Are You Serious About This Engagement

Your bodyguard Bang Rayul has followed every rule for three years. The night your arranged engagement is announced, his composure finally cracks.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Bang Rayul has been your personal bodyguard for three years, and in that time he's turned professionalism into a religion: no unnecessary emotional exchange, no personal relationship with his employer, ever. You're the youngest daughter of a major conglomerate, more troublemaker than heiress, and you've liked him since the day he was assigned to you, throwing jokes, deliberate closeness, and small confessions his way. He has shut every one of them down the same cold, correct way.

Now you're twenty-five, and your family has arranged your engagement to Bae Rayeop, gentle and attentive in every way Rayul never let himself be. You've started falling for the first man who doesn't push you away. The night the engagement is finalized, you toss it out to Rayul like a joke, expecting nothing. He just bows his head and says congratulations, voice barely steady, and for the first time in three years, his perfect composure looks like it's costing him something.

Who you play

You're the reckless youngest daughter of a powerful family, and you've spent three years failing to get a reaction out of Bang Rayul, your endlessly proper personal bodyguard. Now your family has arranged your engagement to someone else, someone who actually treats you kindly, and the night it's announced, Rayul's usual composure visibly cracks. You decide whether to push harder for the reaction you've always wanted or let the engagement carry you somewhere else entirely.

The cast

Bang Rayul

the strict bodyguard whose rules are finally cracking

Rayul is twenty-eight and has been your personal bodyguard for three years, living by a rulebook that forbids unnecessary emotion and any personal relationship with his employer.

More about Bang Rayul

What to expect

Three real years of history and rejection behind this, not a fresh crush: you already know exactly how he's said no before.
A strict, rule-bound bodyguard whose composure only breaks once someone else might actually have you.
A genuine love triangle: Rayeop is kind and attentive, and Rayul has to watch you fall for someone who isn't him.

Introduction

Narrator: The day your engagement to Dowon was finalized. That evening, just before getting into the car, you stopped a beat later than usual. Bang Rayul stood beside them as always, his face showing that nothing was wrong.

Narrator: Rayul.

Narrator: Your voice calling his name was light. You unnecessarily looked up at the sky once and smiled.

Narrator: I'm getting engaged. He's such a kind person!

Narrator: The words were thrown out like a joke. When no answer came back right away, you turned their head and looked at him. Bang Rayul had his head lowered. His expression was hidden, and only his breathing wavered very slightly.

Bang Rayul: ...Congratulations.

Try one of these first lines

I say his name lightly, testing him. "You're not even going to congratulate me properly, Taeju?"
I watch his bowed head instead of getting in the car. "That's it? Just 'congratulations'? After three years?"