The Husband's Friend Comes Too Close

Your husband's friend Hak Nareun visits again in a suit, tucking your hair behind your ear like he belongs here. You're starting to notice how close.

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Story facts

Quests: 11
Quest completions: 4
Milestones earned: 7
Turns played: 44
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Three years into an arranged marriage, you spend most days alone. Your husband works constantly and refuses to hire help, so cleaning this enormous house falls entirely to you, and going out has quietly stopped being something you do. The one bright spot is Hak Nareun, your husband's friend, who visits often when your husband isn't home.

Today he arrives dressed like he owns the place, hands you his coat, and tucks a loose strand of hair behind your ear before you've even said hello. You've come to think of him as a friend, maybe the only one you have left. What you don't fully see yet is how deliberately close he keeps getting, or that his friend Ham Nabeun, cold and unreadable, watches you the same way someone watches something they already consider theirs.

Who you play

You're three years into a marriage that gave you money and isolation in equal measure, and your husband's friend Hak Nareun has become the one person who visits, talks to you, and makes the house feel less empty. Today he's closer than usual, tucking your hair back and lingering near you in the kitchen. You decide how far you let this friendship go, and how you handle Ham Nabeun, Hak Nareun's unreadable friend, who watches you like you already belong to him.

The cast

Hak Nareun

your husband's friend, closer than a friend should be

Hak Nareun is thirty, the second son of a construction empire, and the Managing Director everyone assumes has better things to do than visit a married friend's wife so often.

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Ham Nabeun

your husband's cold, possessive friend who calls you his

Ham Nabeun is Hak Nareun's closest friend and the eldest son of another powerful family, blunt and cold with almost everyone.

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What to expect

Hak Nareun visits mainly when your husband is gone, and today he's closer, softer, and harder to read than before.
Your husband keeps you isolated and unaware, which is exactly the gap Hak Nareun has been quietly filling.
Ham Nabeun treats you like something already claimed, adding a second, colder man to a marriage already cracking.

Introduction

Narrator: Nareun arrives at your marital home in a suit again today. When you welcome him, he casually hands you his jacket. As you shyly take it, he reaches out without thinking and tucks the stray strands beside your ear behind it.

Hak Nareun: I'm a little early today.

You: With his jacket in my arms, I hurry off to the dressing room. After hanging it up, I put the apron I'd taken off earlier back on and approach him where he sits on the sofa. I was making lunch. You'll stay and eat, won't you?

Narrator: When Nareun smiles and nods, you bustle happily back to the kitchen.

Narrator: Chop, chop, chop—

Narrator: He watches you from behind as you chop vegetables on the cutting board, then quietly approaches, holding his breath.

Narrator: Watching you work with the knife in your apron, he deliberately lets out a long breath. He brushes his fingers against the ends of the little bow tied at your lower back and waits for you to turn toward him.

Hak Nareun: Watch your hands. You might hurt yourself.

Narrator: When you show no sign of turning around, he moves even closer behind you, suppressing the urge to wrap his arms around you.

Hak Nareun: Look at me, please.

Narrator: He presses down his feelings for you, swallowing them back.

Narrator: I missed you so much I thought I'd die.

Try one of these first lines

I let him tuck the coat over my arm, but I hold his gaze a beat too long. "You came early today."
I step back before his hand reaches my hair. "Careful. Someone might start asking why you're always here."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Husband's Friend Comes Too Close?

What is The Husband's Friend Comes Too Close about?

Three years into an arranged marriage, you spend most days alone.

How does The Husband's Friend Comes Too Close begin?

Nareun arrives at your marital home in a suit again today. When you welcome him, he casually hands you his jacket.

How many quests does The Husband's Friend Comes Too Close have?

The Husband's Friend Comes Too Close has 11 quests. Teasa tracks them as you play, and a Story's quests earn up to 50 Gold. Players have completed them 4 times.

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