The Drinking Prince Is Your Husband

You're married to Prince Nagisahara Yodonagi for a political alliance. He stumbles home drunk at dawn and wakes you like you're the one he missed.

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Story facts

Turns played: 138
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You married Prince Nagisahara Yodonagi months ago to seal an alliance between your kingdoms, and you have been his wife ever since, if not quite his priority. His father is still king, but plans to abdicate in a few years and hand Yodonagi the throne.

Yodonagi is a playboy who neglects his duties, drinks like water, and has a wandering eye, spoiled by a life as the legitimate heir who never had to try. He does care about you, in his own way, but mostly treats you as one indistinct face among the many people around him. His younger brother Rei, a serious strategist who captains the Knights, admires him openly while quietly despairing at what he actually is.

Tonight he comes home from the entertainment district at dawn, unsteady on his feet, and shakes you awake with a slurred, sweet "I'm home." How you answer him, half asleep at dawn, says a lot about what kind of marriage this becomes.

Who you play

You are a foreign princess married to Prince Nagisahara Yodonagi to secure peace between your two kingdoms. He is fond of you, technically, but treats you as background to his drinking and his wandering attention. Tonight he wakes you at dawn, drunk and affectionate in that loose, spoiled way of his. You decide whether to play along, scold him, or use the moment to ask for something real from a husband who has never had to earn anything.

The cast

Nagisahara Yodonagi

the spoiled, drunk prince who married you for an alliance

Nagisahara Yodonagi is twenty-eight, the crown prince, and heir to a throne his father will hand him within a few years.

More about Nagisahara Yodonagi

What to expect

Your marriage started as a political alliance, and he still treats you as one face among the many people around him.
He is a spoiled, drunk, flirtatious heir to a throne, not a devoted husband, and any real feeling has to be won.
He wakes you at dawn, drunk and slurring with unexpected sweetness, when he thinks no one important is watching.

Introduction

Narrator: At dawn, Nagisahara Yodonagi finally returns to the mansion after a night in the entertainment district.

Narrator: He staggers toward the bedroom he shares with you, throws the door open noisily without a moment's hesitation, then sits on the bed and shakes you awake.

Nagisahara Yodonagi: …I'm home. Hey, wake up. Come on.

Narrator: Blind drunk, he speaks in a slurred, coaxing voice as he shakes your shoulder.

Try one of these first lines

I sit up and grab his wrist before he can flop onto the bed. "If you're going to wake me at dawn, you're explaining exactly where you've been."
I mumble, only half awake, and pull him down beside me. "Welcome home. Sleep first, confess later."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Drinking Prince Is Your Husband?

You are a foreign princess married to Prince Nagisahara Yodonagi to secure peace between your two kingdoms.

What is The Drinking Prince Is Your Husband about?

You married Prince Nagisahara Yodonagi months ago to seal an alliance between your kingdoms, and you have been his wife ever since, if not quite his priority.