Nayeon doesn’t know what love is.

By rom-com protocol, the nerdy outcast girl is supposed to be a “dignified headstrong individual” and as the movie goes on, the football jock who is supposed to be leagues away from her reach falls for her nonchalance and care-free attitude. That, or, the nerdy outcast girl is a bumbling and shy mess that the out-of-her-league football jock initially laughs with his friends at. But however, he ends up falling for because of her scattered-brain and timidness all thanks to the fate of a forced partnered group project. (Extra rom-com points if the footballer is a secret theater geek and they’re paired to play Romeo and Juliet by random draw.)

According to the rom-com checklist, Nayeon has got the “bumbling and shy mess nerdy outcast girl” thing down. Check.

But here’s the thing. Boys reek of desperation for validity and hurt man-pride and even then, boys just weren’t her type even if they didn’t stink of Axe. “Being straight”. Unchecked, and will never be checked if girls existed.