I expected a lot from this drama because in the beginning I felt so excited and felt like it was going to sweep all awards away! But NO!

There was a beautiful back story, the direction and acting in the first few episodes were so touching that it connected with the audience really fast! It is OVERHYPED! Like a gift box which is beautifully wrapped but hollow inside!!

An orphan boy, an ambitious girl, a kind grand mother, letters, the geek and his friends all were likeable and story was at its best until episode 9-10!

What went wrong? I will only talk about characters!

DALMI : Sassy, ambitious, outspoken, bold girl became a dumb robot! She doesn't have a voice of her own, can't take decisions of her own! Leads on the second male lead for 3 years. Takes best advantage of him to climb up the ladder! And she doesn't need explanations to anything! Her bf lies to her left to right. She is OKAY with it! She only has her grand ma who is getting blinded. She is ready to leave her alone and go to San Francisco for her job! Not a single second thought! Her bf is violent, manipulative, has no integrity, and she is completely OKAY with that too! In fact she is digging her own grave in the drama itself! A very bad example for the young generation! I saw young suzy fans glorifying her as the best character in the drama! IMAGINE THE DAMAGE THE WRITER HAS DONE! She literally poisoned the young minds! Dalmi is a very dangerous example for youth because she just doesn't think and act! This is the era of reason! People are smart! Young girls should especially be upfront and inspiring! THE WRITER GLORIFIES a flawed woman and what a waste of her effort! The actress plaing Dalmi gives ambiguous expressions and we can't read her face! We don't know if she is in love or sorrow or anything sometimes because of her blank expressions!

DOSAN : Extremely likeable, ambitious, kind character in the beginning! He was like a breath of fresh air which soon started smelling like trash! Yes he is very supportive to her gf. In fact she is her dream! NOW THAT IS A WRONG MORALE! He is an already lost character as his business is a failure! He lacks common sense about business which in the beginning is funny and adorable! Soon his character starts to deteriorate! He is not honest! Has no integrity! Doesn't give the gf the space she needs! Manipulative! He takes advantage of others' stories from the beginning to the end! He leaves his mother on the road in the middle of nowhere that too in the night to go to the gf! Is it something to glorify? Ah! he love sthe girl so much that he even left his mother and came running to her! she loves her so much! ???? Is it the message to the young generation? This is very DANGEROUS because I have seen many young Nam Joo Hyuk fans glorifying the character! Best character in the story??? THE WRITER AND THE MAKERS will have to be responsible for the damage they have done!

Taking a cute, handsome popular actor to perform the male lead and justifying every bad thing he does is outright criminal and very socially irresponsible! They knew that he will be glorified, they knew the young gen will relate to him and think this guy is exemplary! But in order for TRP and popularity they betrayed their own conscience! At least they could have made him a little likeable and justify that he is the male lead! no it was shoved on our faces by a single line : "Dosan, you have changed" HOW PATHETIC!

HJP : The saving grace of the drama! He was blunt , spits out the truth, brutly honest when it comes to criticism, chivulrous, loving, caring and kind! Despite being an orphan, he is living a grand life but with no friends or familial love or any romantic love. The Good boy remains a good boy but he is so sacrificial that even in the end he says : " I am not the Dosan from the letters" to make Dalmi feel unburdened and to make her take her decision! (To which she responds OKAY! yes! no honest real discussion about the most important part of the play, even after the time skip and not even in the end!) He is pitted against the weakly written male lead in order to bring a change into the K drama Norm by the writer! And they also cast a brilliant actor with excellent looks! He even has micro expressions being a theatre actor for 12 years! He made the general audience fall for him easily with the nuances of his acting! and easily outshines all other actors including the Male and Female leads who actually are not very good actors! Now he is the exemplary character here for all the youth! BUT sadly the youth obsessed with their favourite actors refuse him as a character. I read a NJH- Suzy fan tweet which said , " Please uncle, don't disturb their kiss" !

So the age gap of five years between Dalmi and Dosan has been painted as a bad thing and the more mature character has been rejected by the youngsters! They idolize the weak and bad male and female leads!

And the writer and the producers are very careful not to give any space or promotion to the second lead around who the whole story revolves! They don't give him interviews, they don't put him in posters, even the only OST which was made for him as his point of view, carried the cover photo of Dosan-Dalmi! Makers purposefully stopped pushing him because they knew his popularity among the audience will over shadow the whole drama and the cast!

Other characters : don't have anything to do much in the drama! Their I said it! But they all acted well!

Overall it is a wasted potential! Now cry for the spilt milk!! The writer may have tried something new but it failed. Started with a bang and ended with a whimper!

I wish they had not glorified bad values! I wish they had written the story with a flow! I wish they had shown some character growth in the male and female leads! instead they deteriorated! I WILL NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRAMA TO ANYONE I KNOW!