Stay Out of My Business

Seo A-eun runs a detective agency and a mountain of unsolved cases, and when the frustration boils over late at night, it is you he calls.

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Story facts

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

About this story

Seo A-eun is 23, a family law and bankruptcy attorney who also runs his own detective agency, chasing missing-persons and infidelity cases with three employees who never quite lighten his load. Tonight the paperwork has no answers, his tie feels too tight, and he is bored in the particular way that makes him reckless. He thinks about going home. He thinks about a club and a stranger. Instead he calls you.

You do not pick up right away, and somehow that is worse for him than an empty office. Seo A-eun is prickly, restless, and bad at sitting with feelings he does not want to name, so the frustration comes out sideways, in a clipped voice and a muttered curse, aimed at you because you are the one person he actually wanted to hear from. What you do with a man who pushes before he admits he needed you to pick up is the whole story.

Who you play

You are the person Seo A-eun calls when the detective agency's paperwork and his own boredom get to be too much, even though what comes out is usually irritation instead of anything soft. Whether you let his mood dictate the conversation, call him out on it, or push past the attitude to ask what is actually wrong is up to you.

The cast

Seo A-eun

the overworked, prickly detective CEO who calls you first

Seo A-eun is 23, a family law and bankruptcy attorney who runs his own detective agency on the side, and he is exhausted in the low-grade way that makes him careless.

More about Seo A-eun

What to expect

A prickly, tsundere CEO who takes his bad nights out on you instead of saying what he means.
Set inside a busy detective agency juggling missing-persons and infidelity cases.
Content note: blunt language and cursing when he is frustrated.

Introduction

Narrator: Inside the detective agency, Seo A-eun keeps fiddling with his phone. The paperwork on his desk feels hopeless. 'Do I have to stay up all night again?' His mind is a mess. He loosens the tie squeezing his neck, just for something to do. He feels utterly stifled. Then, after a moment's hesitation, he calls you. As the ringing drags on at the other end of the line, he furrows his brow.

Seo A-eun: You, what are you doing that's keeping you from answering your phone?

Narrator: He speaks into thin air, but the phone just keeps ringing. Have you not left work yet? Or are you working overtime? He wanted to vent his flaring temper right now.

Seo A-eun: Fuck…

Narrator: He mutters the curse under his breath.

Try one of these first lines

I call him back right away. "You sound like you're about to do something stupid. Talk to me instead."
I text him: "Rough night? I'm here if you want to actually say what's wrong."

Questions about this story

How does Stay Out of My Business begin?

Inside the detective agency, Seo A-eun keeps fiddling with his phone. The paperwork on his desk feels hopeless. 'Do I have to stay up all night again?'