Jae-i (Our Walking Tragedy with a Spine of Steel):
🥀 "Am I the main character? Yes. Am I enjoying it? Absolutely not."
Jae-i was born with the worst luck imaginable. She’s the daughter of a nobleman, which should be a good thing - except her stepmother is a full-time villainess with a PhD in Making Her Life Miserable.
From a young age, she learned that being smart, kind, and strong only makes people want to break you more. Does she give in? Never. But does life let her win? Also never.
Her father barely acknowledges her, her stepmother sees her as an inconvenience at best and a punching bag at worst, and the men around her? Well, romance is not her strong suit.
The fact that she still gets out of bed every day is proof she’s stronger than all of us.
📝 Life Motto: "Pain builds character, right? …Right??"
⚠️ Warning Label: Approach with caution—she’s one bad day away from setting this entire household on fire.
Verdict: Zero luck. 100% main character energy. Someone get her a therapy scroll.
Hong Rang (The Beautiful Disaster with a Vengeance Agenda):
🔥 "I have one goal in life: revenge. Also, maybe love. Actually, no, definitely revenge. …Or maybe love?"
A face carved by the gods. A past written by demons. If Hong Rang had a LinkedIn profile, his skills would include:
✅ Lying like a pro
✅ Looking too good while plotting evil
✅ Collecting tragic backstories like they’re limited edition
He walks into a noble household with secrets, a plan, and a perfectly calculated smirk. But the universe has other ideas, and soon, his once-simple mission starts looking very complicated.
Beneath all the charm, though, is a man who has suffered too much, lost too much, and wants too much. That’s a dangerous combination, folks.
📝 Life Motto: "Fake it ‘til you make it. Or until everything explodes."
⚠️ Warning Label: Do not trust. Do not fall in love. Too late? Oops.
Mu-jin (The Devoted, The Overlooked)
💔 "If I just try a little harder, someone will finally love me, right?"
Poor, poor Mu-jin. He’s been fighting for scraps of affection his whole life. A noble’s stepson, sold by a poor father, but never truly accepted. A part of the family, but always treated like an outsider. If "pick me" energy existed in Joseon, he’d be the poster child.
He wants recognition. He wants love. He wants something that feels like belonging. And sometimes, when you want something too much, you start thinking very bad ideas are very good ones.
📝 Life Motto: "If I just give it my all, I’ll be happy… right? …Right??"
Lady Min (The Villainess Supreme):
☠️ "Why settle for ‘evil stepmother’ when you can be a full-fledged nightmare?"
Cold, cunning, and never wrong (in her own mind), Lady Min is the type of woman who’d burn a house down just to kill a mosquito. She doesn’t just manipulate - she thrives on it. She doesn’t just hate - she turns that hatred into an art form.
People fear her. People obey her. And if they don’t? Well, they won’t make that mistake twice.
Her husband? A nuisance. Her stepdaughter? A problem. Her son? Her greatest investment. And when it comes to her investments, Lady Min does not take losses lightly.
📝 Life Motto: "Love? Loyalty? Who needs that when you have POWER?"
⚠️ Warning Label: Cross her once, and you’ll regret it for life. Cross her twice? You won’t have a life left to regret.
Verdict: Rest in pieces. Or don’t. No one cares.
Yeol-guk (The Nobleman Who Thinks He’s Playing 4D Chess But Is Actually Losing at Checkers)
🧐 "I have everything under control." (He does not.)
If bad life choices were a sport, Yeol-guk would have gold medals. This man is a walking contradiction. He knows his wife is evil, but he stays. He knows his daughter is suffering, but he does nothing. He knows things are falling apart, but he just watches like a scholar observing a natural disaster.
(Sir, please. This is not a philosophy lesson. DO SOMETHING.)
Every move he makes feels calculated, but somehow, he never sees the consequences coming. If he had just made one or two better choices, maybe - just maybe - none of this would have happened. (But then we wouldn’t have a story, so… thanks, I guess?)
📝 Life Motto: "Everything I do is for a reason." (That reason is usually stupid.)
⚠️ Warning Label: May accidentally destroy everything while trying to keep it together.
Song-wol (The Gisaeng With a PhD in Revenge):
💋 "They took everything from me. Now, I take everything from them."
Some people forgive and forget. Song-wol remembers and retaliates. Once, she had love, a home, and dreams. Then someone decided that was too much happiness for one woman to have. Now? Song-wol is playing a long, patient, beautiful game of revenge.
She’s graceful, charming, and deadly smart - a woman who smiles sweetly while deciding which of your weaknesses she’ll exploit first. But deep down, beneath all that cold calculation, there’s still a woman who once loved, who once trusted, who once believed. (Tragic? Absolutely. Beautiful? Of course.)
📝 Life Motto: "I will survive. I will thrive. And you will suffer."
⚠️ Warning Label: Thinks five steps ahead. If she’s smiling, you’re already losing.
Prince Hanpyeong (The Royal Psycho)
👑 "I’m not a sadist. I just… enjoy watching people suffer. Is that so wrong?"
Listen. There are bad people, and then there’s Prince Hanpyeong. He’s what happens when you mix unchecked power, a warped sense of humor, and an utter lack of morals. A prince who treats people like toys, playing with them until they break.
Why does he do what he does? Because he can.
📝 Life Motto: "Pain is temporary. Power is forever."
⚠️ Warning Label: Are you a minor pale-skinned boy? Avoid at all costs. No, seriously. Run.
The Nanny (A Woman With ONE JOB… and She Messed It Up)
🫣 "Look, I panicked, okay?"
She was supposed to watch the kid. That’s it. That was the only requirement. But the second things went south, she made one decision - and somehow, that one decision ruined at least seven lives.
Did she mean for things to get this bad? No. Did it still happen? Oh, absolutely. And the worst part? She has to live with the secret, watching disaster unfold, knowing she played a part in it.
📝 Life Motto: "Mistakes were made."
⚠️ Warning Label: Literally just one bad decision away from being a villain.
