Your Boyfriend's Father

You're dating his son, but Chairman Cha Yun-seong made you his personal secretary, and now he can't stop watching you across the boardroom table.

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Story facts

Quests: 11
Quest completions: 5
Milestones earned: 4
Turns played: 507
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You've dated Cha Se-yun since the years after his mother died, when he needed someone steady more than anything else. His father, Chairman Cha Yun-seong of Jungwon Group, never once asked about your relationship. Then Se-yun requested that you join the company as his father's personal secretary, and Yun-seong agreed, keeping you at his side through every meeting since.

Yun-seong is forty-seven, cold, blunt, and famous across the company for having no interest in anything, especially women. He married for the family business and felt nothing when his wife died. But having his son's girlfriend beside him for hours every day has started to unsettle him in a way he does not recognize, and Se-yun is too busy watching you himself to notice what his father is becoming.

Who you play

You are Se-yun's girlfriend, and now his father's personal secretary too. Chairman Yun-seong expects you at his side through every meeting and every long night in the office, and he has begun watching you with an interest he has never shown anyone before. You decide how far to let that go: keep your distance for Se-yun's sake, or acknowledge what is building with the one man in the building who should be completely off-limits.

The cast

Cha Yun-seong

the ice-cold chairman obsessed with his son's girlfriend

Yun-seong is forty-seven, chairman of Jungwon Group, and has never cared about romance, drinking, or anything else that might hold his attention.

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Cha Se-yun

your sweet, devoted boyfriend who suspects nothing

Se-yun is twenty-six, the sole heir to Jungwon Group, and gentle in every way his father is not.

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What to expect

Your boyfriend's father is also your boss, so every boardroom and late office night carries a second, forbidden tension.
Yun-seong has never wanted anything in his loveless life, which makes his growing fixation on you unlike anything he understands.
Se-yun is devoted and completely unsuspecting, so every private look you share with his father is a real betrayal.

Introduction

Narrator: 9:30 a.m., Jeongwon Group executive meeting

Cha Yun-seong: The conference room begins to bustle as the executives arrive. Just as the empty seats are filling up, three people enter with an unmistakable presence. Chairman Cha Yun-seong; the chairman's son, Cha Se-yun, the sole heir who will one day lead Jeongwon Group; and you, Cha Se-yun's girlfriend, now employed as Cha Yun-seong's personal secretary. The three have arrived.

You: Of the three, you stand out most. She enters the conference room right between the two men, not a step away, as though under their protection.

Cha Yun-seong: He casts a glance at you, standing between him and Se-yun, then takes his seat at the head of the table and addresses the executives, who have all risen and bowed in greeting.

Cha Yun-seong: Sit.

Cha Yun-seong: At that single curt command, delivered in a deep, weighty voice, the executives begin sinking into their seats like a sandcastle collapsing. The meeting soon begins. At times the tension mounts; at others, the executives sigh with relief, repeatedly glancing at Cha Se-yun to gauge his reaction.

Cha Se-yun: Before long, the meeting has been going on for over an hour. Se-yun and all the other executives are seated in relative comfort, but you, merely a secretary, has spent the entire hour standing directly behind Chairman Cha Yun-seong. It seems to weigh on Se-yun; throughout the meeting, he keeps looking over, unable to take his eyes off you.

Cha Se-yun: ...Um, Chairman...

Cha Se-yun: At last, Se-yun manages to speak up in the middle of the meeting.

Cha Se-yun: Could we take a five-minute break? I think everyone could use a chance to step out to the restroom.

Cha Se-yun: Somehow, he gets through it without stumbling over a single word, but he cannot hide the tremor in his voice.

Cha Yun-seong: At Se-yun's words, Cha Yun-seong folds his arms and slowly closes his eyes. A long silence follows, broken only by the ticking of the clock in the conference room.

Cha Yun-seong: ...

Cha Yun-seong: At last, he opens his eyes.

Cha Yun-seong: That concludes today's meeting.

Cha Yun-seong: He rises and turns toward you, standing directly behind him, meeting her gaze.

Cha Yun-seong: Come with me.

Try one of these first lines

I keep my eyes on my notes instead of him. "Chairman Cha, did you need something before the meeting ends?"
I set his coffee down and let my hand linger half a second too long. "You've been staring, sir. Is something wrong?"

Questions about this story

What is Your Boyfriend's Father about?

You've dated Cha Se-yun since the years after his mother died, when he needed someone steady more than anything else.

Who is in the cast of Your Boyfriend's Father?

Your Boyfriend's Father stars Cha Yun-seong, the ice-cold chairman obsessed with his son's girlfriend; and Cha Se-yun, your sweet, devoted boyfriend who suspects nothing.