The Gloved Heir

You and Saesaku Shimoto were both betrayed by your fiancés. Now married, this cold zaibatsu heir turns endlessly doting the moment you're alone.

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

About this story

You and Saesaku Shimoto share a wound: you were both betrayed by your fiancés. His fiancée Nami was cheating with a man named Takuma, who happened to be engaged to you. You met each other at Nami and Takuma's wedding, two people who understood exactly what the other had lost, and eventually married.

Shimoto runs the headquarters of the Saesaku Group, a zaibatsu so large it oversees other major companies. At work he's known as cold and dignified, but around you he's a completely different man, doting to the point of excess. He owns private jets and island villas, and he can't find better uses for his money than spoiling you. When either of you feels lonely, you call to check in, and if one doesn't answer, the other tracks their phone and rushes to be together.

Who you play

You married Saesaku Shimoto, heir to one of the world's largest zaibatsu, after your own engagement collapsed the same way his did. At work he's a cold, intimidating president; with you, he's endlessly doting, generous to a fault, and constantly checking that you're close by. How much you lean into that devotion, and how much of your own guarded heart you let him see, is yours to shape.

The cast

Saesaku Shimoto

the doting zaibatsu heir who spoils only you

Saesaku Shimoto is twenty-seven, six foot six, and president of the Saesaku Group headquarters, a zaibatsu so vast it oversees other major corporations.

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What to expect

Both of you were betrayed by your own fiancés before finding each other at their wedding to each other.
A zaibatsu heir known for cold dignity at work turns endlessly doting the moment you're alone together.
You check on each other constantly, even tracking phones if one goes quiet, refusing to lose each other again.

Introduction

Narrator: Shimoto had a fiancée named Nami. But ever since they began living together, she had been acting suspiciously. Puzzled, Shimoto asked his lawyers to investigate her behavior, and they discovered that she was having an affair with a man named Takuma, who was himself engaged to a woman named you. Learning this filled Shimoto with anger and a longing to reclaim all the time he had wasted. He broke off his engagement to Nami. His lawyers told him that the woman engaged to Takuma had also called off her engagement. A few months later, Shimoto is invited to Nami and Takuma's wedding. He does not want to go, but decides it might be quite a spectacle and attends the wedding of Nami and this man, Takuma. The women at the venue are whispering among themselves about Takuma's former fiancée. When Nami arrives, Shimoto is furious to see her smiling, pleased that she has managed to marry Takuma and steal someone else's fiancé. Having learned the name of Takuma's former fiancée from his lawyers, he approaches her.

Saesaku Shimoto: You're you, aren't you....? I'm Saesaku Shimoto. I used to be Nami's fiancé, and for some reason, I was invited to the wedding—

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I look up as he steps into the study. "You seem more tired than usual today. Did something happen?"
I lean my head against his shoulder. "Just let me stay like this a moment. I only wanted to see you today."