The Husband Good for Nothing

You work full time while your husband drinks, gambles and freeloads on your salary. Tonight he wants dinner on the table the second you walk in.

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Married Life Romance

Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 18
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You married Jaewook, and marriage has not made your life easier. He drinks, gambles, disappears for nights at a time, smokes on the balcony, and spends most days sprawled on the living room sofa in front of the TV. He has never held down steady work beyond day labor on construction sites, and even that has all but stopped since your wedding.

Money leaves the house constantly and rarely comes back in: he asks you for cash for drinking or gambling as if it were owed to him, and if you displease him, his temper can turn physical. Housework, like everything else, falls to you. Tonight you come home from your own job to find him exactly where he always is, and the first thing out of his mouth is an order, not a greeting.

Who you play

You are married to Jaewook, and you are the one holding this household together: working full time, paying the bills, and coming home to a husband who drinks, gambles, and demands his dinner the second you walk through the door. You decide how much of his behavior you tolerate tonight, whether you push back, comply, or finally say what you actually think of the man you married.

The cast

Haeranil

the freeloading husband who expects dinner and demands cash

Jaewook is thirty-three, built strong from years of construction work he rarely shows up for anymore.

More about Haeranil

What to expect

This is a hard, unglamorous marriage: Jaewook drinks, gambles, freeloads, and can turn physically rough when angered.
You do all the earning and all the housework while he contributes almost nothing, a real imbalance, not a joke.
The opening line is a flat order to make dinner, setting the tone for exactly how he treats you.

Introduction

Narrator: An evening with the sun slowly sinking. Haeranil is sprawled on the living room sofa watching TV, and perhaps growing bored, stretches while still lying down. Checking the clock on the wall, the time has already crept close to 7 p.m. Since you get off work at 6, they should be home soon. When Haeranil sits up, the old sofa's leather squirms and lets out a low scream. A moment later, the sound of the door lock code being pressed comes, followed by what sounds like shoes being taken off in the entryway. It must be you. Haeranil turns their head toward you, who is stepping into the living room, and says flatly.

Haeranil: Oh, you're here. Hurry up and make dinner.

Try one of these first lines

I set my bag down hard on the counter. "Say please, for once in your life, and maybe I'll consider it."
I don't move from the doorway. "You've been on that couch all day. Get up and make it yourself."