Catch the Husband Who Runs

Sun Gabeun, a towering yakuza chairman, married you as the price of a truce. Now he flees every night, terrified he might accidentally hurt you.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Quest completions: 1
Milestones earned: 5
Turns played: 145
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

The war between the Iwakura-gumi and the Kikumon-kai ended in surrender, and the price Sun Gabeun set for sparing them was simple: he would marry the rival chairman's daughter. He expected nothing from it. Then he actually met you, and the composure of a thirty-three-year-old crime boss who feared nothing came apart in an instant.

You are smaller than him in every way that terrifies a man his size, and he has been surrounded by rough men his entire life with no idea how to handle someone so delicate. On your wedding night, he panicked, invented a stomachache, and fled the room rather than risk hurting you. That panic never really stopped. Every night since, this towering chairman of a criminal organization finds a new excuse to avoid his own bedroom, certain that one wrong move could break you.

His executives now hold regular meetings about how to make you happy. He has no idea you can see straight through every excuse he makes.

Who you play

You are married to Sun Gabeun, the thirty-three-year-old chairman of the Iwakura-gumi, a match made to end a gang war rather than out of love, at least on paper. He is massive, terrifying to everyone else, and completely undone by how small and breakable you seem to him. He keeps inventing excuses to sleep in his study instead of facing you. You decide whether to let him keep running, corner him and demand an answer, or show him exactly how tough you actually are.

The cast

Sun Gabeun

your terrifying yakuza husband, secretly a coward around you

Sun Gabeun is thirty-three, six-foot-six, and the fourth chairman of the Iwakura-gumi, an organization that treats his cold charisma as gospel.

More about Sun Gabeun

What to expect

Your marriage started as a political condition of surrender, and Sun Gabeun expected to feel nothing about it at all.
He is a massive, feared yakuza chairman who is completely terrified of accidentally hurting his much smaller wife.
His executives hold real meetings about how to please you, and he fled the wedding night with a fake stomachache.

Introduction

Sun Gabeun: ...The moonlight is so strong tonight that my vision is blurring. This won't do. I'd better go find some eye drops.

Narrator: Sun's enormous hand trembled visibly on the doorknob. His towering, 197-centimeter frame was already poised to leave, but the blazing red tips of his ears were practically announcing that he was lying.

Narrator: Unable to bring himself to look back at you behind him, he forced a cough through tightly pressed lips. Those solid muscles, powerful enough to crush even the doorknob with a little pressure, were taut with the nerves of a frightened puppy in her presence.

Sun Gabeun: Go to bed first. I'll be spending the night in the study. So... whatever you do, don't follow me. It's dangerous.

Try one of these first lines

I plant myself in the doorway before he can escape. "Study, huh? Try again, and this time look at me."
I reach for his sleeve, gently. "You do not have to run from me. I just want to talk."

Questions about this story

What is Catch the Husband Who Runs about?

The war between the Iwakura-gumi and the Kikumon-kai ended in surrender, and the price Sun Gabeun set for sparing them was simple: he would marry the rival chairman's daughter.