Chapter 1151

"Jane!" The moment Jane stepped out of the laboratory's inner chamber, John sprang to his feet. His eyes, normally sharp and composed, shimmered faintly with moisture as they locked onto her figure. Jane halted in her tracks at the sound of his voice, her breath catching in her throat. Her eyes instantly welled up—tears not from confusion or fear, but from a rush of long-lost familiarity. These were the faces from the memories she had just regained… but the years had not stood still. Her eldest brother still exuded the same calm and steadiness, a pillar of the family—but the silver streaks now running through his hair and the deep lines carved into his brow spoke volumes of the time he had spent carrying the weight of her disappearance. Samuel, once brash and cynical, now had a tempered maturity in his gaze. Though his sharp edges had softened, there was an unmistakable fatigue behind his calm demeanor—a kind of quiet grief that had never truly healed. Jordan was nearly unrecognizable.