Marry My Husband follows a cancer patient who’s at the death door, finding out her husband and best friend have been cheating with each other, before getting murdered and waking up ten years in the past.
Kang Ji-Won has a second chance at life given to her by the cosmos itself. It comes when her miserable life ends with a miserable turn of events.
Soon, a secret lover of hers is struck with grief and has a similar encounter with a benevolent spirit, before meeting an untimely death and waking up ten years in the past as well.
And so begins the fantastical narrative of Marry My Husband, where Kang Ji-Won is helped by fellow time traveler Yu Ji-Hyuk in her quest for happiness this time around.
Kang Ji-Won’s taxi ride
Before she catches her husband and best friend sleeping with each other and realizing they have been doing it for years at that point, Kang Ji-Won has to take a taxi home.
She’s on her last legs and last breaths, bedridden for who knows how long due to her 4th stage gastric cancer.
Her hospital bills are due, and her husband, who she suspects is cheating on her, is not answering her calls.
Any more delay would lead to her discharge from the hospital.
She has to push herself in such a condition and drag herself home to confront him about it.
She takes a taxi home. On the way, the driver chats her up.
She opens up to him, telling him she’s led a hopeless life until this point and now she’s about to die.
The taxi driver’s name is Choi Nam-Hyeon. He tells her she needs to follow her path until the very end to know for sure.
He then swerves and changes lanes, heading the wrong way, saying he will take her down a good path.
The car goes through a tunnel and at the other end is a path through cherry blossoms all around them, in their full Spring glory.
“The path you know isn’t the only one,” he says to her. He also says that “there are other paths, that could be better.”
The fare is 9600 Won, but he returns it, saying it’s his last day as a taxi driver. He then tells her to take it back and treat it as an allowance from her dad.
He tells her she’ll find someone good who would even die for her to give her a good life.
She’ll have good health, running around, making big money. He says all that with a smile on his face.
As he drives off, the name on the identity card magically changes from Choi Nam-Hyeon to Kang Hyeon-Mo, which is Ji-Won’s late father’s name.
His face also changes and the one reflecting in the side-view mirror is that of Ji-Won’s father.
It’s revealed later on that it was indeed him, or rather his spirit, who guided her in her last ride before death. He smiles as he drives off.
Kang Ji-Won isn’t the only character in Marry My Husband who takes a taxi shortly before meeting death and waking up in the past.
Yu Ji-Hyuk’s taxi ride
A similar thing happened to Yu Ji-Hyuk, the chairman of U&K Food and Finance in 2023, the company Ji-Won has worked for, for years.
He pays his last respects to Ji-Won after her funeral, and he returns home in his car, which breaks down on the way.
A few moments pass and a taxi happens to reach him. The driver is Ji-Won’s father, who has been dead for a long time.
Ji-Hyuk doesn’t know how he looks and it’s not even clear if the face the viewers get to see is the same as the one Ji-Hyuk sees.
The driver asks what he regrets upon seeing his dreary disposition.
Ji-Hyuk opens up and talks about how he felt like he didn’t have the chance to confess his feelings to the one he loved, so many times.
He says the other times when he did think he had the chance he didn’t act on his wishes, and now she’s dead.
The driver asks him if given another chance, somehow, would he take it and confess his feelings. Ji-Hyuk’s answer to that hypothetical is a yes.
Not too long after that, on a regular day, Ji-Hyuk meets an accident, and as his car flips over and crashes, he dies.
He wakes up to find he’s lying on his bed, and it’s 2013. He’s been transported back in time to ten years ago.
He also has a blue heart on his chest, that was never there before.
It’s the same blue heart that Ji-Won’s father used to draw on the currency notes he used to give her as allowance.
This confirms that the time travel in Marry My Husband is triggered in at least some capacity by the protagonist Kang Ki-Won’s father’s spirit.
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