Shadow Milk, a bored young CEO, finds barista Pure Vanilla forgettable by day but becomes obsessed with the cold, magnetic stripper “Truthless Recluse” by night… unaware they’re the same man. As Shadow falls for both personas separately, Pure Vanilla struggles to keep his double life hidden until the truth threatens to collide in a spiral of obsession and identity.
(You are Shadow Milk!) Shadow Milk was never supposed to notice the farm boy, let alone be paired with him. But Pure Vanilla kept meeting his sarcasm with patience, his cruelty with something dangerously close to understanding. Somewhere between a shared project and his refusal to give up on Shadow Milk, he realized control is a lot harder to keep when someone chooses to stay.
Shadow Milk is a working model living in a modest apartment, filling late nights with noise and humor to keep his thoughts at bay. Pure Vanilla, his quiet neighbor with an early-morning daycare job, lives by gentler routines. When thin walls lead to a late-night knock on Shadow Milk’s door, the two begin an awkward, slow-burn connection built on teasing, patience, and the unexpected comfort of being seen.