How many years can a person live?
The normal human lifespan, if there are no illnesses and cells simply stop dividing naturally, eventually leading to death, is around a century.
But even without any diseases, the metabolic rates of people's cells are entirely different.
Many fifty-year-olds have hearts like a thirty-year-old.
Yet some, just after graduating from university, give off a feeling of weariness.
Su Nan Yin, long hailed as a timeless beauty, doesn't rely on filters or fashion to stay youthful.
It's because her telomeres (the ends of chromosomes) divide differently from ordinary people (such people are one in ten million), which makes her cellular metabolism far superior to that of normal people, ensuring the true rejuvenation of her body.
As a top global expert in biochemistry and genetics, Meng Yue is of course well aware of all these things.
Meng Yue doesn't know about things like the "Four Phoenixes Circling the Rafters" formation.
Driven by a woman's most primal instinct, she's always been jealous of Su Nan Yin's agelessness and has long wanted to dissect her for research, but hasn't had the chance.
Today.
Su Nan Yin rushed over, asking Meng Yue to help identify the actual ages of her and Li Qianfan's cells.
Meng Yue couldn't have asked for more—
Without asking for reasons, she personally handled the task and quickly obtained the results.
But she was stunned.
Because Su Nan Yin's cells were actually younger than Li Qianfan's!
How is this possible?
It must be a mistake.
Again!
The second test yielded the same result.
No.
Again!!
Thus, what should have taken Meng Yue twenty minutes to get results for, turned into over an hour of repeated testing.
But each time, the result was that Su Nan Yin's actual age was twenty-nine.
While Li Qianfan, who is only 22, was, to Meng Yue's disbelief, 33 years old.
Meng Yue wondered how Su Nan Yin had begun to grow younger.
Then, looking at the great Empress—
Her face gradually paled as she looked at the lab report, her hands began to tremble uncontrollably.
She could sense her own youth; Uncle Kui and the others could see it too.
She now believed even more firmly in the "Four Phoenixes Circling the Rafters" formation.
But even though she had been mentally prepared, she still couldn't accept this outcome.
Her cells were actually younger than that of a caterpillar's!!
"Is this the terrifying effect of the 'Four Phoenixes Circling the Rafters' formation?"
"To have brought about such a qualitative change in me within just a few months of interacting with Qianfan."
"How could someone so young bear to die!?"
Su Nan Yin silently questioned herself.
Meng Yue, seeing her constant trembling and silence,
Could not help but ask, "Su Nan Yin, tell me, how did this happen? Did you cast some sort of spell on Qianfan, you little rascal? To steal at least ten years of health from him!"
Su Nan Yin suddenly calmed down.
She looked up at Meng Yue, smiling charmingly, "Yes, and so what?"
Meng Yue—
For some inexplicable reason, felt this woman was terrifying.
"Meng Yue, please keep this a secret for us. Oh, and destroy all our gene samples. Thanks, I'll treat you to a drink sometime."
Su Nan Yin carefully put away the lab report, patted Meng Yue's shoulder, and as she turned towards the car, called out to Li Qianfan, who was still sitting on the steps, "Let's go, Qianfan."
Li Qianfan stopped daydreaming, got up, and patted his backside, bidding farewell to Mother Meng.
"Should I tell Li Wujiang about this? After all, Qianfan is her son, and Su Nan Yin is the rumored female lead. But Su Nan Yin asked me to keep it a secret. Alas, what secret is there to keep!"
Meng Yue muttered to herself, then took out her phone.
The wheels rolled—
Not long after the car drove out of the research institute located in the remote suburbs, Su Nan Yin, who was driving, accelerated to 120.
Li Qianfan, who was about to ask for the lab report, quickly said, "Can you handle your driving? Going this fast! Safety first, I'm still young, I don't want to join the immortals with you, an old cabbage."
Ah!
Su Nan Yin suddenly opened her mouth and let out a sharp cry.
It startled Li Qianfan.
The car sped up again, but the window rolled down.
The cold wind buffeted—
Su Nan Yin paid no heed, instead stepping on the gas again, letting out an even sharper, higher cry.
Like she'd gone mad, completely devoid of her goddess-like demeanor!
Seeing the speed rapidly approaching 150, and Su Nan Yin still accelerating, Li Qianfan was truly scared.
If he were driving, even at 200 mph, he would be calm and collected.
But with a hysterical, shouting madwoman, Li Qianfan was genuinely terrified.
Especially when he saw tears streaming down Su Nan Yin's face, his soul nearly fled his body.
Her driving skills were already not great, and with her vision blurred by tears, the probability of a fatal accident was skyrocketing.
What made him even more desperate—
Su Nan Yin let out a hoarse cry, "Li Qianfan! Let us die together now! When we go to the underworld after we die, no matter what you want to do to me, I will cooperate unconditionally!"
Amidst her cries, she accelerated even further.
There was a bend ahead.
To the right of the bend was a deep quarry.
It was clear that Su Nan Yin, whose sanity had clearly snapped, was heading straight for this deep pit.
She wanted to drag Li Qianfan to die with her!!
How could Li Qianfan agree?
"Are you fucking insane!?"
With his own life at stake, Li Qianfan couldn't care about anything else.
He cursed, instinctively unbuckled his seatbelt, and reached out to open the door, intending to jump out and escape.
Although jumping out at such high speed might leave him half-dead, it was still far better than dying with this madwoman.
But just as Li Qianfan was about to open the car door, he retracted his hand, and lunged to the side, landing on Su Nan Yin's right leg.
He couldn't abandon this woman and escape alone.
Even though this woman, seemingly having lost her mind, wanted to drag him to his death with her.
But she was, after all, the mother of his little caterpillar.
Li Qianfan had to stop this blue car, which had already reached its limit speed, within the next three seconds (after which the car would crash through the guardrail and plunge into the pit!).
He couldn't fight her for the steering wheel right now.
Because on both sides of the road were trees as thick as buckets.
If the car lost control, it could crash into a tree.
That would be a fatal outcome too!!
The only thing Li Qianfan could do was to remove her foot from the accelerator and press the brake with his hand.
He reached for her foot.
But she used her knee to push against his face—
Li Qianfan panicked, opened his mouth!
"Ah!"
Su Nan Yin let out a sharp scream after her right leg was bitten.
She also hurriedly pulled up both her feet (her limbs instinctively curled up when in pain).
The moment she lifted her feet, Li Qianfan's left hand seized the opportunity and firmly pressed the brake.
Screech—
The front of the blue sedan dipped sharply, and its four tires left a black streak over ten meters long on the road.
The car stopped.
The front of the car was less than half a meter from the guardrail.
If Li Qianfan had been even a thousandth of a second later, the car would have broken through the guardrail and flown out.
The car also stalled due to the emergency braking.
It was only then that cold sweat began to bead on Li Qianfan's forehead.
He also felt weak all over and closed his eyes.
This was like a trip to the gates of hell.
"From now on, I'll never ride in this stinking woman's car again,"
Li Qianfan vowed inwardly, then felt something salty in his mouth.
He opened his eyes and saw—
Oh.
He was still biting a woman's leg.
The flesh-colored leggings protected against the wind but not against teeth.
On the verge of death, Li Qianfan would definitely draw blood with a single bite.
Splat!
"So smelly."
Li Qianfan raised his head, spat bloody saliva onto the woman's leg, took out the car keys, opened the door, and got out of the car.
Su Nan Yin closed her eyes, her head tilted back, tears still streaming down her face.
Li Qianfan naturally had to find out why she had gone mad.
But now was not the time.
He had to wait for Su Nan Yin's emotions to stabilize before he could question her about what had happened.
Li Qianfan walked behind a tree, feeling a strong urge to urinate.
He was scared—
Fortunately, this place was remote, and the research institute was a restricted area, with few vehicles or pedestrians passing by.
He walked over ten meters away and relieved himself heartily to the south.
He then squatted on the ground and lit a cigarette.
This was an orchard.
Vast expanses of fruit trees stretched as far as the eye could see.
A layer of fallen leaves covered the ground.
The scenery here would surely be beautiful when spring arrived.
After finishing one cigarette, Li Qianfan heard footsteps behind him.
One cigarette was not enough to soothe Li Qianfan's startled heart.
He lit another.
Su Nan Yin slowly sat down beside him, bent her right leg, took off her boot, and rolled up her leggings.
Her legs were shapely, long, and slender.
Her skin was snow-white.
High-elastic and flawless—
Li Qianfan immediately turned his head elsewhere.
A gentleman does not look at what is improper!
A woman whose mind is gone might abandon decency, but Mr. Qianfan must adhere to his principles.
Su Nan Yin looked at the shocking bite mark about ten centimeters above her knee, stared blankly for a long time, then slowly raised her head.
The wind blew her long hair.
A strand of hair brushed against her eye, making her gaze appear hazy.
She looked at Li Qianfan and asked softly in a hoarse voice, "Should I get a rabies shot?"