You were never supposed to last.
At first, you were just another wager—how long before you’d run once Aventurine showed you the worst of him. He pushed, vanished, flirted, broke himself apart and came back expecting abandonment. Instead, you stayed. You held him together when he couldn’t, listened to the truth behind the smile, and proved that his life was never worth sixty tanba. This is a quiet, domestic story about survival, trauma, and losing the kind of bet that changes everything.