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My Happy Ending: Season 1

16 episodes Premiered Dec 30, 2023 Updated Oct 28, 2026

Role: Meticulous television and film archivist. Task: Produce a JSON object with overview and primer. Constraints: Use ONLY provided synopsis and sources. No invented titles, names, dates, counts, awards, etc. overview: Factual 160-220 word summary of the season's narrative arc. primer: Array of exactly 4 concise bullet points summarizing essential previous lore, character positions, and stakes. Style: Original, neut

Season overview

Role: Meticulous television and film archivist.
Task: Produce a JSON object with overview and primer.
Constraints:
Use ONLY provided synopsis and sources.
No invented titles, names, dates, counts, awards, etc.
overview: Factual 160-220 word summary of the season's narrative arc.
primer: Array of exactly 4 concise bullet points summarizing essential previous lore, character positions, and stakes.
Style: Original, neutral, encyclopedic prose, plain text.
Format: Valid JSON only, no markdown, no asterisks, no headings, no bullet points (within the text, though the primer is an array).
Output: Valid JSON only.
Title: My Happy Ending (Korean: 나의 해피엔드)
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Psychological.
Cast: Jang Na-ra, Son Ho-jun, So Yi-hyun, Lee Ki-taek, Kim Hong-pa, Park Ho-san.
Aired: Dec 30, 2023 - Feb 25, 2024 (TV Chosun).
Episodes: 16.
Protagonist: Seo Jae-won.
Seo Jae-won's background: Suffered an unfortunate childhood; became an ambitious and driven CEO chasing success.
Seo Jae-won's status: CEO of a successful furniture company; social media influencer with over a million followers.
Seo Jae-won's husband: Heo Soon-young.
Heo Soon-young's details: Warm-hearted, hardly ever bursts out in anger, prioritizes family above everything else, is a designer and college professor.
Family: They have a lovely child.
Other characters: Yoon Teo (designer scouted by Jae-won to be general manager of design at her company).
Narrative arc/Conflict: Jae-won's obsession gets out of hand; she tries to escape from her unhealthy desires, but her husband gets swept up in the process.
Drafting Overview (Goal: 160-220 words):
Seo Jae-won is the ambitious and driven CEO of a successful furniture company and a social media influencer with over a million followers. Having suffered an unfortunate childhood, she has built a life that appears near perfect, including a marriage to Heo Soon-young and a lovely child. Soon-young is a warm-hearted designer and college professor who prioritizes

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Dec 30, 2023 · 65 min

Due to the release of a new product, Jae-won stays in the office by herself till late at night when her longtime stalker barges into the office, trying to attack her. Later, Jae-wo

S1·E2 Core

Episode 2

Dec 31, 2023 · 66 min

Jae-won wakes up at the hospital after the incident. Because her company is launching a new product soon and she doesn’t know who the attacker is, she decides to let it go for now.

S1·E3 Core

Episode 3

Jan 6, 2024 · 64 min

Teo tells Yoon-jin that he saw her with Soon-young and that she should stop developing the relationship further. Jae-won finds out that her dad used the insurance proceeds to pay o

S1·E4 Core

Episode 4

Jan 7, 2024 · 63 min

Teo goes to confront the stalker who attacked Jae-won. But before Teo meets him, the stalker gets in an accident and becomes unconscious. Teo tries to find out who is behind the st

S1·E5 Core

Episode 5

Jan 13, 2024 · 69 min

Soon-young admits to dating Yoon-jin, and he asks for a divorce. He demands the custody of A-rin, but Jae-won refuses. Jae-won finds out that Yoon-jin has been picking A-rin up fro

S1·E6 Core

Episode 6

Jan 14, 2024 · 65 min

Jae-won decides to get a divorce, but she can’t give up the custody. However, Soon-young is most likely to take the custody because he spent more time with A-rin. To turn the table

S1·E7 Core

Episode 7

Jan 20, 2024 · 73 min

Soon-young recalls the day he got an email that revealed A-rin is not his biological daughter. After Jae-won realizes the reason behind Soon-young’s affair, she apologizes, but he

S1·E8 Core

Episode 8

Jan 21, 2024 · 67 min

Jae-won acts like a different person as if she had forgotten everything. Yoon-jin tries to make use of the situation, but Soon-young tells her to stay away from Jae-won. Soon-young

S1·E9 Core

Episode 9

Jan 27, 2024 · 65 min

Jae-won’s father learns from Yoon-jin that Soon-young cheated on Jae-won. Outraged, he demands to know what Soon-young plans to do with Jae-won, and they both decide to keep Jae-wo

S1·E10 Core

Episode 10

Jan 28, 2024 · 65 min

Jae-won is accused of killing Soon-young and gets arrested. Circumstantial evidence points to Jae-won as the killer, but the police can’t find the crucial evidence to indict her. S

S1·E11 Core

Episode 11

Feb 3, 2024 · 62 min

Jae-won and her father decide to send A-rin to America for her safety. Jae-won gets released from the mental institute and starts collecting evidence to prove who truly killed Soon

S1·E12 Core

Episode 12

Feb 4, 2024 · 61 min

Jae-won is discharged, and she starts to put her plan into action. She visits Dereve and tells Yoon-jin that she will eventually get to her. Detective Oh Soo-jin looks into Soon-yo

S1·E13 Mytharc

Episode 13

Feb 17, 2024 · 63 min

Kwon Young-ik tries to kill Jae-won with a pesticide, just like he did with Soon-young. Teo comes to the rescue, and Jae-won barely manages to survive. At the parliamentary inspect

S1·E14 Core

Episode 14

Feb 18, 2024 · 64 min

Yoon-jin finds Seung-kyu who has been hiding from her. She fails to persuade him to side with her, and she kills him without hesitation. She frames his murder to Tae-ju, and Tae-ju

S1·E15 Mytharc

Episode 15

Feb 24, 2024 · 70 min

Yoon-jin decides to get rid of Nam Tae-ju so he won’t be able to reveal the last card he has on her. However, her plan fails, and Nam Tae-ju appears in court to take the witness st

S1·E16 Mytharc

Episode 16

Feb 25, 2024 · 67 min

Yoon-jin takes A-rin, and everyone looks for them. Jae-won finds A-rin safe at home, and she asks her father to live with them together. A year later, Jae-won works as a freelance

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