Time Lord

In the deep mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou, kerosene lamps are like beans. Gu Yan solved the first competition question in his life while his father coughed up blood, but he didn't know that fate had already marked the countdown for him. From the IMO gold medal to the Tsinghua Mathematics Department, from MIT direct PhD to the complete fall after academic betrayal - until that rainy night, he saw a stranger floating above his head: 87 days. Is this a curse or a gift? Seven years later, he stood on the podium of the National Institute of Life Science and Technology. Behind him was a time capsule that changed the limit of human lifespan. In front of him was the director of a ministry who asked whether technology should be nationalized. Children in the mountains have no overseas connections or family ties, only technology. From librarian to deputy department-level deputy dean, from department-level dean to deputy ministerial-level governor, Gu Yan rose up step by step within the system with his pure mathematical belief. This is not a gold-finger novel, but a story about how a child from the absolute bottom used his ability to see the countdown of life to protect his original kerosene lamp while crossing classes. When time becomes a calculable, intervenable, and allocable resource, who has the right to decide who can live longer? This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.