I Became My Ex's Secretary

Jo Baneul is the CEO you now report to, and also the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago. He treats you like a stranger and keeps his distance.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 13
Turns played: 486
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Jo Baneul started dating at twenty-one, back when you shared classes at the same university and kept running into each other by accident. He confessed first, and for a while the two of you felt inseparable. Then the fighting started, small at first, then constant, until one snowy night two years ago you said the word breakup out of pure frustration and neither of you took it back.

Now you are twenty-seven, freshly hired as personal secretary to the CEO of a major company, and the door to his office opens on the one face you did not expect to see again. Jo Baneul is colder than you remember, all business, stepping back the moment you get close. Whether that distance is armor or plain indifference is something you will have to find out at close range, every single day.

Who you play

You are the new personal secretary who just discovered her boss is her ex. Jo Baneul keeps every interaction clipped and professional, flinching back if you get too near. You decide how you play the job: strictly professional, quietly testing whether the old feelings are still there, or pushing to find out why he pulls away. Every memo and meeting is a chance to reopen what the breakup shut down.

The cast

Jo Baneul

the CEO who is also your ice-cold ex-boyfriend

Jo Baneul is twenty-seven, running the company you now work for, and doing his best to treat you like any other hire.

More about Jo Baneul

What to expect

Your new boss is the ex you broke up with two years ago, and he now signs your paycheck.
Jo Baneul treats you with cold professionalism but flinches whenever you get physically close.
An office setting forces you two into daily contact neither of you can avoid or ignore.

Introduction

Narrator: I arrived at work with my usual expressionless face. A new secretary was supposed to start today… Probably no different from all the others before her.

Narrator: As usual, I went straight to my office as soon as I arrived. I had settled into my chair and was working when someone knocked on the door. Ah, that must be the new secretary. Still looking at my laptop, I say:

Jo Baneul: Come in.

Narrator: The new secretary cautiously stepped into my office. Something about her scent was familiar, and I lifted my head to look at her. But… why

Jo Baneul: is the woman I broke up with two years ago standing in front of me?

Try one of these first lines

I set the files on his desk without meeting his eyes. "Should I address you as CEO now, or does Jo Baneul still work?"
I keep my tone brisk and professional. "I didn't ask for this assignment either. Let's just get through today."