge on his irresponsible father.
But Jin Man does not have such enviable talent, nor does he have the ability to dominate his professional field.
He is an Alpha with a calm personality and average abilities. In the eyes of others, he got lucky and married a partner who can make a lot of money.
So even if he worked ten times harder, worked overtime every day, and worked until he fainted at his workstation, he would not be able to catch up with the other party's promotion speed.
On the contrary, because the two adults were not at home much and ignored the child at home, the other child slipped and fell down the stairs and almost died.
The most difficult day for Jin Man was also the first time Lu Yanlin got angry with him and even directly proposed divorce.
"I don't want to see you hurt Lu Zhi just to maintain your fragile self-esteem."
"I'm fully capable of supporting this family, but you refuse to acknowledge this for the sake of your so-called Alpha dignity. What's the difference between you and those who attack Omegas as only fit to be family nannies? I'm truly disappointed in you."
"You have never been a qualified father."
"Jin Man, let's get a divorce."
Jin Man raised his head in a daze, those words repeating in his mind. The guilt made him unable to refute, and he almost couldn't breathe after hearing one sentence after another.
He forced himself to respond, not to be a coward in the face of something he should be responsible for. But the huge emptiness made him pause for a long time, looking too exhausted to speak. He felt an extreme sense of self-loathing and powerlessness, wishing he were lying on the operating table.
"Lu... Yanlin..."
He once had great ambitions to be an Alpha that his children would be proud of and his partner would depend on, but he couldn't even provide the most basic protection.
Jin Man lowered his head and reached out to wipe the tears from Lu Yanlin's face, but he was coldly pushed away by him.
"sorry."
In this way, Jin Man's unrealistic ideas of wanting to support the family naturally disappeared.
Jin Man quit his job, returned to his family, and worked hard to be a competent partner and a qualified Alpha father.
But there was still indifference in Lu Yanlin's eyes when he looked at him, and he even seemed to be avoiding him.
“Don’t try to talk about something you don’t understand at all.”
"Glasses don't suit you either."
Jin Man had heard such ruthless words many times. He took off his glasses and apologized, saying, "I didn't think too much when I bought them."
Your partner actually hates you.
Jin Man spent five years and only indirectly confirmed that there was indeed no love in his marriage with Lu Yanlin, and that they were only together due to various pressures and considerations.
In this marriage, the only one who benefited and felt happy was Jin Man.
"Jin Man, don't clean up anymore. Sit down and take a rest. Let your Grandma Li clean up for you. Come on, have a cucumber. We grew it ourselves."
Perhaps because he saw Jin Man was in a daze, the old man realized that he was being too talkative and kept saying things that young people didn't want to hear.
Jin Man was not angry at all. Instead, he found the old man's awkward look very interesting.
He seldom goes out. He has lived in the Lu family for so long and hasn't come into contact with ordinary people that he almost forgot this relaxing feeling. He smiled and said, "It's okay. I'm an Alpha. My wounds heal quickly. I'm leaving now. Please take good care of yourself. These fruits and nutritional supplements are for you and grandma."
The old man snorted, bent down and pulled out a bag from under the bed. Inside was a lively chicken, tomatoes, and green onions. "How can you nourish your body by eating those dry things, young man? You're just eating those useless things for a whole meal."
Jin Man was stunned: "Uncle, this is alive."
The old man glared at him as if it was his fault. "How else could I possibly give you this dead chicken?"
Jin Man was embarrassed for once, standing there stupidly. The old man roughly stuffed the chicken into his arms and said with both pride and disdain, "This is your grandmother's own chicken. It's the best in the world, and it hasn't even laid an egg yet. Where can you find these good things in the city?"
Jin Man: “…”
The old man put his hands behind his back and said, "What's wrong? Do you look down on these country people?"
Jin Man didn't dare. If anyone dared to say that Grandma Li's things were not good, the old man would glare at him and chase him barefoot to the fifth floor.
Jin Man was holding a chicken, carrying vegetables and luggage, and was forcibly sent to the door by the old man.
He glanced at Jin Man's frail body and said with a sigh, "Hey kid, you should call home. Alphas aren't made of iron either."
Jin Man hugged the hot chicken and agreed readily: "Yes, yes, I understand."
He walked out the door and looked back. Through the glass window, she saw Grandma Li peeling oranges for the old man. She found a big red envelope with the words "get well" in the bag and realized that it was left by Jin Man. But when they chased out, there was no one at the door.
Bus stop.
Jin Man and the chicken stared at each other, and the people around him secretly looked at him. After a while, a child asked shyly, "Hello, Susu, can I touch the chicken?"
Jin Man: “…Okay.”
The child touched the feathers on the chicken's back, his cheeks flushed with excitement: "What a cute little chicken! What's its name~"
Jin Man glanced down at the green onions, tomatoes, and potatoes in his pocket. He hesitated, trying to guess what the old man might be preparing. "Maybe... braised chicken?"
The child's eyes turned pale and he said, "What?"
Jin Man quickly shook his head and said stubbornly, "That braised chicken is delicious."
The child was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what was going on. He stroked the chick with his loving hands and said, "So you're delicious! What a cute name!"
The parent next to him twitched his lips, almost unable to contain himself. Jin Man didn't know how to explain without shattering the child's innocence, so he grabbed the chicken, strode onto the bus, and fled.
After the bus arrived at the station, he still had to walk alone for a while. During this time, Jin Man's cell phone rang once, but he had something delicious in one hand and a bag of vegetables in the other, so he really had no hands free.
The phone rang twice and then hung up. I guess it was a harassing call.
Jin Man was sweating, so he found a cool place to sit down and rest. He opened his mobile phone to check the time, but the photo on the screen caught his attention.
It was a family photo of three people, but the angle was very strange. Lu Yanlin was sitting next to Lu Zhi, teaching him to play the violin.
Jin Man raised his mobile phone and took pictures of the three people in the house at the same time in the mirror. They looked casual and warm, but except for Jin Man, the other two had stern faces and stared at the camera coldly, which seemed a little gloomy.
But Jin Man didn't notice. He touched Lu Zhi on the screen and then tapped Lu Yanlin.
They have very similar temperaments, and there is not a single part of Lu Zhi that he inherited from Jin Man.
The coldness and arrogance from Lu Yanlin were also very obvious in a five-year-old child.
Lu Zhi was born into an upper-class family. His grandmother and grandfather were both very powerful people with almost no flaws.
His biggest shortcoming is his Alpha father, who has no obvious genetic features, so he and Jin Man don't get along.
Jin Man sighed, wondering how he should carry the chicken back to the Lu family.
What if I get in and fly over to Lu Zhi's piano and shit...
He couldn't bear to imagine this scene.
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