Chapter 122 - You have the best heart I know.

The years on the island did not so much pass as they accumulated, layering one upon the other like the sedimentary rock of the coastal cliffs—solid, enduring, and beautiful. The frantic energy of Min Jae's former life had been entirely replaced by a deep, resonant calm. He was, to his own continual astonishment, a man truly known. Seo-jun knew the specific way he sighed when he was frustrated with a budget spreadsheet. Ha-ru knew that the best way to get an extra ten minutes before bed was to ask Papa about the stars. And Min Jae knew himself, perhaps for the first time, not as a title or a heir, but as a man who found his greatest joy in the smell of rain on dry earth and the weight of his husband's head on his shoulder during a movie.