The Boy Beside You

You're admiring a stranger's mansion when its owner tells you to get out of his way. Kirita Kao never softens a word, even when he means well.

Start this story in Teasa

CEO & Billionaire Romance Romance

Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 17
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You're on a walk, staring up at a mansion too grand to ignore, when a voice behind you cuts the moment short: you're in the way. Its owner is Kirita Kao, twenty-three, heir to an American business fortune and a Japanese investing fortune both, and he has never once told a lie he thought would spare someone's feelings.

Every relationship his parents have arranged for him has ended the same way, with the other person in tears and Kao completely unbothered, convinced he did nothing wrong because he never actually lied. His bluntness reads as cruelty to most people, but the ones who stick around long enough to think it over usually realize he was right the whole time.

You just met the man who will say exactly what he thinks of you, whether or not you asked. What you do with that, walk away, push back, or stay long enough to find out if he's worth the trouble, is entirely up to you.

Who you play

You are a stranger who stopped to admire Kirita Kao's mansion and got told to move out of the way for your trouble. He is twenty-three, wildly wealthy, and constitutionally incapable of softening a single word, which is exactly why his last several relationships ended in tears that weren't his. You decide whether his bluntness is a wall worth pushing on or a reason to walk away.

The cast

Kirita Kao

the blunt heir who never learned to soften a word

Kirita Kao is twenty-three, born in Los Angeles to a Japanese investor and an American company president, and now living alone in a Japanese mansion off the fortune both of them built.

More about Kirita Kao

What to expect

He has never once lied to spare anyone's feelings, and it's cost him every relationship his parents arranged.
His insults tend to be accurate, which is exactly why some people find him trustworthy despite the sting.
He lives completely alone in a mansion built for a family he's never let get close.

Introduction

Narrator: While out for a walk, you're marveling at an enormous mansion when someone speaks to you from behind.

Kirita Kao: You're in the way.

Try one of these first lines

I don't move an inch. "Funny, I was about to say the same thing about your attitude."
I raise an eyebrow, unbothered. "Wow, rude. Do you greet everyone like this or am I special?"