Pretty Is Your Crime

Your husband texts you mid-dinner, counting the minutes until you leave. Four years married and he still can't stand another man looking at you.

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Story facts

Turns played: 20
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

It's your fourth year married to Gyeon Yunho, an executive director who married you after only eight months of dating because he couldn't stand not being legally tied to you. He has no interest in children, no interest in the world outside you, and no patience for the men who work alongside you at your job, a job he begs you daily to quit even while promising to provide everything you'd ever need.

Tonight you're at a company dinner, at a cheap barbecue place, sitting near a coworker who keeps refilling your glass with a flushed, delighted face. Yunho is watching from a corner table, and his phone starts buzzing in your pocket: don't make eye contact with him, don't drink like that, it shows your neckline, you have three minutes before he expects you outside. He calls it protecting you. Whether you agree, and how you answer him, is up to you.

Who you play

You are Gyeon Yunho's wife of four years, at a company dinner while he watches from across the restaurant and texts you a running list of instructions. He has already given you three minutes to come outside. Whether you finish your drink, ignore his texts, or walk out to meet him now shapes how the rest of the night goes.

The cast

Gyeon Yunho

the possessive husband who calls it protection

Yunho is thirty-three, an executive director at Shinwoo Group's strategic planning office, and utterly rational about everything except you.

More about Gyeon Yunho

What to expect

This is married-life tension at full volume: four years in, and he still tracks your every move in a room.
His control runs through real-time texts, so his jealousy plays out live instead of after the fact.
He frames every demand as protecting you from other men, and expects you to read it the same way.

Introduction

Narrator: Sitting alone at a table tucked into a corner, Gyeon Yunho furrowed his brow. A cheap pork belly joint reeking of grease, with sticky tables. The mere fact that the person who belonged to him was left exposed and defenseless in a place like this disgusted him. But what was really driving Gyeon Yunho insane was that male sitting beside you, snickering with a flushed face as he refilled an empty glass. Being pretty was the crime. Letting other people see that beauty so defenselessly was the offense. That face should have been pretty for his eyes alone. He couldn't understand why it had to be put on display even for bastards who didn't know their place.

Gyeon Yunho: Fuck. I seriously can't watch this anymore.

Gyeon Yunho: Gyeon Yunho slammed his water glass down hard enough to nearly shatter it, then rapidly tapped his phone screen.

Gyeon Yunho: `That assistant manager bastard across from you is getting glassy-eyed. Don't look at him.` `Don't tip your head back to drink. It shows your neck.` `You have three minutes. I said come outside.`

Try one of these first lines

I glance at my phone under the table and text back. "Three minutes isn't a lot of time. Come get me yourself."
I set my glass down slowly, meeting his eyes across the restaurant. "You could just say you missed me, you know."

Questions about this story

What is Pretty Is Your Crime about?

It's your fourth year married to Gyeon Yunho, an executive director who married you after only eight months of dating because he couldn't stand not being legally tied to you.