Dreamy

I just find it better if ppl doesn't try to jump the gun to throw some shades on others, there're two tales of coins & people may think differently. It's better to discuss & talk about the characters, story, anything else than the ship wars, imo.
The discussion is already active as it is.

I stan for HJP, even if the role reversed, I'll love HJP more, there's just some of NDS traits that I dislike, regardless which actor playing it, it will be no different. KSH is my new find fav actor though, glad I discover him here when I start watching this for NJH, lol

So far from what I gathered & read here, none being toxic, they discuss & analyze the plot, so idk why would you have to put it here that way & put words into my mouth as well, but I guess you're just being you, thus, sure if you think "so"

Oh my it's ridiculous, may I know where did you get the information from?

And some of NDS shippers are not? Lol *nod nod, sure if you think "so"

Lol, no one force NDS, HJP just made an offer to NDS which NDS took & it shd be a 1 time deal only for that night & the lie shd have ended that night with NDS saying he has a GF if it's according to HJP plan. But NDS decide it himself that he want to prolong the lies & make the lie bigger as they have become rightnow because NDS smitten by DM & want to get a chance to get DM's heart.

No one blaming NDS for falling for DM. If only he's trying to get DM's heart by his very own background.

The thing is, he is just so blindedly "in love" with DM & shameless enough to keep pursuing her using someone else's background & even being so petty to this person whose background he use for his own advantage & not even give a fair competition & so eager to throw HJP out of the picture & block his way to DM.
*cough that childish exclusive beach date *cough plan b, & many more.

Falling for DM is ruining his own personality, he lost his integrity, he lost his personality, his goals & dream, all of it has turn become just Dalmi & Dalmi only.

Thus people find him not a ML material people would look for a ML to be root with the FL.

Aren't we all are :")

HJP has a better chemistry with DM than her with NDS.
Them talk > Them kissing

HJP can't expose himself if he want to keep DM's dignity, pride & hope, remember her lie to WIJ? WIJ know his identity, that's why HJP had to look for NDS, for DM's sake

The letter may all start from grandma, but it doesn't mean that it's not his, he could pour his heart in it too, especially when he wrote that letters alone for more than 1 years, it's just he has an abandonment issue so he's afraid to let people in to his heart & was in denial all this long.

Ji Pyeong fell ill, Dal Mi sense it from hearing his voice, she bought him an abalone porridge & came to his apartment, she can't reach him though, so she hung the porridge on his door. JP came running outside with his barefoot (but I think he missed her :'()

She also thank Ji Pyung for his help on Demo Day. (Or it's the otherway around, JP compliment her work on Demo day, kinda unclear as the sender was cropped).

*know this from the text message DM sent to JP on ep 11 preview

Scene to look forward on ep 11 for MIJI shippers
(Spoilers below)

Taken from ep 11 preview

This is possible, especially if you read twitter's link feed @Raraa post on the below, HJP is actually our first lead after all thus Start Up story was started from him & narrates by Yong Shil, lol.
Regardless it's true or not, the twitter link's feeds are so interesting, well observant & so beautiful to read.

Waahhhh thank you so much for sharing!!! It's such an interesting read, so well observant. If it's true then the writing is deeper than we thought, reminds me of Encounter & HDL where behind every scenes there's a hidden meaning lays inside.

True, do we really give too much credits to them? But if not, why else would they bother to ruin their very own main lead's character like this?
The thing is, it's not that a dorky, nerd & naive ML is unpopular for viewers, because actually that kind of ML is even more of my type. I also won't came up as disliking NDS character if he have a more well reserved attitude & not salty (petty?) while unfair & use HJP background to his advantage the most like he did. Now his character only left me a bitter taste. She could just write NDS character to be more symphatetic, but she did not.

For instance if they write it like Taek & Jung Hwan from Reply 1988, the competition between the main & second lead are great, fair & not full with pettiness like this.

Here, they even highlight how NDS is that "petty" & so eager to win an upper hand from HJP with that childish exclusive beach date & that "plan B". Like, how are we supposed to react or feel if they show his character like that? Root for him? How?

So I don't get why the writer intentionally make a very complex, layered, mature second lead character with depth & had the most tragic backstory, while written a weak main lead character with no integrity complete with childishness, only to make the main lead triumph over the second ML later & let the most well written character here suffers for nothing?

I'm really confuse here, unless the writer purposely written their character like that because she intend to throw her uno reverse card on us later at the end *cough 2nd lead gets the girl *cough, or FL end up with no one *cough

Because with a writing like this, I find them stupid if they didn't acknowledge it already before hand that the 2nd lead will stole viewers heart the most.
And looking at the writer's previous work, well, she doesn't look anywhere near stupid.

And if you think I'm bias, then let me tell you something, many people start this drama for NJH (I'm one of them) only to discover KSH & rooting for HJP instead.
NJH is doing a great job portraying his character well, but the writing is veryyyyy unfavoring for him.
So I clearly don't get why the writer intentionally expose the weakness of her main lead character like this if they want us viewers to root for him, which I never would given how they had made his character into.

He is not a pure nerd, he is an opportunist nerd. And even IF like you said most guy would do such length (I pity them, really), then it means people shd normalize it & be proud of it.
He lacks integrity & even if many people chose the same way like he did (which I doubt), it doesn't change the fact that what he did is wrong & you can't blame people who judge him for that.
A realistic approach is one thing, for instance to show how there's alot criminals action in cities, BUT to normalize a wrong action is a total different thing, for instance to show how stealing is okay manipulating is okay because many people apparently do that. Notice the difference?

Apparently his world revolves around Dalmi & Dalmi only, his ambition, his dream, his target,his personality, everything is non existent & all replace by Dalmi. Seriously, he's too clingy, overbearing, lacks integrity & spiteful for a supposed to be ML we shd root for. No matter how I love NJH (starting this drama for him but discover KSH instead), I can't root for NDS!

True, he is too clingy & lacks integrity. I find him too overbearing & suffocating.

Says yourself while looking at the mirror :P

If you see their chemistry, that's fine, lol, no need to be butthurt.

They can give all those slowmo, beautiful sunset & romance theme to NDS-SDM all they want, but I'm sorry it's a fake out chemistry, real chemistry doesn't need those kind of scenes to help them emphasize it more how they had chemistry.
Real chemistry can be shown at the smallest little things, like HJP-SDM moment even when it's very minimal.
That minimal scene even give a bigger impact than every NDS-DM scenes compile together.

Everytime HJP-SDM locked eyes: my heart flutters

While

Seeing NDS-SDM literally making out on screen: I feel nothing

That's what I called Chemistry