Sehyeok Jeong

Sehyeok Jeong is a minor antagonist in "Perfect Marriage Revenge".

## History

### Early Life

Sehyeok Jeong’s father is the chauffeur for the wealthy Han family, who run WJ Retail. In adulthood, he met Iju and Yura Han, the daughters of the head of the company, and fell hopelessly in love with the latter while become the object of the former’s affection. Yura noticed both this, and, seeing an opportunity to make her stepsister’s life miserable, pleaded with Sehyeok to marry Iju, saying it would be nice of they became family. Sehyeok was so devoted to Yura that he agreed to her request. He pretended to be in live with Iju, treating her with warmth and kindness, promising that nothing else mattered to him but being with her.

### First Timeline

Sehyeok managed to successfully marry Iju without her knowing the truth of his affections. After their wedding, his family received a down payment for their business from Iju’s father as a sort of dowry. During their marriage, Sehyeok’s family treated Iju badly behind his back, seeing her as a maid or a credit card.

A year into his marriage to Iju, Sehyeok found himself unable to keep up the charade any longer. On his wife’s birthday, he found Yura and confessed that he was in love with her and promised to divorce Iju for her. Unfortunately, Iju was nearby and overheard everything, dropping the cake she had picked up in shock, alerting Sehyeok and Yura to her presence. Despite Yura’s attempts to explain, Iju blindly ran into traffic to get away from her unfaithful husband, and was struck by a car. Even as his ow; wife lay bleeding to death on the street, Sehyeok’s forst concern was Yura, comforting her.

### Second Timeline

When Iju traveled back in time and swore revenge on those who had hurt her most, she had Sehyeok at the top of her list. At their wedding dress appointment, she tried on the dress she had picked for their wedding in her past life. When he praised her choice, she ripped the dress and broke their engagement right then and there in front of everyone before storming out of the bridal store.

Sehyeok went home to tell his family the news of the broken engagement. His parents were furious, since they had already taken out money from the bank for a down payment for their business with the expectation that they would receive Iju’s dowry, and his sister Sehui was angry about losing the designer wardrobe she had been promised. They demanded he reconcile with Iju, but as Sehyeok soon found out, that was impossible, when Yura summoned him and informed him that Iju had gotten engaged to Doguk Seo, the second son of the Seogang Group, with whom Yura had gone on a blind date not long ago and become smitten. Yura begged Sehyeok to help her by winning Iju back, insisting that she herself needed to marry Doguk for the sake of her family. Sehyeok knew that this was a lie and that she was actually interested in Doguk, and he pressed her as such, but Yura became defensive. Despite seeing through her, Sehyeok’s love for her made him agree to help her.

Sehyeok tries to approach Iju, but she rebuffs him, saying that she knew he actually loves Yura. He visits Iju at her home, trying to appeal to her, and asked her to marry him again. He claimed that she was only using Doguk to make him jealous, but Iju shut down that reasoning and told him that she wanted to forget anout him entirely. She then presents him with a flash drive, explaining that it caught his mother assaulting from when she had approached Iju a few days ago, and uses it blackmail him into staying away from her. Sehyeok leaves, defeated.

Weeks later, he found Yura at a hotel bar, drinking away her sorrows after Iju had told her that a date had been set to have her and Doguk’s families formally meet. She blames Sehyeok for her losing Doguk because of his inability to successfully marry Iju, which angers him. Nonetheless, he confides in her the rumor at his workplace that Doguk is only marrying Iju to get an investment in his company from his grandfather, which greatly interests Yura.

## Relationships

#### Iju Han

Iju had a crush on Doguk from when they first met. He was the only one who ever showed any care towards her. However, Sehyeok was in love with her stepsister, Yura. Yura picked up on both Iju’s crush on him and Sehyeok’s on herself, and asked Sehyeok to marry Iju, so that she would end up in a loveless marriage. Sehyeok was so devoted to Yura that he agreed, proposing to Iju and pretending to love her for a year, until one day, he couldn’t fake it anymore and confessed his love to Yura, promising to divorce Iju for her. Iju overheard and ran away into oncoming traffic. Even towards the end, Sehyeok chose Yura over his wife, comforting his sister in law as Iju bled to death on the streets.

When Iju traveled back in time, the first thing she did was publically dump Sehyeok and become engaged to his boss, Doguk Seo, whom Yura wanted for herself. On Yura’s request, Sehyeok tried to win Iju back, but all his attempts failed. Soon after Iju started working at Doguk’s company, Sehyeok resigns. Sometime after that, Sehyeok’s sister got into trouble with Iju and Doguk for posting rumors online about Iju being a gold digger, something Yura encouraged her to do. Sehyeok apologized to Iju for his actions against her and his sister’s, and pleaded with her for lenience on Sehui’s behalf. Iju agreed, in return for his help getting Yura off her and Doguk’s back.

#### Yura Han

Sehyeok was so in love with Yura, he was willing to pretend to be in love with her stepsister, Iju, simply because she asked him to as a favor. In the first timeline, he successful fulfilled her request, but only lasted a year until he decided to divorce Iju. He confessed to Yura that he was in love with her and wanted to leave Iju for her, which led to the latter’s untimely death.

In the second timeline, Iju breaks up with Sehyeok and gets engaged to Doguk Seo, the man whom Yura prefers over Sehyeok. She tearfully begs Sehyeok to try to win Iju back si that she can marry Doguk instead. Despite seeing through her saintly act about marrying Doguk for the sake of her family and not because pf her own infatuation with him, Sehyeok agreed, just wanting yo see her happy. However, when he ultimately failed to win back Iju, Yura blamed him for losing Doguk to her because of his failure to marry Iju.

Despite this, Sehyeok continues to see Yura and give her information on Iju and Doguk after the wedding. Eventually, Yura informs him that she is going on another blind date. Sehyeok is greatly upset by this, feeling that Yura is rubbing it in his face, as he knows that she knows of his love for her. Yura simply tells him that he is too poor for her to love, revealing her date to be Jeongwuk Seo, Doguk’s older brother and the first heir to Seogang Group. This is the beginning of the end of Sehyeok’s feelings for her.

Sehyeok’s romantic feelings for Yura only dim more and more, following his discovery that she encouraged his little sister to post rumors online about Iju and Doguk, then evade any responsibility and refused Sehui any help, leaving her to the wolves. Because of this, Sehyeok agreed to help Iju get Yura out of her hair for good in exchange for leniency for Sehui.

#### Juri Shin

After letting go of Iju and betraying Yura in exchange for leniency from Iju for his sister, Sehyeok met the pretty and sweet-natured wealthy heiress Juri Shin. They started dating, which greatly pleased his parents, as they saw their second chance of marrying into a welathy family. However, when she came over to meet the family, Yura arrived uninvited while they were having dinner with a baby, which she declared was Sehyeok’s son. This upset Juri greatly, and she broke things off with Sehyeok.