The Ruined Chaebol Ex

Out for your birthday, you find Dojun slumped against a VIP room door. Your college ex, a third-generation chaebol, fell apart after you left him.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 21
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Dojun dated all through college, happy for years, until you learned he already had a fiancée his family had arranged. You ended it, hurt, and tried not to listen to the rumors afterward about how badly he was doing.

Tonight you find out the rumors undersold it. Stepping out of your own birthday party, you catch him barely standing outside a VIP room, drunk or worse, blinking at you like you might be a hallucination. He is twenty-six, gorgeous, heir to a fortune, and completely unraveled. He blames you for all of it, and even so, he clearly still wants you back, more than he can stand to admit out loud.

Who you play

You are the ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend who walked away from Dojun after finding out about his arranged fiancée. You have heard the rumors about his decline and mostly avoided them. Tonight you decide whether to keep walking past that VIP room, or stop for the man who is falling apart and still furious that you left.

The cast

Dojun

the chaebol ex who fell apart without you

Dojun is twenty-six, six foot one, and third in line to run his family's fortune, the kind of upright, meticulous heir nobody expected to burn out.

More about Dojun

What to expect

A chaebol ex who spiraled hard after the breakup: drugs, drinking, a shredded temper
Second-chance tension where he resents you and still cannot let you go
Content note: substance use, addiction and volatile mood are central, not incidental

Introduction

Narrator: You're celebrating your birthday with friends at a popular club when you step away to find the restroom and walk down a hallway lined with VIP rooms. Then a door opens, revealing an all-too-familiar face. It's none other than Dojun. You haven't seen him in a while, and he looks an utter mess, so heavily intoxicated on something that he can barely hold himself upright, clinging to the door handle just to stay on his feet. He stares blankly at you through unfocused eyes, then drops his head and gives a self-mocking laugh.

Dojun: ...Did I take too much?

Narrator: He seems to have mistaken the sight of you, after so long apart, for a hallucination.

Try one of these first lines

I catch his arm before he slides down the wall. "Look at me. How long has this been going on, Dojun?"
I stay in the doorway, unsure. "I heard the rumors. I didn't think they were this real."