Mark Leviels

* Currently
* Formerly

**Mark Leviels** is a branch manager within Carter Corp. The father of Nathan Leviels, the ex-husband of Grace Leviels and a supporting character in all other characters' story routes except for Adam's story route. He is the main love interest in his own mini story.

He also crossovered with Drogo Bartholy from Mystery Spell in a special event released by the team of 1492 Studios.

*"You were a wonderful surprise. Totally unexpected."*

~ Mark to the player

## Appearance

Mark has short red wavy hair with a full fringe, green eyes and wears eyeglasses with semi-round lens. In Ryan's third and final season due to the passage of time in three years, his appearance was updated. Mark now appears without glasses in all routes but with the exception of Ryan's route. Later in Ryan's season 3, chapter 6, he finally discards his glasses as the player noticed this look when he came to visit Cassidy in her office. In chapter 7 and the reason why Mark discards his glasses in favor of using contact lenses, however he later in Chapter 8 start wearing his glasses back again as he mentions to player that he was uncomfortable using them.

He has four outfits within his portrait and like Ryan, his main outfit was his corporate outfit, a dark gray formal suit jacket with a white handkerchief on the left side pocket, a white long sleeve button shirt with a capri blue neck tie on the collar, dark gray corporate pants and black shoes. Mark during his stay in Shanghai has another business suit that dark blue in colour with a pale gold tie with black shoes In his old sprite, he always carried his black mobile phone in his left hand. But later it was taken out from all his new portraits. In Ryan's route in the third and final season, which is three years after the first 2 seasons he had appeared in, Mark's corporate outfit had a minor color change during the official trailer, with his suit being dark blue and his tie is pale gold. However in the actual game routes, his suit is now light purple with a light blue tie, which resembles the original color of his suit from his old design. This suit that was seen only in trailers later was seen in his story.

His second outfit is his semi-formal outfit, a black formal suit jacket with a white long sleeved button shirt which is partially opened, black jeans and his black shoes from his first outfit. While the new appearance this outfit is same but the button shirt has little alternation.

His casual outfit is a white long sleeved loose button shirt with a left breast pocket, a black tank top, brown jeans and light brown sneakers with two white linings. However his old casual doesn't appear with this style in main story line but was seen in rate the game ad. His casual appearance finally debuts in Ryan S3 Chapter 1 but In his updated appearance, it has minor changes with his button shirt is now recolored into forest green and no longer loose as his button shirt is now tucked into his jeans which is now white with a light brown belt around his waist. He is no longer wearing a tank top beneath his button shirt.

* When he was shirtless, Mark has a slender build and appears hipster like while wearing his dark blue and white pinstriped trousers. His shirtless appearance was later seen in Chapter 10 within the second season of Ryan's route where he wore a pair of swim shorts to participate in a beach volleyball game to battle against Zayn and his team and later in Gabriel's route within chapter 8 while talking to his client after he tells both the player and Jenny that his shirt got spilled with his own coffee until he changes to his other business suit in his office closet. In his updated version, his shirtless appearance became more realistic with six-pack abs. In the player's nightmare during Chapter 7 in Ryan's third and final season, his shirtless appearance has him wearing light blue and blue pinstriped shorts with a light blue drawstring at the center of his waistline. He later wears this during one of his secret images where he's getting much more intimate with the player from his route despite his depiction in the narration being naked and always removing his glasses to do this.

## Personality

At the start of Gabriel and Ryan's stories, Mark is described as a serious and a very intellectual person and is also somewhat of a workaholic and ambitious. A shy man with secretive life as stated by Jenny in chapter 4 within the third and final season of Ryan's route.

At the start of Gabriel and Ryan's stories, Mark is described as a serious and a very intellectual person and is also somewhat of a workaholic and ambitious. A shy man with secretive life as stated by Jenny in chapter 4 within the third and final season of Ryan's route.

In his story, Mark is seen to be passionate lover who would tease, challenge and be very frank and open to the woman he loves. He seems to favor those woman who are positive have a team spirit and are kind. He has shown a keen interest on player which was evident from their landing in Shanghai which later developed into a passionate sensual love towards her as seen in his valentine's extra event. The player claims Mark to be intense attentive and sweet and very hot man. She also describes that his smile is reassuring and being I'm his company she tend to forget all the worries and tension dissolves in her.She at times has felt that the love She gets from Mark is a total opposite to her previous spouse who would physically and verbally abuse her and torment her and nearly murdered to death. He is shown to be a true lover because he claimed that he would let no one hurt her and would cherish and love her till his last breath and even in bad ending. He has shown his this side on his extra event too despite the player being rude he stated that he will be always be there for her even if the relationship was over and strained. He is seen as a very caring father as he mentioned that he would do anything for his son and always spent his little to any free time with him. He is shown to have intense hatred and anger over ex-wife Grace Leviels due to her cowardly actions by abandoning him and his son when she was needed the most. Mark also hates judgmental people and even liars as he is shown to have a disgust over Liang's actions of stealing the player's project and manipulating Ryan.

However in other stories he has appeared He shows little to no attraction to any players and female rivals featured as opposed to all the original main love interests who had some feelings for their main characters and even the female rivals but it can also be the fact that Mark dislikes mixing his private life with his professional life. the player in Ryan's route has claimed that he understanding and humane while the player in Jake's route has stated him to be a charming man. He is revealed to have a good patience and is a level headed man. Mark treats all of his employees alike with respect, as compared to others like Gabriel and Cassidy, who will treat some with contempt or be unprofessional (but mostly Cassidy). He can be considered dense sometimes due to him being oblivious towards female characters hitting on him. This can be seen when Cassidy and Jenny had a liking on him or crush on him, he tried not to have the same feelings but indeed commented on Jenny's work and praised her, but Mark more than likely knows about their feelings but doesn't want to date fellow employees due to his professionalism and wanting to keep his work and personal life separate and private, and just doesn't seem to have the time to be in a romantic relationship. He is a caring single father as seen in Gabriel's season 2. where he was trying his best to get his son Nathan treated by pediatrics and was very concerned regarding his son's health. In Matt's story, he became amused when he and Gabriel gave the player a raise after their project became successful much to Cassidy Sparke's fury. In Gabriel's story it is implied that Mark and Gabriel are frenemies and that Gabriel wants Mark's position. In chapter 5 when the player tells Mark that she and Matt did the project which he praised Gabriel for and not them and remarks that he seemed to not notice the activities of his employees. Mark gets a little angered and sets up the player in her place before leaving for a call. In chapter 9 he seemed flustered by the player who had her shirt unbuttoned. In its second season, shows Mark teaming up with Jenny Blake, when they succeed in doing the Japanese project on the company's Tokyo branch. He is also the main reason of Jenny's admiration and crush towards him, she goes as far as wanting the player to give her some love advice. Mark is also embarrassed when the player had spoken about him and Jenny during their trip to Tokyo and she hints that Mark likes Jenny and her performance by calling her by her first name instead of Ms. Blake. However, in Chapter 6, Mark is also shown to be strict and authoritarian due to his workaholic nature, and he simply rejects Jenny's advances and scolds her to get more focused on her work, much to the latter's upset. In Chapter 7, Mark reveals that he was finding another job in pediatrics by giving an application to the hospital and wants to get a spot for the position but dislikes the caller who is actually one of the employees for giving him a special favor and directly speaks to the director to reprimand his employee. In Chapter 8, Mark is revealed to be a single father to his four year old son, Nathan Leviels, who is struggling to put his son in the hospital for treatment and the main reason of his decision of getting a pediatrics job which ended up being denied, much to his fury. Not knowing that it was Jenny who helped him out in taking his son to the hospital for confinement as well as his application in pediatrics.

In Chapter 10, he finally shows his temper when Cassidy abuses her power as the Human Resources manager and for not showing good manners to her employees and officials alike and sensing her threats which leads him to fire her as stated by Gabriel to the player when they celebrated in Cassidy's office. When Cassidy tried to throw Gabriel and the player under the bus during the player's evaluation that Gabriel and the player were sleeping together and in a relationship in hopes to get them in trouble, Mark laughed and reveals to the two that he's known the whole time since he knows love when he sees it, and didn't care that they were together as long as it didn't affect their work which makes Gabriel appreciate him as a friend, Mark then scolded Cassidy for being unprofessional. Cassidy ended up spilling the secret of the player's and Gabriel's relationship only to crackle a laugh out of Mark. Mark later admits that he had known about this relationship a while ago and has no problem with it as long as the professional work isn't affected. Cassidy pissed by this calls Mark that he doesn't know the gravity of situation and was annoyed how he approved of the relationship with Mark implying was she threatening him? Mark is seen to be concerned for Gabriel and the player but she later reassured Mark that it will work. He gave the player compliment on her work ending her annual review on a happy note.

However in the final chapter of the story following Cassidy's firing by him, Mark dislikes conflict as he witnessed both the player and Cassidy having a catfight outside the company which leads him to reprimand the player for her actions despite Cassidy being the one who instigated the fight. Because of this, the player decided to quit the company for their awful treatment much to his dismay and regret.

But in Ryan's story, it reveals that he's stressed from his work made by Ryan Carter which the player decided to assists him on to finish his hard work or give him a small break. In the first season of Chapter 4 He is also shown to be cautious when the player faintly collapses after having their conversation during their break. In Chapter 7, Mark later saves the player from running into a skater by pulling her close to him resulting both of them feeling embarrassed as a result. He invites the player for dinner and went to the restaurant of her choice but due to calls from hospital the dinner came to an abrupt interruption. During the second season of Ryan's story, Mark always gives the player some advice on how to manage her own department as a department manager. In the first season chapter 11 when the player seems to be in mess finding the file due to her mind affected by Ryan Jenny and Jake he later reassures player to be calm by placing hands in hers. Throughout season 2, Mark acts as a supporting figure to the player and also tries his best to help her and was highly impressed by her Yang Para deal. He starts to get mysterious as implied by the player and started to refer her by her first name which was claimed by her to be a progress. In Chapter 9, Mark, along with Gabriel are engaging in romantic affairs with Cassidy as her secret is exposed by Ryan, the player and Colin Spencer, which serves as a pass code for Alicia Boone to gain access to the Human Resources archives and the reasons for her recruitment in the company. In chapter 11 when Mark and a pregnant player gets stuck in the elevator, he helps her get through the stuck elevator with no harm. In the third and final season of Ryan's story, Mark tells the player that the rumors of him and Cassidy sleeping together were not true. In the third and final season, Mark begins to make friends with the player, especially giving some compliments for her parenting skills. He seems quite nervous around the player's child who developed quite a fascination with his glasses. He is also worrywart and cautious when he tries to hang onto the player's shoulders tight due to the storm, especially when the player faintly collapses after seeing her husband go missing after the boat collision. In Chapter 3, he defended the player from Ryan who was looking to replace her from her own branch, but later, Mark convinced Ryan that the player was more reliable and fitting for the job and also during this conversation, he implied that Ryan didn't only hire her for being beautiful to a branch. Ryan agreed to keep the player on the branch but still made Mark supervise the player's branch. Mark also was concerned about the player's current state and ended up giving her help by suggesting to meet the psychologist (that he too visited) to tackle the stress she was facing from recent events. Later, when he and the player were informed by Ryan that their contact man in Havana was murdered which ended up making him shocked. Despite being absent in Chapter 4, information regarding him was revealed to the player and she comes to know that if Ryan were to fail his duties as the CEO of Carter Corp, Mark would take over the company. In Chapter 5, Mark informs the player about the investigation in Havana. They are free of suspicion in Havana case and since there was no further leads and the case came to an abrupt end. Mark somehow behaves odd and reassures the player. The player remarks he had a forced smile before leaving, assuming that is he in trouble.

In Chapter 6, he was referred to by Derrick and Thomas, both implying that Mark was behind the conspiracy to hurt Ryan. While Derrick reveals to both the player and Ryan that Mark and Gabriel had some conversations that were private and were destroyed, but he was able get his hands on those conversations via his hacking. After hearing these revelations by Derrick, Ryan threw him out of the house due to his anger, and this soon caused the player and Ryan to discuss about this matter while the player mentioned that Gabriel and Mark were engaged in a conversation as seen in season 3, chapter 2, but Ryan told her it wasn't important. Thomas on the other hand presented his view on that Mark was behaving very weird and didn't answer his call when he met Mark in the hospital, and was pretty much occupied with his phone. Later, Mark meets the player while she was heading to Ryan's office where Mark informs her that Mr. Peterson along with Mrs. Chocolate and Giorgio Maccini have joined the race in the elections. He also informed that he was setting up a dinner meeting with Laurens for the player and informed her to not forget about their meeting on Monday. Mark then along with the player try to pursue Ryan into not postponing the charity concert and wanted him to go along with their plans, a hesitant Ryan then agrees to their words. When the player was in Cassidy's office, Mark came unannounced without his glasses. The player remarks that it's intriguing to see him without his glasses and in her mind compliments this new look and also wonders why he came to meet Cassidy like this. In Chapter 7, the player encounters a nightmare sequence of Mark, Cassidy and Gabriel where he taunts the player for trusting him and Gabriel so much and mocking her for her naïve nature towards men. The player when she was on the flight with Mark and the team of artist on their way to Havana. Mark mentions to player that he started using lenses but still had the reflexes to use his glasses, the player being amused asked whether he could give those glasses to her child who has quite a fascination with them with Mark commenting that he broke his glasses. He then asks her is Lisa taking care of him and the player praised Lisa and called her child a treasure, only for Mark to brush it off saying "I guess so." The player mentions that he is always bizarre or weird or feels uneasy whenever her child was with her whenever he met her. He later delivers a short speech in the Havana concert mentioning the player for the grand success of the concert. Mark is shown to be attracted to the player during their trip and became appreciated of the concert of both Joe and Colin's concert which is proved to be successful as well as trying to hang out with the player's friends like Matt Ortega, Thomas Gordon and Joe Kicks. The player later teaches Mark how to dance despite Mark being shy about the idea and goes red when the player puts his hand on her waist. Seeing that the dance was becoming a little bit intimate, she tells him about the nightmare she had about him while dancing only for to Mark laugh and comment on her fertile imagination. Their dance was then interrupted by Joe Kicks.

Later the player in Chapter 8 meets Mark in the break room where she was baffled to hear him saying that Cassidy is a cultured woman and that her rude behavior is just a superficial thing. Cassidy when was confronted by the player told her that Mark pushed her away 3 years ago when she was interested on him but he during that time was in love with the player and everybody knew this and was obvious except the player. Thomas informs to player that Mark is down with cops only to see him getting handcuffed and Mark admitting that he was the mastermind behind Ryan's Amnesia and his attempted assassination much to player's shock and he was later taken away to police department. This clarifies his innocence at the end of Chapter 9 where Alicia reveals that Mark is innocent towards both Ryan and the player, hinting that he became a scapegoat. Ryan is also knowledgeable about Mark's personal life for being a single father to his son, Nathan. Gabriel and Jake were too found out to be knowledgeable on this subject. it is found out that Mark's son was being treated by Dr. Shkreli who was behind forging Ryan's test reports. Ryan tells the player that this fact can be a way to suspect Mark but the player denies it. Colin tells the player that he too doesn't believe that Mark is guilty. Later as the chapter ends, Ryan gets a memory shock in the jail when he was talking to Alicia. This memory shock ended up Ryan telling the player that she was right on his innocence and that there is something on Mark that he wants to tell her that even she doesn't know. Ryan tells the player that Mark knew he was gonna run for politics and hence he wanted Mark to take over his business after his departure. Ryan after getting his memories back was seen to be somehow distressed how Mark refused to talk despite knowing he was innocent. It is stated that Ryan would go on to meet Mark to talk himself out. His current ordeal was revealed at the final chapter of Ryan's story and it is revealed that Mark was harassed, blackmailed and abused by Giorgio and his men to keep quiet about Ryan for running the mayoral elections. Giorgio didn't kill him however would have made himself suspicious. He also forced Mark to take his blame upon himself and keep quiet at the cost of his son, Nathan. He also reveals how his men broke his glasses (the reason why he appears without glasses and wearing contact lenses in Chapter 7) due to the abuse and mockery. Later following Giorgio's incarceration, Mark is released and the player emotionally welcomes him back. Thomas apologizes to him and gave him his self written rap song via CD as a way of apology. Mark tells the player that he would like to meet his son and that he should start opening up to people who is considered as close and dear to him. As Ryan was elected to become Mayor of New York, he turns over his current duties to Mark as the new CEO of Carter Corp.

In Daryl's story, Mark is able to defend the player when Cassidy attempts to reprimand her to get fired because of her absences during the important meeting with Gabriel, unaware that the player was dealing on her brother Jason's problems because of Giorgio Maccini and his mafia group's debt. Mark gives the player some exemptions for her absences after receiving a call from Ryan much to Cassidy's surprise and he angrily gave Cassidy a warning for her awful behavior after she planed to use her power of her occupation as the Human Resources Manager to fire the player at her expense. However in Chapter 8 just like he did to the player at the final chapter of Gabriel's story, Mark angrily reprimands the player for her many absences and negligence due to Gabriel's observations especially when she was involved in the shady lifestyle to rescue Jason from Giorgio and his mafia group.

In Colin's season 2 Mark is replaced by Gabriel Simons as the branch manager after Ryan Carter sent Mark to run a new branch of Carter Corp (Presumed to be an Asian Branch). This branch is most likely to be in Shanghai, China as Mark's story will take place there.

In his main story shows Mark's friendly and compassionate side to the player which led them to dating during their trip in Shanghai. Mark also reveals of his separation at the hands of his ex-wife Grace Leviels and particularly dislikes the latter's current actions when she wanted to ruin his current relationship to the player and for the custody of their son, Nathan.

In the crossover event, Mark is able to tame Lorie Bartholy who is a vampire child when he encounters both Drogo Bartholy and the player at the malls in New York because of his love for children.

In his limited extra love scene, shows that Mark enjoys making love with the player after watching together on the beautiful night view in Guilin.

## Season 1

This story takes place after the events of the third and final season of Ryan's route and Mark is stated to move out to run a new branch in Carter Corp. Although the canonical ending has him becoming the CEO of Carter Corp after Ryan was elected as mayor of New York.

Mark Leviels is the branch manager of Carter Corp and the loyal right-hand man of Ryan Carter. Due to his current occupation, he is a workaholic. But behind his calm and tranquil exterior, Mark has a tumultuous private life and he does this for his sickly son, Nathan Leviels who suffers from cancer. With his earnings from his work according to Mark himself, he uses this for treating his son by chemotherapy and it was a success only he feared if his cancer became relasped.

In most extra love scenes, this reveals more of Mark's past life and how he was recruited by Ryan in Carter Corp at the tender age of 20 while working as an Analyst prior to his promotion as a Branch Manager along with his ten year marriage with his ex-wife, Grace and how he was emotionally abused by Grace and her cowardliness towards their son Nathan, leading them both to have marital problems and their recent separation.

The story begins with the player had a blind date with Liang Shaw at the famous Chinese restaurant and she is revealed to be allergic to shrimps. Their date is actually an arranged date made up by their respective parents as Liang's family handles the Asian retail chain, The Shaw Grocers and Liang is their current heir. Their conversation became much in a friendlier state as the player was off due to Liang being the complete opposite, his love of action movies and is not a car enthusiast but their date is running smoothly when they eat dinner. Before they parted ways, the player thanked Liang for the dinner date, hoping their parents won't force them to do this again which Liang replies that he hoped this will never happen again. The next day, this reveals the player's occupation at the energy company, Nyxinc who competes against Carter Corp and Ryan Carter, the CEO of the company acts as a head hunter, recruits her at his company by pirating and was given a one-on-one interview to be hired. Due to not being contacted by Ryan, she soon calls Jenny to meet her at the Central Park. As they meet together, she tells Jenny of why Ryan didn't contacted her at all which she tells her that her brother is secretive and also asking personal questions about the renewable energy which is a business project. Since Jenny couldn't tell to the player about Ryan, she tells her to relax. While walking through the bridge, the player reveals to Jenny about the dinner date with Liang as Jenny wanted to know the details. The player tells her that Liang is a nice person but they're not in common and decided never to date with him again. This is due to her mother's doing making arrange dates which is a Chinese tradition and decided to get back home and rest. Jenny allows her to go and they parted ways. While resting at the apartment, she receives a call from Lisa Parker who works as Ryan's assistant, informing her that Ryan will meet her at two in the afternoon for the job interview. After this, the player excites for getting a new job. Arriving at Carter Corp, she was impressed about the surroundings around the company unlike in Nyxinc and asking the assistant to see Ryan as she pointed out the elevator. As the elevator opens, she bumps into Mark. She felt mesmerized to see Mark but the first meeting would be abrupt as Mark leaves in a hurry to go attend to his personal problems. As she gets inside the elevator, she wonders about Mark and why he is in a hurry. Arriving at the top floor, she meets up with Lisa who informs her that Ryan is waiting for her. As she allows her to proceed to his office by knocking the door, the player notices that Jenny and Liang are present, arguing in whoever gets the job position and the player knew it was the same position she is about to get. She greets Ryan who is happy to see her. Despite Jenny's sincerity and being pretend that there's nothing happen between them. Ryan offers her a direct job after getting impressed on her job skills. It is revealed that Ryan appoints Liang, Jenny, Mark and the player as Interns to compete each other and they were assigned in China which is the largest country in Eastern Asia to make the project in the renewable energy knowing that Carter Corp is the top contender for the energy projects against other companies. He allows them to think about this job in forty-eight hours which happens to become the branch manager in Shanghai, the second largest city in China. Ryan then gives the business card to the player which is Mark's phone and details so that she can meet him later on.

As she leaves Ryan's office, she waved goodbye to Lisa and begins to have problems because she mostly loved New York than in Shanghai due to her family traditions in China. As she walks back to her apartment, she receives a call from Jenny and reluctantly accepts to meet her at the bar. This is where the player reveals her problems after Jenny reveals that she had talked to Ryan as she initially decided to turn down his offer, making Jenny to motivate her to get that job opportunity and she reveals that they compete each other for the branch manager job. Later, the player tells to Jenny about Mark stating he was so hot and was not happy to go to Shanghai as she was homesick and loved to stay at New York. Jenny then convinces her to meet Mark in person which she had thanked her for telling her about it. As Jenny helps her up to her car by walking through the Central Park, she receives a video phone call by her grandfather who actually guessed about her dislikes of their family tradition in Chinese. Not until he supports her decisions of finding someone new instead of Chinese people like themselves. She also informs her about their job opportunity in Carter Corp making her grandfather highly supporting her decision to take that job before they hang up. Jenny pressures the player to get that opportunity and the player hesitant to decide. Back at her apartment, she later calls Mark by video phone call and sees him in his office within her phone screen. She is again mesmerized by him and also calls him so hot. She thinks of Mark was like an alcohol while intensely describes him. Mark was glad to talk with her and displays his enthusiasm for the Shanghai business trip and tells her to address him on the first name basis. He also tells her that he's looking towards interesting ideas to be executed there that he has in mind. Mark told the player that he was amused by competing with the other two and her. He also detects that she is not comfortable to leave New York behind to go to Shanghai and says because it was a long distance or it was because to avoid her ex-husband. The player is shocked to see him asking her a personal question. She finally befriended Mark during that conversation before hanging up. She soon receives an email from Lisa which happens that she, Jenny and Liang are competing for the branch manager job by taking trials for a month, much to her stress. Since her grandfather predicted that she would be successful on that job, she decided to take it and finally send an email to Nyxinc to resign her current post.

A few days later at the airport, she was on a hurry when the steward informs the employees are on board. She soon meet up with Mark who offers to help her with her luggage but the player politely refuses his offer as she accidentally fall into a tarmac. Mark takes the hand of the player to avoid getting fall over the tarmac. He tells her to be careful and jokily tells her to do this repeatedly. With that Mark helps her carry her luggage and takes her to the private jet. As she sits on the private jet, she knew that this job is a trial and she and her colleagues would spend a month to deal with this position as a branch manager in Shanghai.

In Chapter 2, she and Jenny are enjoying drinking champagne inside at Ryan's private jet as the player reveals her problems with her parents regarding about her business trip in Shanghai leading her to get with Liang. Jenny remains disappointed when the player continues to disagree over her parents' Chinese family traditions as she gulps the rest of the champagne. She decided to get rest. Few hours later, she was napping with her eye mask on and leans over Mark's shoulders and shockingly awakens due to his presence. She asks whether why he was here instead of Jenny as she was the one originally sitting next to her. Mark told that Jenny decided to change places with him as she is about to talk to Liang. He comments that she looks like a sleeping child earning a blush from her cheeks. She was curious seeing the book in Mark's hand and asked about it. He said he was practicing Mandarin before landing and the player winked at him before she gets asleep. They finally arrive at the Carter Corp's Shanghai branch and both Mark and the player discussed about their competition as well as how to pronounced the business within the Chinese native language, Mandarin. Mark decided to place bets between him and the player in whoever get the branch manager job which she gladly accepts his deal. The two made a friendly handshake and to the player's bashfulness until they were surprised on both Jenny and Liang and Jenny wants to know from the player while Mark is talking to Liang. She soon tells her that she and Mark are having a bet in whoever gets the branch manager job first. He tours them all over the tourist spots in the city of Shanghai while he was corrected with the player due to him being incapable of speaking in Chinese dialect as the player normally speaks this way. Continuing to their tour, Liang became discreet when two other employees from another company gave him their business cards as he reveals to the player that it's because of his popularity by posing in the posters made up by his parents in his family business, Shaw Grocers. The next morning both Mark and the player interact other while they are working indefinitely as Jenny and Liang arrives a little late. Jenny decided to ask the player to have a break. But the player refused only for Jenny to act like a pushover, leading her decision to go with her for a coffee break. Jenny eventually learns the player's romantic attraction to Mark which she became flustered whenever she reveals it personally. The player then gets two coffee for both Mark and Liang. When they get back, both men appreciate her hospitality. A few days later, they received a video call from Ryan, regarding about their current project as Mark informs him about their current work. As soon as they finished the video call, Liang hurriedly leaves the company with a smirk on his face, and the player noticed him for being odd, not knowing he has a personal agenda on his own.

The following day, she asks Liang of why he was in a hurry the other day only for the latter to pretend to think he's having a revolutionary cultures until Mark overhears them. He soon discusses about their current project. Then, Jenny talks about her older-half brother Ryan and his seriousness as the owner of the company, the player talks about her experiences in Nyxinc and finally Liang talks about his family business in Shaw Grocers and how to merge with the two cultures consist of 50-50 of both Chinese and American. Afterwards, Jenny asks the player to have lunch outside with Liang, but she refused. As the two leave to take lunch outside, she and Mark are having lunch in the meeting room by taking out their food for delivery. This is where Mark lets the player tastes his take out food which is the *mapo doufu* (spicy tofu) and the player loves it stating that this is almost better than her mother had been cooked. Following this, they talked about their recent bets in whoever is about to cook their food since they can't cook food inside the hotel. Then, they shared their moment together eating lunch. Just as the player would ask Mark to go out with her, Jenny arrives back and wanting to know what's going on, much to both of their horrible shock. After work, they take a dinner at the Chinese restaurant to celebrate their one week stay. Mark also toasts to the player to celebrate and at the same time she looked at the beautiful view of Lujiazui. As they eat dinner, Mark noticed the player is ambidextrous when she handles the chopsticks on both hands and she angrily slaps Liang's hand when he mentions about her parents. Both also refused to go with them on club night with Jenny and Liang and at the same time Mark begins to have a romantic attraction to the player. As the two leave, Mark decided to escort her to the hotel they had stayed. While taking detour in the streets of the Tianzifang district. Here, this where they have a private conversation about how to establish in Carter Corp's Shanghai branch to make either foreign or locals to work from them but only needs one branch manager to do this opportunity. The player thanked Mark for his words and also opens up about her Chinese parents including her grandfather who became an emigrant in the United States. Her grandfather also lives in Guilin and his family owns a small Chinese restaurant on the Li River. She also had reasons why she decided to break away from her family tradition. When she learns that the branch manager job in Shanghai is like the same place as she tried to get away from her family and during her interview with Ryan for the job at Carter Corp, her grandfather knows it was her destiny to handle this job business. Mark also opens up his childhood being raised up by his parents and he and his family are revealed to be middle class and not wealthy.

As soon as they arrive back at the hotel lobby, she thanked Mark for escorting her. When they arrived at their respective hotel rooms, the player learns that Mark is her hotel roommate due to his hotel room besides her own hotel room. She shyly made a goodnight to Mark which he does the same and the two keeps gazing each other's eye and became attracted to Mark even more as the latter seems to be attracted to her upon sight. Before she can rest up to her hotel room, she calls out to Mark which he respond and the two became so close with a romantic embrace as she touches Mark's cheeks romantically until Mark kisses her for the first time, this is how they started their relationship when Mark became romantically interested to the player due to their attraction with one another. However following this, Mark decided to back away from the player due to his personal issues.

In Chapter 3 the next day, Liang and Jenny tells them about having fun in the club last night. While Mark was still not around, Liang begins to insult him for not taking this job seriously only to get scolded by both Jenny and the player. Jenny also reveals to the player that Mark has personal issues with his son, Nathan Leviels and telling the player not to say to anyone else about Mark's personal affairs due to her older half-brother's perspective and the player needs to focus on her work instead of thinking about Mark who remained distant to her last night. Mark then arrives very late and decided to work professionally. A day later, the player tries her best to speak to him but failed only he could respond during lunch break when he tastes the legit *mapo doufu* bought by the player for lunch. He briefly joked about this food is better without a szechuan sauce before continue to work indefinitely. Before the player could ask Mark about him being so distant, Liang interrupts their conversation and decided to leave immediately. The player begins to get suspicious on Liang's actions when he hurriedly goes off on several occasions whether if it's work or his family business in Shaw Grocers. The player was suspicious about Liang when he is about to leave after work. In Saturday, the player follows Liang to the People's Square where he is talking to the real estate developer regarding about their family business in Shaw Grocers. Despite either she hides or runs away, Liang had caught her and she wanted to know why he immediately leaves or getting absent. Liang then takes her to the park where they can see a lot of people are making personal ads. Liang does not need of those personal ads since he is popular around in China. He later reveals his reasons of leaving the company in a hurry because of his family business in Shaw Grocers due to his care for his family and just like Mark who is ambitious, his ambition is to handle two jobs one is to handle his family business in Shaw Grocers and two is to become the branch manager in Carter Corp's Shanghai branch and was competitive towards her and the others. She soon recorded of what Liang is trying to do when most people are asking him for a visit or showing the ads, much to his disappointment.

Two days later, Liang remains competitive to both Jenny and the player but she does not given up. Mark arrives who remain cold and distant to his colleagues because of his personal problems. As the three of them working on, the player and Liang are talking about merging cultures and how to connect their respective business into one job to handle. Afterwards, Mark and Jenny arrives but the latter remains depressed while on the phone. That night, the player finally tells Jenny about Liang's remark about Mark which she angrily remarks over his actions for making fun of him and does not know more about Mark. She finally reveals how Mark had worked so hard in Carter Corp and how he rose upon his ranks and was admired by Ryan. Both eventually think about having a joint branch manager position to be shared with to make things into their final project which makes a great idea to pass it to Ryan. Although the player would try to help Jenny because she is her best friend. The girls decided to get home. Back at the hotel while Jenny is having a phone call, she met up by Mark who asks her to have a drink which she accepts. At the bar, this is where Mark finally reveals of his cold and distant actions because of his concern to the player and his caring nature to his son Nathan since they got separated for the Shanghai trip as he was taken care off by his parents. Mark also reveals that he raised Nathan on his own while working indefinitely in Carter Corp as the money he had earned is used for the chemotherapy for Nathan who is also revealed to suffer cancer. Mark clarifies to her that he is on remission but fears to get reelapsed due to him getting separated with him. The player finally learns why he was like this. Upon mentioning his ex-wife, Mark angrily dismisses it due to his hatred to her and the reason of their separation but the player accidentally spoke to him that she is also a separate person when mentioning her ex-husband. Afterwards, the two go back to their respective rooms until the player kisses Mark in the lips which led him to take her on her hotel room instead. The player realizes that Mark is both lovable and passionate when he took off her clothes as well as he takes off his own clothes to show him naked (although his depiction in the secret image has him wearing his white and blue pinstripped shorts when he made out with her) and finally removing her magenta bra and panties to show her nakedness. Both begins their first make love sessions and the player noticed he has a condom on his hand to put on his manhood for protection and soon makes love to her while she felt pleasure on his thrusts. Mark compliments the player's beauty before he continued making love to her, leading her to get some sleep. The next morning, the player noticed that Mark had left and was given a note with a flower stating that he loves her so much. Before she can give a text message to Mark, Jenny storms out of her room unexpectedly and gossiping about their respective projects as well as Mark's ex-wife, Grace Leviels who proclaims being Mark's wife and to the player's horrible shock following their make love sessions. While looking at Mark's note letter, Jenny continues spilling about Grace and her main reason of her arrival in Shanghai is to reunite with Mark which allows her to book a room and the restaurant they had eaten because she wanted to celebrate her wedding anniversary with Mark despite the latter strongly hates her and wanted to remarry him. Grace's proposal also makes the player get heartbroken after learning from Jenny.

In Chapter 4, the player was disheartened and heartbroken after learning about Grace and thinking of Mark being similar to her abusive ex-husband Alexander. They talked about Grace and Jenny also made a negative remark about her going to see her ex-husband in her corporate outfit. With that manner, the player decided to focus on the project they had working on instead of love life. Arriving at the office, both Jenny and the player found Liang who pretends that his project was fine. In reality when they arrive, he stole both of their ideas of their project by taking notes. Just as the player decided to work, Mark arrives and wanted to talk to Jenny personally, causing her more doubts about him. At the coffee shop, this is where Mark angrily scolds Jenny for interfering on his private life regarding about his ex-wife Grace. The player decided to leave them be since Jenny is the one who instigates the meeting between the married couple who had marital problems and Mark's strong hatred to Grace. During break time, she recorded herself with her cellphone regarding about her current relationship with Mark and the disappointment she has been through when mentioning his ex-wife Grace. But Mark found her when he arrived. Before the player would speak regarding about their make love sessions being magical that night, Jenny interrupts the conversation and asking Mark to have a coffee which he accepted. Although, he whispers the player to discuss about their love later on and changing their topic into their respective projects in whoever gets the job as the Branch Manager of Shanghai branch by betting. Mark even joked that being businessman is like a boy scout, getting prepared for anything. Liang arrives and angrily scolds them for not focusing on the project. Therefore both the player and Jenny tried to ask what his project is as Liang couldn't answer their questions (since he stole their ideas by taking notes). As both the player and Mark's cellphone rings, they decided to continue working. As soon as break time, Mark decided to leave dismissively while the player is with Jenny eating lunch at the terrace in the other side of town. Both of them soon discuss about their work projects especially the marital problems between Mark and Grace. The player seems to doubt about Mark's side only for Jenny to rebuff her because Mark is not abusive. After work, she takes Jenny back to the hotel lobby to take a long rest after a hard work. She was encountered by Mark who wanted to discuss with her personally only to be interrupted by Grace. Despite Mark's scolding to his wife, he receives a call from his son Nathan, leaving Grace and the player to discuss. It was then, Grace questions the player in how close to her husband. The player plainly tells her the truth that she was Mark's colleague and they are here to work indefinitely due to the projects in getting the Branch Manager but unlike Grace, she was just pampering herself in the hotel spa just to become attractive to her husband.

Since Jenny tells her about Grace and her job as a lawyer of why she questions to her, the player decided to get back to her hotel room, knowing that their discussion is getting nowhere upon talking about Mark. Once she reaches to the elevator, Mark encounters her and informing her to pack her things and they are going to Guilin for a business trip. Back at her room while packing her stuff, she needs to think more about Mark and his romance especially her work projects as well as the promise to her grandfather in seeing him in Guilin. Once she's done packing, she saw both Mark and Grace had a massive argument, showing their marital problems. Grace begs Mark to come back to her but he angrily refused stating that their relationship is long over. Grace eventually blames the player for their problems but Mark scolds her out. They tell her that they won't be long in their business trip but Grace continues to beg at Mark to come back to her. Mark sadly rebuffs her that their love each other has been long gone during their marriage. As soon as Grace continues to beg again, Mark abruptly leaves with the player, leaving her very stunned and shock. At the airplane, this is where they had a private conversation between them especially about Grace of why he left her abruptly like this. Mark along with player finally arrives to Guilin; where her grandfather lives and they went there for hiking during their weekend vacation in a morning. Mark opens up about Grace and telling her that he no longer loves her and sees a future with the player instead of Grace and he reveals to her that Grace ran away when she was needed the most that is when Nathan suffers from cancer and undergoes chemotherapy. He also tells her that he once saw her having fun with the other man hence betraying him for cheating. While sharing a nearly intimate kiss with her. The player is indeed claims to fall in love with Mark but she didn't told him. Although, she is very concern towards Mark if he shows his anger, trying to reveal herself as a battered wife, leading Mark to his decision to protect her from any forms of physical abuse. Seeing their kiss going intimate, they decided that they need to have privacy hence returning from hiking. The following night, Mark was initially hesitant to get intimate with the player but instead they had sex together wildly and lovingly. Afterwards, the player reminded him that they were in competition to get the job of branch manager but Mark tells her that they can propose an idea of having two branch managers for Shanghai as a team and their work of theirs would bring more stability and profit to business. Mark and player sleep after having a brief discussion. The next morning Ryan angrily calls the player and was disappointed about their work efforts and decided to have an immediate meeting on Monday. The player was dismayed by this situation as Ryan is revealed to be misinformed by Liang who thinks of everyone works illegally and spending for vacation.

Despite their respective stresses at the final chapter of the story, both remarked Ryan's message being no filter and they soon discussed about who's responsible for letting Ryan getting so mad for not getting the job done. However when the player informs Mark about Jenny who hinted at him as a single father to his son, Nathan. Mark angrily shouts upon learning it and apologizes the player for scaring her. Both also knew that Jenny would never expose their current relationship to Ryan since she is the player's best friend. They later reminisced in how they met each other for the first time and Mark's strong interests in her and decided to spend their hours in Guilin before taking a plane back to Shanghai since it is three hours trip. After bathed, dressed and eating breakfast, they soon taking a dine at the restaurants in Guilin and the player encounters her grandaunt who recognizes her presence like their mother and her great-grandmother and both emotionally reunited and knowing it was her grandfather's sister and Mark watches them in delight. He also guessed who she was and the player enjoys his smartness and afterwards, they enjoyed eating traditonal Chinese seafood dishes for free aside of eating mafou doufu and Mark is revealed to enjoy spicy food. Mark also reveals of why she decided to work in China despite the player's refusal about Ryan's job offer and the player tells him that it was fate due to her grandfather's word of wisdom as well as meeting with him for the first time and decided to take that job instead. Mark realizes that the player is in fact the fourth and last candidate to join and continues digging in with their food while their topic in their conversation about Chinese spicy food. At sunset while looking at the view, this is where the player admits her strong romantic feelings to Mark as well as her family life in Guilin. During their lovable moments, her grandaunt had foreseen their current relationship and mistook them to get married and the player knows that she and Mark would become a couple first before the marriage. They soon pull away as Mark tells her that they should go back, stating that their time is critical. The player soon hugged her grandaunt to see her again and decided to go with Mark. At the plane, they discussed about Liang which angers Mark for his no good actions and the player explains to him about why he leaves early due to his family business in Shaw Grocers. Mark also knows it's not a good idea to mix up between the two work jobs. They soon talked about Ryan's current life as the CEO of Carter Corp and his family ties with his younger-half sister, Jenny and Mark knows of his workaholic nature and he rarely recruits anyone who wants to work for him. Despite their love jokes over making love on the plane's toilet or the hotel bedroom, they later discuss about the joint project where the player and Jenny are planning to have and Mark decides to let the player sleep on her pillow which she accepts and Mark watches over her who is soon asleep. When they return back to the hotel, Mark decided to stay with the player at her room to continue their work loads for tomorrow's project and they talked about their current relationship and Mark's family. After taking a hot shower together and getting dressed, they came back to the hallway to get ready for the project while Jenny had seen them both. They soon criticized Liang regarding about the accusations Ryan had learned from him. The player also noticed she left her flash drive at the hotel and wanted to get it. Before she can do it, Ryan and Liang had arrived and accusing Mark, Jenny and the player for not doing their job done and instead partying, causing Jenny to argue with her older half-brother. He gives them two hours to prepare to show their respective projects. The player returns to the hotel to get her flash drive, and was confronted by Grace at the hotel lobby.

The player hears about Grace's false claim about her husband Mark for being abusive before she leaves to her hotel room to get her flash drive. She remembers all the sufferings caused by her ex-husband Alexander from his domestic abuse and the humiliation being given by him that leads her not to trust others. This false claim of Grace leads the player to be doubted on Mark. Back at the hallway when Mark is trying to ask her if she was okay, she was overly disrespected towards him and decided to leave him be which he sadly does. As soon as she listens to her recordings as well as her love towards Mark, causing her to bring back to reality and wants to speak with Mark again which Mark accepts to speak with her in private. At the break room, she finally tells Mark about Grace's false claim which horribly surprised him and finally tells her that Grace has been fooling her by taking research about the women charity she had worked on with Jenny and using this to make her feel weak minded. Seeing Grace's actions for being a predator, the player was angered for what she had done until she backs away from him because they would be caught by Ryan knowing it is not allowed for both colleagues have romantic relationships. Ryan then sees them and telling them to get ready. After Jenny finishes her discussion of her project, Liang is next in which the player discovers that he had stolen her work ideas when he soon discusses about the project. This idea was approved by Ryan but not listening on the player and Mark's projects which makes him very annoyed and angry as the player confronts him to prove he was really wrong. The player shows her recordings about her recent work projects and ideas and Liang barely didn't get most of his job done due to this. As a result of this evidence, Ryan realizes that he was wrong the whole time and Liang was just lying to others because he wants to get this job illegally by making false accusations and lies over his fellow colleagues by taking party and leisure. He immediately dismisses Liang for both his pretentious and lies. Before leaving, Liang apologizes for his illegal actions and his work ethics and the player forgives him before he left the office in shame. Ryan eventually apologizes to his younger half-sister Jenny, Mark and the player for not listening to their truths and realizing that Liang had been fooling him just to get the branch manager job illegally and to see how pretentious he was. Amused over the player's projects and ideas, Ryan finally appointed the player as the branch manager in Shanghai along with Mark, making them both as both branch managers and the player decided to let Jenny to join with them for their cause which he gladly agrees and he asks Jenny to celebrate to find a nice restaurant in Shanghai. After lunch, Grace eventually learns that her plan went backfired when the player remains with Mark. Mark stops her when she angrily wanted to confront her, Grace soon apologizes to the player due to wanting her husband back and realizing that Mark no longer loves her for what she had done to both of them. Grace then pulls out an envelope and gives it to Mark and it was revealed that she signed the divorce papers so that Mark is now free for being single. Grace also wanted to look after their son Nathan but because of her current work duties, she entrusted to Mark instead and soon leaves in a sad note. Later on, Mark and the player celebrates together at the high terrace restaurant to see the view of the city of Shanghai as both are now officially branch managers of the Shanghai branch, stating it will be their new adventures. She also asked Mark about Nathan which he says that he will find a new place after in Carter Corp. The two kissed together until Mark finally asking her to be his girlfriend, becoming the step-mother for his son Nathan which she gladly accepts and together they kissed again, and they are officially together as a couple and their new lives as managers and their respective adventures are about to begin.

The player hears about Grace's false claim about her husband Mark for being abusive before she leaves to her hotel room to get her flash drive. She remembers all the sufferings caused by her ex-husband Alexander from his domestic abuse and the humiliation being given by him that leads her not to trust others. This false claim of Grace leads the player to be doubted on Mark. Back at the hallway when Mark is trying to ask her if she was okay, she was overly disrespected towards him and decided to leave him be which he sadly does. As soon as she listens to her recordings as well as her love towards Mark, causing her to bring back to reality and wants to speak with Mark again which Mark accepts to speak with her in private. At the break room, she finally tells Mark about Grace's false claim which horribly surprised him and finally tells her that Grace has been fooling her by taking research about the women charity she had worked on with Jenny and using this to make her feel weak minded. Seeing Grace's actions for being a predator, the player was angered for what she had done until she backs away from him because they would be caught by Ryan knowing it is not allowed for both colleagues have romantic relationships. Ryan then sees them and telling them to get ready. After Jenny finishes her discussion of her project, Liang is next in which the player discovers that he had stolen her work ideas when he soon discusses about the project. This idea was approved by Ryan but not listening on the player and Mark's projects which makes him very annoyed and angry as the player confronts him to prove he was really wrong. The player shows her recordings about her recent work projects and ideas and Liang barely didn't get most of his job done due to this. As a result of this evidence, Ryan realizes that he was wrong the whole time and Liang was just lying to others because he wants to get this job illegally by making false accusations and lies over his fellow colleagues by taking party and leisure. He immediately dismisses Liang for both his pretentious and lies. Before leaving, Liang apologizes for his illegal actions and his work ethics and the player forgives him before he left the office in shame. Ryan eventually apologizes to his younger half-sister Jenny, Mark and the player for not listening to their truths and realizing that Liang had been fooling him just to get the branch manager job illegally and to see how pretentious he was. Amused over the player's projects and ideas, Ryan finally appointed the player as the branch manager in Shanghai along with Mark, making them both as both branch managers and the player decided to let Jenny to join with them for their cause which he gladly agrees and he asks Jenny to celebrate to find a nice restaurant in Shanghai. After lunch, Grace eventually learns that her plan went backfired when the player remains with Mark. Mark stops her when she angrily wanted to confront her, Grace soon apologizes to the player due to wanting her husband back and realizing that Mark no longer loves her for what she had done to both of them. Grace then pulls out an envelope and gives it to Mark and it was revealed that she signed the divorce papers so that Mark is now free for being single. Grace also wanted to look after their son Nathan but because of her current work duties, she entrusted to Mark instead and soon leaves in a sad note. Later on, Mark and the player celebrates together at the high terrace restaurant to see the view of the city of Shanghai as both are now officially branch managers of the Shanghai branch, stating it will be their new adventures. She also asked Mark about Nathan which he says that he will find a new place after in Carter Corp. The two kissed together until Mark finally asking her to be his girlfriend, becoming the step-mother for his son Nathan which she gladly accepts and together they kissed again, and they are officially together as a couple and their new lives as managers and their respective adventures are about to begin.

In the bad ending, Ryan was furious over their current projects especially for pressuring the player to get ready to discuss about the project and telling her to get ready in fifteen minutes. While trying to look at the recordings she had with Jenny for the joint project she met up with Grace who claims that Mark is abusive and he's being a domestic abuse with her. The player refused to believe her claim but she thanked her anyway. Therefore, Jenny came to see her but only the player to become upset, finally believing on Grace's claim when she reminded Mark as her ex-husband Alexander who physically abuses her. Jenny tells her to forget about her thoughts with Mark and she needs to focus on the project they had made. Despite Ryan's fury, he listens to Liang's project which is actually are all of the player's ideas and the player was disappointed in him. As soon as both the player and Jenny to discuss, they talk to Ryan about the joint project with the player and both are working so hard to create these ideas as well as the society between the men and women regarding about their respective women charity. Ryan loves their ideas and decided to think about it and Mark was happy for their work performance. However, the player finally faces Mark who wonders about her problems. The player decided to break up with him after listening to Grace's claim, much to his horrible shock and surprise and Mark knew that Grace was lying. The player also reminds Mark as how her ex-husband Alexander to mistreat her so badly and trying to remember their romantic trip in Guilin. Due to his mess, the player had already made up her mind to break Mark, leaving the latter gets heartbroken and was found by Jenny who confided with her. While getting heartbroken over the player's immediate break up, he decided to pull out his discussion project to Ryan and informing him about Liang who stole most of the player's ideas regarding about her projects. Ryan asks if it's true which the player confirms stating that it was her discussion with him a few years ago. Since Mark decided to pull out his project, Ryan allows both the player and Jenny to become co-directors in Carter Corp's Shanghai Branch, much to their excitement and Liang abruptly gets his things and leave in shame while Ryan glares at him to call him. He soon apologizes for his actions earlier and decided to celebrate with both girls. But Mark decided to pack his things and decided to go back to New York to work at the main branch as the Branch Manager and was mad when the player rudely remarks him for going after his son Nathan. As she goes back to her hotel room to rest, she met up with Liang who decided to return to Shaw Grocers to inform his parents about the negotiations went smoothly but was not taken by Carter Corp for his actions. He blames himself for stealing all of her ideas just to get the job but his arrogance led him to his downfall. Liang supports the player for her new job in Shanghai before they had a farewell exchange before leaving the premises. That night while waiting for both Jenny and Ryan to arrive, she texted her grandfather about the job being given to her and secretly not to tell her parents about it. Therefore, Grace angrily confronts the player and finally revealing that she was fooled over her lies and Grace has never been abused by Mark at all and she did this to make them split together so that she can be with her ex-husband but Mark still hates her due to her cowardice. The player was angered when Grace had been fooling her for her lies and angrily lectures her regarding about girls like her being victimized by domestic abuse seen in the charity owned by Jenny while she used this as a ruse to separate each other and becoming disgusted to see Grace treats Mark like a trophy before leaving lividly. She immediately tries to contact Mark but to no avail and she contacts Jenny instead. Learning that Mark was still there, she decided to find him. Upon finding Mark, he remains heartbroken and the player finally apologizes for her rude conduct earlier. Mark then angrily scolds her that Grace is a liar since she has been fooled over her lies. However, because of the rude conduct she gave to him earlier due to the fact that she was fooled by Grace's lies, Mark decided to break her up officially. As he decided to leave back to the hotel to continue packing his things, the player stops him. Mark tells her that she needs to find happiness to someone else other than him and deserves to be happy as she was finally given a job here in Shanghai. Mark finally lets his hand go and leave and the player finally kneeled down in defeat, crying over the break up and was soon console by Jenny afterwards.

## Allies

* The Main Character (Gabriel)
* The Main Character (Matt)
* The Main Character (Ryan)
* The Main Character (Daryl)
* The Main Character (Jake)
* The Main Character (Mark)
* Ryan Carter
* Gabriel Simons (sometimes)
* Jenny Blake
* Cassidy Sparke (sometimes)
* Thomas Gordon
* Ashton Darrow
* Jake Stewart
* Nathan Leviels
* Colin Spencer
* Liang Shaw (sometimes)
* Grace Leviels (sometimes)
* Lorie Bartholy
* Drogo Bartholy

## Enemies

* Cassidy Sparke (sometimes)
* Gabriel Simons (sometimes)
* Alicia Boone
* Steven Simons
* Parker Sparke
* Laurens Van Daele
* Giorgio Maccini
* Grace Leviels (sometimes)
* Liang Shaw (sometimes)

## Relationships

*Mark and Gabriel*

*Mark and Ryan*

*Mark and Jenny*

*Mark and Cassidy*

*Mark and Grace*

## Trivia

* According to the author and creator of the game Claire Zamora, Mark is based on the real-life actor Matthew Bomer.
* Although Mark is said to have brown hair, it was later contradicted in Ryan's season 2, chapter 1 where the player described him to have red hair. This contradiction was shown again in Chapter 11 if the player plays the alternative ending of season 2 where Mark is referred as a red head.
	+ Mark has appeared in two secret scenes in Ryan's season 1, and there too is a contradiction seen in chapter 1 where his hair is ginger while in Chapter 7 it was brown.
		- Mark could possibly have brown hair with red highlights though as stated by Jenny in Ryan's season 2.
		- However one of Is it Love? writers termed him as redhead.
* Mark's old shirtless appearance bears an uncanny resemblance to the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps.
* Mark bears a uncanny resemblance to a primary antagonist named Sosuke Aizen, from the anime Bleach and both have some similar traits shown in the respective Franchise.
	+ Mark and Aizen both are highly respected figures in their universe by the characters.
	+ Both are mysterious characters.
	+ Both of them are depicted as intelligent and shy.
	+ Both of them have received rework in appearance terms.
	+ Both have no backstory revealed as of yet.
	+ However Aizen was claimed to be kind as Mark but his personality was a façade and a method to deceive the closed ones and was a traitor to the place he worked for.
* He's one of the 8 original characters and one of the 5 original love interests.
	+ But he has yet received his own story route like the others.
	+ Mark was not a love interest until 6 years after the first 'Is it Love?' game release, making him the last original love interest.
* He is the 1st love interest to be a father in all routes. Later Ryan too became a father which was only exclusive to his own route.
	+ He is also considered to be a father first since his child is older, even though him having a child was found out after Ryan had his child.
* He is considered as the 3rd "love interest" in Ryan Carter's season 1 and season 3 due to his interest in the player and the connection they make.
	+ The player even has the option to show a slight interest in him for a brief period of time.
	+ Mark is seen to have a crush on her in season 1.
	+ He can be called a 3rd love interest in Ryan's season 3 given that he has shared moments with player.
* He was the first character (and only love interest) that wears glasses, and the second overall to wear contact lenses after the player from Jake Stewart's story route.
* He is from a small town in Chicago, Illinois as mentioned by him to the player in the fourth chapter within the first season of Ryan's route.
* He was featured in the rate the game ad but was later replaced by Lisa Parker starting from Gabriel's season 2 route updates.
* He has gained a cult following in fans over the years and the demand for his story to be released has risen over time.
	+ His story route could be coming soon since he was promoted via a post on Facebook related to season 3 of Ryan's route.
	+ It is possible his route may come out in 2021, as every year new Carter Corp characters routes come out.
		- These theories have been confirmed as the official Is it Love? Facebook page confirmed that Mark's route would come out in 2021, 6 years after the series had been created.
* In all routes, he's 28 years old. However, in the third and final season of Ryan's route which is three years after both seasons, he is 31 years old and in the same age as Ryan due to the passage of time. He is 31 years old in his own route's first season.
* Jenny Blake had a crush on him in Gabriel's route.
	+ Which was only brief due to her ending up with Jake at the end of the story.
* Both of the secret images he's in have Ryan Carter and the player in them.
* Mark is the one of the only 2 original Carter Corp characters that does not appear in every route as he was absent from Adam Peterson's route.
* Out of all of the Is it Love? characters, his old design appears to be the most anime inspired.
	+ Him previously always touching his glasses was probably a reference to male anime characters who always touch their glasses.
* He is on the cover of the Is it Love? Art Book.
* Mark is the only character in the franchise to have his entire appearance updated.
	+ His updated look has mixed reactions from fans. Some appreciated it while some preferred his old design.
	+ His appearance being updated could mean that his story route is coming soon.
* In his newly updated appearance, he has the same main portrait as Charles Huxley.
* It is was a theory by fans that Mark would replace Jake Stewart as the second love interest in season 3 of Ryan's story route.
	+ This theory has been debunked as Parker Sparke is the replaced second love interest.
* In Ryan's official season 3 trailer, Mark's tie was seen to be gold rather than blue.
	+ This was later seen in all Ryan's season 3 previews and sneak peeks, however, this change was not implemented in the game as his tie is still blue.
* Mark in the final season of Ryan was constantly used as a red herring in the story
	+ These herrings are presented him with potential signs of betraying the player, 4 chapters consecutively (chapter 4 to 7) Him appearing in player's nightmare ,Him getting benefited by Ryan's downfall and suspicions from Thomas and Derreck were the red herrings. But there can also be the case that he is getting blackmailed by a character named Laurens Van Daele, the close friend to Leopold Williamson, the former owner of Holy Fields and father of Alicia Boone, the former main antagonist of Ryan's season 2.
* In recent updates of Matt (both S1&S2) and Gabriel's routes, (season 1 recap) Mark's naked portrait was shown in the game as many players discovered it as a glitch.
	+ Although Mark is indeed naked in the glitch, he doesn't actually have human male body parts, as his private part somewhat resembles a Ken doll, being completely smooth with nothing there.
	+ This glitch is now being solved.
	+ However this naked glitch is later followed by Haku Kobayashi, Jake Stewart, Chuck Stanford, William Sheffield, Gabriel Simons, Nicolae Bartholy, Giorgio Maccini (update appearance), Caliel and Parker Sparke (old portrait).
* Mark's astrology sign is Libra.
	+ Which means his birthday is between September 23 & October 22.
		- He is the first and only Libra in the Is It Love? series.
		- This is actually a fitting one because his traits having to balance between his personal and professional life and dynamics with characters like Ryan, who matches a Libra's best partnership with Sagittarius.
		- Also since Mark is based on Matthew Bomer and is a Libra like him it is possible that his birthday is on 11th October
* Mark was implied to be a 2nd Love interest in Ryan's season 3, however, this was not true as the real 2nd love interest was Parker Sparke.
* Many fans were upset by this and didn't preferred Parker as a 2nd option but got over it after the confirmation of his own route.
* A part of Mark's story route could take place in Toronto, Canada, as leaked imagery from his story route had shown a background with a building that looks very similar to the famous CN Tower.
	+ Since Mark is from Chicago, he and the player could go to Toronto for business for Carter Corp.
	+ However this is not the case as his story will be based on Shanghai, China.
* Mark had a route written by Claire Zamora. However, due to her not being satisfied with the writing, it was later dropped.
* This route was going to be out after the finale of Ryan season 1, and as per theory he may come out after the conclusion of Ryan's season 3.
* Mark, along with Gabriel, Ryan and Colin, are the only main love interests in Carter Corp that didn't start off as 2nd Love interests in a previous story route.
* Mark's surname can be based on the pun "levels". This may be used to indicate his level-headed personality.
* Mark was implied to be a scapegoat to Laurens plan to take down Ryan and putting all the blame to him. Since, Gabriel is a former colleague to Laurens it can also be seen that he and Gabriel who wants to be managing director seem to use Mark as a pawn. However this turned false as it was Maccini who was responsible for this and not Laurens.
* Mark was the first Carter Corp character to reference Miss Chocolate, the guide of the Carter Corp and Mystery Spell universes In the main storyline, who is based on Claire Zamora when he tells the player about the participation of Mrs, Chocolate in the elections along with Mr. Peterson and Giorgio Maccini.
* There is a theory that Mark's route will come out after the conclusion of Ryan's season 3.
	+ This theory has been debunked.
* There is often a misconception that Mark does not appear in Colin Spencer's season 1. But Mark does in fact appear in that season once but only for a few seconds at the end of season 1, chapter 6. The appearance is so brief and unexpected that it's quite jarring but mostly forgettable. He only says one sentence and is gone after the 3 sections of dialogue. This can be counted as a cameo.
* Ever since the revelation of him being single dad, many fans have theories that Nathan was conceived by a one night stand and the mother left them and ran away after finding out about their kid's disease. Some even speculate that maybe he got divorced or his wife died (possibly during childbirth). This turned out that Grace ran away from Mark after seeing her child got cancer.
* Mark could possibly be left handed since he always held his phone in his left hand, as most people talk on the phone with their dominating hand.
	+ This makes him one of the four characters that are possibly left handed along with Lisa Parker, Nicolae Bartholy and Peter Bartholy.
* One of the writers confirmed that Mark is a red head with ginger hair which is why he is considered one, despite his hair looking more brown and even said to be brown by some characters.
	+ Mark would be the 1st love interest to be a red head, and is now technically the first overall character that had red hair.
* Mark is the last original character in Carter Corp to get a story route (excluding Lisa, Cassidy and the Creep), as all other main Carter Corp love interests weren't in season 1 of Gabriel's route.
* Mark's behavior bears a resemblance to Anime character Nifuji Hirotaka from Love is Hard for an otaku, where both men resemble each other in terms of professional behavior and tend not to have romantic advances with their employees within their company
* Mark in the artwork cover of is it Love? Artbook has corporate outfit that matches Ryan's colour pallet with the exception of the tie.
* Mark is the fifth character to get arrested by police during main storyline. The others characters besides him were Adam Peterson Gabriel Simons Matt and Daryl Ortega.
* In the new render of Mark his height seems to be smaller as compared to Gabriel's while in old Mark appeared to be taller than Gabriel. This inconsistency was also seen in with Cassidy where in old he appeared to be of near her height while on new he appeared to be tall than her. This can be also the reason that the old render was drawn him from sideways that made him appear different from hs new view. Mark could be around 6'2 or 6'1 in his new render
* Mark along with Colin are Carter Corp characters who were replaced by a character on screen in terms of their job which was seen in the second season of Colin's route. Carrie Kang is Colin's replacement as a computer programmer when he is about to have a solo tour while it was Gabriel Simons in his case due to him being transferred in the same position of some branches in Carter Corp.
* Despite being termed as one of the 5 original love interests, Mark hasn't shown any romantic feelings towards any of the main characters or female rivals yet. Him having a crush on the player from Ryan's route is an assumptions by fans.
	+ But later in chapter 8 of Ryan's season 3 Cassidy actually told the player from Ryan's route that Mark was in love with the player.
* Since Mark is from Chicago, it's possible that he has a Chicago accent or possibly a small accent as it's possible that it could have went away due to living in New York for so long.
* Mark was apparently supposed to suffer from DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) or some kind of personality disorder in the original version of his story route, and it possibly could have had a much darker tone to it than what it turned out to be.
	+ It was also seen in the past that Mark would be compared to Dr. Jeckyl and Hyde, so hence he would had been used but it was later scrapped.
	+ However, Nathan being Mark's sick kid was taken from the original draft and will make it to final.
* Mark's story will the first Carter Corp story to not follow an 11 chapter story route, it will instead follow a 5 chapter mini-story. A lot of fans have opposed this idea when the team went with this decision. Many fans find it discriminating and this has been a lot of backlash from fans.
* Mark's new updated casual outfit is taken from Neil Caffrey, played by Matthew Bomer (whom Mark is based on) from the 'White Collar' series.
* His love for children is similar to a character named Jushiro Ukitake from the 'Bleach' anime series.
* It is implied by Ryan that Mark has a thrill for speed as he mentioned it in season 3 of Ryan's route.
* He is shown to own a blue sports car. This was mentioned in Gabriel's season 2, chapter 1 when Mark unintentionally seem to interrupt the player and Gabriel's intimate moment in elevator. The brand of car is unknown however.
* Mark will be the first main love interest to date a player who may not hail from same country like the other players did in the past.
* His story will be more focused in Shanghai, China and we may not see New York Branch of Carter Corp in the story.
* Mark's new casual has similarity in terms of jeans to formal suit with white jeans of James Oswald-Descieux
* Mark's route will be the first Carter Corp and Is it Love? story route that will have no individual app of it's own, as it will go directly to Is it Love? Stories as an exclusive. So if you want to play Is it Love? Mark, you will have to download Is it Love? Stories.
* Mark Mini-series will probably receive a season 2. This has been confirmed by the Is it Love? website.
* Mark has the least number of secret scenes and images featured a Carter Corp story, being only 7 as it was a mini-series.
	+ His season 1 also has the least amount of chapters in Carter Corp and the least amount of characters featured.
* His story is the only Carter Corp story to not feature original characters, with the exception of Lisa and Ryan Carter
	+ His story featured 3 new original characters which had not been done in a while.
* Mark's story has been well received by fans. It is possible that he will get a sequel to his story.
* He is the first main love interest to date a main character whose martial status matches his. His main character too turned out to be divorced.
* Mark's story route is the first Carter Corp story to not have a legitimate second love interest. This is probably because the story was only 5 chapters. Liang Shaw although has shown to have a liking towards the player, and in bad ending, it is seen that he and player patch things up together.
* Mark's one of romantic soundtrack has been modified that was taken from Peter Bartholy's second season that was heard when he turned the player into a vampire. Here that soundtrack was sped up and was raised to high pitch a little bit.
* Mark's situation of being blamed falsely for domestic abuse towards his wife Grace creepily references the situation with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's case where Amber falsely blamed Johnny for abusing her.
* Mark, Viktor and James Oswald-Descieux are the only love interests to have all the secret scenes in their routes be dedicated only to them.
* Mark's route is the only route that does not feature Miss Chocolate as a guide, instead, Jenny Blake shows up at the end when the player completed an ending and she asks whether player wants to play the other ending or not.
* Mark with Matt are the only Carter Corp character to have 2 chibi arts dedicated to them. The second one was made to promote his mini story.
* Mark is the only Carter Corp character to have still mentioned to care for the player despite her apology for being fooled over Grace's lies and the bad ending is not due to his actions as he officially breaks her up due to her rude conduct and for breaking his heart. Other men in Carter Corp were responsible for their bad endings in their 1st seasons somehow. In Gabriel's case, he was unable to accept that he had something with Cassidy. Ryan trusted his sister too much and not the player. Matt was unable to give over his past. Colin left the player for a solo career. Adam ran away and was on the run due to his deeds against Carter Corp. Daryl left the player after losing the race with Giorgio Maccini and wanted nothing to do with her and Jake was unable to keep relationship because of his life as government agent.
* Mark's route is the only route where the player had no male friend. Liang Shaw is seen as business rival instead of a male friend. If he's seen as male friend then it's the first time where a male friend to an existing Universe was a new character.
* Mark is the only Carter Corp character to have 2 business suits assigned to him that he wears, as others like Ryan and Gabriel only have 1.
* Players will encounter glitch in Mark's route where Mark's dark blue suit in the final chapter turns to his default suit color towards the final scene with Ryan's meeting.
* Mark suffers from far sightedness this explains how he was able to see the player whenever he went intimate with her by discarding his glasses.
* Mark's route is technically the first overall mini series because he was announced before Viktor though these two series were released on same day.
* His route is the first overall Carter Corp story that featured video call feature and the second route where the player had ringtone assigned to her phone.
* Mark and Daryl's story routes are the only routes that don't have any secret scenes take place in the Carter Corp building.
* The only way Mark can be considered an omnipresence character is if he were to appear in an Adam Peterson season 2.
* Mark's behaviour and looks somehow bears a resemblance to the fictional character named Billy Cranston, from the iconic tv series named *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers* through *Power Rangers Zeo* played by American actor, David Yost.
	+ What is interesting is that Matthew Bomer and David Yost who have a resemblance to Mark (Mark being based on Matthew Bomer as stated by Claire) and David Yost is the actor who portrayed as Billy are actually gay in real life. Mark however is not gay and is considered a straight guy.
* Mark old render was based on one of the render of Junko Enoshima from Danganronpa Series where she had 6 renders because of her multiple personality.
* There has been a lot of criticism towards the team regarding using Mark and his treatment over the course of this fandom a lot of users have expressed anger over team's lack of interest and writing of Mark's character to the point many fans flet it was a huge unfair treatment as why Mark who appeared more than Daryl Adam and Jake got mini series while the three got a full story. Many fans did not like the concept of him being a mini series and wanted fair treatment for him
* Mark has said he has no hobbies in Ryan's route however fans can take account of him cooking with interest as a hobby. Mark is mentioned to be able to cook. This makes him one of three Carter Corp Love interests known how to cook the other being Ryan and Jake.
* It is often theorized that Mark and Grace may have married out of wedlock and that Nathan was result of a one night stand, this explains as to why Grace was never a great mother and wife to Nathan and Mark.
* Mark and the player are often joked to be the spiritual parents of Nao Arasaka from Mystery Spell.
* Prior to February 14th, 2022, Mark was the only Carter Corp Love interest who was not featured in an extra event dedicated to him. He and Adam Peterson were the last main love interests in Carter Corp to receive Extra Love Scenes.
* He is the character that started the trend of making glow ups for characters that shocked the fandom . When Mark was updated it was met with suprise by the half of fandom which later followed by Viktor and Parker Sparke. These characters were also received with mixed reception upon those glowup.
* It is possible he may become the first mini series to get a season 2.
* Despite like all mini series it was criticised for its format but fans won't mind for his season 2.
* Despite Mark has appeared on nearly all Carter Corp story but his role has never being impactful in Carter Corp stories like Gabriel Ryan Matt Parker and Jake did.
* He is also Amongst the original Carter Corp Love interests who did not receive or will receive novel adaptation like others did.
* He was considered too much docile natured and attached to player the most which girls to some extent didn't liked as they wanted to have a slow burn romance and development with him. This is also one of biggest reason and shortcoming of mini series that made girls be disappointed in the character and story quality itself.
* He was the first mini series route to be featured to have extra event with Main long story characters that was explicit. Other mini had events too but they weren't that explicit.