I'm not very creative, so I'll just pick Lee Mi-sook and Jung Ryeo-won for the mother and daughter-in-law duo. This time, Junho would play the future husband. And I want Choi Moo-sung to be the uncle. Lee Mi-sook and Choi Moo-sung give off different vibes, so that kind of makes sense they didn't end up together, and it would be interesting to see how/if the traveling back in time would make it work.

That’s so funny I read it and immediately thought of the ridiculously funny drama within a drama on Search: WWW! Didn’t the son in law on that marry his mother in law, who had had surgery to fool him?

MIL - Kim Hee-ae
DIL - Kim Sejeong
Uncle - Cha Seung-won

Roh Yoon-Seo falls for her biology tutor Chae Jong-Hyeop. Instead of hitting the books, they hit the mattress resulting in an unwanted pregnancy. Chae’s mother, Lee Yu-ri is crazy. She lives like a hermit with a nasty temper. She is against Roh ruining her son’s life. She is totally against all forms of marriage and their relationship because she was betrayed by her past boyfriend who promised to marry her despite her flaws (and their pregnancy) but never came back from the military service for her. Roh and Lee fight - - causing Roh to fall down stairs. She is taken to the hospital where she dies from internal bleeding. Lee is arrested for manslaughter.

Roh goes back into time as Kim Ji-Yu. She wakes up during the Lunar New Year. At the family reunion, a distant uncle has returned from the United States as an Army Captain Yeon Jeong-Hun. She recognizes him from an old picture in Lee’s house. Roh takes Uncle around Lee’s neighborhood in order to force a reunion but she only meets Chae who is cold and mean to her since she is just a pushy child. The more Roh attempts to push Uncle on livid Lee, the Chae becomes more enamored with the sweet girl-next-door, Lee Song-Yi, who is the opposite of his bitchy & bitter mother. Roh plans to send Lee her favorite dish, Jajangmyeon, with a love note she made for her Uncle. Lee chokes on the engagement ring hidden in the noodles, but has a cupid bolt moment to forgive Uncle and tries to seduce him. He is dumbfounded and repulsed by Lee’s sudden change in behavior. Roh joins forces with Lee to get Uncle to change his view, which leads Chae to yell at Roh that he does not want to have his father back when he abandoned them. Chae vows he would never marry anyone, leaving his girlfriend, who overhears their argument, in tears. They break up and Chae becomes as bitter and distance as his mother had been. Roh realizes too late that her actions have fundamentally changed the personalities of those around her detriment. She realizes that she has repeated the past she tried to change when Chae joins the military vowing never to see her again.

KIM HYE SOO as the MIL-from-hell. She'd knock this role out of the ballpark for sure!

CHO YI HYUN as the FL, extending her match-making prowess to this drama. Imagine her teeny-tiny self making faces and talking behind the super charismatic MIL.

YU HAE JIN as the uncle, because there's a huge chunk of meta and I'd love to see his chemistry with KHS!

Does this involve contracting ToD to take out the father-in-law first?
If so, this is super dark and I'm on board already.

Cast aways are really fun these days 🙂.

My casting suggestions are totally based on previous chemistries that I enjoyed. The MIL should be the star of the show instead of the DIL, right? In that case, I'd like to propose Kim Mee-kyung as our MIL. She is the veteran actress who DESERVES her own show! Also, I think it is not necessary to cast a leading actress as DIL 🤔. If we focus just on the comic chemistry, Jung Woon-sun who played her elder daughter in Forecasting Love and Weather. They were a crack in that show 😆. Let's let her be the DIL this time!

My suggestion for our uncle to be paired with Kim Mee-kyung is again based on a previous story, where this fellow's one-sided crush was sadly never fulfilled. Yes,I'm talking about Jo Han-chul from Healer. To go-off on a tangent, he reminds me of John Cho (or I must have prosopagnosia 😅), and watching his bitter-sweet crushing on Kim Mee-kyung in Healer further reminded me of John Cho in Selfie 🤭.

As for the husband... let's reveal him in the cameo. The scene is like this: the MIL and our uncle are in a restaurant, eagerly waiting for the reveal (the DIL has confided in her about "the future she has avoided", and now she wants to see whether she really missed something or not 🤭, and drags her current beau, who is a totally pliable, chummy, crazy-for-her dude, along! 😆). They are fake arguing about whether the dreaded encounter is worth it, just then the door opens... Kim Mee-kyung's mouth pops open... our hero is surrounded by a halo of strong backlighting... the halo slowly makes way for a reveal... he's a hottie! Kim Mee-kyung is entranced, and her beau cuts a sorry figure looking at HIS FACE and HER REACTION 😆... but, only for a second... until, the waiter walks in and spills coffee on the hottie... and he hurls abuses at the poor guy... and Kim Mee-kyung is quickly disenchanted, curses the hottie under her breath, counts her blessings and looks lovingly at her her now smiling beau! ________________________ Fade out, LOL (Suggest the hottie. I don't know why, but only Heo Jung-do pops up in my mind. Because, hotties can be cracks too 😆).