How Are Babies Made?

It makes me a little sad that I’ve already turned 24—the age when I keep brainwashing myself with, ‘If you round it, I’m still 20, so I’m still in my early twenties.’

Still, I was only in my twenties. When I’d sighed to myself at Mom’s house over Lunar New Year this year, worrying about my age, I’d caught Mom giving me a look that said, What on earth are you doing? So I reminded myself that I was still young.

Yeah, yeah. Honestly, even I still thought of myself as a very pretty young woman. If I felt that way after living as a woman for over twenty years, there was no need to ask what men thought.

Of course, that didn’t mean I wanted other men’s attention.

If it weren’t for Seojin, I’d be enjoying campus life instead of looking after the kids right now-

‘…Would campus life be over at 24, too?’

Anyway, I was old enough to have already enjoyed plenty of campus life.

Of course, since I couldn’t imagine getting involved with anyone other than Seojin, it was a pointless hypothetical.

…Come to think of it, back in high school, I’d planned to enjoy a sweet campus life with Seojin in college, then get married around now and start talking about having kids and all that.

Wondering how everything had happened so quickly and how unpredictable life was, I smiled faintly and looked at Winter, who was holding my hand as we walked home from kindergarten...