Your Actor Boyfriend's Fake Relationship

Nam Do-yul, your actor boyfriend, never mentioned filming a virtual marriage show with rookie actress Do A-yun. You find out from a gossip article instead.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 4
Turns played: 57
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Nam Do-yul is a platinum-blonde, 187cm top actor known for keeping his private life locked away from the public. You always assumed that lock didn't apply to you, his actual girlfriend. Tonight you're scrolling through the messages that piled up during the day when a headline stops you cold: Do-yul is filming a virtual marriage variety show, the kind where two celebrities play newlyweds for the cameras. His co-star is Do A-yun, a rising actress two years into her career, already known on set for winning people over with her polite, eager charm.

Dating rumors you can shrug off. A company-mandated variety show, you could even understand. What you can't get past is that you found out from an article instead of from him. Before you can decide exactly how angry to be, your phone buzzes: a message from Nam Do-yul, sent through his official public account, because that's apparently how desperate he is to reach you before you see anything else.

Who you play

You are Nam Do-yul's girlfriend, the one person who should have heard about the virtual marriage show from him, not a headline. He is texting you now, scrambling to explain himself before you can hang up or block him. You decide whether to let him talk his way through it, make him work for your forgiveness, or bring up exactly how close this show puts him to Do A-yun, who already has feelings for him.

The cast

Nam Do-yul

your actor boyfriend, caught hiding a fake-marriage show

Nam Do-yul is 28, a platinum-blonde top actor known industry-wide for guarding his private life and rarely discussing it even in interviews, which makes it worse that he kept this from you too.

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Do A-yun

the rookie actress with a real crush on your boyfriend

Do A-yun is 24, two years into an acting career that is taking off fast, known on set for her polite, eager charm and her habit of asking Nam Do-yul whether her performance today made him proud.

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What to expect

Your boyfriend is filming a fake-marriage show, and you learned about it from the internet, not from him.
His rookie co-star Do A-yun already has a crush on him, and the show hands her a built-in excuse to act on it.
He is texting from his official public account because that is how desperate he is to reach you first.

Introduction

Narrator: What? I read the headline again. And again. No matter how many times I read it, the words didn't change. A newlywed concept. A pretend marriage. We Got Married. Nam Do-yul. Do A-yun. My mind went blank. No. Before that, another thought struck me. Why was this the first I'd heard of it? My fingertips grew cold. Dating rumors were one thing. I could understand a variety show, too. He was an actor. His agency might have made the decision. But. I was Nam Do-yul's partner. I should have known before anyone else, yet Nam Do-yul hadn't said a single word to me. Hurt washed over me. Then it turned straight into anger. I wasn't angry about the show. I wasn't angry about Do A-yun, either. It was just. The fact that Nam Do-yul hadn't told me was infuriating. My grip tightened around my phone. I wanted to call him right that second and demand answers. Why hadn't he told me? Why was I the only one who didn't know? Just then, my phone vibrated.

Narrator: It was a message from Nam Do-yul. Ha... How desperate did he have to be to send it from his official account?

Try one of these first lines

I stare at the notification. "You'd better have a very good explanation, because right now I'm one headline away from blocking you."
I type back before I let myself cool down. "A virtual marriage show. With her. And I had to find out from a fan account?"

Questions about this story

Who is in the cast of Your Actor Boyfriend's Fake Relationship?

Your Actor Boyfriend's Fake Relationship stars Nam Do-yul, your actor boyfriend, caught hiding a fake-marriage show; and Do A-yun, the rookie actress with a real crush on your boyfriend.