As coincidence would have it.
Lin Guoxia and Li Muchan were the same age, both forty-three that year.
But...
Their conditions hardly suggested they were the same age.
Years of hard work, coupled with neglecting her upkeep, had left Lin Guoxia looking like the vast majority of forty-three-year-old women.
Her figure had begun to lose its shape, her skin had grown dull and loose, and she had crow's-feet, forehead lines, and a little belly...
She had everything one would expect of a forty-three-year-old woman.
Li Muchan had always been a woman who took meticulous care of herself.
Apart from indulging herself a little during the past two days with Lin Zhe.
She had maintained the same self-discipline for decades.
She ran every morning, swam in the afternoon, and did yoga at night.
As for her diet, she ate high-quality protein.
She visited the beauty salon for treatments three times a week.
Her monthly spending on skincare and maintenance reached five or six hundred thousand yuan.
Of course, all of this depended on having both money and free time.
Without money, none of it was possible.
Although she was also forty-three.
Li Muchan's physical age and condition were younger and more energetic than those of women of twenty-five or twenty-six.
At a marathon held in Rao City the previous year, Li Muchan's Full Marathon personal best had been three hours and forty-eight minutes.
Although she was still a fair way behind the country's top marathon runners.
Among amateur marathon runners, her result was considered very strong.
Within her age group, she was firmly an elite runner.
Her stamina was outstanding.
Whenever Lin Zhe played "poker" with her, he was fierce as a tiger in the first half, only to lie flat in the second half and let her ride him like