Chapter 23 Chapter Twenty-Three

The next day when I got home, there was no change in my face, and I began to suspect that it was a prank. I could not help blaming myself for my ignorance for believing such an impossibility. However, on the third day, my body gradually changed.My skin seems to be getting smoother every day, the few gray hairs on my head are gone, and the small wrinkles around my eyes are gone. Even the man next to me sensed the change in me. One day he said to me: "You seem to have become radiant these days! That's good! I've been worried about you, and you haven't smiled for half a year."

My breasts are back to the point they were years ago, my eyes are darker than ever, and my face is no longer pale. One morning, when I woke up, I felt lighter. I went to the bathroom and saw a familiar but long-lost youthful face in the mirror. I vaguely remember that it was me when I was twenty years old. I became the person in that picture. I left him a letter and left with my things. I apologized to him in the letter, told him that I wanted to live another life, and thanked him for everything he gave me. I moved to another place and settled down, bought a bunch of new clothes, all of which I could not afford to wear with the youthful capital I had when I was twenty.

I look forward to the day when I meet you again. On that day at the end of April, I finally came back here, to the place I had dreamed of for twenty years, and to the window I had been guarding obsessively since I was seventeen. You know the rest of the story.