Iju Han was once the heiress to her adopted father’s multi-million dollar retail company, but gave that up to be marry her supposed True Love, Sehyeok. They were Happily Married for a year — or so Iju thought, until on her birthday, when she witnessed Sehyeok confess his love for her stepsister Yura, and his plans to divorce his wife for her. Heartbroken and betrayed, Iju unintentionally ran into the path of a moving car, lay dying on the street…
…and awoke in her bedroom a year ago, on the day she was meant to pick out a wedding dress. Determined to take her life back and punish those who wronged her in the past, present and future, Iju immediately ends her doomed engagement to Sehyeok.
After that, she sets her sights on revenge against her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing stepsister who overshadowed her and stole her future. And what better way to get back at Yura for stealing Iju’s husband, than to marry the man Yura wanted for herself?
Perfect Marriage Revenge is an ongoing Korean webcomic by Yimbambe and Jerryball. The English translation can be found on Webtoon here
. The majority of chapters are available for free, but the latest three chapters will require payment to read.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: After Iju’s adoptive mother died, her adoptive father remarried right away, like he had been waiting to be rid of his first wife. He cruelly favored his stepdaughter over the daughter his first wife had adopted and loved. He praised Yura and treated Iju as if she was never really part of the family, and even gets mad at her for getting engaged to a man Yura wants to marry. When Iju argues with "I’m also your daughter", he replies with "You’re different from Yura." It really says volumes about how he sees Iju compared to her stepsister.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Yura. Turns out, Iju’s suspicions about her are right. Yura pretends to be lovable and kind, but underneath, she is a scheming manipulator deliberately outshining Iju, who feels entitled to whatever she wants, from Iju’s promised inheritance to the hand of handsome and wealthy Doguk Seo.
- Daddy DNA Test: As part of Iju's revenge, she does a DNA test proving that Yura is not Mr. Han's biological daughter but Jeonghye's ex-boyfriend's and that Iju is Mr. Han's actual biological daughter from a past lover.
- Entitled to Have You: Yura’s entitlement towards Doguk is shared by her parents. They get upset at Iju for "stealing" Doguk from Yura, even though Yura had only one blind date with him, after which he told her flat out he had no interest in her. A few times in the story, characters try to convince Iju to give Doguk up by saying "Yura was first", not seeming to acknowledge that Doguk has just as much a choice in the matter as Yura.
- Foreshadowing:
- A woman in Jamie’s cooking class changed her Korean name to an English one. Jamie did the reverse, choosing to go by her English name in her new identity as cooking teacher and information broker.
- Gold Digger: Sehyeok’s parents was promised money for their business after he married Iju, and his sister was promised a designer wardrobe. When they found out the wedding was called off, they try to badger him to get back together with Iju, and when that fails, they confront her and demand that she either reconcile with Sehyeok or at least pay back the down payment they put down.
- Happily Adopted: Subverted. Iju, abandoned as a baby, was repeatedly adopted, only to be given up soon after. When she finally was permanently adopted, her adoptive mother passed away a few years later, and her father immediately remarried and favored her stepsister Yura over her.
- Not Actually His Child: Played straight and inverted with Yura and Iju, respectively.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Sehyeok’s family treats Iju badly both before and after she travels back in time. In the bad future where they’re married, they treat her like a servant or a credit card. After Iju goes back and breaks up with Sehyeok, it’s revealed they only want him to marry her for money for their business and to get designer items. They even attack Iju when she refuses to reconcile with Sehyeok or at least pay their debt.
- Peggy Sue: On her birthday, Iju overhears her husband Sehyeok confess his love to her stepsister, and that he plans to divorce her. Heartbroken, she runs into traffic and is struck by a car and killed. She wakes up a year ago, on the day she chose her wedding dress, and decides to take back her life and get back at everyone who wronged her.
- Relationship Sabotage: Yura and her mother Jeonghye try various times to break up Iju’s engagement with Doguk. None of it works.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Downplayed. Iju well intends to punish all those who have wronged her in the past, present and future and take back everything that they stole from her. Rather than burn her enemies to the ground and laugh over their corpses, however, she goes for a more subtle but no less damaging method—she ends her engagement to her unfaithful fiancé and gets engaged to the man her stepsister, for whom the fiancé planned to divorce Iju, wanted to marry herself. She plans to use her knowledge of the future to invest in her father’s failing company, and buy all the shares once the stock price crashes, therefore taking back the inherited business that was promised to and later stolen from her in the original future.
