I couldn’t take my eyes off the dinosaur pajamas. But soon, I had to sneak a peek at other pajamas because Jiyu and Yumi were talking behind me.
“Isn’t this pajama dress pretty?”
Yumi said, looking at a dress printed with strawberry patterns.
“It’s cute! The pajamas look nice too.”
“Hana, come here! Stop looking at childish clothes like dinosaur pajamas!”
“Ugh… okay!”
I glanced at the dinosaur pajamas with a longing look, then turned my gaze to the pajamas Jiyu and Yumi were holding. All pajamas seemed the same to me, but apparently not to Jiyu and Yumi.
“What pajamas are you going to buy, Hana?”
“I think pink pajamas would suit Hana!”
I looked at the pajamas Jiyu and Yumi brought. They were all comfortable pajamas for home. But I still had lingering regrets. These pajamas were nice, but…
“I think I’ll go with this pajama. The yellow color is so pretty!”
Jiyu held up a pajama that reminded her of a chick. The bright yellow pajama suited her perfectly. It was as if the pajama was made just for her.
“I’ll take this one…”
Yumi shyly picked a pink pajama with frills. It also suited her very well. Girls instinctively love pink, and it seemed like pink pajamas were a perfect choice for her.
“What are you going to buy, Hana?”
With trembling eyes, I randomly picked up a pajama. Jiyu and Yumi looked at me with unsatisfied eyes. It seemed like they thought it didn’t suit me because I chose it in a hurry.
“Hana, why don’t you try a different pajama? It doesn’t seem to suit you!”
“I agree with Jiyu!”
I had no choice but to pick another pajama. But I didn’t want to wear ordinary pajamas. In the end, I had to choose the pink dinosaur pajamas I saw earlier. I was sure nothing would suit me better than this.
“That’s so Hana!”
“This actually suits Hana better! The pajamas you brought earlier were really not it!”
They definitely called it childish earlier… Maybe the pajamas I brought were so bad that this one looked better in comparison. Anyway, after choosing our pajamas, we successfully finished the checkout.
“I can’t wait to see Hana in the dinosaur pajamas!”
“Me too!”
Jiyu and Yumi seemed really eager to see me in the dinosaur pajamas. I couldn’t betray their expectations, so I decided to take a photo later wearing the dinosaur pajamas. I could just post it in the group chat with the kids.
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“Hana, what did you buy?”
Maru asked, seeing me sitting in the passenger seat, tightly holding a bag. To heighten her curiosity, I smiled slightly and said,
“It’s a secret!”
“Come on, tell me~”
Maru seemed very curious, but I wasn’t going to give in. I planned to show her later when I got home. I wanted to be the first to see myself in the dinosaur pajamas. There was a mirror in my room, so I could see it first.
After arriving home, I quickly put on the new dinosaur pajamas. Pink dinosaurs might not exist, but here it was.
I wiggled my hips. The tail attached to the back swayed left and right. Maru stared at me with her mouth open.
“It suits you so well, Hana!”
She even clapped her hands… I should’ve bought the dinosaur pajamas earlier. I thought the pink color would be too much, but it actually suited me way better than I expected. Maybe some hidden femininity was surfacing within me. Now that I’ve become a girl, I guess I couldn’t avoid being influenced by hormones.
Just like how a woman becomes more masculine with male hormone injections, maybe I was changing in a similar way.
“Maru, take a photo for me!”
I had promised Jiyu and Yumi to send them a photo of me in the dinosaur pajamas, so I asked Maru. Maru took my phone and started snapping pictures. She took several photos, clicking away. In the photos, there I was, smiling brightly in my dinosaur pajamas.
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James and Layla, having successfully completed the contract, left the building to check on the farm. The Starlight Food Building was in the city, so they needed to drive far to reach the farm. Tangle didn’t grow here, after all.
“Who would have thought words could grow like this…”
James was sitting in the back seat, brimming with joy and excitement. Layla, on the other hand, felt incredibly awkward, as this wasn’t the usual demeanor of her superior. Sure, James was witty and lively, but he had never been this childishly ecstatic before. His reaction to finding the hair loss product was like a kid who had just discovered the most exciting toy.
Layla couldn’t understand his excitement—it wasn’t about hair loss, after all. But if she had experienced severe hair loss herself, she might have understood James’s reaction. The mere fact that something previously incurable by modern science could now be treated was enough to transform him. Hair loss was like a divine curse, a punishment that brought massive changes to daily life.
The moment an ordinary person starts losing hair, the way people look at them changes. It’s like they’ve turned into a zombie. The moment they notice those altered gazes, they realize they’ve fallen victim to hair loss. And when they hear there’s no solution, they can’t help but scream in despair. That’s the life of someone with hair loss.
As Layla watched James, who was so excited he could barely contain himself, she turned her gaze away and looked out the window. Once they left the city, she saw many people farming. They were probably workers hired by Starlight Food.
After driving for a while, the car finally came to a stop.
“Is this the Tangle Farm?”
James got out of the car and looked around. There were no strict security measures or anything like that. After all, even if someone took Tangle seeds, they wouldn’t grow.
James, Layla, and the Walmart representatives from Korea began their preliminary inspection of the farm.
One of the Walmart representatives spoke up.
“By the way, the farmland seems quite small. Will it be enough to produce the quantity needed for the U.S.?”
Indeed, the farmland was small. The U.S. operated much larger farms compared to Korea. Farming in Korea was like child’s play compared to the scale of farming in the U.S. If you told someone in Korea you were flying a plane for farming, they’d look at you like you were crazy. But in the U.S., flying planes was necessary to cover the vast farmland.
In fact, some outsiders had even gotten lost and starved in the expansive farms. That never happened in Korea—they didn’t even have farms that large.
But as they got closer and saw the plants bearing Tangle, they couldn’t help but be amazed.
“Wait, a single branch has this many fruits?”
The branches were bending under the weight of so many fruits. When they picked one and opened it, it was packed full of Tangle. Just one fruit could feed dozens of hair loss sufferers for a month.
“With this kind of yield, if we fill this farmland, we’ll have more than enough supply, right?”
Kim Sehee said with a proud expression.
“Our employees are working hard all day. We plan to fill this farmland with Tangle by the end of this year.”
“Couldn’t you transfer the seeds to us in the U.S. to farm? Korean farming methods are excellent, but wouldn’t the vast land in the U.S. be better?”
James, who knew the secret of Tangle’s growth, responded to the Walmart employee who had suggested this. Since they were already in this together, he had learned about Tangle from Kim Sehee.
“Tangle can grow elsewhere, but the ones grown there have a fatal flaw. You’ll probably find out soon enough.”
When the boss says no, the subordinates don’t argue. No means no.
After a satisfying inspection, James happily bid farewell to Kim Sehee. He was ready to return to the U.S. and share this miracle with Americans. As someone who also suffered from hair loss, he wanted to spread this miracle far and wide.
