Shuk: Hey everybody! Loooooooooooooooong time no see. In actual fact, it has been a number of years since I’ve felt the urge to squeecap a sequence. Nevertheless, after just lately ending the manhwa “Marry My Husband”, I could not resist dusting off my squeecapping abilities for this cute little gem. And asking an previous good friend to tag alongside.
Trotwood: I am again, too. I finished writing right here in in the summertime of 2021 I believe. I mentioned I might remark, and I have not. SOOO busy. However the invite from Shuk to speak in regards to the drama adaption of one in all my favourite revenge webcomics (and revenge webcomics have develop into my favourite genre–so you recognize the place my thoughts is) has known as me again.
Be ready although. The present makes you undergo a bit earlier than we get to something like revenge. I am a bit of involved how they will match a webcomic that has 55 packed episodes plus 10 spin-off episodes right into a 16 ep drama. I noticed what they did to Good Marriage Revenge, which was an pleasurable however a bit bland drama tailored from one other one in all my fav webcomics, so I am unable to assist however fear.
EPISODE 1
Most cancers affected person Kang Ji-won (PARK MIN-YOUNG) is listlessly staring out an open window at flowering timber and chirping birds. Clearly, although, she in some sort of hospice or hospital room based mostly on the gear.
Somebody comes into the room and shuts the window and the contemporary air. (Clearly the primary signal that she is horrible. WHo does not need and want contemporary air if you may get it in a hospital?!?) It’s Jung Soo-min (SONG HA-YOON), her finest good friend. They chat, and her bestie pledges everlasting friendship. Ji-won confides that her husband is probably dishonest on him. Bestie says no, it’s all in her head.
It’s time for Ji-won’s chemotherapy, so Bestie leaves in her vibrant crimson sneakers. It’s worthy to notice that the hospital setting is fairly correct for an Oncology ward.
Now alone in her nook, Ji-won thinks again to her marriage ceremony. It’s a small marriage ceremony, with solely her bestie to throw the bouquet to. It’s not lengthy earlier than the darkish actuality reveals, although. Mom-In-Regulation is clearly the overbearing and controlling sort, who apparently designed the marriage, selected the gown, and received somebody to slather the worst make-up job since season 4 of Drag Race. MIL is all set and able to “train” her new daughter-in-law. Two empty chairs drive house that Ji-won’s mother and father are not any extra.
Now now we have a sequence of fairly horrible scenes: MIL throwing tantrums within the kitchen, her Momma’s Boy partner Park Min-hwan (LEE YI-KYUNG) blowing cash they don’t have on speculative shares and performing spoiled to the dragon girl. She is overworking as the only real breadwinner however nonetheless comes house to a disgusting home and lazy bum on the sofa.
Quickly sufficient, we get the analysis: Stage 4 abdomen most cancers.
After all, as a result of this poor lady’s life has to worsen than it already. It was really this further stank on her life that made me suppose this could and can be made right into a kdrama. Kdramas will actually consider in making folks have a multi-layered sandwich of struggling earlier than they’re allowed any pleasure.
After all, dragon girl is barely nervous about her son’s unhealthy luck. And he’s solely nervous about who will feed them. Actually, I really feel like throwing up in my mouth. We additionally discover out it’s near Christmas, based mostly on the home decorations.
Precisely.
The layering on the horrible. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I might have stop this present at this level if I hadn’t learn the webcomic as a result of i might have been too indignant to proceed.
Kang Ji-won wakes up from her horrible flashback and decides to take a stroll across the ward. She thinks about her bestie, who works in the identical firm as she does, comfortable they’re shut with one another and her husband. A cheerful trio!
Or…maybe too shut. Bestie arrives at a constructing in her zippy crimson shoes-matching Mini Cooper, fluffs her hair, after which throws herself into the arms of her dying good friend’s husband. Ugh. (excuse me whereas I throw up)
So principally, whereas Ji-won is being destroyed from the within, Soo-min is knocking boots with Min-hwan. What a beautiful pair! Most sarcasm mode engaged.
Within the midst of all this, they haven’t even paid her hospital payments, they usually stole the deposit she had organized. So now she’s going to be kicked out of the hospital. (The layering of trifling is unbelievable) Ji-won heads exterior for some Sakura-blossom-thinking and decides to take a taxi house.
The taxi driver is pleasant, however she already is aware of how depressing her life is and her ending can be. The driving force decides to take her on a fast tour by means of a small stone tunnel. Is that this “Spirited Away”? There’s no bathhouse for gods, however there’s a beautiful journey by means of falling pink petals.
It actually was beautiful, and I used to be grateful that Ji-won was getting one thing lovely in her life when every part was so horrible.
The cabbie refuses to take her fare, stating that it’s his final day in a taxi, and he or she ought to view the cash as an allowance from her father.
Bemused she slowly makes her method up the steps to her residence, the place the predictable is rolling like a foul film. Pink sneakers within the doorway, Bestie and Weasel Hubby in mattress. Even worse, we overhear he’s paid for a life insurance coverage coverage that may make the 2 adulterers tremendous wealthy when she dies. Ji-won sees her photograph of her father on the ground and coated in trash and loses it.
No shock right here since all of the viewers had been about to lose it a very long time in the past.
She shoves the bed room door open and screams on the pair. She throws issues at them and guarantees to report them to the Insurance coverage Fraud Bureau. Weasel doesn’t care and sneers that she is helpless and might’t do something. Bestie appears a bit of responsible, however she continues to be a skank.
Ji-won falls to the ground in tears; Bestie performs the gaslighting scumsucking slut and blames the dying lady. They get right into a hair pulling contest. Weasel shoves Ji-won, who falls right into a glass desk and has a second of remorse mendacity in a pool of blood. She will nonetheless hear these two determining the way to make it appear like an accident as she closes her eyes for the ultimate time. It’s April 12, 2023…
Ji-won opens her tearful eyes. She is now in full workplace regalia, with nice wanting make-up and glossy hair. (I would not say she appears that nice. She appears like a daily workplace employee in a daily workplace employee outfit. She simply does not appear like she is dying as a result of she is not any longer. She appears like, like all of us at work, like she wants an excellent trip and a greater boss). She is shocked at what she sees. Weasel (who apparently labored there earlier than he grew to become a slimy salted fish after their marriage) chides her habits and grabs a waist squeeze.
That’s all it took for her to snap out of it. With a primal scream that startles everybody, she begins to beat him up in the midst of the workplace. Simply when Weasel is fisting up for a retaliatory swing, it’s all stopped by a hottie in glasses.
“Snap out of it,” he says, since they’re at work. She appears round and realizes that by some means she’s not an avenging spirit despatched to tear Weasel’s hair into hell.
Sure, as a result of nobody however us viewers is aware of that he’s (was?) a assassin.
Ji-won appears at her arm, which was beforehand scarred, then appears at a mirror, which reveals a wholesome visage. She promptly falls backwards and practically will get scalded by scorching water. She saved by the hottie, who Kung-Fu-Enters-The-Fist it out of mid-air.
When she sits up, each Weasel and Bestie are there. Ji-won has a flashback of her remaining moments and freaks out even worse than earlier than. She bolts for the steps, shedding her sneakers within the course of and tripping into the arms of Hottie Glasses.
Thank goodness this man moonlights as a ninja. She would have critically injured herself a number of instances on at the present time. Though this half is not reasonable, I did admire how freaked out she is. Too typically in comics and dramas, the characters don’t act freaked out sufficient once they return in time or their our bodies change or another seemly different world;y factor occurs. Additionally, they typically “get up” alone someplace, to allow them to have their freak out in public. However give it some thought, common persons are not often alone in the midst of the day, so why does this occur a lot within the fictional world?
He gently units her upright exterior the constructing. She appears round envisions many taller buildings dissolving away into a unique earlier skyline. The billboards and indicators shift to ones from 2013, chock filled with little bits and items of way-back-when. There’s a information display screen that SoKor’s nationwide baseball misplaced within the World Event, and a number of snow on Gangnam Mountain. One touting Psy’s first Billboard Number one track “Gentleman” on the Billboard charts. And let’s not overlook the award-winning film “New World” starring Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, and Hwang Jung-min.
Whereas she stands there, Hottie Glasses brings her sneakers and helps her to place them on.
“The place are we? What occurred?” She sincerely asks him. He additionally needs to know, as she had sprinted fairly a distance from the workplace. The 4th Wall Clock unwinds to April 12, 2013.
Sizzling Glasses escorts Ji-won house. She’s nonetheless a bit of rattled, having left all her stuff at work. He offers her some cash, and cryptically says that everybody wants assist at a while.
Alone in her place, she appears round at issues she hasn’t seen in a decade. Simply to substantiate every part, she checks the expiry dates on the pitiful few gadgets in her fridge. The doorbell rings; it’s Sizzling Glasses with a small bag of various groceries. She gleefully dives into the moment ramyun; I assume she hasn’t had actual meals in a very long time due to the abdomen most cancers.
She step by step involves time period together with her reversal of time; for no matter motive she is again to her 31-year-old self together with her 41-year-old recollections.
We additionally discover extra about Sizzling Glasses. He’s Supervisor Yoo Ji-hyuk (NA IN-WOO) at her workplace, however he has a secret identification. He’s the grandson of her firm’s founder, quickly to be CEO and full proprietor of the U&Okay Meals Firm sooner or later.
However nobody else is aware of that but, proper?
Ji-won pulls out the payments from each Sizzling Glasses and the cabbie. On one in all them is a small drawn coronary heart, which was one thing her dad favored to do on her allowance. So out of the afterlife, Dad got here to set issues proper! She cries.
I cry. All of us cry.
After all, scum needed to spoil the second. Weasel reveals up at her entrance door to take her to a p’macha. Not solely that, Slimy Bestie is bombarding her with textual content messages. So as to add insult to accidents, Stingy Weasel gained’t let her drink. In a p’macha. With only a small plate of kimchi on the desk.
As a substitute, he chides her, like he’s speaking to a baby, for inflicting a scene at work and presumably affecting his working surroundings. Though they haven’t had intercourse shortly, he assumes her actions are all being pregnant hormones. In any case, she’s been having hassle retaining meals down. It doesn’t enter his tiny mind that it is perhaps gastritis and even nausea from the considered him banging her finest good friend.
Or the truth that she might be carrying all of the emotional carry on this relationship.
As if she is pregnant, Weasel talks to her about having an abortion, so she doesn’t derail from her profession path. Everyone knows it’s to ensure she does all of the breadwinning sooner or later. (asshole 😠)
Ji-won belts again a shot of soju to show she’s not pregnant, however earlier than Weasel can really feel higher, she calls for they break up and walks out of the tent.
However she forgot his mood; he runs out the p’macha and slings her towards a brick wall. Belatedly she remembers that he hates being crossed, and he or she flinches when he threatens to thrash her. After sinking to the sidewalk, he continues to manhandle her and threaten. Just a few screams later, the pair find yourself in a police station. The officer fully dismisses her issues as he and Weasel roll eyes over ladies’s antics and a lover’s quarrel. The one factor she will get out of it’s a journey house.
This pissed me off, too. I see this a lot in reveals and in actual life. Why is any of this okay? 
As soon as she’s house, she rapidly discovers that between bank card debt and direct funds to Weasel (Why is she sending him cash? He has a job!!), she’s principally moneyless. In actual fact, she was intimidated sufficient to ship him between $1500 and $3700 to his account each month. All she has left is about $550, principally from a small severance she acquired. It’s clearly not sufficient to flee.
He sends her a gaslighting, narcissistic and dismissive textual content message that solely talked about his stress over inventory market purchases.
All of the sudden, the inventory he mentions rings a bell, and Ji-won realizes that she will be able to use her data of the longer term and use that seed cash for a greater life. Go Rocky! She will get a CT Scan to substantiate there isn’t any most cancers in her stomach presently, then heads over to the native library for some self-help books on job searching and shares.
Lastly, some company. She is starting her comeback. I am soooo glad she went to the physician! I am glad she is in Korea as a result of that appointment within the states would have taken all of that $500 and extra.
However guess who she bumps into! Sure, Sizzling Glasses! Ji-hyuk reads the e book spines and wonders out loud if she is looking for a change in employment. She denies this however is distracted by a scar on his manly wrist that her reminiscence reveals her was brought on by the Kung-Fu punch. He volunteers to simply accept her apology over a meal of gukbap (a Japanese type beef rice soup) in a really good restaurant. Clearly, he’s elegant sufficient to not sooth her with road meals like a sure stoat we all know.
I aso received the sensation that he would not know the way to take her to get road meals. When he goes for a fast place to eat, until it is fried rooster (extra on that later) that that is the place he is aware of.
Because of the steam, Sizzling Glasses takes the glasses off. Oh my, we have to change his nickname! Golden brown eyes, properly curved brows, that slight smile…[faints]
I might aid you, however I am too busy smiling to myself over what he actually appears like beneath these big glasses and distractingly horrible becoming fits. There was an entire thread on Twitter (I refuse to name it X) all about why is not he sporting higher becoming fits when he clearly can afford an excellent tailor.
Ji-won blurts that it’s even higher than she thought, however he errors her for liking the meals regardless that she hasn’t tasted it but. She tries to cowl up by taking a giant gulp of the recent soup, however but once more he has to rescue her with a cup of chilly water. Has he all the time been this thoughtful; in spite of everything, that is the longest time she has spent in his presence.
She sincerely thanks him for his form actions the day earlier than and admits she needs to alter jobs. One of many books is on inside design, and Ji-hyuk wonders if she’s getting married. Oh snap, she forgot in regards to the upcoming nuptials, which she would fairly die than do. She speaks in generalities, and now we have our first misunderstanding. Why, Present, why?
Yeah. I do know that she is plotting, however I am unsure why she does not say something right here when she is aware of that he does not discuss to anybody at work and other people do not actually discuss to him both.
Earlier than both can clarify, she will get a cellphone name from Slimy Bestie, which she ignores. SB then sends a pointy textual content demanding they discuss that evening. In her bed room, Soo-min (SB) appears in any respect the pics of her and Ji-won, questioning why her solely good friend isn’t dropping every part to reply again.
On the restaurant, Ji-won stares at Supervisor Yoo’s lovely however scarred arm. All the sudden, she discovers that his scar is the very same form because the one on her arm in her earlier life. She grabs his hand, intent on analyzing that good-looking appendage additional, till the ambiguous motion and his startled look brings her again to her senses.
I need to know, too!
Okay, perhaps I simply need to seize his arm.
Awkward! They rapidly end up and go their separate methods. After a second, Ji-hyuk earnestly (and boyishly) blurts out that she is a precious and gifted individual at work. And as her boss he thinks it could be a disgrace to stop. A smile blooms on her face.
As she walks away, he stares at her one remaining time. Was there one thing else he needed to say?
Enjoyable at house, Ji-won is researching food-related stuff for work, however finally ends up musing about her interplay together with her boss during the last two days. In her earlier life, he was all the time frowning, however now she finds him approachable and an excellent individual. Renewed in religion, she digs into her mission, decided to do the perfect she will be able to for the corporate.
On the workplace the subsequent day, Ji-won is compelled to climb the steps attributable to Weasel staking out the elevators in search of her. As soon as she catches her breath at her desk, she checks out the shares she invested in. Up and up! She wonders how excessive it should go.
HURRAH! And conceal that cash, honey. Weasel deserves nothing.
Somebody slaps her shoulder. Ugh, it’s Scummy Bestie. It’s laborious for Ji-won to reply her pushy questions usually, however she tries. She spins a narrative the place she reads a few terminal most cancers affected person discovering her husband in mattress together with her finest good friend. Soo-min calls the hypothetical homewrecker “gross”. She crouches down and places her head on Ji-won’s lap as if to ask for a scratch behind the ears and follows up with an announcement.
“You may have every part I personal if I die, however when you die, I’ll have all of yours too.”
Ji-won’s squeamishness at this shameless thigh-holding is damaged with a bellow from her boss. He’s reviewing her newest proposal, a meal equipment for single folks, and calls it trash.
Internally expositioning, Ji-won remembers with rancor that Soo-min proposed the precise word-for-word pitch, and that very same supervisor accepted it instantly. And Bestie received fulltime worker standing and a promotion with Ji-won’s laborious work.
Throughout her interior monologue, the supervisor will get snarky and loud whereas insulting totally different facets of the proposal. She continues to be in her head, although, enthusiastic about this ineffective opportunistic boss Supervisor Kim, who was rumored to be sleeping with an higher administration particular person.
He is fully gross. He not solely has an unfounded confidence in himself however his solely expertise appears to be stealing different folks’s work and degrading ladies employees on the whole as if he resents all of them doing something however sleeping with him or desirous to sleep with him.
Supervisor Kim winds down and sees that Ms Kang isn’t even listening. He begins making sexist statements about dependent ladies needing course, and ends with disparaging her apparel and the dearth of girls in navy service. Many of the ladies inside earshot flinch, so that is most likely a daily factor. Oddly, Miss ScumBestie is spritzing on fragrance.
A short while later within the break room, she sees the married lady of their division, Kim Gyeong-uk. She’s a tough employee, and Ji-won remembers that previously life, she was bullied by Supervisor Kim till she stop and left the corporate.
As Ms Kim is named away by one other worker, she unexpectedly leaves her espresso cup on the fringe of the desk. Ji-won remembers it falling to the ground whereas she harm her leg lunging for it. This time, although, she prepared, and deftly saves the cup and her knee. Yay! She discovers she will be able to change what occurred previously and bursts into giggles!
I did, too. which means the probabilities are limitless, and her hope to alter her future really has an opportunity.
The laughter stops when she bumps into Weasel, and he or she tries to rush away. Turning round a nook, she bumps into a cupboard on a dolly. It strikes the identical place on her knee because the previous life damage however doesn’t bleed. She is saved by Sizzling Glasses pulling her again a bit.
After taking a fast breather within the rest room, she speculates that previous occasions are nonetheless shadowing her within the current.
Shit.
She additionally has a nasty shadow now. Weasel reveals up as she leaves the lavatory and, in her haste to flee him, she slams into one more dolly and this time get a big bleeding bruise on her leg.
So now she should determine the way to keep away from such issues like, yunno most cancers and loss of life. Her burn scar ended up transferred to Supervisor Yoo, so she actually wants to determine how this various actuality operates.
She decides to test the shares once more and finds out that Weasel has bought his “Rosenthal” inventory. He text-snaps at her for rudely avoiding him and deposits a few of the inventory cash to her. He grandly broadcasts that he has even greater shares/fish to fry, so this piddly little cash gained’t be missed.
The title of the brand new inventory “TKU Know-how” intrigues her. Within the different actuality, in a single day this firm crashed and wiped all of the buyers.
So her “R” inventory continues to be going up, however Weasel’s “T” goes to nosedive. (Hurray!! One thing good must occur to her and one thing horrible must occur to him). As she thinks additional, Supervisor Yoo reveals up for a gathering. Ji-won sees the burn damage, and her thoughts races with potentialities. What is going to occur will occur, and he or she must be ready for it. Scummy Bestie follows her to the convention room, and I’m secretly hoping that she will get the most cancers analysis.
Soo-min runs into the assembly room to scootch subsequent to Weasel and share paperwork, whereas Ji-won appears on the shameless couple and plots.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Wheew, I didn’t know if I nonetheless had it. Nonetheless, now we have an incredible institution of the characters, the scums and the hotties. I ponder how the unhealthy luck / good luck fairies are gonna sprinkle their respective plot spots on everybody.
I understand how this rolls out within the unique, however I am curious how they are going to present it right here. The present has already made some minute adjustments that make me intrigued.
