My Second Husband - By Goeulwon (9.5/10)
It finally happened everybody! Pop the wine bottles! Somebody finally wrote a time travel yandere story correctly! Our protagonist is a rich and spoiled modern Cinderella, who falls to her death after her life spirals out of control. Now that she's 22 and single again what will she change? Who will she chose? Also, who is following her every move?
Eunha Lee.
You should hate her. Her mom is a fashion CEO. Her dad is a capable malewife. She modeled for her mother's company for many years. She married her first love, an unsuccessful actor with debt from his deadbeat father! Their relationship goes perfectly because she has money AND shockingly Taeyang is wildly talented. He's not just a boy toy. After a couple years he no longer needs Eunha Lee's generous support. He becomes a rich husband for a rich woman and they live happily...
Hey...
That's not Eunha Lee.
It's Yura. Another model who worked under Eunha's mother. Yura is the kind of woman who thinks spoiled little girls should suffer. Taeyang has been cold lately. After he got established enough to get acting jobs without her support...well...he was suddenly less affectionate. Then she finds out her famous husband is cheating. On the news. The national news.
By the way she finds out after her beloved parents die in a car crash. They gave her everything. Love. Support. She became a lawyer because she wanted to make them proud. She wanted to be strong and independent for them, and they died. She calls her husband for days and days. He doesn't respond, and she goes to the funeral alone...and that's when news of the affair breaks.
She asks for a divorce.
She is so wrecked, sad and tired that she stands on a staircase to cry. In public.
Her legs give out, and she dies at the age of 32. Divorced and a worldwide laughingstock. The boring lawyer wife that got abandoned and left behind for a prettier model. The doormat that let her actor husband use her until she wasn't needed.
When she wakes up she's 22 again, and she's not used to dealing with...being young. She thinks everybody is way too immature and overdramatic. Especially this Sena girl here. Sena is a petite cutie with an attitude problem. She's very pure. She doesn't like to sit next to people who smoke, because they're smelly. She wants to be a romantic and devoted girlfriend, and she wants the perfect guy.
She thinks her perfect guy is Sungwoo, the confirmed yandere in this story. Sena completely and utterly embarrasses herself. She says Eunha Lee must be leading Sungwoo on. He's soooo perfect, but she refuses to date him. Sena is willing to give him all of her love and time. She harasses Eunha...but it's really not scary. Sena is a young girl who is really bad at socializing. That's all. It's not that serious.
Sungwoo rejects her several times, and he says she has no chance.
He's been in love with Eunha Lee since he was 15 years old.
He's got grade A daddy issues and lots of money. Not cute clothing shop money. Dirty money. His family fights alot about cash and power too. Sungwoo was...weird. Violent. He lashed out at other kids, and his family covered it up with $$$.
Eunha Lee reached out to him, and he finally learned how to have fun like a real kid at 15.
He's grateful.
She is his hero.
Eunha Lee hates Taeyang now. Once a cheater always a cheater. She takes the chance God has given her, and she abandons her kind of boyfriend? The story starts when they're about to go on their first date. Eunha Lee is very aggressive. She flirted with Taeyang. She's the one that made him into a confident and famous actor.
She doesn't do that this time, and he quickly gives up on acting. He starts investing in stocks. He works two jobs. In one he is a waiter. In the other...
He becomes a janitor at Eunha Lee's law school. What a coincidence! Is he obsessed? Is he a stalker? Nope!
Taeyang went back too. Now that Eunha hates him he doesn't want to he famous. He wants a stable life with money. He uses information from the future to invest, and he works two jobs to save up even more. His dad abandoned him when debt piled up. Eunha, who was his wife, has no interest in him. She stands him up when their first date rolls around. She's rude, but he can't leave her alone.
He doesn't know if he still loves her.
Did he actually cheat on her?
Nope.
A...force has been watching over Eunha Lee. A very forceful and loving force. Someone that wants Eunha Lee and only Eunha Lee to always be happy no matter what, to the point of insanity. Eunha eventually notices the presence of this force. She uses her lawyer skills to figure out who it is.
She can't accept the truth.
Sungwoo also came back in time. He and Taeyang wished for the same thing when Eunha died. They wished for her to come back. A capricious God grants their wish, but now...the two men are at odds.
Sungwoo has always been nuts, but in his first life he felt inferior. Eunha Lee and Actor Taeyang were the perfect couple for many years. Eunha was so happy. He couldn’t ruin that. He kind of caused their marriage issues...by accident? Sungwoo is the dark force behind Eunha Lee in both of these timelines. In the first he quietly got rid of things and people in the way. She didn’t notice, because she was sheltered, but Taeyang did. Being married to Eunha was crazy stressful. One bad day could mean someone gets beat up.
Sungwoo literally tortures people who harass Eunha.
In the second timeline he tries to ruin Sena's life, just because she annoys Eunha for a while.
Things escalate.
Sungwoo entraps a thug. The thug is in debt. Sungwoo says the debt will vanish if he murders Taeyang. The thug is no killer. He's just a coward. That's the only reason why Taeyang survives. Sungwoo really wants to get rid of him. Only Taeyang knows how evil he is. He can't hold back around Taeyang. Taeyang had the married life he wanted for 10 years. Taeyang is the weak point in his mask. That crack proves Sungwoo isn't as perfect as he looks. He looks like a golden boy who was reformed by love and friendship.
He is a criminal.
He starts dating Eunha in the second timeline, and he doesn’t tell her he also came from the future. He starts to gaslight her, and the story continues to amp up.
What did Sungwoo do in the first timeline?
Is that thing THE thing that broke Taeyang, turning him into a cold husband that made Eunha feel unloved?
Will Eunha end up with either of them?
All three characters have changed. They are not their young selves, and they're jaded.
Sungwoo used to think he was unworthy of Eunha, but now he's convinced that he's the only one who deserves her.
Eunha Lee was a kind, smart, but naive princess. Now she can see who her real enemies are. Before, she thought Yura was her best friend.
Taeyang wanted to be a shining star, but now he's over that and he just wants money.
Where does love fit in here????
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If we DO ever get a Good Omens season 3 (and fingers crossed we will) then using the Second Coming as the narrative device to facilitate the final culmination of Good Omens' ideology and message is brilliant, actually.
Because the Second Coming IS NOT another Adam situation. And, contrary to the misconceptions I've seen, It IS NOT about Jesus being born again as a baby, etc, etc.
THE SECOND COMING. QUITE LITERALLY refers to THE LAST JUDGMENT.
As in. The SAME Last Judgment Michelangelo painted on the walls of the Sistine Chapel. As in - THE JUDGMENT of the Living and the Dead. THE LAST, FINAL, ETERNAL JUDGMENT.
It's the WHOLE thing Armageddon was leading towards. Book of Revelation speedrun: the world ends, everyone dies, and then they get resurrected again to be judged by JESUS himself. He will flick through the Book of Life (WINK WINK WINK DO YOU SEE HOW LOUDLY I'M WINKING AT YOU???), and if your name is there he will go "oh nice you deserve eternal paradise! :D" and if your name is ERASED from the Book of Life he will go "oh no, sorry, you go to the lake of fire for eternity now D:" (except apparently in Good Omens lore it'd just DOOM YOU TO NON-EXISTENCE FOREVER???)
And if you THINK about it, The Last Judgment is the ultimate manifestation of moral absolutism. No shades of gray, no chances. Just BLACK, and WHITE. Never mind that you're like Wee Morag and Elspeth, who are forced to do "bad" things because of circumstances. It's either you pass Judgment Day, or you burn (or disappear forever.)
And the way THINGS are going in the Good Omens universe? I don't think there's ANYONE "good" enough to be "saved." Not Crowley, not Aziraphale. Hell, not even the Archangels themselves.
So it provides a PERFECT opportunity for Aziraphale and Crowley to UPEND that SYSTEM entirely.
I think that's what Crowley and Aziraphale would do in s3: establish a new kind of system in which angels and demons have free will to determine the right (or wrong) choice.
Giving them the APPLE, so to speak.
And then they'll go off to retire in a cottage, together at last.
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