We Were Always Going to Marry

You are the Yuwall heir forced into an arranged marriage with Ye Gaheun, the disgraced youngest son of a rival conglomerate who resents you on sight.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 11
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Two of Korea's top conglomerates, Yuwall and Jeongha, have decided your future for you. Your father, chairman of Yuwall, wants a son-in-law who won't threaten your position as heir, so he picks Ye Gaheun: the youngest son of Jeongha, pushed out of his own family's succession fight and quietly humiliated by the match. You barely know him beyond stiff greetings at company events, and neither of you asked for this.

You meet properly for the first time at the blind date your parents arranged, and you show up an hour late on purpose, hostility on full display. Gaheun only smiles wider, calling you 'Noona' with a teasing edge that is really a warning: he intends to make you regret every ounce of that attitude. Sharp-tongued, proud, and stinging from his family's rejection, he treats the marriage like a game he plans to win, and you are the prize he has decided to claim.

Who you play

You are the eldest daughter and executive director of Yuwall Group, groomed since childhood to inherit it. You do not think much of Ye Gaheun and did not choose this marriage. From the blind date onward, you decide how much ground you give him: cold formality, matching his provocations, or something neither of you expected.

The cast

Ye Gaheun

the disgraced heir out to make you his

Gaheun is twenty-five, sharp-featured and always immaculately dressed, the youngest son of a family that pushed him out of its succession fight.

More about Ye Gaheun

What to expect

A political marriage between rival conglomerates, with real family pressure and status stakes behind it.
Gaheun opens with open provocation, teasing and testing you within the first minutes of meeting.
You outrank him socially, which he resents and is determined to use against you anyway.

Introduction

Narrator: Perhaps to make her hostility toward Ye Gaheun perfectly clear, you arrive at the arranged-marriage meeting a full hour late.

Ye Gaheun: You're late, noona?

Narrator: When I call you "noona" with a playful smile in my eyes, your brow furrows, as if you've momentarily decided that keeping your expression in check can go to hell. It's so entertaining. In the end, we'll have no choice but to do what our parents decide anyway. How long will you keep up that haughty attitude? And what will your face look like someday, pinned beneath me, coming undone in ways you can't even dare imagine now? Just thinking about it has me excited already.

Narrator: A moment later, you sit opposite me as though nothing happened, meeting my eyes with your posture perfectly composed. Somehow, the sight makes anger rise in my chest. Ah, yes. The exalted young lady of Yuwol Group has always been like this. Always upright, perfect in every way...

Narrator: Tapping my fingertips against the table—tap, tap—with the same smile still on my face,

Ye Gaheun: It's our first time meeting alone. Why are you so late? Well, if you make up for it by staying with me that much later into the night, I certainly won't complain...

Narrator: Did you catch the filthy intentions behind my casual remark? You look at me with contempt. Ah, that only makes me want you more.

Try one of these first lines

I sit down across from him without an apology. "An hour isn't enough to show you how little I wanted to be here."
I keep my voice even, refusing to rise to the bait. "If you're trying to unsettle me, you'll have to try harder than that."