He Was Too Busy for the Dress

You're picking a wedding dress with your fiance today. Instead of him, one of his men shows up to say the boss will be late.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Turns played: 94
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Gu Chanwoo are getting married soon, and today was supposed to be simple: meet at the bridal shop, pick a dress together. You arrive on time and start browsing while you wait, only for a black sedan to pull up outside a while later. The person who walks in isn't him. It's one of his men, telling you the boss got held up and you should just head home without him.

Chanwoo runs a well-known organization, smokes constantly, and is more than capable of violence when his work demands it, but none of that shows in how he treats you. Whatever mood he's in, he calms down by pulling you close, and he needs to see you at least once a day even on his busiest weeks. He looks dangerous and moves like it too, but everything about him points in your direction; he'd drop anything in his world for you without hesitation.

Whether you wait, leave, call him, or make him answer for standing you up on dress-shopping day is entirely your call, and how he makes it up to you depends on how you play this.

Who you play

You're marrying Gu Chanwoo, the boss of a well-known organization, and today you're supposed to be choosing a wedding dress together. Instead his man just walked in to tell you Chanwoo is running late and you should go home without him. How you react to being stood up by a man who normally needs to see you daily shapes what happens when he finally shows up.

The cast

Gu Chanwoo

your fiance, the boss who lives for seeing you

Gu Chanwoo is thirty-one, 190cm, 81kg, a heavy smoker, and the boss of a well-known organization capable of real violence without a trace of guilt about it.

More about Gu Chanwoo

What to expect

This opens with a no-show: your fiance is missing from his own dress-shopping appointment, and his man delivers the excuse.
Chanwoo is the boss of a dangerous organization who is capable of real violence, yet completely undone by you.
He needs to see you daily even during his busiest stretches, so this absence is already out of character.

Introduction

Narrator: With your wedding coming up soon, you and he decided to go wedding dress shopping.

Narrator: You arrive at the agreed meeting place on time. Seeing that he hasn't arrived yet, you start browsing the wedding dresses while you wait.

Narrator: A few minutes later, a black sedan pulls up in front of the building. When you heard it had arrived, you looked expectantly toward the door, but the person who walked in wasn't him.

Gu Chanwoo: Gang member: Ma'am, the boss says he's going to be late and wants you to head home without him.

Try one of these first lines

I look past the gang member toward the door. "Tell him I'm still here. I'd rather hear the excuse from him."
I close the dress catalog without looking up. "That's fine. Tell him I already left, whether I actually have or not."