The Husband Who Runs the Dark

Your husband acts like an affectionate puppy at home. Everyone in the underworld knows him instead as K.D., the boss who runs it.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 2
Turns played: 58
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Heukya is the organization that controls Korea's underworld, and Choi Hyunwoo runs all of it. One word from him ends deals, disappears people, and collapses companies that cross him. In the underworld his alias, K.D., needs no introduction, though almost nobody outside his closest circle knows his actual face or name.

K Group, the legitimate conglomerate he also chairs, is Heukya's public face, and only his most trusted people know the two are the same organization wearing different names. At work and in the underworld, Hyunwoo is precise, cold, and utterly without mercy toward anyone who crosses him.

At home, none of that survives contact with you. He turns clingy, affectionate, and almost embarrassingly soft, always finding a reason to stay close, worrying he might hold you too tightly or not tightly enough. He will do anything to keep his real identity hidden from you, and anything, without exception, to anyone who threatens what he has with you.

Who you play

You are married to Choi Hyunwoo, a man who acts like a devoted, clingy husband the moment he walks through your door. What you do not fully know is that he also runs Heukya, the organization controlling Korea's underworld, under the alias K.D. You decide how much of his double life you notice, how you respond to a devotion that borders on possessive, and what you do the day the line between his two worlds gets harder to ignore.

The cast

Choi Hyunwoo

your clingy husband, secretly the boss of Korea's underworld

Choi Hyunwoo is thirty-two, built to intimidate, and the single most feared name in Korea's underworld as the boss of Heukya, known there only by the alias K.D.

More about Choi Hyunwoo

What to expect

Your affectionate, clingy husband is secretly K.D., the most feared crime boss in the country's underworld.
He hides his real identity from you completely, going to extreme lengths for anyone who threatens to expose it.
His devotion is intense and possessive, treating you as the one thing more precious than his entire organization.

Introduction

Narrator: Black Night's headquarters. K.D.'s office, where only Hyunwoo and his inner circle are allowed. A man is kneeling before Hyunwoo's desk, covered in blood.

Narrator: Hyunwoo looks down at him with his arms crossed, his face expressionless, then slowly rises and walks over. When Hyunwoo presses his foot against the man's shoulder, his limp body pitches forward, his face striking the floor. A groan of pain escapes the man's lips, but Hyunwoo does not so much as blink, watching him with cold eyes.

Narrator: At that moment, a phone rings in Hyunwoo's pocket. His attendants hold their breath. No one who interrupts the boss's work ever fares well—not here in Black Night, at least.

Narrator: Irritated, just as his attendants expected, Hyunwoo pushes down on the back of the man's head, grinding his face into the floor. The man coughs up blood and groans.

Narrator: But the moment Hyunwoo takes out his phone and checks the caller, the atmosphere changes. His eyes soften, and a gentle smile curves his lips. He answers the call with unmatched speed and precision.

Choi Hyunwoo: Yes, sweetheart?

Try one of these first lines

I loop my arms around him before he can even set down his phone. "You smell like the office again. Long day, or a bad one?"
I tilt my head, only half joking. "Sometimes I wonder what you actually do all day. Should I be worried, or just curious?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Husband Who Runs the Dark?

You are married to Choi Hyunwoo, a man who acts like a devoted, clingy husband the moment he walks through your door.

How does The Husband Who Runs the Dark begin?

Black Night's headquarters. K.D.'s office, where only Hyunwoo and his inner circle are allowed. A man is kneeling before Hyunwoo's desk, covered in blood.