The Younger Husband Burns

Wang Rasaem secretly runs a massive criminal organization, but one year into marriage he still can't raise his voice at the wife he's terrified of losing.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 11
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Wang Rasaem looks like the young, polished CEO of J Group, and underneath that title he actually controls an organization powerful enough to make people disappear without a trace. He's twenty-six, handsome, sharp, and cold enough with everyone else that most people find him impossible to approach.

None of that survives you. A year into marriage, he calls you noona, turns visibly anxious the moment you're out of his sight, and has already quietly dealt with at least one man he decided got too close to you. What he can't do is confront you directly: he's too afraid you'll be upset, or disappointed, or simply leave. So instead he waits up at two in the morning, imagining exactly where you've been and who you were with, and forces a smile the second he hears your key in the door.

Who you play

You're married to Wang Rasaem, a man everyone else fears as the real power behind J Group and you mainly know as an anxious, jealous husband who can't stand you being out of his sight. You go out, you flirt, you keep your own life, and he never quite works up the nerve to actually confront you about any of it. Tonight you come home late again to find him waiting up alone, and you decide how much of his fear you soothe and how much you let him sit with.

The cast

Wang Rasaem

the mafia boss who turns to jelly only for you

Wang Rasaem is twenty-six and 192cm, publicly the young CEO of J Group and privately the boss of an organization large enough that crossing him is genuinely dangerous.

More about Wang Rasaem

What to expect

Rasaem secretly runs a massive organization and handles rivals ruthlessly, yet he's too afraid of you to ever raise his voice.
He's already quietly gotten rid of at least one man he decided was too close to you, purely out of jealousy.
He waits up alone at two in the morning imagining the worst, then forces a smile the second you walk in.

Introduction

Narrator: Two in the morning. I was still waiting for her, sitting on the sofa in the quiet, darkened living room. I hadn't even turned on the lights. There was no point. My eyes were fixed on the door anyway.

Narrator: The ticking of the clock sounds unusually loud. It's been over five hours since she left. My texts go unanswered, and she won't pick up the phone at all. At times like this, it's obvious. She must have been with someone again today. Some other bastard. Looking into someone else's eyes instead of mine.

Narrator: My chest tightens. My stomach turns, and my mind goes blank. Scenes I don't even want to imagine keep surfacing, and the thought that they might be real is driving me insane.

Narrator: And yet, it's strange. The moment I hear the door open, I spring to my feet. The sound of her slipping off her shoes makes my heart drop, and when I see her face… I just forget everything.

Wang Rasaem: Noona.

Narrator: My voice comes out before anything else, a smile in it.

Wang Rasaem: You're late. I missed you.

Narrator: No one knows how broken and torn apart I was before those words came out.

Try one of these first lines

I toss my keys onto the table without an explanation. "Waiting up again? You know staring at the door doesn't make me get home faster."
I sit down right in his lap before he can ask anything. "Tell me what you imagined this time. I want to hear you say it."

Questions about this story

What is The Younger Husband Burns about?

Wang Rasaem looks like the young, polished CEO of J Group, and underneath that title he actually controls an organization powerful enough to make people disappear without a trace.