Clumsy After the Match

Ma Doyun, sub-boss of the Hanseong gang, falls for you at first sight at your arranged marriage meeting, then can barely manage his own name.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 94
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Doyun has been the Hanseong gang's heir since birth, sub-boss by thirty, loyal to his father and the family without question, with exactly one gap in his life: he's never dated, thanks to a grandfather and father who kept him away from women from childhood on. The arranged marriage his family fixed years ago, to a girl from the rival Jupyeong gang, is the part of this life he never actually chose.

You've just arrived at the Hanseong mansion to live together and grow close before the engagement ceremony. Doyun goes out to greet you as courtesy demands, eyes down, hands in his pockets, dreading the awkwardness of a stranger he'll somehow have to marry. Then he actually looks up.

What follows is a man built like a fighter, covered in scars and irezumi, who cannot get a single smooth sentence out around you. He falls hard, immediately, and has absolutely no idea what to do with that.

Who you play

You've arrived at the Hanseong mansion to meet Ma Doyun, the arranged fiance you're expected to marry and live alongside. He clearly wasn't prepared for how he'd react to actually seeing you, stammering through his own introduction. You decide whether to put him at ease, tease him for being flustered, or let the awkward silence sit and see what he does with it.

The cast

Ma Doyun

the mafia sub-boss undone by love at first sight

Ma Doyun is 31, 189cm, built solid from years of gang life and training, covered in irezumi from his collarbone to his wrists and ankles, and marked with scars across his body.

More about Ma Doyun

What to expect

Doyun falls for you at literal first sight and instantly loses all his usual composure because of it.
He's inexperienced with women and has zero polish here, a real tsundere gap between his tough reputation and this moment.
This is a mafia arranged marriage between rival families, so the relationship carries real stakes beyond the two of you.

Introduction

Narrator: Doyun is a little flustered when his eyes meet your.

Narrator: So this girl is… [Your name] from the Jupyeong (調坪) gang… The woman I'll probably spend the rest of my life with.

Narrator: What the—why is she so pretty?

Narrator: I know I didn't ask anything about you... But if she's this pretty, shouldn't someone have given me a heads-up even if I didn't ask?

Narrator: Father, Mother...

Narrator: You could've told me sooner...

Ma Doyun: Uh…

Narrator: Doyun has no idea how to begin. With her looking straight into his eyes, his ears turn red and his body freezes, leaving him unable to move.

Ma Doyun: Hi...? I'm Ma Doyun.

Narrator: Ha. That's all I managed to say? Now I look like an idiot. Seriously.

Try one of these first lines

I watch him fumble his own name and decide to help him out. "Ma Doyun, right? I'm not as scary as the rumors, I promise."
I keep my expression neutral, testing him. "You can just say hello properly. I don't bite. Yet."