The young man smiled faintly but then asked, "Do you know how old I am?"

Karina paused, caught off guard. Though unsure why he was asking, she played along. "Twenty?"

Looking no older than eighteen, she had deliberately guessed a little high. With his rapid cell division slowing his aging, she figured he might appear a couple of years younger than his actual age.

But his smile deepened. "I'm thirty-five. I might even be 10 years older than you."

Karina's eyes widened in shock.

He explained that he was the CEO of a publicly traded company. Because he was already in his thirties yet didn't age, his family was pressuring him to seek treatment. He was also increasingly uneasy about his condition. "I can't keep living like this forever. What if I end up becoming some kind of monster?"

Hearing this left Karina disoriented. She couldn't believe it. He didn't look a day over high school age.

For the first time, she truly grasped the saying: appearances can be deceiving.

*

research facility, Karina felt a weight in her chest. The

been pushed back to two weeks from now," Wilfred said, lowering his phone. His gaze was fixed straight ahead, his expression cold and his mood clearly

phone earlier, asked, "Did you negotiate

Wilfred didn't deny it.

that was all the time he could

was a critical medical

go free. After all,

under constant observation, claiming it was

Karina seethed with anger. "They can talk all they want about noble

that was

condition, the young man-no, the man-could no longer serve as his company's CEO. Gossip swirled around him, and the relentless scrutiny only piled more

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