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* AccidentalMurder: Original timeline Ji-won [[spoiler:dies when Min-hwan shoves her, hitting her head on a glass table.]]

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* AccidentalMurder: Original timeline Ji-won [[spoiler:dies dies when Min-hwan shoves her, hitting her head on a glass table.table.
* AdaptationDeviation:
** In the webtoon, Ji-won's plan to screw over Gyeong-uk Kim was to trick him into pushing for a Halal food line and claim it's South Korea's first only to discover U&K's main competitor did that first, humiliating him. Here, Ji-won not only pushes him to take credit for her meal plan idea, but to put his higher-up relative on all the packaging, only for the line to crash in a publicity fallout when his relative eventually gets fired for assaulting airline staff [[StolenCreditBackfire and gets Gyeong-uk Kim caught out for stealing Ji-won's idea]].
** [[spoiler:The fact that Ji-hyuk is a time-traveller like Ji-won is hidden in the webtoon for a good while until after Min-hwan's death where Ji-won finds a letter from Ji-hyuk confessing this. Here, [[AdaptationalEarlyAppearance it's discovered much earlier]] before Min-hwan's death where the two time-travellers accidentally out themselves to each other by mentioning Music/{{BTS}} songs [[AnachronisticClue that wouldn't be written or published yet for the next decade]].]]
** [[spoiler:In the webtoon, Ji-hyuk leaves U&K to run a [[HeroSecretService bodyguard company]]. By the end of the series, he's still running U&K with Ji-won.
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* BatmanGambit: Ji-won pulls a lot of these off such as in her primary goal to set Min-hwan and Su-min together and in the finale, [[spoiler:plans out Su-min's final downfall in order to bring her down for good after Ji-hyuk receives word that she might be planning to burn down Ji-won's home, [[CaughtOnTape so they set up a CCTV system to catch her in the act]] and Ji-won gets extra training to break off bindings like zip-ties which Su-min does use.]]



* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Shortly after waking up in 2013, Ji-hyuk spent half a year investing in top-of-the-line cancer treatment with the knowledge that Ji-won was battling it in the original timeline and intended to provide it for when the time comes. When Ji-won's cancer fate goes to ''Yuran'' instead, Ji-hyuk immediately provides it to her instead.]]



* MarkOfTheSupernatural: [[spoiler:Ji-won's late father had a habit of drawing little purple hearts on her allowance, much to her dismay. After waking up in 2013, she sees this on the money the taxicab driver gave her before she died, indicating that her father is somehow behind her second chance. It's later revealed that Ji-hyuk and Ji-won have these imprinted on their chests, which disappears from the former at the end after Yu-ra dies in a car accident like how Ji-hyuk originally did.]]



* OhCrap: [[spoiler:On top of Yuran inherting Ji-won's stomach cancer, the latter realises that Yuran is stumbling into the exact same fate that she died to in the original timeline; confronting a cheating spouse and about to hit her head on a glass table. [[ScrewDestiny In a bid to prevent it]], Ji-won uses a golf club to smash a similar glass table in Yuran's home to pieces which pays off shortly after when Yuran gets shoved backwards right into where the table was and survives the ordeal.]]

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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** PlayedForLaughs when [[spoiler:Ji-won and Ji-hyuk accidentally out themselves as time-travellers to each other because both expressed interest in Music/{{BTS}} songs that they wouldn't have written yet for the next decade, with the show rubbing it in by reminding the viewers when these future songs were released.]]
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[[spoiler:On top of Yuran inherting Ji-won's stomach cancer, the latter realises that Yuran is stumbling into the exact same fate that she died to in the original timeline; confronting a cheating spouse and about to hit her head on a glass table. [[ScrewDestiny In a bid to prevent it]], Ji-won uses a golf club to smash a similar glass table in Yuran's home to pieces which pays off shortly after when Yuran gets shoved backwards right into where the table was and survives the ordeal.]]



* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Min-hwan's mother was murdered by Su-min in the webtoon via air embolism which led to Min-hwan's death. In the series, Su-min only kills Min-hwan and his mother is still alive, with her last scene of her crying at her son's funeral.]]



** In the finale, [[spoiler:Su-min's arson scheme gets uncovered because the clerk who sold her the thinner she was going to use to torch Ji-won's home recognised her from the news bulletins and reported her actions to the police, enabling the heroes to counter her ahead of time.]]

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** In the finale, [[spoiler:Su-min's arson scheme gets uncovered because the clerk who sold her the thinner she was going to use to torch Ji-won's home recognised her from the news bulletins (albeit until well after she left) and reported her actions to the police, enabling the heroes to counter her ahead of time.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Ji-won and Ji-hyuk are sent back to relive the ten years before their deaths.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Ji-won [[spoiler:Ji-won and Ji-hyuk are sent back to relive the ten years before their deaths.]]



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ji-won's reaction to seeing Min-hwan - who, just moments ago to her, was her cheating abusive husband and accidental murderer - is to freak out and give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in public. She also needed to be shown several times that the date ''really'' is 2013 for it to finally sink in. Similarly, [[spoiler:Ji-hyuk, having just been revived from his own death by car accident, stumbles into the elevator looking overwhelmed, and stares bewilderedly at his recently deceased lost love.]]

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
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Ji-won's reaction to seeing Min-hwan - who, just moments ago to her, was her cheating abusive husband and accidental murderer - is to freak out and give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in public. She also needed to be shown several times that the date ''really'' is 2013 for it to finally sink in. Similarly, [[spoiler:Ji-hyuk, having just been revived from his own death by car accident, stumbles into the elevator looking overwhelmed, and stares bewilderedly at his recently deceased lost love.]] ]]
** In the finale, [[spoiler:Su-min's arson scheme gets uncovered because the clerk who sold her the thinner she was going to use to torch Ji-won's home recognised her from the news bulletins and reported her actions to the police, enabling the heroes to counter her ahead of time.]]
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* EurekaMoment:
** While trying to figure out a way to make lots of money to break away from Min-hwan, Ji-won remembers his sole success: Stocks. [[ParanormalGamblingAdvantage Since she has a decade's worth of general knowledge]], she's able to make almost-guaranteed successful investments into different companies she knows will become major successes and which ones to avoid.
** [[spoiler:After Yu-ra buys out Eun-ho's workplace and promptly fires him because he refused to co-operate with her, he gripes to Hee-yeon about his situation. After some discussion, she gets a bright idea and practically squees about it since U&K's meal plan recently took a hit because of the chefs part of it were being uncooperative, so Eun-ho begins to work for U&K as their new chef and his dishes become a smash hit.]]


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* OhCrap: [[spoiler:On top of Yuran inherting Ji-won's stomach cancer, the latter realises that Yuran is stumbling into the exact same fate that she died to in the original timeline; confronting a cheating spouse and about to hit her head on a glass table. [[ScrewDestiny In a bid to prevent it]], Ji-won uses a golf club to smash a similar glass table in Yuran's home to pieces which pays off shortly after when Yuran gets shoved backwards right into where the table was and survives the ordeal.]]
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* WickedStepmother: Averted with Ji-hyuk's stepfamily. He notes that his stepmother and stepsister are good people, but he still feels odd about them (not being his deceased mom). [[spoiler:As his stepsister Hee-yeon is perfectly lovely, his unseen stepmother presumably is as decent as he claims.]]

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* WickedStepmother: Averted with Ji-hyuk's stepfamily. He notes that his stepmother and stepsister half-sister are good people, but he still feels odd about them (not being his deceased mom). [[spoiler:As his stepsister half-sister Hee-yeon is perfectly lovely, his unseen stepmother presumably is as decent as he claims.]]
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** Ji-hyuk tells Ji-won he loves her after TheReveal that [[spoiler:Hee-yeon is his (step)sister, not his girlfriend.]]

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** Ji-hyuk tells Ji-won he loves her after TheReveal that [[spoiler:Hee-yeon is his (step)sister, (half)sister, not his girlfriend.]]

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* CherryBlossoms: The falling petals recur throughout the series as a symbol for fate (and its changing/transferring), the renewal of life, and spring. The final shot of the series is Ji-won and Ji-hyuk in a gallery looking at paintings of cherry trees as petals swirl around them, on April 12, 2023 (the day Ji-won traveled back), wrapping up the journey where it had begun.



* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the webnovel, Yu-ra's punishment is to go with a volunteer group to Africa. In the series, the Chairman did tell her to do just that. She refuses, tries to flee the country before her travel ban (as she was being investigated for the "dump truck murder case"), and receives Ji-hyuk's fate: dying in a car crash en route to the airport.]]

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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the webnovel, Yu-ra's punishment is to go with a volunteer group to Africa. In the series, the Chairman did tell her to do just that. She refuses, tries to flee the country before her travel ban (as she was being investigated for the "dump dump truck murder case"), case), and receives Ji-hyuk's fate: dying in a car crash en route to the airport.]]

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Instead of being DrivenToSuicide like in the webnovel and webtoon, [[spoiler:Ji-hyuk]] got into a fatal car accident after swerving to dodge a cat, having been distracted by [[spoiler:his grief after leaving Ji-won's funeral]].

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the webnovel, Yu-ra's punishment is to go with a volunteer group to Africa. In the series, the Chairman did tell her to do just that. She refuses, tries to flee the country before her travel ban (as she was being investigated for the "dump truck murder case"), and receives Ji-hyuk's fate: dying in a car crash en route to the airport.]]
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Instead of being DrivenToSuicide like in the webnovel and webtoon, [[spoiler:Ji-hyuk]] got into a fatal car accident after swerving to dodge a cat, having been distracted by [[spoiler:his grief after leaving cat.
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Ji-won's funeral]]. previous fate is [[spoiler:Min-hwan, being accidentally pushed into a glass table by Su-min.]]



* FemaleMisogynist: Kim Ja-ok (Min-hwan's mother) is full of outdated ideas about men and women's duties in the home. She wants her daughter-in-law to keep a full-time job ''and'' serve her husband, keep the house clean, and bear many children. She believes men shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen because it weakens them.

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* FemaleMisogynist: Kim Ja-ok (Min-hwan's mother) is full of outdated ideas about men men's and women's duties in the home. She wants her daughter-in-law to keep a full-time job ''and'' serve her husband, keep the house clean, and bear many children. She believes men shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen because it weakens them.



* TheGlassesGottaGo: Both Ji-won and Ji-hyuk swap out glasses for contact lenses as part of their makeover. However, unlike the usual appearance of this trope, there's symbolic meaning behind it. During their ForgottenFirstMeeting as college students, both of them ended up with their glasses off (drunken Ji-won accidentally crushed hers underfoot, Ji-hyuk took his off), and they proceeded to have a mutually enlightening conversation that gets to some brutal truths and realizations after denials and hang-ups. As they both lie on the floor after Ji-won flips Ji-hyuk at judo, she looks at him and flashes back to the long-forgotten blurry memory of college-age Ji-hyuk lying in the grass next to her.

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* TheGlassesGottaGo: Both Ji-won and Ji-hyuk swap out glasses for contact lenses as part of their makeover. However, unlike the usual appearance of this trope, there's symbolic meaning behind it. During their ForgottenFirstMeeting as college students, both of them ended up with their glasses off (drunken Ji-won accidentally crushed hers underfoot, Ji-hyuk took his off), and they proceeded to have a mutually enlightening conversation that gets got to some brutal truths and realizations after denials and hang-ups. As they both lie on the floor after Ji-won flips Ji-hyuk at judo, she looks at him and flashes back to the long-forgotten blurry memory of college-age Ji-hyuk lying in the grass next to her.



* NeverMyFault: Su-min practices InsaneTrollLogic and presents herself as the victim of Ji-won's manipulations, even from the first timeline. She's last seen [[spoiler: in jail, mentally unbalanced, and screaming that everything is Ji-won's fault.]]



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ji-won's reaction to seeing Min-hwan - who, just moments ago to her, was her cheating abusive husband and accidental murderer - is to freak out and give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in public. She also needed to be shown several times that the date ''really'' is 2013 for it to finally sink in. Similarly, [[spoiler:Ji-hyuk, having just come from original Ji-won's funeral and been revived from his own death by car accident, stumbles into the elevator looking overwhelmed, and stares bewilderedly at his recently deceased lost love.]]

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ji-won's reaction to seeing Min-hwan - who, just moments ago to her, was her cheating abusive husband and accidental murderer - is to freak out and give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in public. She also needed to be shown several times that the date ''really'' is 2013 for it to finally sink in. Similarly, [[spoiler:Ji-hyuk, having just come from original Ji-won's funeral and been revived from his own death by car accident, stumbles into the elevator looking overwhelmed, and stares bewilderedly at his recently deceased lost love.]]
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** While banchan are technically 'side dishes' they are also extremely important in Korean cuisine. A typical high end traditional Korean meal is a bowl of rice accompanied with various banchan. The more banchan on the table, the fancier it is. Su-min really has no idea what she is talking about.

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