Last Love chapter 37
Han Jiangque was still asleep when Wen Ke got home, so he secretly lifted his blanket and then pressed down from behind, biting the Alpha’s ear. “Wake up, Han Xiaoque!”
Han Jiangque instinctively covered his ear and slowly opened his eyes.
His pitch-black eyes were clean and clear in the sunlight. Wen Ke couldn’t help but press him onto the pillow and kissed him fiercely for a while. “I bought wontons for you. Get up; we’re going to have breakfast soon.”
“Wontons…?”
Han Jiangque was a bit dazed from the kisses. He repeated, and finally, the word “wontons” woke him up completely. “Is there wonton to eat?”
“Yeah.” Wen Ke nodded.
Han Jiangque didn’t say much, just put on a T-shirt and got up to freshen up.
Wen Ke arranged chicken feet, fried spare ribs, and pig ears on a blue and white porcelain plate at the table. While busy, Han Jiangque, with a toothbrush in one hand, wrapped his other arm around him from behind, lifting the hem of his shirt and naturally reaching inside.
“What time did you wake up?” he asked while brushing his teeth.
“I always eat at this wonton place. You’ll definitely like it.” Wen Ke didn’t quite understand what he asked, but he thought it should be an appropriate answer.
“Really?”
“Ah?”
Han Jiangque then ran into the bathroom, rinsed his mouth and spat out the foam, and then poked his head out to ask, “What filling?”
“Shrimp and pork, try both. Whichever you like, eat that bowl.”
Han Jiangque quickly sat down at the dining table and eagerly started eating a bowl of wontons—
The soup in the bowl was still steaming, with a thin layer of glistening oil on top, sprinkled with green onions.
The wonton skin was smooth, with a whole shrimp filling. Swallowing the rich broth and plump shrimp together satisfied not only the taste but also the empty stomach.
“Is it delicious?”
Wen Ke asked with anticipation.
“Delicious.”
Han Jiangque was too busy eating to say much, lowering his head to drink another sip of hot soup. “The soup is good too. I was asking—when did you wake up?”
Wen Ke finally sat down comfortably. “I just woke up not long ago and went downstairs to buy it.”
Han Jiangque took a bite of the crispy fried spare rib and said, “Whatever you want to eat, just wake me up next time to buy it.”
Hearing him say that, Wen Ke smiled. “It’s a small shop, you don’t know the way, and you have to drive. It’s not a bother; it’s fine.”
Han Jiangque looked at the Omega, who was smiling lightly and dressed in casual clothes. Suddenly, he realized—
When Wen Ke bought wontons, it wasn’t because he wanted to eat them, but because he loved eating them.
Although he simply said he went “downstairs” to buy, in reality, it was a distance that required driving. He did it just because he loved eating them.
Han Jiangque’s heart awkwardly throbbed, not knowing what to say. He could only bow his head and eat the wontons.
The familiar feeling, meticulously cared for, was only given to him by Wen Ke.
Wen Ke was that gentle and mature teenager. Even in high school, the 16 or 17-year-old Wen Ke silently protected him.
For him, Wen Ke was initially the best friend, then a love that spanned ten years;
But more importantly, Wen Ke was the person he relied on from the bottom of his heart, the person he couldn’t help but look up to.
No matter how tall he grew, when he held Wen Ke’s hand, he was still the little boy in his own crayon drawing.
His beloved tall giraffe would shield him from the rain under a cloud.
…
Wen Ke felt like he was radiating unprecedented energy. He tidied up the entire house that day, and in the afternoon, he took out the app proposal he had made before and carefully read it again.
The proposal that Zhuo Yuan couldn’t be bothered to look at was something he had spent a month researching, structuring, and designing on his own.
“Last stage of love…?” While Wen Ke was doing something important, Han Jiangque was curious, sitting across from him and flipping through the cover. “Is it a dating app?”
“Yes, that’s right. The UI interface is my own design, not very professional yet.” Wen Ke explained somewhat embarrassedly, “But the main thing is the core idea. I think it’s quite unique.”
“Oh, is it?”
Han Jiangque was very interested. “Come to think of it, it seems that there are more dating apps in the past two years.”
“That’s right. Not only are there more dating apps, but there’s also a whole series of apps that have emerged, such as ride-hailing apps, food delivery apps, all kinds of them. But they all have one thing in common, do you know what it is?”
Seeing that Han Jiangque didn’t find it boring, Wen Ke was also excited.
He actually had many, many ideas, but before, he could only ponder on them alone, at most chatting with friends like Xu Jiale. Now being able to speak them out loud was truly a joyful thing.
“I don’t know.”
Han Jiangque shook his head.
“They are all location-based apps.”
Wen Ke laughed and slowly said, “In fact, all the changes in our phones, what apps are popular, what apps quietly die out, are fundamentally due to technological changes. Many years ago, many phones had imperfect GPS systems, so at that time, the consideration of location wasn’t included in our apps. At that time, we used a lot of news, music, and utility apps. But one day—technology progressed, and everyone’s phones could pinpoint locations accurately down to meters. That’s when these new era apps appeared, whether it’s ride-hailing, food delivery, or socializing, the core of these software is all based on geographic location.”
“So the core of the dating app is also geographic location?”
Han Jiangque listened attentively. He opened his phone, never having used this category of app before, but now he couldn’t help but want to download one to take a look.
“No, our AO dating app now has two cores: one is geographic location, and the other is data computation for matching—just take a look at my phone.”
Wen Ke took out his phone, showing Han Jiangque a dedicated category for dating apps. There were several domestic and international options. He casually opened one called LoveFX to show Han Jiangque, where many Alpha profiles around were displayed.
Squinting, Han Jiangque seemed a bit uneasy and couldn’t resist trying to access Wen Ke’s contacts.
“I haven’t matched with any Alphas; it’s just for research.” Wen Ke couldn’t help but smile. He tapped on the screen to show the precise compatibility recommendation section, then pointed it out to Han Jiangque. “Look, this is the most important architecture of the dating apps on the market now—”
“What does this mean?”
“Simply put, if I, a single Omega, wanted to find a partner on LoveFX, what I need to do is register, log in, and then when entering information, I must input my pheromone ID, E87859. Then, when I start the system to match, it uses big data to calculate, fetching Alphas from the database with a compatibility of over sixty-five percent who are also nearby to recommend to me. That’s precise compatibility matching.”
“But this involves a problem—compatibility between AOs, which previously only hospitals and clinics could accurately calculate using a database. For all the dating apps on the market to embed this feature, they must purchase and compute with the government hospital’s database, and they can only buy a database within a certain range. For example, LoveFX spent a considerable amount during development just to get a database that can calculate compatibility over sixty-five percent. Some lesser developers can only get a database with over fifty percent compatibility.”
“Then…” Han Jiangque was about to speak but hesitated, thought for a moment, and then said, “Doesn’t that mean some apps will lose at the starting line?”
“That’s right. In today’s dating app market, because all developers are eager to embed the compatibility database, it means that whoever loses, they must be able to fight a tough battle. Buying the database is the first challenge, and it eliminates players with insufficient funds.”
Wen Ke said this and suddenly took a deep breath. Then he spoke slowly, “But the app I designed for the last stage of love doesn’t have a compatibility matching section.”
“Not at all?”
Han Jiangque was somewhat surprised.
“Not at all.”
Wen Ke affirmed.
At that moment, the afternoon sunlight fell on Wen Ke’s face—
Speaking earnestly and focused, the brown eyes sparkled with intelligence. Han Jiangque was momentarily in a daze, and the scene seemed like back in high school when Wen Ke repeatedly explained math problems to him.
Like he would emit light.
Radiance in Wen Ke’s eyes.