Ryan sat on the roof of the house, looked up at the dark sky.

It's been a month since he got married, but he hasn't been able to accomplish that once.

He thought he had no worries, but his body didn't listen to him. He regretted a little that he hadn't taken the pill that had been brought to him when he rolled off the chair in the oval room that day, maybe he wouldn't have done it that way. He also couldn't understand himself, why he insisted at that time, didn't a guy in prehistory say that people's biggest trouble is that their memory is too good.

Yesterday, he was interviewed by the Health Services Administration.

Of course, not in the name of an interview, the man claimed to be a marriage expert who specialized in counseling the newly married couple.

His studio is on A Street. Avenue A is the first street built around Ark Square, and the street is full of offices of various departments of the Central Affairs Administration, and from the window you can see the extravagant lawn of Ark Square. Here, is the inner circle of the Ark.

The expert invited Ryan to sit down on a couch by the window, across a small round table, and he sat across from Ryan. The light from the window shone in, and the expert looked very energetic, without a trace of gray hair on his sideburns, and he couldn't tell that he was almost sixty years old, with a pair of ice blue eyes, revealing sincerity and kindness.

The expert first introduced himself, saying that he became the preferred person at the age of 21 and had eight children with his wife, and they are still married.

This is indeed a life to boast about and enviable. Ryan thought that if he hadn't been interviewed, he might have wanted to interview the expert as well.

"Ryan, I know, you may have run into some ...... Minor problems, but it doesn't matter, we can talk casually today. The expert unconsciously patted the electronic monitor in his hand, and Ryan knew that there must be his personal data in it, and it was like, what he did and didn't do every night, they all knew it.

A strong discomfort and resistance welled up in his heart, and Ryan pursed his lips.

"Ryan, do you have any questions you'd like to ask me, any questions?"

Ask what, do you ask, why can't I?

However, Ryan didn't want to be so uncooperative, he thought about it and said, "Marriage, for what? ”

The expert smiled and leaned back slowly, as if hearing the question he wanted. "Since ancient times, reproduction has been the primary proposition of life – I know, you don't want to hear that."

The expert smiled at Ryan and waved his hand, "You must not want to hear that we got married just to have children." Otherwise, why do humans have the word marriage but animals don't?

"The marriage system has existed since ancient times, and it can even be said that it has run through almost the entire history of prehistoric human development. At first, there was no definite marriage, and later, based on the distribution of material resources, people paid attention to the 'right match', and later, based on personal freedom and spiritual freedom, people advocated 'free love', but, to be honest, either way, it was not so easy to find the best of both worlds. ”

"Is it okay now, then?"

"Now I don't dare to say that the development of science and technology is unlimited, we are like a boat sailing on the sea, I dare not say that we have achieved perfection, but I can tell you that the marriage of the Ark has at least achieved the 'optimal match' that has never been achieved in human history before."

“…… What do you mean, 'optimal'? ”

"Heh, you've got to the point. Optimal, from the perspective of the population, so that the species can evolve more efficiently, survive with higher quality, and find the optimal solution for matching individuals of the opposite sex from the perspective of individuals. - You may have to ask, how to understand this optimal solution, right? ”

Ryan waited for his answer.

"Maybe you want to ask me,—— what love is, right?"

Ryan smiled softly as he saw the expert's eyes look at him. "Love, child, love...... Prehistoric humans thought it was elusive, and it already seems to us today to be a very clear thing.

"When we can break down the human body to the smallest particles, hormones, in our opinion, are nothing more than steroids, amino acids, peptides, proteins and fatty acids, the molecular formula and source of each component, we all know exactly how many doses of hormones an individual will produce under what conditions, which is determined by the individual's glands and bodily functions, and these are determined by the individual's genes. Even something as difficult as 'personality' can be clearly explained by its genes. - So you say, love, children, the word is outdated today, because we have a better means, a much more accurate means than love, to find our partner. The ancients believed in love because they had no other way. Didn't the ancients also admit that love is ephemeral and deceptive, but genes don't, children, genes don't. ”

"If that's the case...... "will there be love between two people who are matched?" ”

"Yes, children, or rather, they have a higher probability of being sexually attractive."

Ryan thoughtfully, "So match...... Will there be deviations? ”

The expert's expression paused, and then he smiled: "Kid, are you asking, is it possible that the system is wrong, you are just asking, is it possible that 1 plus 1 is not equal to 2?" ”

"But how do I know that a machine has made the right decision for me?"

"Kid." The expert's smile narrowed, "Are you questioning something?" ”

"I just want to know, the principle of matching. I wonder if the machine, according to you, is it a match based on my preferences, or rather my genetic preferences. ”

The expert laughed, "Kid, you are very smart, so to speak, and very bold, are you questioning the principle of unity that all the people of the Ark are adopting?" Are you questioning the common survival that the Ark has relied on for thousands of years? ”

"In that case, there is nothing that cannot be said."

The expert paused, and then said, "Kid, I'm really curious, why would you question the matching results?" ”

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"Kid, are you here to torture me today?"

"What if I ask you as a reporter for the Ark Daily?"

"What?"

Ryan showed his press card, "The chief editor of the Ark Daily's special edition for the preferred person, if we want to do a special issue and explain the principle of matching to the preferred person, I think everyone will welcome it." ”

"Okay—" The expert leaned back with his hands together, "If you have permission to do so, you're always welcome." ”

Ryan pursed his lips.

The expert said: "Kid, then can you tell me why you will be ...... to the results of the matching?" Have questions? ”

Ryan thought for a moment and said, "What do you think, it feels like this." ”

The expert smiled, "Kid, how reliable is the human sensation when the tranquilizer is stopped?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"The judgment of human sensation is extremely subjective and accidental, for example, the same woman, you see it in different situations, the conclusion may be very different, perhaps, a ray of light, a gust of wind, a wisp of fragrance can influence it."

Ryan was silent, he admitted, and that might not be unreasonable.

Ryan said, "Do you love your wife?" ”

The expert smiled, and Ryan felt that it was quite sincere or kind smile, "Child, to be honest, when I first met her, I didn't know, but when I thought that she was destined to belong to me, I thought she was very cute, and now we have gone through dozens of springs and autumns, and we have never doubted it." ”

The expert opened Ryan's profile, "Child, your wife...... Oh my God, you're so lucky. ”

After an hour-long exchange, we finally got to the crux of the question, why they still didn't do what they had to do after a month of marriage.

"I ...... There is no way. Ryan was overwhelmed and he was already trying his best to cooperate.

It is said that after so many generations of optimization, sexual dysfunction, a major physical defect, has long ceased to exist in the Ark.

"That maybe...... Is it psychological? The expert said.

"Maybe."

"Then you, what kind of psychological barrier do you have?"

Ryan wanted to say that every time he saw Jasmine's face, he remembered the moment in that pure white room, when he lay on a chair like a dehydrated fish and saw the matching results. He couldn't forget that moment.

However, he didn't say that it had nothing to do with Jasmine.

Seeing that Ryan was silent, the expert said, "Is there any medication?" "He's clearly starting to move to a more direct approach.

"No," Ryan blurted out, but he quickly changed his tune, "Okay, I'll try." He wanted to end the conversation, too.

"Well, Lane, I need to remind you," the expert concluded, "that if you do not solve the problem within three months, you will be subject to coercive measures until the woman becomes pregnant." ”

There were no stars to be seen in the dark night sky, and Ryan lay quietly.

The bracelet sent a message reminding him that bedtime was approaching. For a month, it has been faithful to its duties, sending out daily reminders to inform him of Jasmine's menstrual cycle, reminding him to sleep on time, exercise in the right amount, and replenish the nutrients he needs to prepare for pregnancy. Thankfully, it hasn't taken any further steps, although Ryan thinks it could happen at any time.

Every day, pink clear capsules were delivered from the port, and he threw them all in the trash.

Enforcement measures...... What will it be?

Yet Jasmine is innocent. She is sensible and intelligent, she keeps everything in order, she has a maturity that transcends her years, and she always remains beautiful and elegant, even after a great blow and pain. If the Preferred Person is an excellent human being, she undoubtedly deserves this title.

Ryan knew that she might be more miserable and helpless than he was, but she endured it, still making breakfast the next morning and sending Ryan to work with a smile on her face. He was simply touched by the sacrifices she had made for this marriage, and the tolerance and respect she had for Ryan.

And this made him even more uncomfortable.

He even secretly went to check the method of dissolving the marriage. According to the regulations, the dissolution of the marriage relationship of the preferred person shall be ...... after the birth of at least two children

He didn't know what to do.

Is it really the deviation caused by the feelings, as the experts say? He should have fallen in love with Jasmine, but because of the excitement of the match day, he was resistant to Jasmine, the woman was a passerby, but because of the situation that night, he missed her?

But the reporter's intuition told him that in today's conversation, he touched something, and whenever the interviewee was asked a question that he didn't want to say, he would react like the expert.

Matching, will there be a mistake? It wasn't that he dared to question the results of the match, but that the expert's reaction made him doubt it.

Feeling, must it be wrong? What he didn't and couldn't say to anyone was that even today, he would still remember that shadow. Moreover, he will not only think of her appearance, but even have a longing for her, how can she, so unrestrained, run to the vast world......

If this continuous and unchanging feeling is wrong, then his whole person is wrong.

Today, without moonlight, the fallout must have obscured the sky above the ark, and the blades of the dome were tightly closed. A huge repression from all sides pressed down on him.

Three months, he could understand the deadline, after all, everything they enjoyed as the preferred ones was saved by the Ark with all his might.

"Didi." The bracelet sent a bedtime reminder again.

It's not that he doesn't have desires, on the contrary, he, as a normal man, has been tormented by this desire, can't fill it, has nowhere to comfort, and he even began to miss the days of taking tranquilizers, but now he wants to take tranquilizers, but he can't do it.

The dome was pitch black. He imagined thick clouds floating in the air, yes, he could only imagine that he had seen a clear sky, but he had never seen clouds.

"Hula", he heard a voice. That's the sound of something shaking in the wind.

Immediately, a figure flew over his head.