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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her chest. The situation was far more severe than

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

having noticed him checking his phone earlier,

Wilfred didn't deny it.

all the time he could

the surface, it was a critical medical procedure, but beneath it lay a high-stakes battle between Wilfred

succeeded, the patient could go free. After all, the others wouldn't

they would insist on keeping him under constant observation, claiming it was necessary to find

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

that was the

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

silently vowed to herself

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Karina threw herself into her work with even more intensity. She poured over medical records,

archive.