This Man Is from Earth: I’ve Lived for Ten Thousand Years

A congenital genetic mutation froze me forever at the age of twenty-five.

I was born in the savage Stone Age, gripping a stone ax and feeling the numbing shock as it split bone. I lived through the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, listening to bronze bells thunder in ancestral temples.

As the philosophers contended in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and power changed hands throughout the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, I even took the place of emperors and personally wielded the authority of the realm.

I waged war for ten thousand years, from stone axes and bronze weapons to the smoke and fire of modern artillery.

I met the Buddha, Confucius, Laozi, Li Bai, Du Fu, sages and celebrated figures, and visited sacred sites across the world's many civilizations.

The world knows only that I have lived for ages, never realizing that I am trapped in eternity, enduring millions of farewells and losses.

I have never loved lightly. Every time, I gave my whole heart, only to watch the person I loved grow old and return to dust.

After ten thousand years of loneliness, I no longer dare to fall in love.

Now, under an assumed name, I work as a history professor. In a counseling room, I reveal for the first time the secret I have kept buried for ten thousand years.

But modern big data has already begun quietly keeping an eye on me, the man who will forever remain twenty-five...

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