Hot Summer Nights

"Ive been asleep for twenty-five years?" Gu Yuan asked, her eyes still holding an unexplained moistness.

Everything that had happened in the past seemed like yesterday. At 18, she was diagnosed with a rare disease and had to interrupt her studies and career for treatment. After two years of treatment, her attending physician, Dr. Luo, decided to perform a life-or-death surgery on her.

The success rate of this surgery was only one in a thousand. If successful, she would overcome this rare disease and live; if failed, she would die.

Gu Yuan, upon waking up, thought her surgery must have been successful, and the joy of survival had just begun to well up in her heart when she heard such news.

She looked at the doctor in front of her, uncomprehendingly.

The doctor, Dr. Chen, who was fifty years old this year, claimed to be a disciple of Dr. Luo.

Dr. Luo was only twenty-eight years old, and already had a fifty-year-old under his wing?

Sleeping and waking up, twenty-five years had passed, and the world had changed so much. This was a bit hard to digest for anyone.

"Yes," Dr. Chen said, looking at Gu Yuan with an indescribable excitement in his eyes. "Its twenty-five years later now, youve been cryopreserved for twenty-five years, and youve woken up."

"Could you bring me a mirror?" Gu Yuan was somewhat unclear about her current condition.

"Mirror?" Dr. Chen quickly realized and had a nurse bring over a mirror.

Gu Yuan looked at the girl in the mirror, her eyes soft and moist, her skin delicately fair, and when she blinked, her curly eyelashes fanned like a small palm leaf.

This was indeed her at twenty years old.

She had been praised as a little beauty since she was young. At seventeen, she took the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Film Academy, but unfortunately, her studies were interrupted after only a year due to her terminal illness.

Looking at her unchanged appearance, Gu Yuan felt a little better: "So, is it now 2019 in the NIX calendar? You were born in 1969?"

Dr. Chen looked at Gu Yuan, nodding: "Yes, the year your surgery failed, I was twenty-five, still a graduate student at the Capital Medical College. After graduation, I came to Dr. Luos research institute."

Gu Yuan listened, somewhat dazed. A person five years older than her, who could be considered her contemporary, was now fifty years old.

So what was she? Had she time-traveled? Reborn? Eternally young?

"What exactly happened back then? Why was I cryopreserved for twenty-five years?"

Dr. Chen smiled and recounted the story to Gu Yuan.

It turned out that Dr. Luo had performed this life-or-death surgery for Gu Yuan. When the surgery was three-quarters of the way through, an abnormality was discovered, dooming the surgery to fail. Dr. Luo immediately took the backup plan and used the worlds most advanced RAZI technology to cryopreserve Gu Yuan. This advanced high-tech cryopreservation technique would put all her body cells into a solid state, keeping her body cells in their original state, and pathological cells would not progress.

In other words, she was eternally young, time had stopped for her completely.

As long as one day, Dr. Luo could overcome the challenges he encountered in the surgery, he could still perform the surgery on Gu Yuan again.

Over the years, the world has certainly changed a lot. Dr. Luo, who once treated Gu Yuan, is now a renowned figure in the medical field, and Gu Yuans condition has been cured, which is why she was thawed.

Dr. Chen narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu Yuan: "Now, your body has recovered, and we will do some physical examinations and rehabilitation work for you next."

Gu Yuan was still a bit dazed: "What about Dr. Luo? Why isnt he here?"

Dr. Chen heard this and laughed, looking at the white sheet covering Gu Yuan, and said kindly: "Dr. Luo, he is attending an international conference and wont be back for a while, it might take some time."

Dr. Luo...

Dr. Chens words made Gu Yuan think of Dr. Luo again. In her memory, Dr. Luo was twenty-eight years old, elegant and gentle, a talented young man in the medical field who established this research institute.

Perhaps it was the subconscious dependence on her attending physician after becoming a patient, she liked Dr. Luo very much.

Especially after being betrayed and deceived by Lu Zhiqian, in despair, she even once placed her hope on Dr. Luo.

Now, the once elegant Dr. Luo is already fifty-three years old?

And he wont be back for another half a month...

Gu Yuan sighed lightly: "... Ill see him another time, I want to go home."

...

Gu Yuan quickly went through the discharge procedures and followed the kind Dr. Chen to the airport with a small suitcase.

The suitcase was some simple clothing and supplies prepared by Dr. Chen, her ID card, and a sum of cash from her previous wallet.

After Dr. Chen sent her to the airport, he seemed to have something to say, hesitating.

Gu Yuan asked in confusion, "Dr. Chen, is there anything else you want to tell me?"

Dr. Chens eyes flickered slightly: "Do you remember the five eggs you donated at the time?"

Gu Yuan was taken aback and remembered.

At that time during the treatment, she was found to have a recessive gene called OR9AA2, in professional terms, it was a genius gene. If this rare gene disappeared, it would be a loss to humanity, so at the time the doctor talked to her, she agreed to take five eggs from her body, and the extraction was done in a technological way, so her body would not be damaged.

Gu Yuan suddenly had a strange premonition, she looked at Dr. Chen, her voice a little different: "And?"

Dr. Chen looked at Gu Yuan and announced in a solemn tone: "Those five eggs have all hatched into life."

Gu Yuan was stunned on the spot.

It was an indescribable feeling, as if someone had told her, "Your five eggs have hatched."

Dr. Chen: "These five eggs have all turned into life, five..."

Dr. Chen seemed to be thinking about how to describe this: "Five sons. The oldest is already twenty-four years old."

Gu Yuan: "..."

Dr. Chen looked at her seriously: "Ms. Gu, I think you must be eager to see them, right? Dont you want to look for them?"

Gu Yuan hesitated, shook her head, and said, "No, I dont want to."

Although she was already forty-five years old, she subconsciously still felt like the eighteen-year-old beauty who entered the research institute with hope while suffering from a terminal illness. She couldnt accept someone hatching a twenty-four-year-old son for her!

The impact was too great!

Dr. Chen wanted to say something more, but Gu Yuan had already turned and left with her suitcase, almost fleeing.

And Dr. Chen, standing in place, looked at Gu Yuans retreating figure, and after a while, suddenly smiled.

He lowered his head and turned on his phone, which displayed Gu Yuans whereabouts.

...

After walking a long way, Gu Yuans heart was still not very calm.

She, who had never been married and had no harmonious life, actually had a son, and five at once? The oldest was already twenty-four years old?

It was incredible to think about.

Gu Yuan took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. She decided not to think about it for now. Anyway, they were just five eggs, and she had never seen them. They had nothing to do with her; they were just strangers.

Yes, they had nothing to do with her.

After trying so hard