I hesitated to watch this drama because I thought it would be just another dumb high school drama ft a weird concept of a weird app, but once I got into it, I actually liked it and found myself unable to stop watching it.

Kim Jo Jo is your typical hardworking female lead, shy and smart that attracts the popular guy because she does not act like everyone else does around him. She works hard to pay the debt that her parents left to her aunt, but she lives in constant harassment from that aunt and her cousin. She has so many problems but sticks to her moral, so Hwang Sun Oh is immediately attracted to her and the way she looks at him.

Hwang Sun Oh is not your typical chaebol, though. He's definitely the rich, handsome boy who recently transferred from the US (any similarity between Cha Eun Sang and Kim Tan from Heirs is pure coincidence). Except that he's not rude or jerk or arrogant. Sun Oh is surprisingly humble, thoughtful and warm. I expected the typical jerk chaebol but I'm glad he was not. He was a genuine boy who happened to fall for his caring best friend's crush. (Wrong!)

Lee Hye Young. The shy friend of the rich guy who lives under his house because his mother is the housemaid. A selfless, shy guy who values his best friend more than anything in the world and falls in love for the girl who seems different and keeps many secrets.

I personally loved Kim Jo Jo and Hwang Sun Oh's chemistry. They were genuinely in love with each other, they cared for the other and were always there whenever one felt lonely or hopeless. They were all over each other, overcoming different challenges at school and learning more and more from the other. At this point, having finished the drama, I still don't understand why they broke up. I guess Jo Jo suddenly felt overwhelmed by having a boyfriend who actually cared about her and would do anything for her, and thought that she didn't want to be left behind eventually with these big feelings, so she cut him off her life and ghosted him. Wrong way, girl.

I don't know how people can say that Hye Young and Jo Jo should go together. I understand that's how the webtoon goes so far, but their relationship would be so awkward. Hye Young's confession in the school yard was NOT okay. He said he would be okay no matter how much she rejected him because that would mean romance to him? That's... So not okay. And comes from a terrible low level of self-love. He deserves to be with someone who gives back as much as he gives her.

Jo Jo and Sun Oh are in love after being apart for 4 years, they still remember the other with good feelings, despite the way Sun Oh is pissed off at her (for good reason). So I really hope they twist the ending and make them end together.

Also, I read that Hye Young deserves her more because he doesn't give much importance to Love Alarm and that he would love Jo Jo "in the old way" but that's such a lie. Hye Young also wanted to hit her alarm and wanted to know how it would feel if his alarm went off. It's not like he didn't give it relevance.

Anyway, this drama has a weird premise but an entertaining development, I watched it in one go, actually, so it's also quite addictive as the main leads are all over the other. I'd recommend to watch it and wait together for season 2.