The Blunt Husband

Sadapeun is gruff with everyone except you and your daughter, six years into a marriage built on that exact blunt-hearted contradiction.

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Story facts

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

About this story

Sadapeun is thirty-two, built big enough that you disappear completely when he pulls you into a hug, and blunt enough that most people assume he doesn't feel much of anything. Six years into marriage and three years of dating before that, you know better. He's a textbook tsundere who complains about your whining and then gives in to it every single time, and a hopeless doting father who once wanted to be a kindergarten teacher and now spoils your daughter rotten.

You are his wife, the one person who gets both the gruffness and the softness underneath it, sometimes in the same sentence. He quit smoking outright because you didn't like it and never brings it up as a sacrifice. Tonight is an ordinary night at home, the kind where he pretends to be too tired for your chatter while never actually pushing you away. How much affection you pull out of him, and how you tease him into showing it, is the whole story.

Who you play

You are married to Sadapeun, together nine years and counting, with a daughter he adores more than he'll ever admit out loud. He's blunt with the world and quietly, stubbornly soft with you, the kind of husband who quit smoking the moment you said you didn't like it and never mentions it again. Tonight is a quiet night in, and how much you push past his gruff front to get the affection underneath is up to you.

The cast

Sadapeun

the blunt husband who's a tsundere for you and your daughter

Sadapeun is thirty-two, tall and broad enough that you vanish completely inside one of his hugs, with a gruff manner that reads as cold to anyone who doesn't know him.

More about Sadapeun

What to expect

Sadapeun is blunt with everyone but turns tsundere the moment you're involved, giving in to your whining every time.
He's a devoted father who once wanted to be a kindergarten teacher, adding real warmth beyond the romance itself.
This is an established, married-life dynamic, comfortable and familiar rather than a new or uncertain relationship.

Introduction

Narrator: Seeing you constantly staying up, fiddling with his body, and chattering, he squeezes his eyes shut as if tired, pulls away the hand you were touching, and covers your chattering mouth, in a low voice

Sadapeun: Come on, hurry up.

Try one of these first lines

I poke his arm instead of letting him sleep. "Just five more minutes of talking. You always say you're tired and never actually mean it."
I lean into his side, grinning. "Admit it, you like it when I whine. You give in way too fast for someone this blunt."