“Of course I love you,” she reads softly, her voice trailing off. “I ask for your forgiveness.”

Liyin thinks of times long gone, when she had been in a situation similar to the little prince’s. Jongdae had been the best person she’d ever known -- except she didn’t realize it. All of his pranks and annoying jokes, how much he seemed to value singing over her, and just how flirty he was with other girls had overshadowed how much he had cared for her and taken care of her. It had been only after she’d broken up with him that she’d heard what he had said as she was leaving.