Perfect Marriage Revenge

A contract marriage for revenge, with fewer plot holes than your average divorce—mostly

"She died once. Now she’s back—with receipts, a contract husband, and zero chill." 💍
– A Chaebol Revenge Rom-Com Where Trauma Gets a Makeover and Love Signs a Contract

✨ THE GOOD:
Time-travel revenge? Yes, chef. FL wakes up pre-death and immediately chooses violence and legal paperwork.
Contract marriage slaps. Sung Hoon brings smirk energy, and together they go from awkward co-workers to “let’s ruin everyone’s life... together.”
Instant karma delivery. Betrayal? Boom—plot twist. Secret exposed? Boom—next scene. No dragging. Just delicious justice.

🫠 THE “YOU GOOD, SCRIPTWRITER?” MOMENTS:
Villains appear like software updates. New ones pop up mid-episode and disappear just as fast. Who are you? Why are you evil? No one knows.
Mid-drama sag. Episodes 7–8 had the energy of a coffee shop with no Wi-Fi.
Trope buffet. Predictable? Absolutely. But hey, sometimes you want popcorn, not a plot labyrinth.

💑 THE “JUST KISS AND BURN IT ALL DOWN” FACTOR:
Romance? Simmering.
Chemistry? Quiet but solid.
It’s more “respect and teamwork” than “ripping each other’s clothes off”—and that’s kinda hot too. Eventually.

🎯 VERDICT:
"Like ordering revenge with express shipping—satisfying, a little chaotic, and wrapped in designer trauma."

Watch if: You live for contract romance, powerful female leads, and rich people being destroyed with style.
Skip if: You want subtlety, deep villains, or anything not wrapped in revenge fantasy.

Best paired with: 🍸 A cold martini, an unbothered attitude, and a prenup written in blood.

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Crazy and Fun

I am not usually a fan of the very soap opera-esque dramas that have over-the-top plots and acting, but this one worked for me. I think the secret to this story is that it was overtly overdramatic and didn't try to be anything it wasn't. The villains were so wildly evil that it was comical at times. Perfect Marriage Revenge is the perfect binge watch because it's a shorter short with a super fast-paced plot that keeps you interested. It's not the most memorable show, but it was super entertaining while I was in it.

Likes: Chemistry between the main couple was great. Keeping the explanations of the time travel vague worked and kept it from overcomplicating the story. The male lead was very protective and supportive immediately, total green flag. The female lead realizing her power and finding her self confidence. The mother-in-law and family was great and I loved her and the stepmother battling it out.

Dislikes: several characters got second chances that really did not deserve them. I wanted to see her entire family punished because they all deserved it. Ending felt a little rushed. The backstory for the romance was not explained or delved into enough and I would have liked more of it. Everything with his brother was kind of bizarre and a definite weak point. I wanted more of the friendship with her, his sister, and his cousin! Seeing Yi-joo before she starts her revenge was painful to watch.

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In another life, I will be your girl

Dec. 3, 2023

Whoa, another kdrama that has ended and that I have finished.

Perfect Marriage Revenge is the drama for revenge and I must say I love the pacing of this series. As it is adapted from a webtoon, I was a bit skeptical with the 12 episode format. But I must say that 12 episode pacing was good, it did feel fast. And I did feel some parts of the plot could have had a better explanation.

Also did anyone else notice how the running time got shorter and shorter as the series went by??

Back to review, the series itself is pretty good, and anyone can tell that the budget of the series was not as high as other kdramas that are also in the runtime. But they did well, they excel with what they were given with. I did wish certain scenes could have gotten better execution. Some scenes kinda fell flat, and those scenes made me skip or watch in 1.5x speed.

REGARDLESS of its flaws, I still liked watching this kdrama. Something to keep yourself entertained for sure.

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I’m actually so mad

I was going to give this drama 9/10 but not anymore.
The father not being punished or getting any sort of retribution but instead gets forgiven and even gets to have a relationship with her when he was as guilty as the mother and stepsister is so wild to me. So is this drama is telling us that because he didn’t know that she was his child, his behavior is excused. The level of disappointment I feel about this is beyond comprehension. He gets away with everything just like that. Gosh I really am so pissed.
Once again a man’s sin is trivialized while a woman’s sin is accentuated. It’s beyond ridiculous and I am not rewarding this BS.

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Revenge drama turned into soap opera

Another drama with a very strong start. At first I was hesitant whether the FL would be able to go from sweet to a strong lead to get her revenge but glad she did quite well.

The chemistry between was good but their screentime decreased and whenever they were shown they just talked about how they are there for each other and nothing more. Here I would say it was because the antagonists got a lot of screentime.

Its a very typical typical k-drama... like they were slapping each other and throwing drinks and all. The male lead`s family was something like I would expect to watch in a drama aired before 2015. And the female lead`s family simply came out of Cinderella`s story.

To be honest the revenge wasn`t satisfying at all and if you are following k-dramas from quite sometime I think you`ll be able to foresee almost all the twists.

Overall its better to watch the drama keeping in mind that its actually more like a melodrama rather than a revenge drama.

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Web drama vibes

Hmmmmmmm this gives me web drama vibes. And maybe they could do better. The acting is on top tho. The story is a little bit rush. the detail is not detail if you understand what i mean. i swear to god, they could've done soooooooooo much better. I'm a little bit upset.

And they do like, reverse relationship. Like wedding first, then wedding registration, and proposal (although he proposed with a flower ring before). Not a bad thing tho. I'm glad they show their daughter at the end of the episode.

and why don't her sister stay with her father tho? did i miss something

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Just A Typical RomCom

First things first, do NOT go into this show thinking this is anything resembling a revenge drama. It's not! No, I didn't see any trailers nor did I have any prior knowledge of this series before I watched it, so maybe it's my fault for assuming that. Either way, this is definitely nothing of the sort. It's a nice, cheesy, typical romantic comedy. Truly. As long as you watch it with that little tidbit in mind, you should be fine going into this story. (Also, I've decided that I'm actually going to remember the character names from now on to make these reviews more seamless.)

Now. The one thing I will say is that this was another show that I felt had amazing potential but it fell flat for me in some aspects. While I understand that expecting the female lead to hit us with a complete 180 was unrealistic to begin with, I still expected her to have more of a backbone than she did. After watching the first episode, you would be under the impression that she's going to be a tough, femme fatale getting back at her family and ensuring that she doesn't waste her life again. Wrong! You would be dead wrong if you allowed yourself to believe that? What's wrong with you? (I'm joking about that, friends. That was just a little bit of sarcasm.) But seriously, I fully expected Yi Joo to go toe-to-toe with her stepmother and stepsister and never miss a single step. In fact, I expected her to always be three, maybe four, steps ahead of literally everyone else. She has the advantage here! She's the only one (that we know of at this point) that has literally traveled back through time. She knows what most of her opponents and enemies don't know. So, why isn't she beating them at their own game? Why wasn't she able to do that?

Granted, I understand that she couldn't possibly be three steps ahead of her brother-in-law because he was running circles around his own family for years. She couldn't possibly beat him, but HER family? Yes, she should have been able to neutralize them very very early on in this show. She simply didn't, and I don't understand why the writers wrote it that way either. Which brings me to another issue I had - there were far too many players in this game. There were far too many moving parts in this machine and that bogged the show down tremendously. There was no reason for this show to have this many villains at once. Absolutely none. In my opinion, they should have picked one - if it was going to be Jung Wook, then let it be him. If it was going to be Yi Joo's family, then let it be them and only them. It didn't need to be both sides of the family causing a ruckus here.

Back to my original point though - there were times when Yi Joo allowed people to chew her out and she stood there and said nothing! When her pathetic ex-fiancé chewed her out in the bridal shop, I wanted to scream! Why are you letting him, of all people, chew you out and humiliate you in front of all of these people? Especially when YOU didn't do anything wrong. Se Hyeok only married you to get closer to your sister, who he was truly in love with. In knowing that, that man could NEVER raise his voice to me out of indignance. It wouldn't have happened. Yi Joo should have shut that down immediately! I understand her needing to get stronger to fight back against her stepmother, but that shouldn't apply to everyone else. Everyone else should be fair game. These people abused, isolated, alienated, and treated you like a stranger in your own home since you were a child. Where's your anger? Where's your fire? Where is it?! Your own father allowed his wife to do all of those things to you and he said nothing. Now that I'm thinking about it - maybe that makes more sense to the story. Maybe the reason Yi Joo didn't know how to stand up for herself is because her own biological father didn't know how to either. Like father, like daughter.

I have no notes on her husband. Do Guk was fine. I had no issues with him. I did, however, have some issues with his story though. Let me explain - yes, I know that he traveled through time like she did. However, there were some things he'd say that made no sense. He mentioned the fact that Yi Joo spoke casually to him first and that's why he felt so comfortable doing that when they met in the future. However, we NEVER saw anything like that. In fact, Yi Joo questioned whether he even knew her before she got married when they met in the current timeline (that's technically in the past, weirdly enough). So, when did they have this conversation? During the big reveal, that was something that was still left unexplained. They went back to the events of the first episode but not any further than that. I think the writers wanted to fully sell the idea that they knew each other but they failed at doing so. They wanted to create this intimacy that never actually existed between the two leads. The point is that the writers should have incorporated some scenes prior to the first episode that explained why Do Guk was so enamored with Yi Joo. Do Guk was in love with Yi Joo like Se Hyeok was in love with Yoo Ra. Which actually means that both of them were in love with a fantasy because neither of them knew these women enough to be in love with them. We all saw what happened when Se Hyeok finally saw the real Yoo Ra. It wasn't pretty! It simply worked out well for Do Guk when it didn't for Se Hyeok. Go figure!

All in all, I wouldn't rewatch it. It was okay. It was nothing absolutely amazing, but it's something to watch when you're bored and you don't want to watch anything too dark and heavy. This is a lighthearted show that makes no sense at all when you truly examine it, but that's fine.

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This was a wish fulfillment drama.

The story isn't all that compelling and it sure as hell isn't anything you haven't seen before EXCEPT for the fact that we came out the dugout winning and continued to. It was refreshing and entertaining to see our leads (especially our FL) fight back with as much venom as was thrown her way and not fail at every turn.

and after all the suffering that we've put ourselves through watching almost every FL get treated like a floor rag and being magnanimous in return, this drama provided us with the opportunity to watch and cheer one on as she got her pound of flesh back with impunity.

but even that lost its allure after a while and the feeling of satisfaction wasn't enough to carry such a basic script and subpar acting

(also, i truly believe that all the wardrobe funding went to the sister cause what were those outfits that man was in. he was dressed like someone's grandpa half the time and I 100% believe he'd never seen the inside of a fitting room)

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Hot, Handsome, Green Flag ML

Episode 1-2: The FL is pathetic, pushover, and naive. I understand where she's coming from though. She was a kind child who just want to have a family. She did her best to be loved but her adoptive family are all scumbag.

The introduction of ML and FLs love story is funny. Although she found her resolve, FL is still hesitant and weak. She is still not the villain she wants herself to be. That was the weirdest and one of the sweetest marriage proposal I have watched. Good chemistry. I like it!

Episode 3-6: Super frustrated with the FL.
I was waiting for explosive revenge acts but she just cries, appears super sad, and pushes the ML away every time. My only consolation is they did the deed on ep 6.

Final thoughts: Mother in law is slay. But my favorite character is the handsome ML. Green flag, hot, and my type. Lol. I rewatched it. I also read the manhwa but it was boring af. The drama is better.

One of the best endings I have seen so far.

Worth my time!

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Modern Fairytale

Menu= Synopsis/Concept ~(6)
Ingredients/Recipes= Script Writer ~(9)
Chef= Director ~(9)
Flavors/Taste= Actors/Performances ~(9)
Restaurant/Decor= Wardrobe Production-Value ~(7)
Waiter/Service= Editing/Pacing/Cinematography ~(9)

Starter/1st Act ~(9)
Main Course /2nd Act ~(9)
Dessert/3rd Act ~(10)

The concept was very simplistic and has been done before, but the script writer was given simple tasty ingredients and managed to flesh out a script that avoided to many cliches, and stuck with the simple straightforward theme. The script avoided the biggest mistake that plagues a lot of writers, trying to put an overly realistic spin on the story and trying to be different. The classic are that for a reason nothing wrong with “tried, true and tested”.

The director did a good job of staying out off his own way and let the story flow naturally.

The actors overall did a nice job and avoided overacting which generally plagues Makjangs, making this one of the few off this genre I can watch.

Sets where okay, no great emphasis on production value, the wardrobe was good with minimal emphasis on costume design, everyone’s wardrobe reflected their character, which showed that thought and planning went into them.
The product placement was not over the top and intrusive like you see a lot of the time.

Pacing was good and crisp, no lagging.

1st and 2nd act were smooth like freshly churned butter in french country side boulangerie. And thank goodness there were not crazy breakups in the 3rd and we got revenge served with a great heaping helping off the warm and fuzzies.

I’ve rewatched twice already, enough said.

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You will love to hate this? ;)

Actually no, you won’t hate this. :) It’s like the old-style kind of Kdramas, the kind I used to make fun of years ago lol.. It is quite additive watching this, so my suggestion is to binge- watch!

The storyline is pretty cliche, a typical revenge drama with a time travel twist. You have the evil stepmother and stepsister, and you will love to hate them. Somewhere in the middle your blood will start to boil watching each episode, but not to worry the good guys always win.

The chemistry between the main leads are pretty decent, and there is one really good kiss/ bed scene ;);) it’s a happy ending as well. So have a go at this and enjoy it :)

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NOT WORTH THE HYPE but watch and decide for yourself

Personally, I hated this drama. It came HIGHLY recommended to me and it fell so very flat and flopped so hard. Everyone was praising it like it was the best drama of 2023. Really?????? Not by a long shot when dramas like Destined with you, My Demon, Welcome to Samaldri, See you in my 19th life, Twinkling Watermelon etc exist.

Not going to lie, I watched this drama and I was hooked by the pilot episode. Despite usually avoiding Sung Hoon's dramas like the plague (MR ONE EXPRESSION), I really did like the main female lead and was willing to give the show a go. I feel like the first few episodes were semi-ok and piqued my interest but the acting of the Stepmother was so OVERDONE and CRINGE even for a makjang drama and then every single episode was torture to finish. Thankfully the drama is short so I pushed through it. The chemistry of the leads kept me going where the storyline was boring and predictable etc.

I guess I couldn't take the drama all that serious when they essentially did CONTROL COPY AND PASTE to the entire Love Ft Marriage Divorce cast into this drama. Seriously it was a joke.

It's a drama that I will never rewatch but it wasn't the worst kdrama that I've ever seen either. I just get really mad with people praising it like it was the bes thing ever. Watch and decide for yourself.

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