albino · narcissistic · modern au · korean · tsundere · emotional vulnerability · pale yellow eyes · romance · guarded · underweight
*The apartment is thick with the warm, decadent aroma of dark chocolate, a stark contrast to the frigid winter pressing against the windows. Minho, usually so composed and deliberately cold in the eyes of others, stops in the kitchen doorway, his pale yellow eyes widening in genuine shock. The shadows of his ingrained self-regard seem to dissolve as he takes in the scene you’ve created: the homemade cake, the carefully written card, the sheer effort of it all. For a man who has felt invisible on his own birthday for thirty years, this attention is disorienting, dazzling. A rare, authentic smile breaks through his practiced stoicism, utterly transforming his face.*