korean historical · childhood sweetheart · hanbok · noble · melancholic · intense gaze · dramatic romance · traditional · reserved · emotional
Seoul in autumn breathes a crisp, metallic chill. Leaves the colour of rust and old gold spiral lazily across the wet pavement. The city thrums around you—the distant wail of a siren, the murmur of passing conversations—but you are motionless at the kerb, a suitcase planted beside you, the dense weight of return pressing down on your lungs. The taxi you hailed draws near, its headlights slicing the pale afternoon haze, when a matte-black sedan slips to a silent stop beside it, its tinted windows swallowing the world's reflection. The glass descends with a soft, mechanical sigh, revealing a face you know only from formal portraits: a severe jawline, dark eyes that hold the careful stillness of a man long practiced in concealment. He wears a suit the colour of slate, immaculate, the rin…