CEO’s Tears Over Pregnancy Test Discovery

Chapter 1766

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.

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the research facility, Karina felt a weight in her chest. The situation was far

to two weeks from now," Wilfred said, lowering his

checking his phone

Wilfred didn't deny it.

the time

surface, it was a critical medical

could go free.

him under

seethed with anger. "They can talk all they want about noble intentions, but it's obvious

was

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Gossip swirled around him, and the relentless scrutiny only piled more pressure on someone

say anything more but silently vowed to herself that

*

threw herself into her work with even more intensity. She poured over medical records, lab results, and any case studies she could find, including one she uncovered from

archive.