An Ran could never forget how, just after she gave birth, a nurse wheeled her into the hospital room and her husband looked at her and said, "Seeing you like this, I never want to have sex again." An Ran felt a heaviness in her heart and thought: If only men gave birth. Every day, An Ran looked after the baby and cleaned the house while her husband went out to have fun. An Ran thought: If only I were a man! Then one day she woke up and thought, An Ran: I did wish I were a man, and I did wish men could give birth, but I was only wishing. An Ran had become a man, and men were the ones giving birth here too, because there were no women in this world. The men here were called male bugs, and there was another kind of man who gave birth, called female bugs. The only thing An Ran could be glad about was that here she was a male bug, who didn't have to give birth. The tragedy was that male bugs here were basically all playboys, because the country enforced a system in which each male bug had multiple female bugs. Want to be with just one? Sure, but you'll have to pay the price!
