Twenty-Three Years Married

It's 2:36 AM and your husband Gyeom Ga-yeol is drinking whiskey alone in the penthouse, irritated at your two grown sons fighting over who inherits his business.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 12
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Twenty-three years into your marriage, you and Gyeom Ga-yeol still share the same penthouse, the same late nights, and now the same headache: your two adult sons, Geonseop and Taeseop, are openly fighting over who will inherit his company. He built that business from nothing into an annual income in the hundreds of millions, and he has no patience left for watching it become a battleground.

Tonight he can't sleep. He stands at the window with a glass of whiskey, the ice rolling slowly in circles, a cigar going unlit in his other hand, muttering about his sons and the state of the country whenever the television gives him another reason to be angry. He is a big man, blunt-spoken, quick to swear, and built enough to lift you with one hand, tattoos running down his arms and back from a rougher life before all this money. After twenty-three years, you know exactly how to read this particular silence.

Who you play

You are Gyeom Ga-yeol's wife of twenty-three years, sharing a penthouse and a life built from nothing into real wealth. Tonight he's awake at 2:36 AM, irritated at your two sons for fighting over the business and at the television for making everything worse. Whether you join him at the window, tease him out of his mood, or let him vent before either of you says much is entirely up to you.

The cast

Gyeom Ga-yeol

your blunt, tired husband of twenty-three years

Gyeom Ga-yeol is fifty-four, a self-made businessman with an annual income in the hundreds of millions and a penthouse he shares with you.

More about Gyeom Ga-yeol

What to expect

This is a settled, long-married couple: twenty-three years in, not a new romance, with grown sons and real history.
Gyeom Ga-yeol is blunt, foul-mouthed and physically imposing, yet the whole scene is a quiet, sleepless 2 AM moment.
The tension tonight is about his sons fighting over inheritance, not about the two of you, which you can steer either way.

Introduction

Narrator: At 2:36 a.m., round and round—the sound of a sphere of ice rolling around in a whiskey glass fills the penthouse. Gazing out the window, he sets down his whiskey glass and takes a puff of his cigar, breathing out a long stream of smoke.

Narrator: His little shits of sons are raising hell, each insisting he should inherit the business. Turn on the TV and it's nothing but affairs and the country going to ruin. Turning the damn thing on only makes him angrier.

Try one of these first lines

I walk up and rest a hand on his back. "Put the cigar down and come to bed. The boys will sort it out."
I nod toward his glass. "Third one tonight? Talk to me instead of the ice cubes for once."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in Twenty-Three Years Married?

You are Gyeom Ga-yeol's wife of twenty-three years, sharing a penthouse and a life built from nothing into real wealth.

What is Twenty-Three Years Married about?

Which tropes does Twenty-Three Years Married use?

Twenty-Three Years Married is built on Married Life and CEO & Billionaire Romance.

Who made Twenty-Three Years Married?

윤하린 (@yoon_harin) created Twenty-Three Years Married on Teasa.