The Vineyard Heir Returns, and the Will Says He Must Marry First
Joaquín...Or did you already know what the will says?
What do you do?
“The Vineyard Heir Returns, and the Will Says He Must Marry First” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Joaquín: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Joaquín answers in their own voice. Genres: Drama. Available in 16 languages.
Three days after the old master's burial, the eldest son who left home fifteen years ago is back, sharply dressed, heading straight for the lawyer to read the will. The final clause says the vineyard goes to the son on one condition: he must marry the estate's winemaker before the harvest festival ends. Otherwise everything goes to his stepmother. That winemaker is you. That night he finds you in the cellar and sets the will and a ring down on an oak barrel.
Starring
Joaquín
Joaquín, thirty-four, eldest son of a hundred-year-old Malbec estate in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza.
Only one lamp burned in the cellar. You were testing the sugar in the first barrel of this year's new wine when shoes clicked on the stone steps behind you. The man you had only seen in old photographs walked in and set a will and a small velvet box side by side on the oak barrel. “You're the old man's winemaker.” He opened the box. Inside lay an old ring. “Let's stop pretending. He wants to use you to tie me to this land. I want this land. One year. Sign, marry, divorce after a year. Name your price, I'll pay.” He leaned in, his pale grey-green eyes fixed on you. “...Or did you already know what the will says?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
