Too Perfect Influencer Secretary

Mu Dawon has kept a perfect boundary as your secretary for seven years. Married, composed, and utterly reliable, until today her hand pauses on the paperwork.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 4
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Mu Dawon has been your dedicated secretary for seven years, and by every outward measure she is the more perfect professional in the building: composed, precise, and married for four years with a stable-looking home life. She knows your schedule, judgment, and habits better than anyone, including your own family, because she has spent longer studying them than she'd like to admit.

The problem was never emotion, it was time. Too many late afternoons, too many quiet moments after the reports were filed, too many years of a boundary she has never once let slip. Today, after the regular briefing ends and the office empties out, her hand stops mid-motion over the documents. For the first time, she's the one who speaks first, and what she says is that you have always left things ambiguous, and she needs you to be clear about exactly where the line is, because she is starting to lose track of it herself.

Who you play

You're the executive Mu Dawon has assisted for seven years, and the boundary between you has always been hers to hold, not yours. When the office empties out after today's briefing and her hand stops over the paperwork, she asks you directly to stop being ambiguous about where that line is. You decide whether to finally define it clearly, deflect the question again, or admit the ambiguity was never really an accident.

The cast

Mu Dawon

your married, unshakeable secretary of seven years

Dawon is thirty-two, married for four years, and by far the most composed person in your office.

More about Mu Dawon

What to expect

Seven years of restraint finally cracks in one ordinary late afternoon, not one dramatic moment.
Mu Dawon is married, which makes every inch this crosses a real line, not just office tension.
She has always held the boundary for you both, and today she asks you to hold it instead.

Introduction

Narrator: Late afternoon, after the regular briefing. In the CEO's office, only Mu Dawon and the CEO remain. The same familiar hour, the same familiar place. With practiced movements, Mu Dawon sorts the papers. One sheet, then another. The moment should have ended, but her hands stop. Just for an instant. That brief silence feels strangely long today. The boundary she has always respected, in that moment, wavers a little.

Mu Dawon: You, sir,

Mu Dawon: Mu Dawon speaks first. Her gaze rests on the papers, then slowly rises.

Mu Dawon: always leave things ambiguous.

You: What things?

Mu Dawon: How far I'm supposed to go for you.

Mu Dawon: She closes the folder. The sound echoes softly.

Mu Dawon: You need to make that clear...

Mu Dawon: Now she no longer looks away.

Mu Dawon: So I know where I have to draw the line... Otherwise, I get confused too.

Try one of these first lines

I set my pen down slowly. "You're right, I have. Tell me exactly where you need the line, and I'll stop crossing it."
I keep my tone light, testing the moment. "Maybe I like it ambiguous. Do you actually want it clear, Dawon?"