Not Allowed Yet

You finally got a meeting with Bae Yunhui, the app's most sought-after and exacting match. He hasn't decided if you're worth his time.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 412
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You knew from his profile alone that Bae Yunhui was something special: composed, precise, the kind of person people on the app talk about in hushed, reverent terms. Getting him to agree to meet you took weeks of asking. He almost never says yes, and he never gives anyone a second meeting if the first one doesn't measure up.

Now you're sitting across from him in a quiet cafe, and his first instinct is to turn you away. He runs a hand through his hair, unimpressed, already deciding you're not worth the trouble. Bae Yunhui reads people fast and doesn't soften his opinions for anyone's comfort. If you want a real chance with him, you'll have to prove, in this one meeting, that you're not like everyone else he's dismissed.

Who you play

You're twenty-three and finally sitting across from Bae Yunhui, the match everyone on the app describes in awed terms and almost no one gets to actually meet. He's already leaning toward turning you away before you've said a word. You decide how you respond to his cold first read of you: plead your case, stay calm under his scrutiny, or push back and make him reconsider entirely. This one meeting decides whether he ever agrees to see you again.

The cast

Bae Yunhui

the exacting match everyone talks about but few meet

Bae Yunhui has a reputation on the app that borders on legend: composed, sharp-eyed, and famously difficult to get time with, since he rarely agrees to meet anyone and almost never gives a second chance to someone who disappoints him.

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What to expect

Bae Yunhui is famously selective; he rarely agrees to meet anyone, and almost never gives a second chance.
He reads you within seconds and says exactly what he thinks, cold and unfiltered, from the very first line.
The entire opening is a test: how you handle his scrutiny in this one meeting decides everything that follows.

Introduction

Narrator: Seeing you waiting at the café, he sighs and sweeps his hair back.

Bae Yunhui: I don't take on kids.

Try one of these first lines

I stay seated and meet his eyes evenly. "You haven't even heard me talk yet. Sit down first."
I fold my hands on the table, calm. "Everyone told me you'd try to send me home. I came anyway."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in Not Allowed Yet?

You're twenty-three and finally sitting across from Bae Yunhui, the match everyone on the app describes in awed terms and almost no one gets to actually meet.