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I have read many comments from people who said he recognized her but I think he did not. The name rang a bell for him but he was unable to put a face or a person on it. This is why he said no when the CEO Yoon Seon Hak asked him if he knows her.

He followed her to give a chance to his brain and memory to figure out who she is. When he sees them together at the foodtruck, it is not enough for him to be sure about who this woman is. Could be a part time worker or just an helpful hand.

When he meets grandma the next day, he never asks about Dal Mi. They never talk about her. Only the day when Grandma comes to his office. This is why he asks for her name again because actually he never made the link between Seo Dal Mi from the Lecture at Sandbox and Grandma's grand daughter. Only then he knows for sure the girl at the lecture is the girl of the letters.

He did not follow her in the present because he wanted to know how she was living. He absolutely did not recognize her at all so how could be curious about how an unknown person has been living? He never knew who she was until he sees Grandma with her and still this was not enough infos for him to be sure she is the girl he was writing to.

The connection was completely fake. You saying he shared what he felt later is a speculation. We see this nowhere. We never see him writing something personal (on the contrary). The letters were so fake and too mature her father knew straightaway it was the grand mother doing.

HJP never poured himself in these letters. If you watch ep1, when SDM goes to fetch a letter in the bird box, she is smiling and giggling and opens the letter immediately. He goes to fetch the letter, he exhale like he is pissed and doesn't even open the letter and walks. He even accused grandma of "luring him" into writing these "stupid" letters. I really don't understand people who want to sell this like a special connection between them. Or we are not watching the same drama.

HJP said it himself as an adult. He and grandma forged the letters and made the penfriend up. He denegated any individual responsibility on these letters and their consequences on Dal Mi. So how could these letters have be a real connextion between them? It was not.

Bai Lu is not a bad actress. She is a lot better than most chinese drama actresses. Her previous roles as strong woman like in The Legend, AMA , Lucky first Love or Love is Sweet were good. The problem here is the pairing and the writing.

When you have a tomboyish face and bratty heroine, you cannot give her a male partner who can't act to save his own life, has an haughty face and no other expression for a change. If you put Xu Kai in his stead, the drama already looks something else. No, the FL lead already looks a lot better with the SML with exactly the same behavior.

Regarding the writing, the dialoges are nothing special and can't be cute because the ML can't act cute. It looks weird when he does. They look
alike and they interact together like they are a gang of brother and sister.

This is a wrong choice of pairing.

HJP never followed her to see where she lives or to confirm if she is the SDM he was writing to... Because the writings only happened later. He was not following her. He was walking the head in his book and did not even notice the girl walking ahead. SDM was that girl and she sensed someone was behind her. So she turned back and said to him to stop following her because she was in a bad mood. She was not even sure he was following her. She just said it bluntly and ran. HJP was so dumbfounded by this bold girl. Later he arrived at Grandma's shop and saw her crying in the arms of Grandma, that same little girl who told him to stop following her. He knew nothing about her identity. Only in the evening Grandma told him she is her grand daughter and asked him join her in a sheme to invent a fake penfriend for her.

I don't understand why you put things like you did when it was clearly not what happened. It suggests they had a special connection in their childhood but they did not. The special connexion was between fake NDS and SDM.

HJP is not someone to easily express his feelings and to be affectionate. Hence his relation with grandma was not warm or family like (for me). She gave him a lot of goodness but he always cared more about his own path to success. The way he constantly refers to his "debt" underlines he cares to repay what he received because he doesn't want to be seen as someone who owes. He can't repay her with money so he would help her with her schemes. But Grandma doesn't care about repayment. She is just asking him a favor for the sake of her grand daughter and she would give him now as much as she gave him 15y ago if she could. HJP does not understand this and he never had a family so he hardly considers anyone like family. I think now, Grandma, SDM and SST will become his family. NDS is already his close brother.

IMO the love part is done in the right proportion. It is not the only focus. SDM is less chasing love than working on her professional success. She is a fighter. She will be disappointed but she will quickly get over the lying scheme and the letters and the fake ideal first Love.

1. For the joy of it and to see if it will trigger consequences because he is bored in his life. Probably also because he took a liking at teaching this way of enjoying life.
2. she ran away after she noticed her husband is not a good man but a complete psycho. She left the kids because she keow if she took them he would chase her until hell.

They made ep16 just for the ones who want happy ending. I liked the ending of Ep15 better.

The scene with the letters is not here to describe the feelings or emotional state of HJP. Nobody can tell if he is happy or not just because he has a little smile which could just mean he is amused by the innocence of the story in the Letter. On the contrary all the signals of his attitude towards Dal Mi directly with her or writing the letters are that he does not have any feelings for her.

NDS telling he can't relate to her story and to her and HJP saying he can relate to her does not mean he loves Dal Mi. It just means NDS is a logical down to earth person who cannot understand an eccentric person who would walk without purpose in the rain just to be drenched in water when she has an umbrella. Or who would feel the need to make a wish when she is just witnessing the optical process of the sunlight deflected by drops of water. It does mean HJP is in love with SDM and understands her. It just means NDS is a nerd who can't have an ounce of romanticism and understanding of figure of speech to grasp the real words and state of mind of the girl in the story.

The scene just says everyone with common sense and common knowledge of korean written language would relate to Dal Mi and her story. But not Do San because he is too much of a thick nerd. The kind to tell a girl if she says she is twice as thankful as him then they both are feeling the opposite of gratitude...or.. When does blood cells interact with brain cells to influence the personality? A logic which annoys HJP so much he tells him "What am I gonna do with you?"

HJP will probably develop some feelings for SDM but at this stage of the story I don't think it was ever the case.

I agree with your assessment of him, his personality and his situation back then. Grandma was so good to him, he should have asked her. Instead he packed his things and moved. She stopped him and he yelled at her and accused her. But again, I can understand why he behaved like that. I am just saying he did not do everything right. He made mistakes and wrongdoings but Grandma forgave him. I liked this "darker" part of him because it is what he evolves from.

It does not matter what he should have done. What matters is what he did. He took the money beause he thought it was his money. Again, I understand why even if I don't agree with it.

When she said her name during the lecture it triggered something. He had a hunch of something about her. But he was not sure. When CEO Yoon Seon Hak asked him if he knows her he said no. That means he did not recognize her for certain.

If he had, he would have remembered the letters, their content, her story and her sister In jae since she called her sister's name Seo In Jae during the lecture. He would have introduced himself to her formally as a friend of her Grandma to ask news about her. That's what normal persons would do in such circumstances.

The hunch he had made him stalk her to try to force his brain and his memory by looking at her. When he said "is she crazy?" It meant he has not recollected his memories yet and he does not know who she is. Maybe that woman was walking to her home, to meet a friend, to a part time job... He did not know... He was just trying to figure out what was this hunch and who is this girl?

He followed her and she led him to grandma. We can see on his face when he sees Grandma he absolutely did not expect to see her there. Furthermore, he promised Grandma not to find her. He respected that promise until now. Why would he follow Dal Mi to be able to meet Grandma? Truth is that evening, fate reunited him with Grandma. No with Dal Mi. She was like an unknown light to lead him to Grandma.

Dal Mi was never the important person for him. Grandma was. This is why the day Grandma asked for his help for his grand daughter he asked what was Dal Mi's name again. A name he heard a few days before. I am pretty sure if he poured his heart in these letters, he would not have forgotten her name after a few days.

When he was a struggling teenager, Ji Pyeong was too busy to really care for someone else. He did things mostly for himself. Now that he is an adult and a successful man, he will need to change his ways to find someone for him. Pretty sure he will and almost certain it won' t be Dal Mi.

No I am saying the money should be taken back by the bank as it is the result of unauthorized and invalid operations. As this is a drama, they just ignored the legal aspect to make it look like he made the money so it is his money. Let's say he got away with it.

As for Grandma she gave her affection to Ji Pyeong without waiting for a reward. That money should it be his or not, it is good she did not keep it.

In Ep2 Grandma asked him to find Nam Do San. He said it's impossible as they both made him up. She asked him to find the kid who won the Mathematical award. Because Dal Mi has been putting Nam Do San on a pedestal since then. Grandma said it is because of him Ji Pyung but he says it is because of them both. She wrote the letters with him and she started it and he said he only helped her.

Dal Mi's letters brought something to him. But why he would denegate his responsibility if he poured his heart in these letters. Why he would say he only helped he is not the cause of her delusion.

To say he had feeling for her or he was pouring his heart like there was connection between these two is not the reality. Dal Mi remembers almost everything about her Nam Do San but for Ji Pyeong she is a stranger. He can't even remember her name after she said it in the Lecture hall.

Ji Pyeong was never a very considerate person. He does not really care about the feelings of others. He does'nt express his own feelings and worse, he does not even know what they are. Probably he will keep being confused.

Accusing grandma of stealing his money was overboard, unkind, unfair and greedy from him. But it is understandable because he was young and a bit hot headed. As for the origin of that money and it's legality, I won't comment more on it.

So yes now he has a huge favor to return to her.

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He did not steal the money. He stole the facility to use an account which was not his to make money which he legally cannot claim as his.

If the bank or the broker or the Stock Market learns that the operations were done by him and not initiated and authorized by the official owner of the account (let's say the financial police using an AI determines that the authorizing signatures were faked and the transactions approved at a time the owner of the account could not have approuved them), it would be deemed invalid unauthorized operations leading to withdrawals, cancellation and compensation and the whole 70 millions revenue would be taken back or HJP could be sued to pay millions as compensation in court and sent to jail.

What Ji Pyeong did was illegal thus the money should never be his. But ok, let's say we are in a drama so he claiming that the money is his... we won't think too much about it.

She used to be muscular and a bit chubby. It is because she was rhythmic gymnastics athlete and a dancer. I was shocked when I saw her in this trailer. She is a complete different person physically compared to Legend of Awakening. Like she lost fat but also muscle.

I was a bit scared. Hope she is physically OK and well in her own body.

I don't want to put him in a false image, I am explaining to you how a bank account works.

If you put 10K USD on the account of your grandma, it becomes her money. You can go tell her: "grandma I am not giving you my money, you are lending me a place for my money in your account". That's your own little informal arrangement with your grandma. The bank and the Law don't care. It is her money for them. If your Grandma runaway with the money, you have no legal means to claim these 10K USD as yours. It's over.

If you use these 10K USD which are legally hers to make investments behind her back, the money made by the 10K USD are never legally yours either. Any sharing based on the percentage between the 10K USD and the other part belonging to your grandma is only an informal arrangement between you two if she wants it. That's never legally receivable. You can't go to the bank and say it's your part,the revenue of investment you made. It's not. What you did was just forgery and falsification of private business and banking documents including signatures and authorizations. That's prison for you if your grandma doesn't bail you out.

Han Ji Pyeong did that with the account of Grandma without her knowing it. So you acknowledged his wrongdoing. So you see it is not me who is trying to portray him in a bad light. He did it.

What you don't understand about this drama and this first ep is that Ji Pyeong was not only a good boy. No one is only good. Everyone has his bad side. And he was an angry orphan who threw away his prize sign or yelled at grandma. He would use his qualities and competences but also people and illegal means to find a way to college and to succeed. He was good by helping grandma with the letters. He was also bad by using her account behind her back. The reason people liked him so much in that 1eps is not because he was good or nice or gentle or perfect. He was not perfect. It was because he was just human with his good deeds and his mistakes that grandma forgave and she even gave him new shoes after all this.

I think you should pay more attention to the details and what they really mean in the description of the characters and their choices and their development. It would make the whole thing a lot more enjoyable for you. Instead of endorsing at once that the character is good or bad because you like the actor or because you find him/her cute and making trial of intent to people who do not side with your choice.

Thank you for the long discussion and for your commitment to explain your opinion.

Again, if you and your sister put both your money in an account open in her name. The transactions are made for her, in her name and she is the one to sign if sign off is required. She is the only one legally and financially bound.

If you do the transactions without her knowledge, it does not matter how much you invest, what percentage, what day, the bank and financial system do not make any difference between your part and her part. The bank and counterparts would not even care about your existence. Only the police will come see you for forgery of signatures if they discover you are behind the operations without the knowledge of your sister.

I brought Samsan tech and Dal Mi an Do San here to say tha Ji Pyeong is a much better man now because he can open himself to others and help them without an agenda of his own. It was not in way to portray him in a bad light.

Anyway I took good notice that although what I said was never against you, you made a trial of intent against me and my comment. lol. funny.

Legally it is her account so it is her money. The financial system does not differentiate what won in the account is his and what one is hers. The difference is in his mind only. And he used the money on it for financial transactions of the stock markets . Something he should not do without her knowledge and consent because in case of big loss or stock markets crash or investigations for money laundering or whatever, she is financially and legally bound. He did that behind her back so yes, he behaved wrongly.

Considering his situation and how things went, he can be excused but he was not a 100% good boy. Now and with the events with Samsan tech, Dal Mi , Do San... he is a real good boy.

Despite all the love she gave him, he still used her money without her consent. He misunderstood her and left her with nothing. He knew she gave her money to Dal Mi's father and she gave him his 70 millions. He took them and ran away. To be ungrateful is excusable for a young orphan who has to fight to survive. But not for an adult.

Only 15 years later, he understands the goodness of her heart and he regrets he was not there for her like she was here for him and she still wishes she had done better. Of course she made him promise not to find her if he was successful but as a grown up man, he should have felt the urge to go find her and help her and Dal Mi. Or even just to watch from afar and make sure she is alright. That makes his debt even bigger.

This is why he rushed to get back the mentor tee shirt. To help Dal Mi is aslo a way to repay his debt.