Kang Ji-Won’s break up with Yu Ji-Hyuk in Marry My Husband explained

Kang Ji-Won and Yu Hi-Hyuk had just begun their blissful romance when a third person entered the picture and threatened their relationship before it could even blossom properly.

Marry My Husband follows Kang Ji-Won, who is murdered by her husband after she finds out he has been cheating on her with her lifelong best friend.

After his death, she gets a second chance at life as she is transported ten years back in time.

The chairman of the company she worked for, Yu Ji-Hyuk, always loved her from a distance.

After learning about her terrible life and regretting it all, he dies and gets transported to the same point in time as her.

He helps her get her revenge while confessing all his feelings that he never could before.

He makes it his mission to protect her and help her get the life of happiness that he believes she deserves. 

The two start dating shortly after Kang Ji-Won makes her husband (boyfriend in this timeline) marry her best friend.

Enter Oh Yu-Ra

The two can only enjoy their blissful time for a while before Ji-Hyuk’s ex-fianceé, Oh Yu-Ra, comes knocking. 

Oh Yu-Ra is unhinged in a similar way to Jeong Su-Min, which makes her the third woman of the kind to make Ji-Won’s life difficult. 

She has already been tormented by Jeong Su-Min, then she also meets her apathetic and borderline evil mother. 

Enter Yu-Ra. She is Yu Ji-Hyuk’s ex-fianceé who was dumped by him. 

He only agreed to the relationship in the first place because he had been leading an emotionless life and mostly agreed with anything asked of him when it came to family. 

However, he did see value in creating a family and therefore, a firm ground to stand on for him and his loved ones. 

However, Yu-Ra made all of that inconceivable, as she is also a bit unhinged. 

However, since he was so apathetic, she went along with the breaking off their engagement. 

When she learns that there’s a woman in his life, who he loves a lot, and also that he’s changed for the better by a significant margin, she flips.

She now sees Kang Ji-Won as someone who took from her what’s hers, and she says as much herself. 

She can do anything to the ones who she thinks have taken something from her, including getting them beaten up and even killed. 

Yu-Ra’s unhinged plan

She begins working on snatching Ji-Hyuk away for herself as soon as she lands in Korea. 

She starts with his grandfather, whom she frequently visits to improve her relationship with him and make a great impression. 

His grandfather already likes her and believes a woman like her, with spite and greed, is the one who is necessary for creating and fostering a family. 

Meanwhile, she makes sure that Kang Ji-Won feels she is the other woman in the relationship between her and Ji-Hyuk. 

Yu-Ra later meets with Ji-Won at a restaurant, where the latter apologizes for not knowing about her and Ji-Hyuk’s engagement. 

She also tells Yu-Ra that she ended things with Ji-Hyuk as soon as she knew about it. 

However, this is not enough for Yu-Ra, who calls Ji-Won words and tries to paint her as an opportunist who fell for Ji-Hyuk’s greed. 

Yu-Ra soon learns about Park Min-Hwan and Jeong Su-Min. She then meets him to offer him a sweat deal; and kill Ji-Won in exchange for monetary benefits.

Meanwhile, a truck rapidly approaches Ji-Won’s car after the driver explicitly orders the hit job.

However, Ji-Hyuk rolls up and sacrifices himself to save Ji-Won, suffering grave injuries in the process.

Why Ji-Won calls it off

It works, and Kang Ji-won thinks badly of Ji-Hyuk even when she knows he doesn’t love Yu-Ra. 

This is because the memory of her adulterous mother leaving her and her father for another man scarred her in childhood. 

Ever since she has hated those who end things in a relationship one-sidedly. She believes it has to be mutual. 

That is why Ji-Hyuk dumping Oh Yu-Ra while she clearly shows interest in him rubs Ji-Won the wrong way. 

Later, Kang Ji-Won learns from Yoo Hee-Yeon that Ji-Hyuk is actually similar to her in that he also witnessed his father marry another woman, which made him resentful.

She also tells her about the bitter truth about the nature of Ji-Hyuk and Oh Yu-Ra’s relationship, as well as her unhinged tendencies.

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