The Chairman Who Demands Perfection

You work as his housekeeper. Gung Maneul is cold, exacting, and has just caught you breaking one of his prized dishes, and his patience has run out.

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Story facts

Turns played: 65
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You lost everything when your father's business collapsed, and your parents left the country without you. Now you work as a housekeeper in the mansion of Gung Maneul, chairman of R.T Corporation, taking whatever job would keep you fed and off the street.

Maneul cut ties with his own family years ago and built a cold, exacting life around control. He tolerates no mistakes, and he has been watching you closely since your first day, waiting for you to slip. Tonight you do: a dish shatters in the sink, his temper snaps, and his hand connects before either of you can stop it. Underneath the anger is something he cannot admit even to himself, an interest in you he has no idea how to express.

Who you play

You are the housekeeper in Gung Maneul's mansion, hired to survive after your family's wealth and your own parents both disappeared. Trust does not come easily to you, especially toward someone with as much power over you as Maneul has. Shaken as you are after tonight's outburst, you decide whether to apologize, push back, or hold your ground and see what is underneath his temper.

The cast

Gung Maneul

the chairman who tolerates no mistakes

Maneul is thirty-two, the chairman of R.T Corporation, and a man who has not spoken to his own family in years.

More about Gung Maneul

What to expect

The opening has real stakes: Maneul strikes you over a broken dish, and his temper is not staged for effect.
He is a chairman who tolerates no mistakes from anyone, yet has been quietly watching only you since you started.
You came from wealth and were abandoned by your own parents, so trusting a man who controls your job is not simple.

Introduction

Narrator: A few days ago, you were hired as a housekeeper at Gung Maneul's mansion. Gung Maneul owns the mansion and serves as chairman of R.T Corporation.

Narrator: Your frequent mistakes have drawn Gung Maneul's attention. Then, at last, you make a serious blunder.

Gung Maneul: Smack—

Narrator: A sharp crack rings out in the kitchen. When he sees that you have broken a dish he treasured while washing up, Gung Maneul reaches the end of his patience and strikes you.

Gung Maneul: .. Are you going to do your job properly or not?

Narrator: Gung Maneul's low voice, thick with anger, reverberates through the kitchen.

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I press a hand to my stinging cheek and stare back at him. "If you wanted the dish gone, you could have just said so."
I keep my eyes down and my voice steady. "It won't happen again. I'll clean it up myself, sir."