Character Arc
Park Mi-jeong is the woman the title calls a witch. Since childhood, the boys and men who fall for her have met sudden, gruesome ends or terrible injuries, and a lifetime of these coincidences has convinced her hometown, and eventually Mi-jeong herself, that she is cursed. By the time the story begins she works quietly as a translator, fluent in English and largely cut off from the world, choosing loneliness over the guilt of seeing one more person hurt because of her.
Her arc is the slow, frightened thawing of someone who desperately wants connection but has been taught that wanting it is lethal. When Lee Dong-jin reenters her life insisting the deaths are coincidence rather than curse, Mi-jeong is pulled between the protective instinct to push him away and the buried longing to be seen and remembered as a person rather than a superstition. Roh Jeong-eui plays her with a wary stillness that cracks open in flashes of hope and dread.
As the mystery deepens, Mi-jeong must confront whether her belief in the curse is self-protection or self-imprisonment, and what she is willing to risk for love. The drama keeps her motives and the true nature of the misfortune ambiguous, letting her stand at the center of its question about science versus the supernatural, with her own heart as the highest stake.