Doguk Seo

Doguk Seo is the secondary protagonist in "Perfect Marriage Revenge".

## Appearance

Doguk is tall, dark and handsome, with jet black hair and dark eyes, with a smug charm to himself that makes him appear mysterious.

## History

### Early Life

Doguk was the firstborn child of Yeonhwa Seo. His father, Yeong-Gyun, already had a son, Jeongwuk, from his previous marriage. Doguk was soon joined by a little sister, Dona.

Growing up, Doguk was hated and bullied by his brother. One night, while the family was on a cruise, Jeongwuk tried to push Doguk overboard. Doguk grabbed onto his leg and ended up pulling both of them into the water. Following their rescue, it was discovered that Doguk’s pull had injured Jeongwuk’s leg and left him with a limp. Despite Doguk’s desperate claims, no one believed him that it was an accident, or that Jeongwuk had tried to hurt him first.

One day, Doguk found a stray cat pitifully crying on the street alone. He took it hime and kept it in the garden without his family knowing. One day as he was feeding the cat, Jeongwuk came, saw the cat, and beat it up to kill it, knowing his brother loved it. Doguk took the cat and ran away from Jeongwuk to protect his pet that he loved.

When Doguk grew up, he refused to work at his father’s business, instead starting his own video game company, which actually turned out pretty successful. Later on, he was set up on a blind date with Yura Han, the stepdaughter of the owner of WJ Retail, Jinwung Han. He only went on his mother’s request, since their families desired a marriage between the two. Yura became smitten with him when he seemed uninterested, something that set him apart from all the other men who fell at her feet. Right after the date, he told her bluntly that he had no intentions of entering an arranged marriage and left, but Yura was determined to make him hers.

### First Timeline

He attended the wedding of Iju Han, Yura’s stepsister and Jinwung Han’s adopted daughter, and Sehyeok Jeong. He found her beautiful, and admired her smile. He fell in love with her, even though she was married to another man. When he saw her again months later at an end-of-year event, he felt the need to want to comfort her. Sometime later, Doguk was in a car accident. He accidentally struck Iju with his car, killing her. He noticed her husband and her stepsister close together, and it distracted him from the second car that struck him from the side, killing him.

#### Second Timeline

Doguk awoke a year in the past, on the day he was supposed to accompany Dona to help her pick a wedding dress. At first, he thought the oast year was nothing but a dream, but when he accompanied Dona to her dress appointment, he noticed that everything was the same as it had been in the "dream" -- until he saw Iju Han break her engagement and stomp confidently out of the store, which led him to conclude that he had gone back in time and so had she. Later on, when his cousin Sujin requested he go on a blind date with Iju, he realized that this was his chance to be with her, and happily agreed.

He was cocky and flirtatious with her at first, offering her his keycard for a hotel suite, which initially put him off, until she saw Yura enter with Sehyeok, and spontaneously kissed him in front of the two. Yura approached and tried to make conversation with Doguk, but Iju insisted they were heading up to his hotel room, much to Yura’s obvious chagrin.

In the hotel room, Iju offered him a marriage of convenience, so that he could get the investment from his grandfather, and so she could get revenge on Yura. Doguk pretended to be reluctant, playing hard to get to Iju concerning her plan, while secretly being on board with it all the way.

The next morning, Iju was gone when he woke up. He later found her at the beach. When she expressed second thoughts about their agreement, he baited her by subtly threatening that he would go to Yura if she hesitated too often, a method that was effective. He took her out to lunch at a seashore café to discuss their plan further.

Later on, Doguk arrived at the Han family home to announce to them his intentions. Jingwuk and Jeonghye warmly welcomed him in, and they plus Yura all sat at the dinner table, with Jingwuk apologizing for the "false rumors" of his engagement to Iju. Doguk bluntly told them that the rumors were actually not false at all, and that’s when Iju came into the dining room to sit next to Doguk. Doguk announced that he was in fact planning to marry Iju, and asked her father and stepmother for their blessing to do so, much to the rest of the family’s shock and chagrin, Yura’s especially. Jeonghye was upset and confused as to why Doguk would choose Iju when he already went on a blind date with Yura, but Doguk explained that he had only gone on the date on his mother’s request and had told Yura he had no intentions of entering an arranged marriage with anyone. He proclaimed that he truly wanted to marry Iju. The Hans tried to convince them to wait a while, on the basis that Iju still needed to recover from her broken engagement, but Doguk promised to support and care for her in the time leading up to the wedding.

## Relationships

### Romantic

#### Iju Han

Doguk first saw Iju at her wedding to Sehyeok and fell in love with her right away. When he was reborn in the past and saw her end her engagement to her unfaithful ex-fiancé, he later got a call from his cousin Sujin setting him up on a date with Iju at her request, and he realized that this was his chance to be with her. He teased her at first, playing hard to get when she proposed a marriage of convenience between them, all while keeping his deeper feelings for her a secret. Despite her family trying to sabotage the relationship, the two successfully married.