No. Of episodes: 16

Released year: 2024

Main Plot:

Marry My Husband centers on Kang Ji-won, a woman who is murdered by her best friend and her unfaithful husband. She chooses to change her fate after mysteriously waking up ten years in the past. Ji-won plans her retaliation while discovering unexpected love and happiness with someone who genuinely cares for her because she is determined to prevent her tragic future.

Main Cast:

• Park Min-young
• Na In-woo
• Lee Yi-kyung
• Song Ha-yoon
• Lee Gi-kwang

Episodes Summary:

Episode 1: The Second Chance

Ji Won Kang is introduced as a determined office worker who returns home after undergoing a procedure to address her terminal stomach cancer. Unlike the relief she was hoping for, she instead witnesses betrayal. She finds out her husband Park Min Hwan, who is her biggest reliance, has betrayed her and has an affair with her best friend Jung Soo Min.

Ji-won confronts the two out of heartbreak, hoping for at least an apology. Rather, Min-hwan and Soo-min openly accuse her of getting sick and ruining their lives. When Min-hwan pushes Ji-won, the argument swiftly descends into violence. While the cheating couple is more concerned about her life insurance money than her death, she falls, hits her head, and passes away.

Ji-won unexpectedly awakens in 2013 just as everything appears to be finished. After spending some time away, Ji-won is back at the place she used to work, and while she is in good health and seems to have returned ten years younger than she was. At that point, she thinks it is surreal because it is more like a dream until she realizes eventually what has really happened – Ji-won has traveled through time because she remembers specific people and conversations as well as the date and time on her cellphone.

This choice has significantly influenced Ji-won’s life because she has some knowledge about the painful events she will have to face. Now she makes a vow never to marry Min-hwan again and never to repeat her mistakes. Ji-won is going to change her fate forever and she is going to repay the people who have hurt her.

Episode 2: Ji-won Starts Changing Her Fate

Kang Ji-won realizes that in order to change her destiny, someone else must take the life she has been destined to live upon waking up ten years back in time. She has now resolved that her self-centered boyfriend Park Min-hwan should be with her devious best friend Jung Soo-min instead.

Ji-won sees that Yoo Ji-hyuk, the calm and sharp-headed manager of her department interacts with her at work in a way that is completely different from what he did back in her past life. Ji-won is surprised to find Ji-hyuk defending the female workers when their boss makes inappropriate remarks against them. Finally, Ji-won tells Ji-hyuk that she has chosen to keep working, because this time she wishes to live her life totally differently.

Ji-won begins changing small events she remembers from the past. Instead of becoming Soo-min’s victim again, she cleverly avoids being embarrassed in the cafeteria and even turns the situation around, causing Soo-min to bump into Min-hwan. Ji-won manages to establish a deep relationship with Yang Joo-ran, a kind-hearted colleague, and Yoo Hee-yeon, a happy colleague she did not have any close relationship with in her previous life. The new acquaintances empower Ji-won in the way she never thought possible before.

At the same time, Soo-min continues with the charade of the perfect friend. However, Ji-won now sees through every artificially constructed smile. The episode concludes when MIn-hwan comes to Ji-won’s apartment and tries to be intimate with Ji-won, who realizes that although she has come back in time, she should nevertheless follow her plan carefully.

Episode 3: Ji-won Turns the Tables

In the third episode, Kang Ji-won learns how to be more self-assured and not avoid her problems. From now on, Ji-won has a lot of power over the people who previously deceived her. The main thing she still hopes to achieve is helping her egotistical boyfriend Park Min-hwan and betray her best friend Jung Soo-min.

That day at the office Ji-won is surprised to find out that Yoo Ji-hyuk, a smart and kind marketing director in the company, is, for some unknown reason, persistently guarding her secret. While everyone around Ji-won thinks poorly of her, Ji-hyuk thinks otherwise.

During this time, Soo-min continues to act like Ji-won’s supportive friend but her actual motivation is to be in control the situations. But Ji-won has found a way to not get caught in Soo-min’s snare. Ji-won effectively plays with conversations and sets up opportunities which will eventually result in bringing Soo-min and Min-hwan together. While the two friends don’t have a clue of Ji-won’s true rationale behind directing their lives, she is getting a great pleasure from implementing her scheme.

The episode also deals with Ji-won improving her relations with good-hearted colleagues of hers who begin to see Ji-won as a more powerful person than before. In her current life she is no longer afraid to oppose when people wrong her.

At the end of the episode Ji-hyuk’s curiosity in Ji-won’s altering personality is increasing, while Ji-won realizes that one ongoing action changes the course of events brought about in the future as well.

Episode 4: A New Beginning Takes Shape

In Episode 4, Kang Ji-won is determined to make her destiny to be different from what it was before. After winning different events from her life before, she believes that now the future is not destined to be as it was identified before. Instead of being afraid of the future and live her life in the shadow of fear, Ji-won tries to create a future for Jung Soo-min and Park Min-hwan while rejecting her past toxic relationships that once ruined her life.

In the office, Ji-won is taking part in a significant business event where Yoo Ji-hyuk is again located near Ji-won. The manner of Ji-hyuk, his attention to Ji-won make the heroine of the episode shocked, since Ji-won never had such a kind of attitude to herself in her past life.

While at the event, Ji-won encounters individuals who will be pivotal in her life ahead. Soo-min gets more and more jealous as Ji-won gets attention from others. But Ji-won stays cool and uses the situation to her advantage. Min-hwan is still selfish and childish, which just makes Ji-won’s decision to change her ways look even better. 

In the end, all the small talk and actions help Ji-won turn her luck around. Ji-won eventually figures out that she doesn’t want revenge; she just wants to be happy with the people who really love her. Ji-hyuk keeps supporting Ji-won, and their relationship starts to improve.