Eun Ji-ho

Love interest**Eun Ji-ho** is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Ji Jon Middle School and one of Dan-I's closet friends.

He is the so-called stuck-up rich guy archetype that Dan-I believes to be the male lead of the web novel world she now lives in.

## Appearance

Eun Ji-ho has silver hair and eyelashes, with dark greyish-brown (nearly black) eyes, and an elegant jawline and slightly pale complexion. He assumes a polite and elegant attitude so he often looks "angelic".

He dresses like a rich boy, that is, with his clothes always being well put together and distinguished looking.

## Personality

Although Ji-ho acts elegant and refined, in reality he is an asshole type. With his friends, his facade falls away and he becomes more casual. He swears, makes fun of and teases his friends, and has a sarcastic sense of humor.

However, Ji-ho is also perceptive and respectful as a person and a friend. He respects people's boundaries and watches over those he cares for from a distance. He is sensible and calm. Thus, he is not given to impulsive decisions, but when he is, he disregards rationality with emotion, and can break down at any second.

## History

Ji-ho is the heir of Haneul Group. He has always gone to school in a limousine, since elementary, so he is slightly sheltered. He is rich and owns a five-star hotel called Juno Hotel. He is also incredibly smart and often places first in school, when he isn't losing its place to Yeo-Ryeong or Chun-young.

## Relationships

### Woo Ju-in

Woo Ju-in is Ji-ho's childhood and closest friend. In middle-school, they would go to school together, giving a strong bond of friendship within each other.

### Ham Dan-I

Eun Ji-ho is one of Dan-I's closet confidants.

Ji-ho loves and cares for Ham Dan-i a lot, despite originally not liking her due to how she was openly fighting with Yeo-Ryeong (i.e. trying to ignore and avoid her) at the beginning of middle school. He assumed negative things about Dan-I. But when they became friends, thanks to Ju-in questioning his feelings, he becomes more close and casual with her and falls in love with her. Ji-ho often goes to Dan-I's house. Her parents love him and think he's a perfect gentleman; his mother even lets Ji-ho enter Dan-I's room to wake her up. He watches over Dan-I and is quietly perceptive of her feelings of anxiety. He often teases and jokes around with her.

In the second year of middle school, Ji-ho found out that he had serious feelings for Dan-I and tries to confess to her. But she refuses to believe that he would have any interest in her and thinks he was joking. He continues to have romantic feelings for her, but seeing how anxious she became after he confessed, he decides to take back his confession and he keeps it a secret.

In an incident where Dan-I was framed to have started a Yeo-Ryeong anti-cafe, Ji-ho and Ju-in played a big part in finding out who the real culprit was. In this arc, Ji-ho holds hands with Dan-i (which she deeply appreciated) and then hugs her as means to comfort her in front of her apartment's elevator, Dan-I took the hug as a joke and laughed at him when he said he would hold her for 10 seconds. Then Dan-I asked why he did so because it would be embarrassing if someone actually saw them, Ji-ho revealed that he could no longer hold back his feelings, but just before he could finish his words, the elevator door closed. Ji-ho then blushed so hard afterwards.

### Ban Yeo-Ryeong

Ji-ho and Yeo-Ryeong had a rivalry relationship from the very start. Even after they became friends, their friendship was characterized by constant arguments and snarking. However, despite it seeming like they are enemies, Ji-ho cares a lot about Yeo-Ryeong as a friend, and protects her from bullies.

**Yoo Chun-young**

Being in the same class for three consecutive years in middle school, and hanging out with the same group of friends, Ji-ho regarded Chunyoung as a good friend who he cares about. One day, when Ju-in found a USB that contains the files from Dan-I's old phone, he suggested to watch the videos that they took for a simple nostalgic trip. In the video, Ji-ho witnessed Chun-young looking at Dan-I with loving eyes, and immediately realized that he has feelings for Dan-I.

In the first school trip they went to as high-school students, Ji-ho called Chun-young out to talk about his feelings for Dan-I and told him that he should prepare his heart, as he would have to go through a lot of hardships with liking her. He also told his personal experience on how he confessed to her which she regarded as a joke. Ji-ho then tried to make a resolution that if the two of them (Dan-I and Chun-young) will end up together, he will forget about his feelings for Dan-I and move on.

**Kwon Eun-hyung**

Ji-ho views Eunhyung as the mom of the group, and a person that he actually respects. In fact, it is shown that Eunhyung scares him a bit, to the point where he named Eunhyung's contact number "Scary Eun-hyung".

**Lee Ru-da**

In Ji-ho's mind, Ru-da is a sneaky, detestable guy who pops out of nowhere into Dan-I's life who's goal is to flirt with her. Ji-ho realized that Ru-da also has feelings for Dan-I and is annoyed with the fact that Ru-da actually made bold moves at her, such as lending his shoulder when Dan-I dozed off, princess-carrying her in the school trip, and even when he kissed her cheek in front of all the first-year students. But he took comfort in the fact that Dan-I doesn't view the Kings and Lee Ru-da with romantic interest.

## Trivia

* Ji-ho likes to play video games.
* He got kidnapped as a child.