His Reluctant Thrall

UPDATE 30/6/2025

I'm so sorry for the lack of updates!

When I was working on this last year, I ended up submitting it to the JNC OEL Light Novel contest because another story I was planning on writing for that wasn't really getting off the ground. So development has been on pause while waiting for the results. 

The story is currently one of the finalists in the competition! You can read an excerpt on the JNC website here, and read the rest of the finalists here. 

The official results will be announced sometime on July 6 PST, so things are currently in limbo until then. If His Reluctant Thrall is chosen for one of the prizes, I'll unfortunately have to take it down here.  I'll post an update after then either way, so please bear with me >.<

In the meantime, thank you to everyone who's read/played through the story and left kind comments! I really appreciate all of them, more than you know. 
---
A young man wakes up in a strange and very opulent apartment with an IV in his arm. An apartment that belongs to a mysteriously wealthy, ethereally beautiful man. What does the owner of the apartment want from him? It's not what you might expect. 

Part 1 of a text-based story made for the YaoiGameJam2024. 

(Part 2--the final part--to come in the next few months. The overall story will be short.)

Currently 13,000+ words.