Dreamy

Ohh I don't think he likes her tho, at least not yet, pity maybe. Given by his condition, I think after witnessing how NJN life hasn't move forward ever since LHK dumped him, his own conscience doesn't allow him to just sit there doing nothing when he can help her to be a better writer as he sees her potential, that if NJN allow herself to actually put some effort & make some change needed as CJI hv suggest, so it's like he was stucked in the situation he wouldn't want to enter to begin with, but can't neglect his own conscience either. Going forward, he may develop more feelings towards her, but as for now, I think it's just like he said, from hate, awareness, pity, who knows what it might becomes later. He doesn't seem to be a guy who denied his own feelings, more of a blunt & straight forward person instead.

They do feel like two different drama with no correlation one and another.
The one with the less screentime I find interesting (I rarely encounter author-editor romance/dynamics & ML personality like Joo Ik's in other kdrama), while the one with the most screentime unfortunately feel bland with a pretty basic fantasy setup while trying too much to be overly dramatic when there's not enough built up to make it believable.
The main's interaction offscreen in their interview & bts scenes even I find more adorable, natural & interesting than them in the drama itself with those bizzare dialogues they had.

As much as I love SIG & PBY, their script for me are so lacklustre, the mains have 95%-90% screentime yet they fail to grab my attention & make me root for them.
Their dialogues are too staged & artificial so it felt too pretentious by having heavy dialogues with zero sense & overdramatic scenes when the leads are merely acquaintances.

However, I give them the props for writing an interesting & fresh SLs character & story, far better than the mains even with that very minimal, limited screentime/ appearances.

I like the fact that they make this as light as any romcom in their early ep should be, I think I like this one more than DAYS, at least they do not pretend to be something they are not by having heavy dialogues with zero sense & overdramatic scenes when the leads are merely acquaintances (love the SLs character & story there though, far better than the mains).

This one is a light & funny drama to watch as it shd be. Hopefully they won't go downhill & bring unnecessary thrope like the childhood thrope WWWSK has. Or, done it properly with a better built up if they're planning to do it.

So far (7ep in) S2 has been dissappointing for me, way more underwhelming with a lot of awkwardness & blank stares between the hosts & guests, unlike S1 where they did great with lively episodes while closeness & warm were shown between hosts & guests.
Hopefully we can get a better ep when YJG came to visit them as guest.

Btw, some of the better ep are the ones with Oh Na Ra & Kim Yoo Jung as guests

Autism?, I think they've mentioned it in the drama

LHK never went abroad, he lied to her to broke up with her just like he pretend to others being a wealthy fine ass man. Even if he did, you're being upset to the wrong person here. CJI might unintentionally gave him bad food that caused LHK fail his CSAT exam, but he never ask the dude to broke up with the girl right? Esp over some text, lol. Why being unintentionally giving bad food to another person make him a hypocrite person? lmao.
If there's one to blame for the break up then it's LHK himself for not being manly enough spill the tea to NJN & leave her hanging like that.
The way I see it, CJI is taking care the messed LHK did to NJN.

Wait what, Ding Yu Xi & Ren Min had another movie project together as main couple, how one could take them with opposite pairing in this movie then? They shd be reunited here, not seperated :(

Yep, 18ep already released, 8 ep a week, half way to go

Indeed, he just know his buddy too well & got him at the palm of his hand, lol

But her reason to fall for her first love LHK ain't feel that deep (because he smells like soap everytime?) X'D so I feel that NJN doesn't know the real meaning of love just yet & will learn and see it in a new light through CJI.
LHK had years & years to get & talk it through with her, he wasted his chance. He's adorable but I don't support him getting back to her, she need to move on from him :p

1. nope, it's the other way around, LHK broke up with NJN over the text, CJI see how messed up she is & kiss her because he pitied her
2. CJI I think felt the burden to help both love sick puppy NJN & LHK who can't seem to move on for years from their break up, esp NJN so she can move forward & lived to her potential, become a good writer
3. I don't feel or see it like that, at first CJI might be felt responsible in someway because he's somewhat ruined LHK CSAT exams (that tteok!), which later turned into see the way how LHK broke up with NJN, how messed up she was & still is, so he decide that he can't turn a blind eye any longer.

I love how cool & laidback Cha Joo Ik character is, savage yet effortless funny. I've watched many dramas but I don't remember ever seen this kind of ML. I want to see more of his scenes!

I think it's only just a matter of preferrable type of guys, haha, Zou Chan's character seems to be closer to Ryan's personality more, the way how talkative they are to say the least :)))
I'm actually appreciate how different his character on Intense Love who's rarely talk & very calm since it's harder to do opposite acting of ourselves, but I do think his character on Moonlight is a new take of ML roles as well.

I'd say yes, haha, it's worth the try to say the least. I'm totally engrossed with it since my country has similiar cases with the CIO (Corruption Investigation Unit) stuffs so it's interesting to see. That & I'm really rooting for the main couple to work together to kick some asses although given their background, there's some major things they need to do before it can actually happen.

People can be swoon over Myeol Mang or Lee Hyun Kyu, but to me Cha Joo Ik is the one any woman would look for if they're looking for a man to marry with/ husband goals. Calm, mature, protective, independent, know what he wants & how to achieve his goals while keeping his value :P
LHK is like your boyfriend/ man you're attracted to on highschool days
while CJI is like your ideal hubby figure :)))

True, haha, I like his character more on Intense Love because he's more my type who's calm & on the mature side so am swoon over left and right. Here, he's a dork & funny guy. Both lovable guys tho & it's Ryan Ding, I always hv a soft spot for him idk why, maybe because his sincere eyes, lol.
But I love the FL character & drama plot way more in Moonlight than Intense Love.

I think he knows it, he's just on denial, lol

Agree! Her voice bothered me too at first but as more ep goes, either she toned it down or me adapted to hers, I find it doesn't bother me anymore & yes her character is great :))

Hahaha yes it's so funny & realistic!! Esp coming from kdrama watchers like me, it's rare to see such scenes, I didn't see it coming, lmao