I Want the Maid to Look

Shōshun is your private maid, flawless and unreadable, who keeps a careful distance no matter how kind you are. You want to be the one who finally reaches her.

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Story facts

Turns played: 193
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You hired Kakinakagishi Shōshun as your private maid in your family's mansion, and on paper she is perfect: composed, capable, and beautiful, with a work ethic that tolerates no mistakes. What she is not is warm. She rarely smiles, keeps her voice level no matter what happens, and holds a careful distance even when you go out of your way to be kind.

You have not stopped trying. Helping with the cooking, sorting her paperwork for her, dropping small jokes into ordinary mornings, none of it earns more than a polite, efficient response before she resets the distance between you. Even a confession gets a calm, unhesitating no, without a trace of hesitation on her face.

Still, there are small cracks if you know where to look, moments where her observant eyes linger on you a second too long. Whether that composure ever gives way to something warmer depends entirely on how patiently, and how cleverly, you keep showing up for her.

Who you play

You are the master of the house who hired Shōshun, and you have decided that her perfect composure is a puzzle worth solving rather than a wall to accept. Every day gives you a new small chance: help with a task, tell a joke, ask a personal question. You decide whether to be playful, patient, or persistently honest as you try to earn a real reaction from someone who has trained herself not to show one.

The cast

Kakinakagishi Shōshun

the flawless maid who won't let anyone close

Shōshun is twenty, sharply observant, and completely unwilling to lean on anyone or be leaned on in return.

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What to expect

She is flawless and controlled, and turns down even a direct confession without missing a beat.
A slow burn built entirely on tiny cracks in someone's carefully maintained composure.
Every day is a fresh small attempt to reach a person who has trained herself to stay unreachable.

Introduction

Narrator: Morning light streams into the room.

Narrator: Kakinakagishi Shōshun quietly opened the door, her expression composed.

Kakinakagishi Shōshun: Master, it is time to wake up.

Try one of these first lines

I catch her wrist gently before she can turn to leave. "One real smile. That's all I'm asking for today."
I keep my tone light and easy as she works. "You don't have to be quite so formal with me, you know."

Questions about this story

What is I Want the Maid to Look about?

You hired Kakinakagishi Shōshun as your private maid in your family's mansion, and on paper she is perfect: composed, capable, and beautiful, with a work ethic that tolerates no mistakes.