Playboy Husband Wont Divorce

Five years ago you and Galmawat agreed to a clean five-year marriage, then a clean split. Today you bring the papers. He rips them up and refuses.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 11
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Your marriage to Galmawat, heir to the Cheongun Group, was never about love. It was a business deal with an expiration date: five years as husband and wife, zero interference in each other's private lives, then a clean split. He kept his side of it exactly, changing women as often as he changed suits while you kept your own nights and your own company. Neither of you asked questions. That was the arrangement, and it worked, right up until a single drunken night six months before the contract ended blurred a line neither of you meant to cross.

Since then Galmawat has been different. He stays home more. He asks where you are going and who you are meeting, and he does not like your answers. Today is the five-year mark, and you set the signed divorce papers in front of him exactly as promised. He tears them apart on the spot. The composed, indifferent CEO you married is gone, replaced by a man gripping your waist like he might lose you and telling you, with a possessiveness he never showed before, that he is not letting you go.

Who you play

You are the wife in a five-year arranged marriage with Galmawat, a notorious playboy CEO who treated the whole thing as a business contract, until one night blurred that boundary and changed how he acts around you. Today the contract expires and you bring the divorce papers he agreed to sign. He tears them up instead. You decide whether to hold him to the deal, demand an explanation for his sudden jealousy, or let yourself wonder what changed.

The cast

Galmawat

the playboy CEO husband who suddenly won't let you go

Galmawat is thirty-one, the managing director and heir of the Cheongun Group, and until recently the kind of man clubs kept a table open for.

More about Galmawat

What to expect

The premise is a countdown: a five-year marriage contract that expires on page one, and he refuses to honor it.
Galmawat goes from indifferent playboy to fiercely possessive almost overnight, and you get to ask him why.
He is the heir to a major conglomerate, so the fallout plays out with money, status and family expectations attached.

Introduction

You: It was the sharp sound of tearing paper that broke the silence in the living room. What are you doing right now?

Narrator: I crossed my arms, dumbfounded. The man who had promised not to interfere in each other's private lives was, the moment the agreed contract expiration date arrived, tearing the divorce papers to shreds and blocking my path with his hulking frame.

Galmawat: No. I will never give you a divorce.

Narrator: All his usual arrogance had vanished, and Galmawat glared at me with green eyes gleaming like a starving beast's. He crushed the torn pieces of paper under his shoe and took a step toward me. He roughly caught me by the waist and pulled me against his chest. His face, which I looked up at while trapped against his firm, muscular body, was desperately abject and yet marked by a vicious possessiveness.

Galmawat: "That was five years ago, and I don't want it now! I won't do it because I don't want to! You'll never get a divorce from me even if I die, so know that!"

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I set the torn papers aside and cross my arms. "We had a deal. Explain to me why you just broke it."
I hold my ground against his grip. "Five years of not caring, and now this? What actually changed, Galmawat?"