Yoo Seonhwa/Relationships

## Seol Jihu

Her ex-boyfriend, childhood friend and neighbor since birth. His and her parents were close friends before they were born. She loved him since elementary school and over time became increasingly frustrated that he never noticed it. She burst into tears when Seol Jihu confessed his feelings when they entered college, saying that she's finally gotten her wish, and thus entered into an intimate relationship with him. It's shown that her love was very obsessive, going as far as carefully grooming him to her liking (with the help of Seol's family who supported her) while changing herself to his liking. In her own twisted sense she claims that they taught each other to be their ideal partner as they grew up. She pretty much knows every little detail about him and is also very jealous when other girls speak to him. At one point she even (falsely) suspected that her own mother wanted to have an affair with him.

To make him pursue only her, Seonwha used cunning and manipulative methods, even changing his common sense in hopes of warding off other women and wanting to indulge in her love, e.g. convincing Seol to sleep with her before they became a couple when he wanted to sleep with his brother or gifting her a ring that he was told to put on her ring finger as that was the proper way to gift girls. It's later revealed that they backfired on her, though, as they actually resulted in having more women pursuing him.

She was devastated when her parents died in an accident and on the verge of breaking down when she had to care for her little sister alone who couldn't cope with her loss. It's at that moment Seol convinced his family to take both sisters in. It's also only thanks to his actions that they could feel at home without being neglected or disliked by Seol's own siblings. When she wanted to go overseas to study, Seol stepped forward and delayed his return to university to support her with his tuition.

While being the person who put her trust in him for the longest time, despite the warnings from his own family, Seonwha was very hurt when he betrayed her over and over again because of his gaming addiction and has many times thought of just killing herself or both if she had to continue to live like that. Wanting to escape reality and relieve some stress, she went back to Paradise, even though she wanted to quit. She also hoped to find a way there to turn Seol back to normal.

Seonhwa had still treated him incomparably kinder compared to his family, hoping that one day he would change and chose to repeatedly accept his pleas for forgiveness and give him money to pay off his debts. Having her hopes in Seol crushed many times before, she finally broke up with him when he falsely accused her of sleeping with other men for money the last time he asked her for it. As she only cared about Seol, she actually always cleanly refused all possible advances from other men, having others calling her even a nun because of it. She continued to put up her cold front even after she broke up with him, becoming furious when Seol's sister tried to hook her up with another man.

##### 1st timeline (Black Seol Jihu)

Having never been able to go back to Earth, Seol first met her again in Paradise, disguised as Baek Haeju, when she participated in a rescue mission during an expedition to the Parasite's territory. She only participated because she saw his name on the list of rescuees and wanted to save him. Haeju became very enraged and emotional when she saw him again, surprising even her comrades who saw her as a cold and rational woman who doesn't care about others. She ignored him when he tried to follow them from a distance, hoping to speak to her again (Seol came to know about her real identity). He finally went back when Seo Yuhui, who realized that Haeju cared about but didn't want to talk to him, told him that he would make her worry about him as they are going on a very dangerous expedition.

To not worry his ex-girlfriend, Seol trained like a madman with the help of Sinyoung to become stronger, using suicidal methods. He later became one of the strongest people in Paradise, but also infamous for the ruthless way he fought on the battlefield, not caring what means he had to use to accomplish his goals. At one time, the Parasite army launched a surprise attack aimed specifically at Haeju. While Seol was able to kill Sung Shihyun during the fierce attack, he unfortunately wasn't able to protect his ex-girlfriend and had to witness her death. He was however able to rescue Yuhui and proceeded to fulfill Haeju's dying wish: to protect Yuhui as she only came back to Paradise because of Haeju.

While still training intensely and fighting against the Parasites, it's shown that Seol intensely grieved over her death. Thanks to Yuhui who gave him hope of reviving Haeju, he was able to cope his feelings of loss. They then travelled together to get enough contribution points for her revival. Unfortunately, Seol died fighting before being able to achieve it. Before he perished, Gula wanted to grant him a wish. However, instead of wishing to live, he asked to reverse time, so he could start again. But the contributions he had coupled with the Royal Oath from Teresa, only made it possible to send back his emotions.

##### 2nd timeline (current story)

When Seol came back to Earth, Seonwha was thankful to him when she saw Seol truly changing himself for the better and the first one to trust him again, although she (initially) had no plans on getting back together with him. When she realized that he also went to Paradise, Seonwha wanted to protect him somehow. Being unable to do so herself as that could link her disguise to her real identity and thus put Seol and his family in danger, she asked her close friend Seo Yuhui to help him and create an opportunity for her to approach him without others finding out about her relationship with him. And under the disguise of Baek Haeju, she also helped him and saved his life in numerous occasions.

Fearing that Seol could have just pretended to have changed, like so many times before, Seonwha only wanted to reveal her real identity to him after she became sure of his change. She said she probably wouldn't be able to last if she'd get hurt yet again. Her fears finally dissolved when she witnessed him adamantly refusing to gamble again when he temporarily lost his memories from Paradise due to the penalty of death.

In the epilogue, Seonwha finally got back together with him thanks to a cunning plan of hers as Seol tried his best to fight against his fate of having multiple wives because he wanted stay loyal only to Yuhui. Having made a bet with Yuhui to become his only legal wife on earth if she could prevent only 2 women of still 4 coming from entering Seol's harem, she tried to do everything she could, but ultimately failed, just like Yuhui before.

In the final chapter, Seonhwa is seen having gotten a child with Seol.

## Seo Yuhui

Baek Haeju appears to have a rather close relationship with the Executor of Lust, having shared phone numbers with her on Earth and even lent Seo Yuhui her aid and strength in a time of desperation such as during the Arden Fortress War. In the 1st timeline Yuhui also went back to Paradise when Haeju asked her to help her in the war against the Parasites.

Their relationship was a bit strained when Yuhui started to get closer to Seol and later ended up as his girlfriend. Seonhwa sees her as a thieving cat.