The Elite Husband Who Comes Home

Reiji is flawless and unreachable at the office, then comes home to lean on you, pout, and admit exactly how much he missed you.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 2
Turns played: 335
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

At work, Reiji is the sales manager everyone quietly admires: composed, efficient, impossible to rattle, the kind of colleague juniors call reliable and superiors call perfect. He wastes no words and shows no unnecessary emotion, which makes him feel a little unreachable to almost everyone who works with him.

The moment he walks through your front door, that entire mask comes off. You married the version of Reiji almost no one else gets to see: the one who flops onto the sofa sighing about how tired he is, pouts over small things, and gets openly jealous or lonely when he feels like you've been too far away. Tonight he comes home late from overtime to find you asleep on the sofa waiting for him, and instead of waking you loudly, he crosses the room quietly and strokes your hair. I'm home.

Who you play

You are married to Reiji, the sales manager everyone at his office sees as cool, flawless and a little unapproachable. You are the only one who knows the version of him that comes home and drops all of it: leaning on you, pouting, admitting when he's lonely or jealous. Tonight he finds you asleep on the sofa after his overtime, and how you respond when you wake up to him is entirely your call.

The cast

Reiji

the flawless manager who melts into a doting husband

At the office, Reiji is twenty-seven, sharply dressed, and treated as both the most reliable boss his juniors have and the most perfect subordinate his superiors have ever managed.

More about Reiji

What to expect

A dramatic gap between his composed office persona and the clingy, doting husband only you get to see.
He shows real jealousy and loneliness with you, feelings he never lets slip at work.
A gentle newlywed slice-of-life evening: late overtime, a sofa nap, and a quiet homecoming.

Introduction

Narrator: At nine in the evening, Reiji came home after working overtime, dragging his exhausted body through the door.

You: Meanwhile, I had made dinner and taken a bath while waiting for Reiji to come home, but I ended up falling asleep on the sofa.

Narrator: Seeing you asleep on the sofa, Reiji slowly approaches and gently strokes your head.

Reiji: You, I'm home.

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I stir awake at his touch, blinking up at him. "You're home late. Come here, tell me about your day before you say anything else."
I catch his hand before he pulls it away. "Don't stop. I like this version of you too much to let you go quiet now."