With Minjeong's sudden and heartfelt proposal, the two young women married two months later. Jimin doesn't expect their marriage to come too soon, but when Minjeong assures her that she is ready and wants this as much as Jimin wants it, Jimin finally agrees.

Their wedding was attended by their close friends and family only. There's Ningning, Minjeong's forever best friend since college, Aeri, Ningning's girlfriend also Jimin's best friend since high school, Chaehyun, the blonde girl once Jimin got jealous with, Mrs. Gu, the older lecturer who first knew about Jimin and Minjeong's engagement, Taeyeon, Minjeong's older sister, Mister Kim Wooyoung, Minjeong's dad, few other lecturers, and Jimin's family.

With a wide smile on both of the couple's faces, after a really long time, Jimin updated her happy moment on her Instagram. Minjeong is giggling beside her, while Jimin with her usual beautiful smile. Both are in white wedding dresses, surrounded by falling flower petals on the altar.

Karina finally posted on her Instagram with the caption; My dream comes true. I finally married the person I got to know for nine years. I'm thankful to God for giving me this cute beautiful sunshine in my life. I'm grateful that God gave my wife the courage to comment on my post here nine years ago. I'm glad that God gave me the courage to confess my feelings to her five years ago.

To my beautiful dear wife, Winter. I love you all my heart. You came to me like a gift nine years ago and magically tied that red string on my pinky finger since then. Thank you for wanting another journey of life with me, and I promise that I will take care of you and love you, always.

On the same day, Jimin gained another five hundred thousand followers. YSL sent the couple their wedding gifts, Thom Browne, also new on the list, Givenchy.

This is also the first time Jimin followers ever see Minjeong's face clearly, without blurry and shaky filters.

Karina deserves that woman, who is as beautiful as her. The netizens agreed.

Winter is truly made for Karina.

****

2025.

Jimin is always busy with her job as the faculty head of the department, while Minjeong is busy with her art and writing business. As they parted ways every morning on the weekday after kisses and hugs, their life was brought to their responsibilities.

The responsibilities for the family.

Their family.

Jimin's and Minjeong's.

Minjeong's business goes on successfully. Their clients sometimes go wild for their paintings, bidding unreasonable prices that Minjeong couldn't help but feel disbelief.

Why not? Imagine someone bought your painting of a single watermelon with ten million dollars.

That's how shocked Minjeong is.

Thanks to Minjeong's amazing fast recovery, Jimin could finally focus more on her work. She didn't need to take emergency leaves like she used to back then. The doctor had told them that Minjeong was eighty percent recovering, and Minjeong already could feel how her body felt like the old days when she was only a lonely girl.

Thanks to that too, Jimin finally be able to be active back on her Instagram. Her followers skyrocketed since their wedding, and the unknown Winter is now as famous as Karina with only two million followers behind.

Karina - 4.3 million followers. Labeled as Social Media Influencer.

Winter - 2.1 million followers. Labeled as Artist/Author.

Even tho the only pictures inside Minjeong's Instagram are five pictures of trees, six pictures of flowers, two pictures of the sky, two pictures of her hand with that nostalgic M-lettered initial bracelet, and one picture of a road.

And one picture of their wedding.

****

Minjeong doesn't know why, but it is in the middle day of Thursday when Jimin insists her wife to come and meet her at her office at the college. Being obedient as always even tho between their cute arguments and banters, Minjeong still follows in the end.

She walked through the hallway, and surprisingly many students captured her picture. Minjeong isn't sure if she should hide her face like she usually did, or just let it be.

Even tho Minjeong could cope with the popularity now, sadly, her wife had issues with it.

Jealousy issues.

Minjeong twisted her wife's office doorknob slowly, and like always, Jimin wasn't inside the office, and a letter on the floor was the first thing that Minjeong saw as the doors opened.

Opening the letters and reading the content quietly in front of the door frame, her wife came running towards her with a big smile. "Baby, sorry I'm late--", Jimin quickly pauses her words when Minjeong turns around with a frown on her face, the letter is in her hand.

"Are your students quite stupid for flirting with a married woman?", Minjeong asked but Jimin quickly took the letter away from her wife's hand. "Ignore it. I'll burn the letter for you later and flush the ashes down the toilet like always", Jimin winked before she held the wrist of her wife gently, pulling her out from her office after she placed the letter on her desk.

"No, seriously, babe. Each new semester, you keep receiving stupid students", Minjeong sulks as Jimin locks the door again before pulling her to walk away to somewhere.

"And don't worry, I'll shout at the first-year class again like I usually did and I would tell them 'I AM A MARRIED WOMAN YOU FREAKING IDIOT!', like that", Jimin giggles as she intertwined her fingers with her wife. Minjeong's frowning face quickly softens.

"Where are we going?", the younger woman asked.

"Lecture hall", Jimin confessed, only to get a confused expression from her wife.

As soon as they reached the empty lecture hall, Jimin brought Minjeong to sit on a certain empty seat. As they sit beside one another, Jimin keeps looking at her wife happily, and Minjeong doesn't know why.

"Why did you bring me here?", Minjoeng asked.

"Don't you remember?", Jimin asked as she smiled. "Our first kiss happened here".

* * *

Minjeong slightly lifted her head, looking to her left and right. As she was sure that no one was looking or paying attention anymore to her and Jimin, Minjeong leaned closer to give a quick peck on the older girl's lips.

Jimin was shocked. She did. This was their first kiss and it was so out of the blue. It didn't even last more than a second, but later the shocked expression changed into a blush.

"W-What was that for?", Jimin asked with her low voice just enough to make only Minjeong hear that.

"I'm sorry if I'm being too slow on the relationship. You always kissed my forehead and I thought a relationship without a kiss on the lips was too much. I'm sorry if I'm not being consi---"

Minjeong's word was cut when Jimin, this time gave a quick one-second peck on the younger girl's lips. Minjeong blinked her eyes a few times, her face became red with the action.

"It's okay I forgive you. You know? I held this urge to kiss you from day one but thankfully you're the one who kissed me first. Gosh... I wish I could kiss you longer", Jimin groaned. If they weren't at the class, Jimin definitely wanted to give a proper kiss to the younger girl, with much more emotions on 'em.

****

Jimin then brought her wife to a cafe near their college. They ordered two iced chocolates before they took their seat.

This all feels nostalgic.

Minjeong already knew what this place meant to them. With her cute little smile, Minjeong sipped her drink once, "here is where you bluntly confessed your feelings to me", Minjeong chuckled.

"Correct", Jimin laughs as she nods her head. "But I never regret being so blunt to you like that".

"I almost sprayed out my drinks that day, did you know?", Minjeong laughs back.

* * *

"What if I said to you that... I'm currently liking someone?", Jimin said, finally lifting her eye gaze up, looking straight to Minjeong's widened eyes who seemed to still not get the clue of it.

"You did?", Minjeong asked. She was shocked by the sudden fact that Jimin told her, but she didn't know why suddenly she felt a bit hard to breathe.

"Yeah... I like this person. But even tho I gave a lot of hints to her that I liked her, she still didn't realize my feelings. What should I do, Minjeong-ah?", Jimin's voice slightly trembling. Asking the question to the person she meant about right now was kinda a nerve, but she managed to ask it anyway.

"Then that person is a fool, then", Minjeong answered shortly, drinking another sip of Americano as soon as she could, to get rid of the suffocating feelings she had just now.

"Then what should I do?", Jimin asked again. Her eyes locked to the younger girl trying to send her some signals.

"I guess you should confess to that person? If that will make your heart feel a bit lighter", Minjeong answered without thinking much. She wasn't a love expert and she didn't know what to say. She just poured out anything she thought would make sense.

"Should I?"

"If you are comfortable telling that person and you are ready to take the risk, why not I guess?", Minjeong lifted her head up, looking at Jimin while showing her an honest smile. Her eyes became smaller because of the smiling. She just wants to help.

"Hey, Winter..."

"Hmmm?"

"I like you, Kim Minjeong".

****

Their last date place that day is quite stupid. It was at the rooftop of a hospital. But somehow, the couple could already know the reason why.

Minjeong confessed her feelings here, at this hospital, the first time she got to know about her hyperthyroidism.

"I love you too", Minjeong smiled before she continued. "I said I love you too, you fool~", Minjeong laughs. "That's what I told you that day".

Jimin smiled back as she nodded her head, "And don't you know why I chose this specific date for our flashback memories date?", Jimin asked and Minjeong shook her head in guilt.

"Today, on this day, is the day where you left me that single 'Happy Birthday' comment on my Instagram nine years ago", Jimin said with a wide smile as she looked up at the sky. "If it wasn't because of that single comment, would we be together now?".

With that question inside her mind, Minjeong slowly reached her wife's hand and held it tightly.

"I love you so much, Yu Jimin. You literally flipped my life upside down", Minjeong confessed looking intently at her wife's beautiful side profile.

Jimin looks at her wife with a warm smile. Kim Minjeong, the joy that Jimin never knew she needed in her life nine years ago. 

"I love you too, Minjeong. So, so, much", Jimin smiled before she slowly leaned in closer to her wife for a sweet kiss on the lips.

And may only death do us apart.

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