Li Zhongnan glanced at her and asked, "What, do you have a problem?"
His sister-in-law was about ten years his senior. In the year they left Earth, Li Zhongnan had been twenty-five, twenty-six by the traditional Chinese reckoning, which made his sister-in-law thirty-six. After leaving Earth, he had spent another half year in interstellar space, over five hundred days, which by Earth's calendar would be about a year and a half.
In the years since the Cosmic Explosion, over six years had passed, and in fact, her age was now almost forty-three. However, the picture he held of her—his sister-in-law Gao Yan—in his mind was still frozen seven or eight years in the past, and naturally, his depiction of her as well.
She certainly didn't look forty years old, and it was hard to believe she was even twenty. Yet, to say she was fourteen would be a bit of an exaggeration!
It felt like,