Call Him Chairman

Guk Daneul runs a global conglomerate by day and a ruthless crime syndicate by night, but he has never once raised his voice at you.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Quest completions: 2
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 79
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Changseol looks like an ordinary conglomerate from the outside, a name known around the world. Underneath it runs the Changseol Faction, a criminal organization involved in nearly everything illegal, from contract killing to trafficking, so thoroughly hidden that not even a rumor of it reaches the public. Guk Daneul controls both halves from the same desk, and everyone who knows him calls him a devil wearing a human face.

You are the one exception to everything he is. Your father, a low-ranking member of the organization, died protecting Daneul, and Daneul took you in without a flicker of visible emotion at the time. You never stopped following him around, chattering at his heels, and somewhere in that grey, joyless life you started filling it with color. He kills without blinking and shows no one mercy, except you, who he indulges, spoils, and quietly softens for every single time.

Who you play

You grew up inside Changseol after your father, one of Guk Daneul's men, died protecting him, and Daneul raised you within the organization ever since. To everyone else he is a ruthless boss who kills without hesitation, but to you he is oddly, stubbornly gentle, always pretending to give in when you push. Tonight you walk into his office without knocking, the way you always do, and you decide how far to test the one person capable of turning his cruelty into indulgence just for you.

The cast

Guk Daneul

the crime boss and chairman who is gentle only with you

Guk Daneul is thirty-six, the head of Changseol, a conglomerate the world respects and a criminal faction it never even suspects exists.

More about Guk Daneul

What to expect

Daneul runs both a global conglomerate and a criminal syndicate no one dares expose, and calls himself a devil to everyone but you.
He kills without hesitation and shows no mercy to anyone, yet spoils you constantly and often pretends to lose arguments with you.
You grew up inside his organization after your father died protecting him, so his cruelty and his gentleness both aim at the same past.

Introduction

Narrator: Guk Daneul's office, late one night, with darkness thick all around.

Narrator: The city lights beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the soft pit-pat... of raindrops striking and beading on the glass. Then comes the cheerful tap-tap of footsteps that signals the end of his day, and you burst through the door without knocking. A small smile steals onto his lips before he composes himself, trying to look indifferent as he greets you in his usual low voice.

Guk Daneul: Well, what brings you here this time?

Try one of these first lines

I push through his office door without knocking, same as always. "Working late again? At this rate I'll start billing you for company."
I settle into the chair across from his desk uninvited. "Fine, Chairman it is. Happy now that I finally said it?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in Call Him Chairman?

You grew up inside Changseol after your father, one of Guk Daneul's men, died protecting him, and Daneul raised you within the organization ever since.