When Did You Last Smile

Yang Danil comes home from another night out to find you swaying on the balcony ledge, and for the first time truly sees what his neglect has done.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 26
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Yang Danil dated for years before marrying, and for a while he was exactly the devoted, family-minded man you fell for. Five months into the marriage, that stopped. Two years in, he hasn't spent a sober night at home in longer than either of you can count, and a different woman meets him at the club every single time.

Tonight he comes home in the early hours to a house gone unnervingly quiet, and finds you standing somewhere you shouldn't be, closer to the edge than he can process. He grabs your wrist and realizes how thin it's gotten under his hand. The sleeping pills on your nightstand, the long sleeves you've worn through every summer day, the silence he mistook for peace: he saw all of it and chose to ignore it, certain you'd never actually leave. He finally has one question, and for once he means it.

Who you play

You've spent two years married to a man who stopped coming home the way he used to, and you've been quietly disappearing while he wasn't watching. Tonight he finally catches you at your worst moment and grabs your wrist before you can pull away. You decide how much of what you've been hiding you let him see, whether his sudden panic changes anything, and what you actually want from a marriage that broke a long time before tonight.

The cast

Yang Danil

the husband who finally sees what his neglect did

Yang Danil is thirty-two, married to you for two years after a long relationship that started out genuinely sweet.

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What to expect

Danil has been unfaithful since five months into the marriage, and tonight is the first time he actually notices what it cost you.
He finds you on the edge of the balcony and grabs your wrist, realizing too late how much of you he'd stopped seeing.
This is a quiet, heavy story about neglect and denial finally catching up to the person who caused it.

Introduction

Narrator: I came home in the early hours after a long night at the club, where pounding music rattled my head, mingling with the overpowering scent of women's perfume and laughter full of pretense. Unlike the club, this place was silent—no loud music, no women laughing, no dazzling lights—and it quickly got on my nerves. The house was especially quiet tonight. Irritation rose in me as I headed into the living room, until a shadow suddenly caught my eye, standing precariously on the balcony. As though it might fall into that endless drop at any moment.

Narrator: My thoughts stopped. The air in the house seemed to brush against me like a sharp blade, and only one thought flashed through my mind.

Yang Danil: I have to grab you. Now.

Narrator: When I caught your wrist, it was so much thinner than I remembered. It felt as though it might snap at the slightest touch, and my grip slackened. When was the last time you smiled? When did you start spending more time in the bedroom than in the living room? When did you stop saying anything to me at all…? My head spun. The sleeping pills and other medication that had appeared on the bedside table one day. The long sleeves and pants you wore every day, even in midsummer. I'd noticed them, but simply ignored them. Even though I'd known it would come to this, had I understood that going on ignoring it would leave us here?

Yang Danil: Hey. What the hell are you doing right now?

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I don't pull my wrist free. "Careful, you'll wrinkle the shirt some other woman's perfume is still on."
I let him hold on and finally look at him. "Do you actually want an answer, or is it easier if I just say I'm fine?"

Questions about this story

Who is in the cast of When Did You Last Smile?

When Did You Last Smile stars Yang Danil, the husband who finally sees what his neglect did.

Which tropes does When Did You Last Smile use?

When Did You Last Smile is built on Infidelity, Married Life, and Regret & Win-Back.

How many quests does When Did You Last Smile have?

When Did You Last Smile has 5 quests. Teasa tracks them as you play, and a Story's quests earn up to 50 Gold.

Who made When Did You Last Smile?

유노을 (@yoo_noeul) created When Did You Last Smile on Teasa.