Only Wing

If he knew that "adulthood" means unconditionally accepting an unfair social order, then Chuga would never come to today's coming-of-age ceremony.

Unexpectedly, according to "reasonableness", the queue for the coming-of-age ceremony is arranged according to the population.If a helicopter flies over the Temple of Confucius at this time, it should be able to see a very interesting picture - the students of the three populations of Beta, Omega and Alpha are arranged from the fewest to the most, which is a bit like a mobile phone full of people. grid signal.

Of course, this weird population ratio does not represent the actual population ratio, but it is quite similar to the flow of social wealth.At present, the Beta with the most total number holds the least wealth, which is a ridiculous but helpless reality.

About 120 people from this school came to the coming-of-age ceremony this year, most of them were sophomores, and a few were seniors born in the second half of last year. There are only 20 people in Beta, and 10 of them are known by Chuga.

At this moment, standing next to Chu Jia was a boy in the third year of high school, wearing a loose silver-white Tai Chi suit, which was baggy, like a morning exerciser who had sneaked into the team.

If it wasn't for the single-wing badge on the chest, Chuga would almost think it was a typical Omega.He was a little shorter than Chugalue, with healthy and fair skin, and slightly long hair that was soft and shiny.The most beautiful face is of course that face, which is handsome and heroic, but the expression is always lazy, and the raised eyebrows and the slightly raised corners of the mouth give people a cynical feeling at the same time.

Like a long-haired cat who doesn't bother to please people.

"My name is Junran." He introduced himself: "I know you, you are the class monitor of the second-year high-talented students. Tsk tsk, it's a pity, I don't have a good background."

There is an unwritten rule that all orphanages and other welfare institutions take over and raise abandoned babies, and their surnames should be one of the five characters "Heaven, Earth, Monarch, Parent, Teacher".Jun Ran is such an orphan. He said that he was very lucky that he didn't get the surname "Tian" in the draw.

As a Beta who was abandoned by his parents, Jun Ran was unfortunate but also lucky.The family that adopted him had money and social status, and they were happy to give this adopted son the same fair treatment as a legitimate son.

"You should know my brother." He blinked at Chu Jia: "Lin Junshi, Class One, Senior Three."

Even without the phrase "Class One, Senior Three", Lin Junshi's name, Chu Jia, is "like thunder".A year ago when he was only a sophomore in high school, he brought a group of adults into a fight with someone in an alley 100 meters west of the school. Exam.

The grades are not bad.

The younger brothers that Lin Jun took into fights were all his father's subordinates, and their family is the legendary underworld.Therefore, there are still rumors in the school that Lin Junshi and Ye Zhechen know each other, but in reality, the number of times the two sides meet and talk is almost zero.

Alphas are somewhat of a violent species.To a certain extent, Lin Junshi is an idol-level existence.Under the shadow of this Alpha brother, even if Jun Ran's Beta identity is made public, he won't encounter much trouble.

In fact, Jun Ran didn't seem to feel how bad his group was.

"Do you know what's in the self-help manual issued to Omega?"

While the principal was rambling on stage, Jun Ran bumped Chu Jia's arm again: "Then it says, if Omega is raped and the strength gap between the two sides is very different, it is not recommended that Omega resist forcefully, but should try to Convince the rapist to wear a condom and not get stuck in the body, try to cooperate and enjoy the sex process. Take contraceptive pills in time afterward, just in case."

"Cooperate, enjoy? How could it be written that way in the manual." Chu Jia blushed and frowned: "Let's not mention whether you can get pleasure from cooperating with the violence. What if the police decides that the two parties have a voluntary relationship?"

"Oh, you don't need to be serious about these corners and corners, you don't understand what I mean." Jun Ran patted him on the back to comfort him: "Brother, since we know each other, why don't you go out to play some other day? If you like Alpha or Omega, I can help you find them too. Anyway, when it comes to hooking up, our Betas are the most popular."

Junran grew up as an orphan and adopted son, and his Beta identity is obviously not a secret, and his superior appearance has obviously brought him many and various pleasure experiences.

No matter which population is concerned, this is a season that blooms like flowers, and perhaps the most beautiful season for the Beta population—the vast majority of them have not yet begun to taste loss and loneliness.

Indeed, infertility does not mean that there is no human emotions.Those Betas in the society who are as busy as worker bees and dedicate their lives to their careers are not indifferent by nature, but are self-numbed after all kinds of desires.And where there is numbness, there will be indulgence. Chu Jia just doesn't know that laissez-faire is so close to him.

The boring coming-of-age ceremony was still going on, and Chu Jia also forgot how he rejected Jun Ran's invitation.It's not that he dislikes Junran's way of squandering his youth in pursuit of pleasure, but simply feels that it's not his own way, and he can't disappoint his traditional father and mother.

At eleven o'clock in the noon, the lengthy ceremony finally came to an end.Due to the school holiday in the afternoon, the students who had stood for several hours disbanded on the spot and began to take pictures in twos and threes.

Chu Jia declined Jun Ran's invitation to eat, and was unable to find Ye Zhechen's figure in the vast crowd.He turned around in a little disappointment, and slipped out through the side door of the Confucius Temple before more people saw the Beta badge on his chest.

As for lunch, Chuga usually settles in the school cafeteria very peacefully.Occasionally, at the invitation of my classmates, I go to McDonald's or KFC near the school.Although he doesn't particularly like the way of eating more than ten packs of French fries all at once onto the plate, but obviously, this kind of silly happiness is about to go away from him.

He removed the single-wing badge and put it in his pocket, avoiding the busiest places of the crowd and walking west along the secluded alley.His home is not far from here, close to the quiet grove in the scenic area.

Chuga's mother is not in good health, and she has been doing housework at home since about ten years ago.There was no one at home at noon, and it was mother's rest time. Thinking of this, Chu Jia gently opened the door, took off her shoes and put them in the shoe cabinet.

The sound of the TV in the living room was turned on very loudly, and it was heard all the way to the entrance.It was only then that Chu Jia remembered that during meals, his mother mentioned that there was a very good legal program at noon, and she should be watching it now.

He walked forward following the sound, and inserted the frangipani flowers on his chest into the vase in front of the Guanyin statue at the entrance partition.At this time, the voice of the male host on the TV stopped and was replaced by the mournful cry of a young woman.

Chu Jia was slightly taken aback, and naturally listened carefully to the intermittent narration of the crying.It turned out that today's case was a family inheritance dispute.

A pair of Alpha and Omega had a Beta child, and the couple died in a car accident half a year ago.On the day of the funeral, the husband's brother came forward and expressed that he would inherit his brother's inheritance. It turned out that Omega's wife lost her fertility due to an accident in the early years, and the Beta child was adopted by the husband and wife.According to the current law, the brothers who are Alpha have higher inheritance rights than the adopted daughter who is Beta.

On the TV, Beta, a desperate woman, is still crying: "I have lived in this home for 25 years, my parents, my home...how can there be nothing?!"

After thinking about it for a while, Chuga naturally sympathized with this unfortunate woman.At this time, he was already standing at the door of the living room, and saw his mother sitting on the sofa directly opposite the TV, holding a pack of tissues in her left hand.

She was also crying, Chu Jia was taken aback.

Although my mother is a very gentle person, she will not be moved by a legal program. It must be because there is something in the case that makes her emotional.

Just as Chu Jia was thinking of this, the phone rang suddenly.Mother turned down the volume of the TV, coughed twice, and then hurriedly picked up the microphone.

The call was from my grandmother, and my mother called "Mom" into the phone, and then shook her head.

"No, it's okay, I didn't quarrel with Lao Chu. I was just watching a legal program, and the situation there reminded me of Xiao Jia..."

Thinking of me?Chu Jia was slightly taken aback, and suddenly had a bad premonition.

Does the beta in that legal program have anything in common with me?

The grandmother on the other end of the phone didn't know what to say, and the mother's eye circles were a little red again, so she hurriedly wiped it with a tissue.

"It's okay, Mom." She wanted to comfort the old man on the other end of the phone in turn: "I have already made an agreement with Lao Chu for three chapters. In case something happens between us, the bulk of the inheritance must be left to Xiaojia, and he must not be let go. The Chu family squeezed out... Anyway, in my heart, Xiao Jia is my own..."

"biological"? !

In an instant, the chill suddenly rose, Chu Jia shivered, and heard the woman's voice on the TV switch to the calm and self-sufficient commentary of the male host.

"At present, 30% of the families in the country have only one child, and only 10% of them are Beta only children. It can be said that the probability of having only one Beta child in the family is very low, because many Beta only children have sexed as early as the early pregnancy. Transformation. Statistics show that about 35% of Beta fetuses in our country are successfully transformed into Alpha or Omega through surgery every year, while 10% of the operations fail, resulting in fetal or even maternal death..."

Gender reassignment surgery, gender reassignment surgery...

Chuga's eyelids jumped suddenly.

Do not……

Chuga's mother was also a Beta.The reason why she was able to give birth to Chuga is said to be because of a fertility operation that artificially changed the body structure.However, this kind of operation is expensive and the risk of failure is extremely high, so few people are willing to try it.

And this kind of fertility surgery is often bundled with the sex selection surgery of the fetus.Beta mothers who are tortured because of infertility often hope that their children will have the function of reproduction at birth, so as to avoid suffering like mothers in the future.

The father obviously didn't like his own beta attribute. According to this, why didn't they modify Chuga's inner gender when they were pregnant with it?Whether it's alpha or beta, it only needs one operation to change, isn't it?

It's not a question of money, Chuga's father is the president of the university, enough to afford the high cost of surgery.

It's not that I don't want to change...but that I can't.

Mother lied.

She had no fertility surgery at all.She had always been a sterile beta, and Chuga was not her own.

What a fragile truth... Did the father expect his son to deduce this fact soon, so he showed that silent and disappointed expression?

Scenes from childhood to adulthood flashed through my mind like a silent movie, but there was only one voice over and over again.

"Heaven, Earth, King, Parent, Teacher...Heaven, Earth, King, Parent, Teacher..."

Chuga silently recited these five words as if suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and then began to back away silently.He wanted to escape, bit by bit, out of sight where he could see the tears on his mother's face.

Unfortunately, the accident still happened.He knocked down the Guanyin statue on the altar table in the porch, and the fallen Guanyin pushed the vase in front of him.In the crisp crackling sound, the few pale yellow frangipani flowers fell to the ground, and the petals were pierced by the porcelain pieces.

The mother on the sofa looked around in astonishment, and saw her son standing at a loss in the porch of her house.

"Mom, I..."

As soon as he spoke, Chu Jia was also taken aback by his hoarse voice.He looked up, only to find that the person reflected in the mirror in the entrance had tears streaming down his face.