Kang Ji-Won is the main lead of the Prime Video revenge melodrama, Marry My Husband. Park Min-Young plays the character in the series.
Kang Ji-Won is living out her last days as a stage 4 gastric cancer patient. Even as she breathes her last, she’s not rewarded any reprieve from her life.
Treated the worst by her diabolical in-laws, and cheated on by her husband and best friend since childhood, Ji-Won has to meet her end to get a second go at life, this time with a starting point in 2013 AD.
A lonesome struggler
Kang Ji-Won had a loving father who died of cancer. She has no siblings so early on in her life, she had already become all alone.
There was no one in the parents’ seats at her wedding, a fact that her vamp of a mother-in-law repeatedly pointed out while loudly pitying her.
After the marriage, she’d treat Ji-Won with disgust, contempt, and loathing, because she won’t get pregnant. All her mother-in-law wants is sons.
Marriage and misery
Ji-Won’s husband is a slacker and becomes a full-time slacker when he quits his job, deciding to go into stock trading as a profession.
Most of his days are spent playing video games and lazing about. All chores, even the smallest ones, are done by Ji-Won, who has to take the brunt of the responsibility.
There are loan payments that her husband disregards, and then she has to work overtime to contend with their financial state.
Appreciation and acknowledgment are alien to her, as he actually calls her incompetent for having to work overtime. Meanwhile, Ji-Won has constant stomach pain at work.
Her rude boss has no care for her work and state of life, which keeps getting worse as she even begins having nosebleeds.
Fate has worse in store
She has had Gastritis from constant stress. But her life takes a turn for the worst when she is diagnosed with stage 4 gastric cancer.
Her husband worries about his meals and who will prepare them, now that Ji-Won will die. Her mother-in-law asks her to not mention her condition at the company and to keep working.
At the hospital, Ji-Won figures out that her husband is cheating on her. At least she has her lifelong best friend, Jeong Su-Min by her side.
The two call each other their other half, and their bond seems really strong. But it soon comes to be exposed for what it really is.
The worst is yet to come
When Min-Hwan stops paying her hospital bills, Kang Ji-Won is forced to go home to confront him. There, she witnesses Su-Min and Min-Hwan sleeping together.
Nonchalantly, they discuss Ji-Won’s death and talk about how her death would give them a billion won in insurance money, because Min-Hwan had already figured out her inevitable fate, and took out a policy.
Shattered and whiplashed by this reality, Ji-Won tries to confront them, with words and with hands, with all the meager strength she can conjure.
Su-Min tells her that they can do nothing now that she’s going to die anyway. She also tells her that she’s always thinking about herself.
Breaking away from the almost physical brawl, Min-Hwan pushes the frail Kang Ji-Won, who falls backward and hits her head on the glass table, shattering it.
As she bleeds to death, Kang Ji-Won thinks that she’s always longed for happiness that she never got. The black curtain drops, and soon, her teary eyes wake up in a familiar setting.
A second chance at life
She is in her company and is snapped out of a daydream by none other than Min-Hwan, who just killed her. However, this version of him is a bit younger.
She’s in her company U&K, where she’s an assistant manager. Freaking out at the sight of Min-Hwan, Ji-Won attacks him, until she’s snapped out of it by General Manager Yu Ji-Hyuk.
She runs away, paranoid and perplexed. She trips on the subway steps and again is saved by Ji-Hyuk. She regains composure to take a look around.
The buildings are all shorter than they used to be, and the posters and holdings are all from a bygone era. She realizes she’s been transported back to 2013, ten years before her death at the hands of Min-Hwan.
Doing it right this time
She soon breaks up with Min-Hwan, who was/is her boyfriend in 2013. She soon decides what she wants to do with this second chance at life.
Her biggest enemy, Jeong Su-Min, always coveted her trash and actually became successful because of it.
So Kang Ji-Won decides to double down on it, as she plans to subject Su-Min to the destiny that she got handed in her previous life.
She decides that she’s going to let her marry her husband instead, along with other revisions of major events that steered her life into a lane rife with pain and suffering.
She soon begins doing all the things she couldn’t do before, and the things she did, she now wants to redo them properly.
She wants financial freedom, love, fulfillment, and sweet revenge to boot.
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