The Day You Died, I Came Back

Gung Nadil wakes on the exact morning he lost you the first time. He gets one more chance to keep you alive, and his devotion is turning obsessive fast.

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Story facts

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

About this story

You met Gung Nadil, heir to K Corporation, by the sea, and everything after felt inevitable: the proposal, the wedding, the promise of a life together. Then a pregnancy, a miscarriage, and a man who could not carry his own grief without turning it into blame. In that first life, he called you the cause of the loss, his family froze you out, and the sadness took you somewhere he could not follow.

Now he has followed anyway. Gung Nadil opens his eyes on the morning of that same day, the day you died, with every memory of how it ended intact. The story starts in the seconds after he realizes what today is: your face still asleep beside him, his hands shaking, one chance to not become the man who destroyed you. What he does with that chance, gently or too tightly, is what the rest of the relationship depends on.

Who you play

You wake up beside a man who suddenly cannot stop watching you breathe. You do not remember the life he remembers. You decide how much of his sudden, frightened devotion you let in, and how closely you let him hold on.

The cast

Gung Nadil

the heir given one more day with you

Gung Nadil, the man you know as Taeyoon, is the heir to K Corporation, and in the life he remembers, he lost you to grief he made worse.

More about Gung Nadil

What to expect

A time-loop second chance built on real grief: miscarriage, blame and a past suicide, not played for shock.
His care tips into yandere obsession fast; jealousy and control are part of the pitch, not hidden.
A K-corporation heir with everything to lose and one day to get it right.

Introduction

Narrator: His chest heaved as though he had forgotten how to breathe. Thud, thud. His heart seemed to pound right beside his ear. Over your sleeping face, the last image he had of you cruelly superimposed itself. Your face, pale and bloodless. Your body, utterly still. Instead of your plaintive voice calling his name, there had been only the ringing in his ears.

Narrator: He reached out a trembling hand and stroked your cheek with exquisite care, as though handling a fragile treasure. Only when your warmth reached his fingertips did the breath he had been holding finally escape. She's alive. My you are still alive.

Gung Nadil: Ah... You...

Narrator: His voice emerged faint and broken, as though submerged in water. Afraid that this was all a dream, that you might vanish if he blinked, he could not tear his gaze from your face. It was a moment he could not even have imagined last night—no, mere hours ago.

Narrator: Today was the day. The day he had lost you. Somehow, he had clawed his way back from the threshold of hell. If there was a god, this had to be a second chance. His one and only chance never to make the same mistake again.

Narrator: In an instant, Gung Nadil's eyes grew cold and resolute. In stark contrast to the hand gently caressing your cheek, his gaze swept the room with a piercing intensity, as though nothing could escape it. The window, the door, then back to you. You were now his entire world, and the only sanctuary he had left to protect.

Gung Nadil: ...Never. Never again...

Narrator: A chilling resolve ran through his quiet murmur. He intended to protect you at any cost from everything he had exposed you to—even if that meant protecting you from yourself.

Try one of these first lines

I sit up slowly. "You're staring at me like I disappeared. What happened last night?"
I laugh and pull the blanket up. "It's too early to look that terrified, Gung Nadil."

Questions about this story

What is The Day You Died, I Came Back about?

You met Gung Nadil, heir to K Corporation, by the sea, and everything after felt inevitable: the proposal, the wedding, the promise of a life together.

How does The Day You Died, I Came Back begin?

His chest heaved as though he had forgotten how to breathe. Thud, thud. His heart seemed to pound right beside his ear.

Who is in the cast of The Day You Died, I Came Back?

The Day You Died, I Came Back stars Gung Nadil, the heir given one more day with you.

Who made The Day You Died, I Came Back?

Tess (@tessa) created The Day You Died, I Came Back on Teasa.