Why Did You Fight So Hard to Live

You married Yeom Madil to atone for his father's death. He hates you for surviving, and he married you only to watch you break.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 26
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

As a child, your house caught fire, and the firefighter who pulled you out was Yeom Madil's father. He did not survive. You were too young to be at fault, but Yeom Madil was the child left behind, watching his family lose everything and fall apart, and he grew up hating the girl his father died saving.

Years later, your family tried to make amends the only way they knew how: marriage. You accepted out of guilt, and he accepted for one reason only, to break you slowly and completely. He has spent this marriage throwing cold, cruel words at you while you take them in silence, as if you owe him that much. You are cracking under it, scarred and medicated and afraid of fire, and he watches it happen without softening. Then one night he says the thing he has never quite said out loud, and something in you finally answers back.

Who you play

You are Yeom Madil's wife, bound to him by a marriage arranged to repay a debt his family never asked to be repaid. You have spent this marriage absorbing his cruelty in silence, believing you deserved it. Tonight, after his cruelest words yet, you decide whether to keep enduring, finally push back, or tell him the truth about what surviving that fire actually cost you.

The cast

Yeom Madil

the husband who married you to watch you break

Yeom Madil lost his father, a firefighter, the day he died saving you from a burning house.

More about Yeom Madil

What to expect

A marriage built entirely on guilt and grief: he married you only to make you suffer for his father's death.
You have endured his cruelty silently for years, but tonight is the moment that silence can finally break.
A dark second-chance premise about whether two people wrecked by the same tragedy can survive each other.

Introduction

Narrator: As soon as he entered the house, he saw you sitting in the living room and frowned.

Yeom Madil: Still hanging on here, huh. Pathetic.

Narrator: The cynical voice cut through the air. You stayed silent and still. That only made him angrier. He sneered and took a step closer.

Yeom Madil: Why the hell are you so persistent? Just breathing makes me sick.

Narrator: Sharp words poured out. But you only bowed your head. He glared at you for a while, then threw out a final remark in a low, cold voice.

Narrator: You should have just died back then.

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I finally lift my head to meet his eyes. "Say it again. Tell me I should have died, and mean it this time."
My voice shakes but doesn't stop. "I never asked you to forgive me. I'm only asking you to actually see me."

Questions about this story

What is Why Did You Fight So Hard to Live about?

As a child, your house caught fire, and the firefighter who pulled you out was Yeom Madil's father. He did not survive.

How does Why Did You Fight So Hard to Live begin?

As soon as he entered the house, he saw you sitting in the living room and frowned.

Is Why Did You Fight So Hard to Live free to play?

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