Iju Han

**Iju Han** is the main protagonist of "Perfect Marriage Revenge".

## History

### Early Life

Iju was born out of wedlock to a single working-class mother, who had kept the pregnancy and child secret from the baby’s father, Jinwung Han. Soon after her birth, there was a fire, and mother amd child were separated. Jeonghye Lee, who had started the fire, kidnapped the child and left her at an orphanage to keep her hidden from her biological father, whom Jeonghye planned on seducing.

Growing up, Iju was repeatedly adopted and later given back, until one day, at a young age, Geumran Han, Jinwung Han’s wife, tracked her down and adopted the child permanently. One day, Iju was eating with her adopted mother, when she left to attend to something. Jeonghye came in, pretending to be Geumran, and fed Iju poisoned macroons, causing her to be hospitalized. Because of this, Iju developed a trauma that prevented her from eating anything she hadn’t seen prepared firsthand.

Not long after, Geumran died suddenly, and Iju’s father remarried rather quickly to Jeonghye, who moved into the house with her daughter, Yura. From there, Iju’s life began to worsen, as her father showed intense preference to Yura, who seemed to easily outdo Iju at everything. At school, Iju was bullied for being an adopted child, and found comfort in an anonymous friend who gave her a mixtape for her birthday to cheer her up.

In adulthood, Iju met Sehyeok Jeong the son of her family chauffeur. He was the only one in her life who showed her warmth and care, and they began a relationship, which eventually led to Sehyeok proposing and Iju saying yes. She always did her best to please him, hoping to win his affections.

### First Timeline

Iju happily went through with the marriage to Sehyeok, believing him to be sincere in his affections. After the wedding, Sehyeok’s family received a generous sum of money to jumpstart their business.

Shortly after her marriage to Sehyeok, Iju’s grandfather passed away, and, to her surprise and disappointment, his will stated that the inheritance promised to her would instead go to Yura. Three months later, her father’s retail business faced a financial crisis, and Jeonghye took control of the company, effectively locking Iju out of the family in every way possible.

Despite this, Iju was content, despite the rudeness and greed of her in-laws, as she still had Sehyeok, whom she believed truly loved her. On her birthday, one year into her marriage with Sehyeok, Iju’s mother-in-law hosted a dinner and had Iju cook all of the food, while nagging her about getting pregnant. During the dinner, Iju changed outfits and left to meet Sehyeok to celebrate her birthday.

After leaving him a voicemail to meet up with her and picking up her own birthday cake, she spotted Sehyeok talking to Yura, and hid to eavesdrop on their conversation. There, she heard Sehyeok confess to Yura that it was actually her and not Iju with whom he was in love, and announce his plans to divorce Iju for her stepsister. Stunned and heartbroken, Iju dropped her cake, alerting her husband and stepsister to her presence. Despite Yura’s attempts to explain, Iju ran away, right into the street, and was fatally hit by a car. The last thing she saw before bleeding to death was Yura being comforted by Iju’s husband.

### Second Timeline

Iju then woke up, alive and well, a year in the past, a week before her wedding to Sehyeok, on the day she had picked out her bridal gown. She noticed a timestamp on her wrist and realized she had been given a second chance to take back jer life. Iju went to her bridal dress appointment, which Sehyeok was attending. After showing herself in the dress she had picked out for her wedding in her previous life, she made a show of ripping the skirt before dumping Sehyeok in public. She paid for the dress and stormed outside in it, vowing to take back her life and get revenge on everyone who had wronged her.

The first step in this plan was Doguk Seo. Iju remembered how in her previous life, Yura had gone on a blind date with him, and become completely infatuated, dubbing him her first choice for marriage. She got her ally, Sujin, Doguk’s cousin, to set her up on a blind date with him. Sujin refused to at first, since she found Doguk annoying and would not set him up with even her worst foe, but Iju convinced her by giving information that Sujin’s boyfriend was cheating on her, and offering to tell her the perfect time to break it off.

Iju met Doguk at the hotel for theor blind date. At first she found him arrogant and annoying, especially when he offered to take her up to his hotel room, and considered backing out of her original plan, but her motivation was reignited when she saw Sehyeok and Yura enter the hotel together. She grabbed Doguk and kissed him in front of Yura, who became jealous and approached the two with Sehyeok, trying to make friendly conversation. Iju noticed Yura’s attraction to Doguk and knew that she had chosen the right man for her plan. She interrupted the conversation, saying that she and Doguk were going up to his hotel suite.

When they get to the hotel room, Doguk, having seen through her, asks her whay she actually wanted from him, and why she chose him knowing that he already went on a blind date with her stepsister. Iju confesses that she knew Yura likes him, so she plans to steal away the man she wanted just as Yura had done to her with Sehyeok. She points out that Doguk needs to get married so that his grandfather will invest in his company. When Doguk asks her why he should choose her over Yura, she makes a prediction that he should buy Enova Games instead of Cades. They exchange compliments over wine, and he calls her a very interesting person.

Iju wakes up the next morning next to Doguk in bed. She sees the kiss mark on his neck and recalls flashes of the previous night, concluding that they must have been oassionate with each other the night before. Having doubts about her plan, she leaves him a check to back out. She hurries out of there and goes to see her dying grandfather in the hospital, determined to get to the bottom of ehy he suddenly promised her inheritance to Yura. At first, he recognizes her, calling her his granddaughter, but Jeonghye enters, correcting him that his granddaughter is Yura. Jeonghye questions Iju about the rumors surrounding her going on a date with Doguk, but Iju simply responds that she’ll hear good news soon, staying vague. She then orders a DNA test for herself.

She goes to the beach and calls Sujin to ask her for another favor to help her woth her new relationship, promising her information about her latest blind date and his oregnant girlfriend, but is interrupted when she sees Doguk approach her. He says he came to find her to discuss theor arrangement further. At first, Iju was reluctant to go back to that plan, but Doguk warned her that if she waited too long, he would probably go to Yura. She agreed, and he asks her out to lunch. Iju initially refuses, due to her trauma, but Doguk says that the first condition of theor arrangement is that he eats with her.

Over the table, they discuss the ugly rumors that concern both of them, and Doguk surprises Iju by asking what kind if man she’s interested in, and asking if she could try falling in love with him fir real. Iju tries to shut him down, but his smile remains. Iju then launches into the important details of their agreement. She reveals to Doguk that her family pushed for him to marry Yura because their company is facing financial troubles, and that she plans to round up investors for it in preparation. Since Doguk’s grandfather will invest in Doguk’s company if he gets married, she has already bought five percent of the company in stocks, knowing that Doguk will go public with it once his grandfather invests. Then once WJ Retail stock price inevitably goes down, she will buy all the shares, and so she’s asking Doguk to invest in it so that she can take back what is rightfully hers little by little. When Doguk asks if it will be worth investing, she assures jim that she’ll make it worth it. Doguk notes that there’s a fifty-fity chance they’ll get caught, but Iju declares they will succeed regardless. When she gets a text than her DNA test is ready, she goes to depart, but Doguk insists that they need a real proposal between the two of them to make a real marriage. Iju promises she’ll propose as many times as he wants.

Iju goes to the Han family home to find Jeonghye waiting for her, slapping her the moment she sets foot inside. Jeonghye chastises Iju for pursuing Doguk when she knew the families were discussing marriage between him and Yura. Iju declares that she is marrying Doguk Seo, to which Jeonghye is furious and moves to slap her again, only for Iju to catch her by the wrist. Jingwuk then walks in on them, amd Jeonghye plays the victim. Iju tries to tell her father that she’s going to marry Doguk, but he forbids her from doing so, declaring that Yura had first dibs since she had gone out with Doguk first. Iju reminded him that he was also his daughter, but he said she and Yura were different. Iju is sent up to her old room, and plans an escape using bedsheets as a rope out the window. She slips and starts to fall, only to be caught by her family assistant, Jewon Hyeon. He somehow correctly deduces she’s plotting revenge against her abusive family, and suggests she should stay in the house to do it. He then helps her change clothes into something more formal and get back into the house just in time to catch Doguk at the table with her parents and Yura.

Iju sits next to him, and he breaks the news to the rest of the Han family that he is marrying her, much to their shock, and asks for their blessing. Jeonghye tries to argue against it, since he went on a blind date with Yura already, and the families had been discussing marriage, but Doguk reminded Yura that he had said after their date that he had no interest in entering an arranged marriage with her, and proclaimed that Iju was the one he wanted to marry. Jeonghye tried to suggest they wait a while before marrying given Iju’s recent breakup with Sehyeok, which Jingwuk and Yura encouraged, but Doguk promised he would constantly be around to support Iju, before whisking her out of the house for a date, claiming he had made a restaurant reservation.

At first, Iju refused to eat out, but Doguk convinced her to olblige him in return for him stamding up for her to her family. She managed to eat the main course with little struggle, but when they served macaroons for dessert, she was reminded of her trauma, as it had been macaroons that she had consumed while being poisoned. Doguk notoced her discomfort and assured her that she couod dump any bad memories onto him. That’s when he surprised her by giving her a genuine proposal, getting down on one knee and asking her to marry him while presenting her with an engagement ring. Iju accepted, flirted with him a little, and they shared a kiss. Sometime later, she found out that someone had uploaded photos of the two of them together online.

Afterwards, she went to see Doguk at his company headquarters, and ended up bumping into Sehyeok, who worked there. He asked her about the rumors that claimed she was attached to Doguk, and why she was suddenly acting so cold to him. Iju revealed that she knew he was really in love with Yura, and claimed that he meant nothing to her. Later, she got the results of her paternity test, and found out that her adopted father was in fact her biological father as well, of which he had had no idea. She suspects Jeonghye already knew of this, and that was why she forged her grandfather’s will.

Returning home, she found Sehyeok’s mother and sister, Sehui waiting for her. They insisted that Sehyeok felt bad about whatever he had done to her to warrant her ending the engagement, and that Iju should forgive him, claiming that it was only a minor tiff and offering ti take her out to lunch to sort our her feelings. Iju rejected their attempts, seeing right through their act. Sehyeok’s mother saod she had already taken out a loan from the bank and thus needed the money from Iju’s dowry, but Iju just told her she’d have ti get a job, since she wouldn’t be receiving the dowry. Sehyeok’s mother then resorted ti begging Iju to forgive and reconcile with Sehyeok, but Iju refused. Mrs. Jeong then snapped and physically attacked Iju, demanding that she pay the dowry, wedding ir no wedding. Iju noticed the surveillance camera, and struggled just enough to get Mrs. Jeong into view of it, just before Sehui grabbed her to hold her still, allowing her mom a clear shot as she slapped Iju across the face. Iju then laughed and pointed out the camera to them before threatening to go to the police and report them unless they left.

Coming inti the house, she once again bumps into Jewon, who updates her on her grandfather’s condition, which has actually improved since her last visit. He asks her if she’s really going to marry Doguk, and when she confirms, he states hope that he’ll be a better partner than Sehyeok. Iju recalls his comment about her staying in the house to get revenge, and how he had called her several times on the day she died, wondering what he had tried to tell her that day.

Later that daty, Yura comes to see Iju in her bedroom to tell her Sehyeok is here and wants to talk to her, however Iju refuses. Yura ignores her and sends Sehyeok in. He tries to apologize to her and tell her that she’ll be unhappy if she marries Doguk, then proposes to her all over again, claiming that she must be using Doguk to make him jealous. Iju reacts with disgust, telling him that she wants nothing to do with him, before giving him a copy of the recording of his mother attacking her, threatening to take another copy to the police if he continues to bother her. He leaves, defeated, and Yura enters her room woth snacks she had intended for the two of them, expressing concern and confusion over Iju’s recent behavior, since she had been so supportive of Yura the day she was set to meet Doguk. Iju pointed out that she had always been treated worse than Yura by their parents, and questioned whether it had to do with her being adopted. Yura just brushed off her questions and strongly encouraged her to do whatever she wanted and not hold back. Iju obliged her suggestion by throwing one of the glasses of water in Yura’s face, claiming she had wanted to do that for a long time, before declaring to Yura that she would make Doguk all hers. Yura, infuriated, asked why she was doing this, since she had liked Sehyeok so much, but Iju deduced that Yura had pushed her towards Sehyeok knowing he loved Yura, not Iju, in the goal that she would end up unhappy. When Yura accused her of entering a loveless marriage with Doguk, Iju proclaimed that she loved Doguk, which provoked Yura to throw the other glass of water onto her, only to see Doguk standing in the doorway with Jeonghye. When he came to Iju to check on her, she noticed her stepmother and stepsister react angrily to his closeness to her, and further provoked them by tenderly asking him to hold her.

After changing into dry clothes, Iju went for a drive with Doguk, who confessed to her that his older brother, Jeongwuk, was the same way as Yura, a selfish bully of a sibling who appears kind on the outside to cast doubt of his mistreatment towards Doguk. Doguk then revealed that he had bought an apartment for her to live in together, bringing her there to see it. He had even set the day of their blind date as the passcode, and recruited his sister, Dona, and her husband, Jaeho Byeon, also Doguk’s secretary, to decorate a private bedroom for her, although Iju found the pink decor not to her liking. He offered to cook a meal for her, but Iju refused, saying she couldn’t trust food that other people made. Doguk compromised by preparing the food right in front of her. He then explains to her that if they’re going to make this arrangement work, she will have to a better job pretending she loves him if they’re going to successfully convince everyone that they’re in love.

Iju still refuses to eat the finished meal, but Doguk tries to convince her by taking a bite of it himself. Still reluctant, Iju refuses, and Doguk apologizes for pressing her and tries to throw it away, stating that he had heard that eating a mea together can help people grow closer and wanted to attempt it with Iju. Secretly touched, Iju accepts the food and faces her fears by taking a spoonful, finding it delicious. Doguk takes this as an opportunity to ask her to move into the apartment with him after they got married, and she agrees, receiving a keycard from him.

After that day, Iju invites Sujin to the apartment to get information about her future in-laws and how to win them over. Sujin claimed that Doguk’s mother, Yeonhwa, will be the hardest to win over, and suggests that Iju join a cooking class run by Jamie, which is in reality more of a social gathering for high-class wives like Yeonhwa. Sujin then reveals that Doguk used to be a bright and cheerful child when they were young, but an accident changed him, making him cold and distant. When Iju asks what this "accident" was, Sujin assures her that Doguk will tell her himself.

The next evening, Iju returns to her family house to pack her things and move out of there. On her way out, she bumps into Jingwuk and Jeonghye, the latter of whom taunts her. Iju boldly responds that she’ll be returning to work at WJ Retail, and tells her stepmother to tell Yura to keep her seat at the company warm until she gets back, provoking Jeonghye. Later that night, Iju wrotes out the timeline of her previous life, from her doomed wedding to Sehyeok to her stepmother taking control of WJ Retail, where she has already planted people who are solely loyal to her, meaning Iju needs someone loyal to her if she is to return to WJ Retail, thinking of Jeon. Iju vows to stop her grandfather from dying too soon.

Iju approaches Jamie, asking to join the cooking class where Yeonhwa is a member, hoping to win her over. Iju discusses her engagement to Doguk with Jamie, who is actually the matchmaker who set him up on the date with Yura, but the latter concedes that just because she matched them doesn’t guarantee they’ll fall in love, and congratulates Iju on her engagement. She agrees to let Iju in, but says she has to pass a cooking test, to which Iju agrees,

The next cooking class, Iju arrives to perform her test, shocking Yeonhwa and all the other students with her arrival. When she finishes her dish and the other try it, they find it tastes disgusting. However, Jamie points out that Iju’s first dish is no worse than the other’s first dishes before enrolling in the class, to which the women agree and welcome Iju inti the class, with the exception of Yeonhwa, who storms out of the class. After class, Yeonhwa invites her to have coffee at a nearby shoppe. There, Iju is to surprised to find that Yura was also invited, much to her dread. Yura does her usual "sweet and considerate" bit, which Yeonhwa seems to be falling for. Yeonhwa says she is aware the two sisters aren’t on the best of terms, but Yura rebuffs such a claim, defending Iju’s dicomfort. Iju leaves to gather herself in the restroom, amd Yura follows her, threatening that she will not let Iju steal anything away from her, to which Iju responds that she will not let Yura steal anything from her, either.

Back at the table, Yeonhwa advises Iju to give Doguk up to Yura, much to Yura’s smug satisfaction. Iju responds that the choice should be up to Doguk. When Yeonhaw accuses her of being rude, Doguk appears and insists his mother is being the rude one. Iju tries to apologize for Doguk, insisting she hadn’t asked him here, and Doguk whisked her away from the coffee shop, much to Yeonhwa’s aggravation and Yura’s jealousy. In the car, Doguk apologizes for her mother’s behavior, and Iju accepts the apology and asks to have tea with him. After talking, he goes to escort her out, but then draws close to her. Iju finds his actions romantic, but he then steps back to inform her that he was only removing a stray eyelash, much to her embarrassment.

A few times later, Doguk came to their shared apartment following a visit to the pharmacy, and Iju surprised him with a badly-cooked big brownie. She is offended that he thinks it is a piece of art, and disappointed when Doguk tries it but finds it awful-tasting, since it was already her fifth attempt. She confesses that she was good at drawing, but had quit it a while back. When Doguk confesses that he had dropped by simply because he had missed her, she is flustered, even more so when Doguk insists on moving into the apartment with her, so they can rehearse being "married". She offers to send him a portfolio of her so that he could get to know her better, but he instead suggests they make conversation, having her open a bottle of wine since she is still anxious about poison.

As they chat about their favorite colors and movies, Iju hears Doguk say something about leaving halfway through a movie because it had an ocean in it, prompting her to suspect he may have a trauma similar to hers. She asjs him his ideal type of romantic partner, and names a celebrity, whose name she doesn’t recognize. In turn, she names a big, hulking celebrity man, whom Doguk asks is too tough, but Iju insists is just tough enough. Doguk vows that he’ll become her perfect man. He continues trying to woo Iju, until consistent calls from Jaeho ruin the mood and force him to answer, prompting him to have to leave Iju to see his mother. Before he leaves, he tells her that he’ll be looking firward to her final decision concerning them living together.

Some days later, at Jamie’s cooking class, Yeonhwa keeps avoiding Iju, until a barbed comment from one of the other women, Bongja Oh, towards Yeonhwa concerning Iju’s broken engagement to Sehyeok prompts her to defend Iju, despite her lingering misgivings. Bongja then brings up the rumor that Doguk is the one responsible for Jeongwuk’s leg injury and disability, suggesting that Jeongwuk must be bitter at Yeonhwa for supposedly seducing his father and having a son who crippled him. Yeonhwa yells at the woman that there is no proof Doguk did any such thing and shots back the rumor of Bongja’s son being an adult entertainment addict, to which Bongja lashes out and grabs Yeonhwa by the hair. They tussle for a moment before Iju catches Bongja’s attention and reveals that she caught her attacking Yeonhwa on camera, threatening to show it to Justice Hongseok Min, whose granddaughter is engaged to Bongja’s son, and who is close friends with Iju’s grandfather. When Iju threatens to expose Bongja and thus ruin her son’s engagement, Bongja slaps her across the face, which provokes Yeonhwa to stand up for Iju and yell at Bongja, referring to Iju as her daughter. When Bongja rebuffs saying filming is illegal, Iju points out the perfectly legal security camera in the room. Jamie kicks Bongja out of the cooking class, and Iju demands she apologize to Yeonhwa.

After class, Yeonhwa insists that standing up for each other does not automatically means she approves of Iju’s marriage to Doguk. Iju says she understands, and that she fruitlessly tried to be loved for years, worrying Yeonhwa. She then asks Yeonhwa to simply give her a chance, since it’s possible they’ll become family. Later on, Iju recieves a text from Doguk saying he has set up a date for her to meet his family. In her apartment bedroom, she finds drawing supplies that he had purchased and set up for her, and ends up accidentally sketching hos face as on the sketchpad as she reminiseces about their meeting at the beach.

At some point, Iju discovers that her grandfather already knew that she was Jingwuk’s real daughter, and confronts him over this. He explained he had only found out recently, and obliges her request to not tell Jingwuk, but noticed she didn’t seem curious in learning about her biological mother. He explained that he had had someone look into it, but found nothing, considering the possibility that she was already dead, to which Iju internally reflects that she probably wouldn’t want to meet her mother anyway after her abandonment. Before Iju leaves, she asks her grandfather not to die before her wedding. In order to get Jeon on her side, Iju offers him the Raon Art Gallery, insisting that the painting he is looking for is cirrently there, in the VIP room. With this tactic, she successfully recruits Jeon to her cause.

Soon acter, she goes to see Doguk at his own apartment and accepts his proposal to move in together, before surprising him woth a dish she made in cooking class, although he still finds it horrible to eat. They later discuss tactics and ways to practice being a married couple, with Doguk stating that the best way was to build trust and form a close bond with one another. To help achieve this, he shows Iju a game room that he had made in his apartment, and has them play an arcade game with each other so that they can bond. He tells her that this arcade room was the only place where he could safely hide from his brother and that she is the first person he has allowed in there. Feeling touched by his confession, Iju finally feels comfortable enough to tell him the story of her poisoned macaroons.

Soon after, Doguk officially moves inti the apartment with her. He takes a shower, and when he comes out, barely dressed, Iju cannot help but notoce how fit and handsome he is. They decide to practice being a married couple, and he gives her tips on how to be convincing, how to make eye contact and hug like they are truly in love. Doguk promises that he will always protect Iju.

Soon after, Doguk brings her to the Seo family home to formally introduce her to his parents and siblings. Yeong-Gyun is very friendly and welcoming to her, but the others are less so. Jeongwuk brings up her broken engagement to Sehyeok and her family company’s financial troubles, but Doguk insisted that he loved Iju, to which she insisted the same in return. After dinner, Dona corners Iju and says she doesn’t like her because she is related to Yura, whom Dona hates. Iju surprises her by revealing that she hates Yura, too, and that that meant they were on the same side. After that, Yeonhwa gets Iju alone and asks if she really wants to marry Doguk. When Iju confirms, Yeonhwa says she’ll give them her blessing if she can get Doguk to come back to work for Seongang, to which Iju agrees.

The next day, after serving him another dish of her (noodles that taste only of salt), Iju asks Doguk if he is only marrying her to get an investment in his company from his grandfather. He confesses to her that he wants a real marriage, not just a contractual one, and if that is not what she wants, this is her chance to back out. She states that she has no plans to back out, that there is too much she needs to do forst, and she only has so much time. Doguk proclaims that he will buy whatever time she has left, and support her in whatever it os that she has in mind, reconfirming his desire for a true marriage.

Iju decides to test whether or not Yura is truly her biological sister through their father. To do this, she returns to her childhood home, sneaks into Yura’s bedroom, and steals a loose strand of her hair off her bed and hides it in her purse. On her way out, she bumps into Yura, who questions her. Iju responds that she returned to inform the family that a date ha been set for her and Doguk’s families to meet, and asks Yura to pass it onto their parents. Yura finally snaps and angrily asks Iju why she has to pursue Doguk of all people, especially sonce she had been sp obssessed with Sehyeok beforehand. Iju tells Yura that she is the obsessive one, pointing out that Doguk only went on one blind date with her and has shown no signs of interest in her. Iju explains that Doguk never had any intention of marrying Yura regardless of Iju’s interference, which greatly upsets Yura, before walking off with a smile and friendly goodbye until the family gathering.

Some time later, Iju attends a store with Doguk and Dona to try on her wedding dress for the marriage to Doguk. When she stepped out, both Doguk and Dona praise and compliment her, with Doguk confirming that she looks beautiful. Later at home, she asks if he really meant it, to which he he asked what "it" was. Iju dismisses the topic, but notes that he seemed too sincere to be acting. He then starts bragging about his lying skills, among other things, and she suggests she cook something to end the boasting. Doguk, remembering her lack of success in the kitchen, offers to cook instead, and then suggests that they settle the matter with a game, making the loser cook. They play a videogame together, and Iju wins (though she suspects he threw the match on purpose), so Doguk cooks dinner for the both of them.

## Relationships

### Romantic

#### Doguk Seo

Iju hardly knew Doguk in the first timeline. To her back then, he was simply a man who Yura had gone on a blind date with and was considering for marriage. After she found out Yura had set her up with Sehyeok to make her miserable and was reincarnated in the past, Iju decided the best way to get back at Yura for ruining her romantic future would he to ruin hers, by seducing and marrying Doguk herself. She got Sujin to set her up on a date with Doguk, and was initially turned off by his cocky charms, consudering abandoning her original plan. But when Yura crossed paths with them during the date and she saw how interested Yura was in Doguk, Iju continued with the plan, recruiting Doguk to enter a marriage of convenience with her disguised as a marriage for love.

As time went on, Iju fond herself getting closer to Doguk, letting down her walls as he continued to persistently show genuine care for her, cuarming her and surprising her with how warm and sincere he could be. In spite of obstacles, like Iju’s stepmother and stepsister’s attempts to sabotage the relationship and the difficulty of winning over Doguk’s family, the two succeeded in marrying. Despite having married him for convenience and revenge, Iju soon came to fall in love with Doguk as he persistently cared for and flirted with her.

She soons find out that Doguk underwent the same experience as her, and that he was the one who hit her with his car, causing her death, right before another car collided with his and killed him, too, before he also was reincarnated in the past, on the same day as Iju. She berates him for lying to her the whole tme, although he insisted that he had fallen for her the day he first saw her in the first timeline, at her wedding to Sehyeok, and avoided him in the days that followed. However, after he defended her against Sia, they sat down and had a serious talk, where Iju confessed that, in spite of everything, she still loved Doguk, and they reconciled, finally allowing Iju to fully accept her love for him.

They consummated their marriage after this, and Iju found out that she was pregnant soon after. After defeating Doguk’s brother Jeongwuk once and for all, Iju gave birth to twins.

#### Sehyeok Jeong

Sehyeok was the son of the new Han family chauffer, and Iju developed a crush on him right away. She was thrilled when he proposed to her, sonce he was the one person in her life who was kind and warm to her, and also saw it as an escape from her abusive family. Despite the rideness she recieved from his parents and sister, and being reduced to his housewife after her grandfather disinherited her from his will, she was content. Howeber, one year into the marriage, she found him confessing his love for her stepsister Yura and his plans to divorce Iju for her. Iju was devastated and ran into incoming traffoc, struck dead by a car and killed.

When she comes back to the past, the forst thing she does is publically dump Sehyeok at the wedding dress appointment. Then, she goes on a blind date woth his boss, Doguk Seo. Despite this, Iju keeps getting bothered by Sehyeok, who was asked by Yura to win her back, but keeps shutting down his requests to get back together, finally getting him off her case by blackmailing him.

When it was revealed that Sehyeok’s younger sister Sehui was behind the slanderous online posts painting Iju as a gold digger, Sehyeok pleaded for mercy from Iju, having by then seen Yura for the selfish manipulator she truly was. Iju accepted his plea in exchange for his help in bringing Yura down.