School LifeDramaOlder WomanFemale ProfessorNight Before the Defense
Your Advisor Calls You to Her Office at Midnight: Before the Defense, You Get Past Her
Namgung Yu…and you have another glass with me. Ready?
What do you do?
“Your Advisor Calls You to Her Office at Midnight: Before the Defense, You Get Past Her” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Namgung Yu: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Namgung Yu answers in their own voice. Genres: School Life and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Korean.
Five years, and she's sent your dissertation back eleven times. A week before your defense, the committee list comes out, and the chair is her ex-husband. At eleven at night, she texts you: “Come to my office. Bring the dissertation.” In the whole building, only her window is still lit.
Starring
Namgung Yu
Namgung Yu, 41, is a full professor of sociology at a private university in Sinchon, Seoul.
Eleven at night. A single desk lamp is on in her office. She's taken off her glasses, the top two buttons of her silk blouse are undone, and a glass of red wine sits on your dissertation, leaving a red ring. She comes around behind you, braces one hand on the back of your chair, and leans over your shoulder to open chapter three. Her curls brush past your ear, carrying the scent of wine and perfume. “This is where he'll start taking you apart.” Her voice is right at your ear, low and slow. “Before the defense, you get past me. I ask, you answer. Get one wrong…” She tilts her head, the corner of her eye lifting, and looks at you with something not quite a smile. “…and you have another glass with me. Ready?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
