Gao Yi's office is next door to his personal laboratory, and after passing through a small inconspicuous door, what appears in front of him is a spacious space with a 270-degree view and a starry roof.

The Zhiyun Building, where the Zhishan Micro Identification Laboratory is located, is two oval-shaped sister buildings. Located on the top floor of one of the labs, the six public laboratories are arranged around two large sets of elevator shafts, and the floors are divided by independent laboratories that form bright and spacious office and leisure areas between the independent laboratories and the glass curtain wall.

Gao Yi's laboratory is located at the top of an oval, and the office connected to it is the best view of the whole building. Thanks to the bow shape of the top floor, the entire space is in the shape of a teardrop, suspended from the overall building, with a ceiling height of 12 meters. Here, together with Gao Yi's personal laboratory, it was originally the president's office of Zhiyun Group. In order to make room for space, the management of Zhiyun Group has moved to the sister building opposite.

Gao Yi walked over to the coffee machine, changed the filter, and pressed 'x4' in the Espresso option. The machine chirped, and Gao Yi checked his phone while the coffee was dripping down.

17 missed calls, 52 unread messages, no WeChat, and no WhatsApp.

Just like insisting on using a mechanical watch, using a wooden pencil, eraser, and scratch paper, Gao Yi doesn't like to interrupt to answer the phone while working and thinking, and he doesn't like to use social software that causes time fragmentation. He sees these persistences as a kind of model, a kind of scientist's style, especially after the end of his academic path, which has risen to become a ritual, a tribute to the past years.

He opened the call log, and it was full of numbers that rang once and didn't redial again. For this kind of call, unless it is an important person, Gao Yi generally will not take the initiative to call back. Not being able to get through but not continuing to play means that nothing is important.

He looked at the records a little, and among them, there was probably only one important person, his wife. Looking at the time again, it was still called in when I first started recording videos. After such a long time, there is no need to go back, it is estimated that there are some quilts, bedspreads and other topics - as the new house begins to be arranged, similar trivial things suddenly increase. It's like a well-functioning machine, and suddenly an unreliable peripheral plugs in, and the screen is full of abnormal interruptions.

Text messages are also unimportant, either the sender is not important, or the content is not important. His fingers kept swiping across the screen, and—

Why is there a text message from a girl at the front desk?

In my impression, this seems to be the first time that the girl at the front desk took the initiative to contact him.

In fact, with the exception of the secretary and a few AAs, very few employees will call or text him directly, and even most of the employees' phone numbers will not appear in his contact book at all. The staff directory in his mobile phone is maintained by the secretary, and the front desk is only entered because it is a position under the management of an administrative assistant, and generally should not have the opportunity to deal directly with him.

As for the day-to-day communication between him and the employees, it is enough to have an email. After all, the laboratory is not a sales or marketing department, and the immediate flow of information is not crucial, but an undisturbed working environment is the primary guarantee.

Gao Yi's fingers in motion paused, and then swiped in the opposite direction, so that the information that had just slipped away from his eyes returned to the screen again.

The girl at the front desk sent him a total of six text messages. According to the part revealed in the last text message: "In the English test, Xiao Ming scored 0 points, so the teacher dragged Xiao Ming to the podium...... "This doesn't seem to be a big important information-

Gao Yi clicked on the text message.

Bad jokes, bad jokes...... Bad jokes, 6 bad jokes in a row. It was so cold that Gao Yi's heart rippled.

Was it sent by mistake? Or is it some new flirtatious skill? Or is it a casual glance in your own flirtatious eyes? Or was the other party comprehended the ambiguity and obscurity revealed in his occasional jokes?

"Didi", the coffee machine finally spit out the coffee, making a crisp beeping sound, but due to the concentration, it is only a shallow layer at the bottom of the cup. For Gao Yi, this amount was far from enough, he pressed the 'X4' button again, and the coffee machine worked again.

Gao Yi opened the trash bin function and began to check the text messages that need to be deleted one by one. Soon, the text message from the girl at the front desk appeared in front of him again.

If there is anything that the years have taught Gao Yi, it is that people really change.

Gao Yi still remembers that when he was a child, he liked girls with big pie faces and noses, but by the time he reached junior high school, he was already very good at how to define beauty. Then his aesthetic gradually changed from simple and pure beauty, to lively and beautiful, youthful and lovely with the addition of temperament elements, and then to the maturity and plumpness related to the body. With the improvement of the level of knowledge, the broadening of horizons, and the rise of social status, intellectual gentleness, wisdom and elegance, and temperament are refined, and various parameters are constantly added to his definition of beauty. Next, the gradual enrichment of experience makes him no longer so obsessed with knowledge, temperament, taste, these acquired elements, the growth of age makes him need youth as an embellishment, and the increasingly calm temperament makes him prefer the delicate state of a girl, and the big heart that is no longer moved by external objects is more eager for lively elements that can play a chemical reaction. In the end, when the fragrance was exhausted, when the attributes of youth, coquettishness, and liveliness could no longer stir up waves in his heart, his definition of beauty returned to its original nature, and returned to simple and pure beauty.

And in this new era of changing breasts at any time and changing faces at every turn, what is simpler, purer, and more simple than two fair-skinned and healthy, shiny and smooth, plump but slender long legs?

So when Gao Yi's fingers rested on the six cold jokes again, he didn't even need the radio waves of the call, even if it was just a text message, even if there was a heavy laboratory in between, he could still clearly feel the power transmitted from the other end, which was from the power of the nine heads and long legs.

Whether or not he can always maintain a poker face that has collapsed before and after others, whether he always sees his sister like air with clear eyes, the male instinct carried in his genes can never be erased.

And males are always opportunists -

And isn't that the time for it?

Gao Yi ticked the box in front of the text message composed of cold jokes, and then pressed the trash can. The mailbox was immediately cleaned, and there was not a trace of useless information left.

The word "Timing" is really, really important. If this incident had been delayed for two years, or even just one year, Gao Yi would not have made the choice he made today. Regardless of whether or not the text messages were sent by mistake – logically the odds of six consecutive missent are slim – he saw an opportunity to try.

But the problem is that he is now in a critical period when he has just pulled out his certificate but has not yet held a wedding. This state of being married or unmarried is the most sensitive, and although he has not found any relevant clues, he can always feel that there are a few eyes that are always staring at him, some are scrutinizing, and some are ill-intentioned.

Regarding the proposition of "whether he will cheat after marriage", Gao Yi never bothered to think about it.

Although when he was a young man, Gao Yi also thought that marriage was to find a like-minded partner of the opposite sex, and then hold the hand of the son and grow old with the son, but if someone asks him this question now, then his answer must be, this is a false proposition.

Even people's aesthetics are constantly changing, so how can we talk about unswervingness. When you already feel that the other person is no longer attractive, what is the basis of the so-called loyalty?

Some people maintain their marriage by mutual affection, some people maintain their marriage by the righteousness of overcoming difficulties together, and some people maintain their marriage by long-term inertia, but whether it is love, righteousness, or inertia, their forces are all within a scope. It may not affect the upgrading of a small pond into a large pond, but if it is replaced by a river or a sea, everyone may forget about the rivers and lakes.

The love of the snail dwelling stems from the lack of choice, and once the external restrictions are broken, the conditions for love do not exist. This is also why when you look at some circles, you will sigh that your circle is really chaotic, there is more water, more fish, and more choices.

Gao Yi always believes that the only thing that can really maintain a marriage is the word Li, and it is better to pursue interests than to pursue love and heart-to-heart communication in marriage. People always have times when they get tired of each other, and their minds change all the time.

Only profit can constrain the action of the fish like a thread hooked to the lip; In order to be like an anchor, the ethereal spiritual world of love, love, and loyalty can be fixed into a solid material world.

Therefore, for this marriage, he cannot afford to lose.

Because his wife's name is Gu Meimei, Gu Meimei has a father named Gu Zhishan. Gu Meimei only has one father, and Gu Zhishan also has only one daughter.