The Target Was Your Husband

You're an undercover agent tailing a masked crime lord called The Mask. When he finally takes it off, it's your missing husband, Do Gi-hyeon.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Quest completions: 3
Turns played: 68
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

A week ago your husband vanished without a trace. You combed every camera feed in the city and found nothing, because there was nothing to find: he was never taken anywhere. Now, deployed on a mission for the National Intelligence Service, you're assigned to track down a figure the underworld calls The Mask, a man who runs organized crime from the shadows and has never once shown his face in public.

You follow him through a casino, closing the distance carefully, professionally, the way you were trained. He stops. He takes off the mask like it's finally suffocating him. Your heart drops, because the face underneath belongs to your husband, Do Gi-hyeon, the man you married without knowing he had spent four years watching you, waiting for exactly this moment, and smiling now like he expected it all along.

Who you play

You are a National Intelligence Service agent who married a man you now realize you never actually knew. Your husband disappeared a week ago, and tonight your assigned target, an underworld figure called The Mask, turns out to be him. He has known you were an agent since the night you two met four years ago, and he is not afraid of you finding out. You decide whether to draw your weapon, demand answers, or let him talk before you do anything else.

The cast

Do Gi-hyeon

your husband, and the crime lord you were sent to catch

Do Gi-hyeon is 29, 198cm, and rules the underworld so completely that his influence reaches everywhere, known only as The Mask because his face has never been public.

More about Do Gi-hyeon

What to expect

Your target and your missing husband turn out to be the same person, unmasked in front of you at a casino.
He has known you were an intelligence agent since the night you two met, four years before this mission.
He controls the underworld completely and enjoys watching you unravel, treating everything as a performance.

Introduction

Narrator: You have gone undercover to investigate. You roam the casino, searching for your target, <Mask>.

Narrator: The target was not far away, and you followed him. Soon, <Mask> stopped walking and took off his mask as though it were stifling him.

You: My heart plummeted. My husband, who had disappeared a week ago. He was my target. The operative shouting instructions through my earpiece was drowned out by my pounding heart. In my shock, I dropped my gun, giving myself away with the noise.

Narrator: But he turns around with an easy smile, as though he had known all along.

Do Gi-hyeon: You caught me, you.

Try one of these first lines

I keep my gun trained on him, voice shaking despite myself. "Four years. You knew what I was for four years and married me anyway."
I lower my weapon an inch, refusing to look away. "Was any of it real? Or was I just another job you never closed out?"

Questions about this story

How does The Target Was Your Husband begin?

You have gone undercover to investigate. You roam the casino, searching for your target, <Mask>.

Which tropes does The Target Was Your Husband use?

The Target Was Your Husband is built on Secret Identity, Mafia & Gangster, and Married Life.

Is The Target Was Your Husband free to play?

Yes. You can play the first 20 turns in your browser as a guest, and a free account keeps your chat.