The concept of showing the coming-of-age emotional turmoil is far from being new but I liked the effort to choose the perspective of an introvert to tell the story and to do it well which is actually very rare in dramas.
I also surprisingly got hooked on the secondary story of the perfect-looking leader who's actually suffering from all the pressure and destroying himself and others behind close doors. Because here again the concept isn't new but the secondary cast did an amazing job.
But somewhere in the middle, the drama changed its timing and instead of giving enough space to school life, it focused on the romance and also modified JunWoo's personality a little.
So we got too much of a romance, which was sweet at the beginning but got bland very fast. And we got the cliche that introvert are just overall quiet people, which is true but once they open up, there's also much more to their personality and that part was lost here. So bland romance with bland characters.
And at the same time, they rushed the side story with the secondary characters which turned out to be much more interesting for me.
I still gave it an 8 for the beginning and the amazing performance of most of the cast.
Also please give Kim Do-Wan playing Sang hoon and Kim Sun Young playing the main girl's mom an award, they were unbelievably good.