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.

*

felt a weight in her chest. The situation was far more severe than she'd

two weeks from now," Wilfred said, lowering his phone. His gaze was

him checking his phone earlier, asked, "Did you negotiate

Wilfred didn't deny it.

that was all the

had been scheduled just a few days away. On the surface, it was a critical medical procedure, but beneath it lay a high-stakes battle between Wilfred and the

free. After

failed, they would insist on keeping him under constant observation, claiming it was

they want about noble intentions, but it's obvious they just want to keep

that was the

man-could no longer serve as his company's CEO. Gossip swirled around him, and the relentless scrutiny only piled more pressure on someone who simply longed to

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