The title might seem a little vague, but the model I'm working off of is Dream High. 

I've thought about it and I really just love how Suzy's character is a massive egotist and bitch towards nearly everybody, and Kim Soo Hyun's character is so sincere and affectionate towards her anyway. She tricks him into coming to the school and is generally overall pretty rude, but nevertheless he essentially risks everything for her, including his health/safety There's also a position reversal of her getting knocked down a peg and him being revealed to be a prodigy, but he still has that adoration for her he had since day one. I'm craving a drama with a similar dynamic, a guy just having almost pitiful amounts of puppy-dog love for a girl who is mostly unmoved until he finally wins her over with persistence.  Any dramas with similar vibes?  

(I also love that he was an unexpected ML- people thought she would end up with Taecyeon- but it never feels forced or strange because you can see how he worms his way into her heart. I'm also down for something similar to that, but I'm cautious about it because the second and third Reply dramas really let me down in that department and I can't go through that again lmao.)

Maybe you can give them a try:

  • Go Ahead : He has always loved her while she was clueless. She is basically being "rude" because she was hurting his feelings. Not intentionally though she wasn't aware of it until he decided to win her heart ^^.  She always took good care of him and loved him but as a brother at the beginning. Then when I said "rude", it's just the perception I have of it reflected on how he could have felt at that time. It's a family drama though, even if romance has a good part in this. She is not cold at all, just innocent and has no idea of what is going on in his head lol


  • Love Scenery : She is a top singer and he is a big fan of hers. He will try everything to become someone for her even if she is quite cold and insensitive at the beginning.

Search: WWW she's rude and he's talented and persistent. She's blunt and sharp, but not egotistical. 

Fighting Youth she's hyper high maintenance, older and richer. She thinks she's too good for him but slowly finds out they're just right for each other. 

Ab Ruk Online she's not very likeable this one. I think he was too good for her. 

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