Webcomic / Marry My Husband

From left: Jiwon Kang and Jiheok Yu.

37-year-old terminal cancer patient Jiwon Kang discovers that her husband Minhwan Park has been cheating with her best friend Sumin Jeong. Jiwon is furious and upset over the revelation that the two people she cared about the most stabbed her in the back. However, after her husband accidentally kills her, she is miraculously transported 10 years back in time: back to her old job at U&K Foods, when she, Minhwan, and Sumin were colleagues together. Not wanting history to repeat itself, Jiwon is determined to turn her life around and make the best out of her second chance. But not before giving her now former best friend what she deserves: Minhwan.

The manhwa was originally published by Naver on November 1st, 2021, based on the original web novel by Sungsojak and adapted by LICO, and completed on December 13th, 2022 with 58 chapters. Marry My Husband is available on Webtoon in English. The epilogue began on Naver on December 20th, 2022, and finished on February 21st, 2023 with 10 chapters. A live-action TV drama based on the webnovel began airing weekly in South Korea on January 1st, 2024, and is available for streaming (outside of South Korea and China) on Amazon Prime.

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Tropes:

• Adapted Out: Yura Oh, a minor character in the web novel who’s in love with Jihyeok and drove Huiyeon to attempt suicide in the past, is completely cut from the manhwa. She does appear in the TV series, however.
• A Deadly Affair: When Jiwon finds out Minhwan and Sumin are sleeping together after she comes home from the hospital, Minhwan slaps her so hard she hits her head and dies. Minhwan was arrested for it, but it’s unclear what happened to Sumin, aside from her social media being deleted and not responding to any calls.
• Armor-Piercing Response: After Sumin is arrested, Minhwan's father tells Jiwon this wouldn't have happened if she had just married Minhwan. Jiwon replies that Sumin wouldn't have done this if her in-laws just treated her like a decent person.
• Awful Wedded Life: Jiwon's marriage to Minhwan was this in the original timeline; she was constantly abused by both him and his mother, and he constantly cheated on her with Sumin. In the new timeline, Jiwon plans on putting Minhwan and Sumin into one of these to take revenge on them. Sure enough, when Minhwan and Sumin get married, it's awful for both of them; Minhwan is still pining for Jiwon and resents being "stuck" with Sumin because his parents would frown upon them getting divorced, while Sumin finds herself stuck with a spouse and in-laws who berate her often and resents that her husband's still hung up on his ex. It eventually deteriorates to the point that both are resorting to outright murder to get what they want.
• Babies Ever After: By the epilogue, Jihyeok and Jiwon have twin boys named Jiwan and Jiwoon, another boy named Ji-ung, and an adopted daughter named Ara.
• Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Sumin when promoting the new wares in the supermarket.
• Batman Gambit: Jiwon doesn't even actually do much for her revenge, merely moving things and events around so that Minhwan and Sumin's affair would happen sooner and where she could see it. It wouldn't have worked if they weren't exactly the terrible people she wanted revenge on in the first place.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Huiyeon Yu seems like the overenthusiastic Genki Girl who is regularly the comedic relief. Sumin tries to make fun of her by asking her what her grandfather does, and she happily answers. However, Huiyeon is just as good at being the Deadpan Snarker as her brother is, as she shows after Jiwon leaves.
  Sumin: Oh, that's Jiwon for you. I guess you could say she's a bit nosy. She just can't seem to leave people alone, even if they're complete strangers...and I suggest you keep your distance from her. [...]
  Huiyeon: Thanks for the advice, Sumin. But I don't think she was being nosy at all. Nosy is when you worry about what your coworker's grandfather does for a living. If you're that interested in other people's affairs, why couldn't you just tell me you didn't have a pad? You're the one I should be careful of.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Jihyeok Yu, several times, usually when Jiwon is in trouble.
  • Huiyeon becomes one during the press conference when Minhwan demands that Jiwon explain why she moved next door to Jihyeok's apartment as soon as she broke up with him. Huiyeon burst in to provide the paperwork for said apartment as well as evidence that Minhwan was stalking Jiwon. The timeliness of her entrance gets commented on by Jiwon:
    Jiwon: Did you ask Huiyeon to come?
    Jihyeok: (sighs) ...no.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sumin, the 'best friend' of Jiwon. She thinks 'out loud' about how she sought Jiwon out to make herself look good and during high school set up bullies against her during the incident with Eunho Baek. As Minhwan is also this to a certain extent, Jiwon comments internally that they were made for each other.
  • Jiwon’s mom Huisuk Bae is one as well. When Sumin was a child she would act nice when Sumin would visit, but when Sumin’s dad suggested they take her in she revealed her true colors and hated playing “mommy”, saying if he does that she’ll bring Jiwon so he’ll know what it’s like to raise someone else’s kid. She acts this way again when Sumin informs them that Jiwon is marrying a rich man, acting loving towards Jiwon only because Sumin’s dad’s business is in financial trouble.
• Broken Bird:
  • Jiwon is this full stop in the original timeline. Having had any optimism systematically crushed both overtly (Minhwan and Jaok) and covertly (Sumin) over the years, she’s a deeply cynical woman who never wants to fall in love again at first.
  • Juran is essentially an older version of Jiwon who experiences similar problems. At work, she is cruelly bullied by the deeply misogynistic Gyeong-uk who thinks that she’s a hag simply because she’s over 30 and married with a child. Her home life isn’t much better since her husband is a deadbeat who neglects their daughter and refuses to go find a job. Eventually he’s forced into working at her parents’ restaurant where he begins an affair with a part-timer. When Juran confronts him, she would have died the same way Jiwon did if Jiwon hadn’t destroyed a piece of furniture in the room right before. She then finds out she has stomach cancer like Jiwon did, though she catches it in time thanks to Jiwon pressing her to get a thorough examination. Later, her ex and his mistress attempt to kidnap their daughter to get an upper hand in the divorce.
• Butterfly of Doom: Jiwon starts worrying that her changing the timeline caused one of these later on, with Juran's cancer diagnosis and Jihyeok's coma causing her to wonder if she indirectly passed her misfortune onto those she cared about by interfering with their lives.
• Bystander Syndrome: Now wiser, Jiwon tries her damnedest to avoid this, and manages to succeed in interfering with Juran Yang's fate by turning it good instead of watching her leave the company.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Or in this case cannot talk to a woman, at first Jihyeok is completely unable to talk to Jiwon without going back to his harsh usual way of speaking to people and not saying what he actually intended to say.
• Chekhov's Gunman: While standing outside of Juran's parents' restaurant, Jiwon sees Juran's husband is also outside, as well as a blonde employee; she assumes that she's in the designated smoking area. It's later revealed that the blonde employee is actually his mistress.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Jiwon knows that Sumin is this at her worst, so she accepts Minhwan's confession at first to make Sumin want Minhwan more. At one point, she even thinks 'out loud' that she knows that Sumin always wants what she has, so she's giving him to her.
• Contrived Clumsiness: Sumin did this to Jiwon. Jiwon was wearing a nice shirt and Sumin 'accidentally' turned too fast to try to spill soup all over her. She accidentally splashed Minhwan instead, which clues Jiwon into realizing that previous events are going to happen but can go to others, leading to her plan to get the two to marry.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Jiwon is an orphan, as her mother abandoned her when she was young. She was raised by her father when she was a kid, and her father has died in the present day. One way to upset her is to bring up her parents in a negative light.
• Cute Kitten: Pang, Jihyeok’s cat who adores Jiwon because she fed him and cared for him when he was an abandoned kitten and she was in college.
• Dark Is Not Evil/Light Is Not Good: A good example is when both Jiwon and Sumin meet Minhwan's parents. Jiwon is dressed in black, with black eyeshadow to boot. She also sees his parents for the awful Hypocrite people they are, whereas Sumin, who arrives in light makeup and a pink dress, is a similar Bitch in Sheep's Clothing like them.
• Didn't Think This Through: Sumin does this after realizing her contract with U&K Foods isn't going to be renewed after getting caught deliberately not warning customers about the peanut dressing in the company's new salad kits, causing a customer to have an allergic reaction. Sumin sends a package of more salad kits with peanut dressing to the man she knows is allergic to it under the name of Juran Yang. Not only do Jiwon and Jihyeok Yu immediately see through it but the former also says she should visit the man in the hospital, who of course still remembers her voice from over the phone. Sumin had forgotten that Jiwon had been her 'best friend' ever since high school, so she knew what Sumin was up to as that lies in her characteristics. This forces Sumin to fake a pregnancy so that Minhwan has no choice but to marry her.
• Dissonant Serenity: Jiwon's reaction upon Sumin handing her the wedding invitations.
  Sumin, internally: ...why is she smiling? Why isn't she sad? Or in pain? Why is she so calm?
• Dogged Nice Guy: Jihyeok is patient and understanding of Jiwon, respecting her boundaries while making his interest clear, since he knows precisely why she’s reluctant to ever date again.
  • Junseok Lee is a bigger example, being rather pushy with Juran because he’s aware that she has feelings for him but is in denial.
• Don't Celebrate Just Yet: Jiwon thought all her problems with Minhwan and Sumin were solved after they got married. Unfortunately, neither one of them had any intention of leaving Jiwon alone. Minhwan still yearns for Jiwon to the point of playing breakup songs ad nauseam and trying to contact her outside of work to the point of stalking, while Sumin is still jealous of Jiwon and her success and terrified that she’ll take Minhwan back, to the point of trying to run her over with a car when Sumin is arrested for her mother-in-law’s murder. Moreover, there's no guarantee that fated events would happen to them and not innocents that Jiwon had interacted with like Juran.
• Dramatic Irony: When they're still dating in the new timeline, a lot of characters wonder What Does She See in Him? in regards to Jiwon and Minhwan. Of course, Jiwon already knows how loathsome Minhwan is, and she's only continuing to date him as part of her revenge scheme against him and Sumin.
• Drink-Based Characterization:
  He's referring to the old me from 10 years ago, who drank cappuccinos because they were sweet. I prefer the bitter but aromatic taste of americanos now.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Sumin was on the receiving end of this by her mother during childhood. Her mother would take her food and when Sumin protested, the mother reminded Sumin that the food was bought with the mother's money.
  • Sumin fully realises just how sucky Minhwan is when he does the same thing to her.
• Extreme Doormat: In the past, Jiwon was close to being this, going along with everything Sumin made her wear and enduring all the bullying she got. Nowadays, Jiwon blames this for her ending in the old timeline and grows out of this.
• Fair-Weather Ex: Minhwan only started dating Jiwon because he thought she was an "easy target" that would do everything asked of her, to the point of being his and his mother's slave. After Sumin announces she's pregnant with his child, Jiwon leaves him for good. He then realizes just how bad married life with Sumin is and tries to get back together with Jiwon, but she's moved on to Jihyeok by this point and refuses to engage with him further. He does try to sabotage their relationship by exposing Jihyeok's status as the chairman's grandson, but that ends with Minhwan getting fired and Sumin revealing she was never pregnant at all.
• Fake Pregnancy: Sumin does this when she's backed into a corner after the salad kit incident, knowing Minhwan's conservative family will force him to marry her instead of Jiwon. Jiwon sees through this, though, because she knows Minhwan has azoospermia and therefor can't make babies. Minhwan finds out about the ruse during the press conference, which leads to his discovery of being infertile later.
• Fat Bastard: Gyeong-Uk Kim, the man initially in charge of controlling the reports that Juran Yang sends in.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: For a long time, with the trauma of her death still fresh in her mind, Jiwon refused the idea of ever being in a romantic relationship again. It isn’t until the press conference that she agrees to give a relationship with Jihyeok a chance.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Sumin tells Jiwon that she will be the mother of Minhwan's child, Jiwon's reaction consists of a brief Stunned Silence and '...impossible.' Sumin naturally assumes it's because Jiwon was the one who was proud to accept his proposal first and now can't brag anymore, but the same chapter reveals that Jiwon said '...impossible' because it literally is impossible as Minhwan is infertile.
• Foil: Sumin and Jiwon, as noted before. Sumin is the upbeat Girly Girl with bright eyes, who tries to manipulate people around her, only to fail again and again. Jiwon, meanwhile, has dark eyes, is a lot more reserved and less prone to Open Mouth, Insert Foot than Sumin is, but is way better at manipulating others.
  • An example moment where this shows is when Huiyeon is stuck in the toilet without a pad. Sumin ignores her cries, and when returning, lies that she helped her. Jiwon hears the same cries and helps her, and then returns with Huiyeon in tow.
  • As such, Sumin and Minhwan's relationship is filled with them backstabbing each other, whereas Jiwon's budding romance with Jihyeok Yu shows healthy signs.
  • Jiwon and Sumin’s pasts also contrast. Both of them had a parent cheat on their spouse and then leave the family for their partner, but whereas Jiwon’s dad was a doting, loving parent, Sumin’s mom abused her daughter and blamed her for her husband leaving her. Made worse by the fact that Sumin’s dad cheated with Jiwon’s mom, which is part of the reason why Sumin is trying to ruin Jiwon’s life so much.
• Foreshadowing: During the final chapter, Huiyeon is the one who ends up catching the bouquet at the wedding. Sure enough, Eunho ends up proposing to her in the epilogue.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: True, Sumin had a very sucky life but she has absolutely no right to ruin Jiwon's life in return.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: Both Jiwon and Jihyeok ditch their glasses for contacts, making people comment on how much better they look.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Jiwon intentionally sets this up for Sumin, in order to get her together with Minhwan.
  That's it, Sumin. You're probably super jealous of me right now. I'll give you Minhwan Park, the man of your dreams... So hurry up and take him off my hands.
  • Sumin has felt this way towards Jiwon since childhood because even though her dad and Jiwon’s mom ran off with each other, Jiwon was cared for by a loving father while she was left with an abusive mother who blamed her for her father running off.
• Hate Sink: Several characters are this:
  • Sumin is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who does everything in her power to make Jiwon miserable all for petty revenge.
  • Minhwan is an abusive partner who only dated Jiwon because of a bet and resorts to stalking her when she dumps him.
  • Mr. Kim is a bald Fat Bastard who bosses around people he doesn't like and steals other people's ideas for his own.
  • Minhwan's parents, Sumin's parents, and Jiwon's mom are all terrible parents whose actions affect their kids for the worse.
• Hero Secret Service: After Jiwon dumps Minhwan, he starts stalking her, causing Jihyeok to hire bodyguards from a company he created which he eventually leaves U&K Foods to run full-time in both timelines.
• Humiliation Conga: Both Minhwan and Sumin are thoroughly humiliated during the second half of the story:
  • Minhwan’s downfall begins when Sumin claims to be pregnant with his child; because of his conservative parents, he’s forced to marry her. Their marriage is quite awful, with most of their time together spent arguing. Minhwan longs for Jiwon once more, which is what leads him to try to break them up by exposing Jihyeok’s connection to the chairman. The ensuing press conference gets him fired and reveals to him that Sumin was never pregnant. Soon after, his mother collapses; he discovers he’s infertile; and his debt gets so bad he’s nearly broke. Finally, Minhwan snaps and decides to kill Sumin, only to end up crashing the car he was going to use for the murder on his way to see his dead mother, and then falls into the river below and drowns.
  • Sumin is forced to lie about being pregnant so she can continue using Minhwan for her revenge plan. But married life is tougher than she thought, as she is basically a slave to both Minhwan and her mother-in-law. Her only solace is a woman (Jiwon) whom she thought Minhwan was cheating on her with, only to become her new “friend” whom she can consult with. After the press conference, Sumin finds out Minhwan is infertile and rubs it in her mother-in-law’s face, leaving her as she goes into a stroke. When it looks like her mother-in-law will recover and expose her, Sumin kills her. She’s arrested during Minhwan and her mother-in-law’s funeral, but escapes and tries to run over Jiwon with a car, only to hit Jihyeok instead. She’s found guilty of murder and attempted murder and is sentenced to life in prison. Finally, Sumin tries to send Jiwon’s mother to her daughter to show Jihyeok that Jiwon comes from a bad family but that ends with Jiwon finally cutting Sumin off for good.
• I Want Grandkids: Jaok is rather aggressive about having her daughter-in-law have a grandson, tormenting her with foul-tasting remedies, constant visits to the shrine, and numerous doctor examinations. All of this is fruitless because Minhwan is infertile.
• Insurance Fraud: As Minhwan sinks further into debt, he decides to take out an insurance policy on Sumin and sabotage her car. Unfortunately for him, when he finds out his mother is dead, he drunkenly takes that car, crashes, and jumps into a river where he drowns. Sumin learns from investigators that Minhwan had no life insurance policy but she did.
• Ironic Echo:
  • The school reunion day.
    • Back in the old timeline, the school reunion was the day Jiwon wanted to erase from her memory. Sumin took her with her to the occasion, clinging to her arm and laughing when the others ridiculed Jiwon for wearing the earrings Sumin gave her to match and 'still being the glasses-wearing dork who wears ugly clothing'. Jiwon excused herself to go to the bathroom and spent the entire time sitting there, hearing all the gossip around her. When she exits the bathroom, everyone had left.
    • In the new timeline, Jiwon prepares for the school reunion with a shopping spree and help from Huiyeon, arranging things like contacts and a new hairstyle. Instead of going along with Sumin, she goes to the reunion herself, surprising everyone. Sumin tries to repair her image, clinging to her arm while the others comment on how the earrings fit Jiwon much better than they do on Sumin. Sumin excuses herself to go to the bathroom, unknowingly right after Jiwon calls out the people who had bullied her, and - after being confronted herself by the people she had set up against Jiwon - spends the entire time sitting there. When she exits the bathroom, everyone has left.
  • A chilling one happens later in the story. When Jiwon in her first life confronted Minhwan and Sumin, Sumin tearfully said the living have to keep on living and Jiwon was going to die anyway. In the second timeline, after Minhwan’s mother was hospitalized for a stroke Sumin witnessed and did nothing about it, fearing that her mother-in-law will get better and expose her, she induces an air embolism. In a calm, cold voice, she repeats exactly what she said to Jiwon.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Slowly but steadily, Sumin does this. It starts when Minhwan calls their relationship a fling, from which point she becomes even more determined to get him. However, when more and more things don't go her way and she makes a critical mistake, she blames it on Minhwan. In turn, he starts disliking her, so naturally, Sumin completely loses it and almost causes a disaster. Luckily, Jiwon sees through it and Sumin ends up having to fake a pregnancy just to put the blame on Minhwan even more.
• Kubrick Stare: Jihyeok’s standard facial expression which puts most people off and kept Jiwon from getting close to him in the past. Though the stare was not directed at her and rather at Minhwan.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: In both timelines, Minhwan and his wife continually try for a child because Minhwan's parents are firmly in the I Want Grandkids mindset; however, they never succeed, and the blame for this failure is put solely on the wife. It's later revealed that Minhwan is infertile, meaning that his parents will never get their wish; they're not happy to learn about this, to put it lightly.
• Mad Love: A curious variant between Minhwan and Sumin. Minhwan admits to preferring Sumin above Jiwon, and Sumin clearly wants to steal Minhwan away from Jiwon. When they wake up together after spending a drunken night together in a motel, Minhwan leaves, saying it was just a fling. This in turn makes Sumin even more determined to conquer him.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: The relationship between Sumin and Minhwan deteriorates to the point that eventually Minhwan signs up for a life insurance policy on Sumin and tries to kill her by messing with the brakes of his car. Unfortunately, he then finds out his mother is dead and, in a half-drunk state, forgets about the sabotage and gets in the car. He then ends up in a car crash and accidentally jumps into a river where he drowns. Sumin later figures out his plan after his death, which is one of the reasons why she lashes out at Jiwon during Minhwan and Jaok Kim's funerals.
• Meet the In-Laws: When Minhwan has Jiwon have dinner with his parents for the first time in this timeline, Jiwon does everything in her power to make it not go well, from dressing like an in-law’s nightmare to saying she’s not going to work or have kids. It really goes south when they hit her Berserk Button and badmouth her father and her own existence as an orphan, the later of which she throws right back into their faces by rightfully pointing out the absurdity of them demeaning her lack of parents when neither of theirs are around either.
• My Beloved Smother: Minhwan's mother is rather controlling (and by a lesser extent, his father as well), especially when it's about her son's future. Best shown in her arranging nearly everything for his and Sumin's wedding without consulting them first.
• Never My Fault:
  • Sumin's main pitfall is that she always blames others, and never looks at herself when she's at fault. She blames the bullies while she set them up, and repetitively throws Minhwan under the bus for the peanut allergy incident.
    • Exaggerated when she continues to do this after murdering her mother-in-law and hitting Jihyeok (Huiyeon in the webnovel) with a car trying to kill Jiwon.
  • Minhwan's father blames Jiwon over his family’s downfall, just because she wouldn’t marry his son. Jiwon shuts him down by pointing out he played bench-sitter as his wife tormented Sumin via her extreme conservative views, in turn driving Sumin to start a chain of events that eventually led to his son’s death and his wife’s murder at the hands of Sumin.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Jaok, Minhwan’s mother, is the queen of this. Tormenting her daughter-in-law by yelling at her, forcing her to take strange remedies to promote bearing a son, and forcing her to cook for her son at the expense of her own hunger.
• Office Romance: Between Jiwon and Jihyeok. The latter is aggressive in regard to his advances towards Jiwon at first, but that's because he loved her since college, enough to commit suicide after she died. He eventually mellows out and becomes a solid anchor for Jiwon while she carries out her revenge scheme, eventually getting together after the press conference. Although the trope goes dead shortly after since Jihyeok quits the company to start his own security firm.
  • Sumin and Minhwan are also this since they started their affair after meeting each other as coworkers.
  • Jiwon and Minhwan as well, though Jiwon only continues the relationship in the second timeline to make Sumin jealous enough to try and steal Minhwan away.
• Parental Abandonment: Both Jiwon’s mom and Sumin’s dad abandoned their children and spouses for each other.
• Parental Marriage Veto: Jiwon intentionally makes sure her first meeting with Minhwan’s parents in this timeline doesn’t go well, causing them to invoke this despite Minhwan’s protests.
• Peggy Sue: Jiwon finds herself transported back in time ten years after her death. After a lifetime of misery, she decides to set about making a better life for herself — starting by manipulating the two biggest sources of her pain into a relationship with each other.
• Relationship Sabotage: Every guy Jiwon has liked, Sumin has either stolen them from her or sabotaged the relationship, the biggest one being with Eunho, in which Sumin convinced Jiwon to write a love letter to him and then switched it with one saying she thought of him as a creepy stalker. Once she finds out Jiwon and Jihyeok are dating, Sumin tries to sabotage their relationship twice: by posting a picture of them online framing Jiwon as a two-timer and exposing Jihyeok as the chairman’s grandson; then by sending Jiwon’s mom to her for money, thereby showing Jihyeok that Jiwon comes from a bad family. Both attempts fail miserably, the latter finally pushing Jiwon to end her relationship with Sumin.
• Relative Error: Huiyeon and Jihyeok Yu are rumored to be a couple; they're actually siblings. When he tells Jiwon, he says it's supposed to be a secret.
• Rewatch Bonus: With the reveal that Jihyeok is also a time traveler, a lot of his actions in previous chapters are seen in a new light.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: As their marriage disintegrates, both Sumin and Minhwan come to believe that Jiwon deliberately set them up together to screw them over. It's presented as part of how they still refuse to take responsibility for their actions, and they both get Jiwon's motives wrong (they think it's because she wanted to hook up with Jihyeok), but otherwise they're right.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: For Jiwon, this is a big one. She's able to 'predict' certain things like firms crashing on the stock market and competitors launching products first, thanks to still having memories from the other timeline.
  • Jihyeok too, which is why he acted so pushy when it came to romancing Jiwon.
  • A side story reveals that Pang was brought back by Jiwon’s dad too, after dying of starvation from depression.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Jiwon's ultimate goal is to give Sumin the man she herself was married with, but she also takes the opportunity to improve her life and get closer to people she didn't know as well in her previous life.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Progressively, Jiwon starts to care more for her personal image. It starts with changing out her glasses for contacts and losing the ponytail. At the school reunion, many of her classmates don't even recognize her at first.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Huiyeon and Jihyeok Yu. Huiyeon is sociable, spontaneous, and a little bit of a Genki Girl whereas her brother Jihyeok is The Stoic. Jiwon even lampshades this when she discovers it.
• Sickbed Slaying: After Sumin leaves Jaok to suffer from a stroke alone, Jaok ends up immobile in the hospital. Minhwan suggests going on vacation with Sumin and leaving his mother with a reputable caretaker who can restore her health. Sumin fears that Jaok will expose the truth about her, so she kills Jaok by inducing an air embolism.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Gyeong-uk frequently espouses these views, usually directing them at Juran whom he dislikes for working while she has a young child at home.
• Stealing the Credit: Gyeong-uk attempts to steal Huiyeon’s idea of packaged halal food and in the webnovel it’s revealed the whole reason he was promoted to manager was because he stole Juran’s idea.
• Sweet Baker: Eunho is a Nice Guy whom Jiwon could have had a happy relationship with in high school if Sumin hadn’t sabotaged it. He’s still in love with Jiwon but later falls for Huiyeon.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: There's no Karma Houdini for anyone in this story - everyone gets their comeuppance. Minhwan drowns after his car explodes in an accident while he was racing to the hospital to see his dead mother (which happened due to him breaking his own car’s brakes to kill Sumin, his wife). Sumin went to jail for the rest of her life for murdering her mother-in-law and attempting to hit Jiwon with a car. Even minor characters, like Mr. Kim and Jaok Kim all face a karmic end.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Jiwon's superior, Jihyeok Yu, is tall, has dark hair, wears dark clothing, and is more than capable of delivering snide comments to those he wants to see gone.
• Third-Person Person: Sumin does this when she's acting innocent in front of a man she wants to seduce.
• Troubled Abuser: Sumin is awful towards Jiwon, mostly because her father left her and her mother for Jiwon's mother. Sumin blames Jiwon for that and for the fact that while Jiwon's father still loved and doted on her, Sumin had to deal with her abusive mother instead. It doesn't excuse her actions towards Jiwon or anyone else, however.
• Two-Timing with the Bestie: Jiwon discovers her husband sleeping with her best friend when she comes home from the hospital to visit him. This results in Jiwon's death and return to the past, where it's obvious the affair has gone on for a long time.
• Wedding Smashers: A rather subdued version but Jiye and her posse crash Sumin and Minhwan’s wedding dressed inappropriately in club girl attire and proceed to act loud and obnoxious to the point they’re thrown out. While alone Jiye “congratulates” Sumin on “picking up Jiwon’s trash”.
• You Can't Fight Fate: A mild version and only at the start. At first, Jiwon manages to avoid a burn in her house but then gets it anyway due to spilling food. She doesn't trip in Jihyeok Yu's office but does when exiting the elevator. After noticing this, she manages to subvert this: Minhwan sells his J Pharma stocks (which Jiwon predicted to go well) for MW Industry stocks (the firm that would later crash) and the soup Sumin meant to spill on Jiwon’s shirt is spilled on Minhwan's instead. She eventually realizes that while fate can’t be fought it can be exchanged.
  • The concept does return when Juran Yang starts to experience similar events from Jiwon’s life, such as discovering her husband cheating on her and developing cancer cells in her stomach. Jiwon is able to help Juran before it’s too late, which brings her to the realization that she must replicate other elements from the previous timeline to ensure others don’t take on her original fate. She does this by texting Minhwan, pretending to be some other girl, and becoming his “mistress” like Sumin was in the previous timeline.
  • Minhwan also suffers this, as he ends up drowning after crashing his car after hearing about his mother’s death. Turns out this was the fate suffered by Jihyeok, who walked into the ocean shortly after Jiwon’s original death.
  • Sumin’s ultimate fate is this as well, she ends up in prison for murdering Jaok and hitting Jihyeok (Huiyeon in the webnovel) just like Minhwan did for murdering Jiwon in the first timeline.

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