Juhyeon Ha

**Juhyeon Ha**: The antagonist of Dreaming Freedom manwha. Former childhood friend of Jeongmin.

## Appearance:

Juhyeon Ha has long white hair that takes on a pink tint. Almost making her hair a shade of pale pink. She has sharp, light grey eyes and is almost always seen wearing light mascara.

As a child, she takes on a very similar appearance. The only difference being her lack of mascara and her larger eyes.

## Personality:

As a child she had a problem understanding boundaries with Jeongmin Choi. She would often force Jeongmin into doing things with her such as doing make up together. She would become very disappointed when Jeongmin refused to do something with her. It is clear that as a child she did care for Jeongmin, but her overbearing nature caused her old friend to become uncomfortable.

As a high schooler, she takes on a charming persona. She, however, is seen being cruel to Jeongmin. She is seen with a circle of friends that she uses to antagonize Jeongmin with. She plays the innocent victim and uses a lie about Jeongmin bullying her in elementary to get people on her side. She not only gets people on her side with this lie, but she isolated Jeongmin from others with it. She is seen taking pleasure in Jeongmin’s suffering. She is also seen as manipulative, as she is seen taking away a past friend of Jeongmin’s, Jaehyeok Jo, to pit against her. While she does this, she pretends to like this friend of Jeongmin’s and becomes his “girlfriend”.

After having others turned against her, Juhyeon becomes a much more quiet and docile person. Without her friends, she becomes isolated herself and becomes much more anti-social. When Jeongmin offers Junyeon any kind of kindness, she is shown to become confused and sometimes irritated by the gesture.

## Background

At a young age, her parents divorced and she went with her mother. She was not allowed to see her father and if she ever complained or cried, her mother would threaten to abandon her like she did with her father. Her mother always spent lots of money on her clothes and due to her always working, they lived a wealthy life. Juhyeon tried to play the part of a wealthy child who was doted on and spoiled by her family by showing in front of others, in order to hide the pain of her mother's emotional neglect. In elementary school, she was always approached by everyone no matter what she did, so she didn't see the need to filter her words around others. Because of this, the girls in her class found her stuck up and eventually stopped hanging out with her.

At this time, Jeongmin befriended Juhyeon after noticing she was lonely. With Jeongmin, Juhyeon felt a genuine connection for the first time as Jeongmin didn't pity her over her parents getting divorced and instead opened up about her own family situation. The two of them quickly became best friends, but Jeongmin's friends secretly despised Juhyeon. Because of this, Juhyeon felt uncomfortable and asked Jeongmin to stop hanging out with her friends and only play with her. After finding out that Jeongmin's home life was abusive, she tried to cheer her up in her own way and teach her to have fun so she would focus less on her troubles at home. But her constant efforts to influence Jeongmin away from her friends, convincing her to hang out with delinquents, and trying to change up Jeongmin's appearance with makeovers only scared Jeongmin and drove her away. Juhyeon felt abandoned but reflected on her actions and realizes she was in the wrong. She didn't bother Jeongmin after that.

In middle school, Juhyeon learned from her mistakes in elementary school and put in effort to be nice and friendly with everyone and soon became popular, surrounded by many friends and often receiving confessions from boys in other classes. She made friends with underdogs who she saw herself in, like Hyejin Kim and used her influence to make their classmates accept her. In her experiences in middle school, she couldn't help but be reminded Jeongmin everywhere. When she saw Hyejin hanging out with delinquents, she felt sick as she realized that's how Jeongmin saw her. When she tried to reach out to Jeongmin after a long time, she realized she had been blocked. She started feeling angry and betrayed and blames Jeongmin for their fall out for the first time. She planned her vengeance by finding out which high school Jeongmin chose and selected the same one.

When they finally met again in high school, Juhyeon resolved to make her life hell and isolate her from the rest of their classmates in order to make her experience the pain Juhyeon felt by using Hyejin and Yuju Yoo. This is where the story began.

## Relationships

### Jeongmin Choi

*Jeongmin is Juhyeon's former victim of bullying and her current acquaintance.*

The two of them met in elementary school when Jeongmin invited Juhyeon to play with her and her friends after noticing that their class was ignoring Juhyeon. They form a bond quickly as they both came from broken homes and it becomes a shared secret between them. Despite Jeongmin's friends disliking Juhyeon and encouraging Jeongmin to unfriend her, Jeongmin continues to get along with Juhyeon. One day, Juhyeon visited Jeongmin's house since she didn't come to school and learned that her father was abusing her and her mother. Juhyeon promises to keep it secret and resolved to make Jeongmin happy at school so she would be distracted from the bad things happening at home.

However, Juhyeon's efforts didn't come across well and drove a distance between her and Jeongmin. Juhyeon initially asked Jeongmin to cut off her friend group as they always talked badly about Juhyeon, which made Jeongmin uncomfortable. Then, Juhyeon introduced Jeongmin to her academy friends who were delinquents who pressured Jeongmin to smoke and kept her out at night until her mom called the cops and found her. After that incident, Juhyeon agreed to stop hanging out with delinquents if Jeongmin also cut off her friends and only played with Juhyeon. The final straw for Jeongmin was when Juhyeon tried to alter her looks and criticized her clothes, giving her new clothes to wear and putting makeup on her despite Jeongmin not liking it. Jeongmin finally listened to her friends' urges to unfriend Juhyeon and she does so, telling Juhyeon she's afraid of her.

After that. Juhyeon started getting bullied again and the two of them went to different middle schools. Juhyeon used the time to improve herself by emulating Jeongmin's kind and social behavior and she soon became popular with her middle school classmates. In this time, her resentment towards Jeongmin abandoning her grew and she applied for the same high school Jeongmin decided on attending. When they reunited in the same class in high school, Juhyeon made her life hell by spreading rumors that Jeongmin bullied her and manipulating her friends into bullying her, all while maintaining an innocent facade. She even discovered Jeongmin's crush on Jaehyeok and started dating him and manipulated him against Jeongmin as well.

After Jeongmin got fed up and confronted Juhyeon for all her past wrongdoings and Juhyeon fell out of favor with her classmates as her kind and friendly act dropped, Juhyeon got bullied again by her former friends but quietly accepted it as her punishment for hurting Jeongmin. She came to genuinely regret how she treated her and realized her actions were a projection of herself hatred and feelings of abandonment, and that it wasn't truly Jeongmin that she hated. After noticing Juhyeon was getting bullied, Jeongmin befriended her again and stayed by her side to protect her. She and Jeongmin's friends started having lunch together and got on good terms.

But despite being at peace, Juhyeon realized that Jeongmin would never truly be comfortable around her again. She decided to transfer schools and not burden Jeongmin anymore, feeling relieved that Jeongmin didn't forgive her as she might cross the line again. The two parted ways on bittersweet terms.

### Jaehyeok Jo

*Jaehyeok is Juhyeon's ex-boyfriend.*

They met at an academy and Jaehyeok developed a crush on her. Juhyeon was aware of this and asked him out after she learned that Jeongmin liked him as well. She had no interest in Jaehyeok and only dated him to provoke Jeongmin and take away everyone who was on her side. Over time, as Jeongmin started reacting to Juhyeon's provocations less and less, Juhyeon also started paying less attention to Jaehyeok as he wasn't serving his purpose of making Jeongmin jealous. Eventually, she broke up with Jaehyeok after she resolved not to bother Jeongmin anymore.

### Juhyeon's Mother

After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother who was always very focused on work. This made them able to live an expensive lifestyle with her mom having no drawbacks about spending money on her and buying her fancy clothes. However, this led to her emotionally neglecting Juhyeon and telling her not to bother her and handle things on her own whenever she came to her about problems. She always treated Juhyeon callously and didn't care to check on her even when she was out as late as 11 pm as an elementary school student. She was unaware of everything Juhyeon went through in school, such who her friends were, how she got bullied, and how she became a bully herself.

When Juhyeon started getting hit by Hyejin and Yuju, her mother noticed that she came home with bruises and approached her with worry for the first time. After hesitating, Juhyeon told her mother everything happened and was allowed by her to transfer schools.

### Juhyeon's Father

Her parents got divorced when she was a child and she wasn't allowed by her mother to see him ever since. She cried and threw tantrums because she wanted to see him, but her mother threatened to abandon her too.

## Abilities

**Manipulation**

She is shown to be incredibly skilled in manipulation as she was able to turn the entirety of her high school class against Jeongmin and was able to manipulate Jaehyeok’s into thinking that she loved him.

## Trivia

*As mentioned on the author's Twitter*
* She is allergic to cats
* The author confirmed that in the future when she starts drinking alcohol, her drunk habit is falling asleep
* She does not like amusement park rides and roller coasters as they mess up her hair
* She doesn't believe in ghosts
* If she visited a haunted house, she'd get startled
* In school rankings, she is in the top ten
* If the author had to compare her to any animal, she would choose a Persian cat