Oh, I spent few hours reading this topic with lots of excitement and I think I should write something to share will all of MinShin couple fan. I am not at a young age and have 20 years watching k-drama but The Heirs is the only drama that I really hope the lead couple being romantically happy in real life. I have been always thinking that characters are not actors, love and feeling of characters are not of actors. Then I never hope a couple from screen turning out a couple in real life all out from their characters' feeling. But this time, with The Heirs, I really have a hope PSH and LMH has something of romantic happiness in real life and ending up with a happy marriage.
However, I think they should not date together right now when filming of the drama has just ended not long enough for their characters's feeling getting out of them true selves. They should wait until they will have stepped out of their characters completely in order for them to have feeling of themselves (LMH and PSH, not KT and CES) towards each other. Reading all of their interviews as well as watching their awarding SBS night and catch up their activity schedule, I am happy that they are behaving like they are in a way of considering carefully about their own selves rather than hurriedly run into each other. I remembered that I hated hearing the news of real dating of MinMin that I thought they didn't spending time to get out of characters, their date is from their characters rather than from their selves. If there is really feeling of LMH and PSH, I really wish that feeling is from themselves, not from KT or CES.
I read in an interview that LMH usually takes 1-2 months after the filming and airing of his drama ending to get out of his characters. This detail makes me love and admire him much because that means he really absorbs into his characters while filming and he also understands that he needs to be back his true self afterward. I think he is really an intense person who has intense thoughts. Then I believe that at this age of his, he has put serious thought about dating, loving someone.
PSH is a veteran actress who is not unfamiliar with love drama, especially she acted so much well in Stairway to Heaven and Tree of Heaven (by the way, to me, these two dramas and The Heirs are 3 best dramas of her acting). She has years and years acting so that may understand that love of her characters in her drama is not her love in real life. That's why the girl always denied any rumor of her dating with her co-stars. And we also see that she and they have no evidence of dating at all.
But there is something in The Heirs that I believe PSH-LMH has a feeling towards together. There are some scenes in which I don't think I am watching KT-CES but LMH-PSH (for example in the 19 ep scene KT surprised CES with a video of her at her ex-home, PSH turned around and gave LMH a kiss on his cheek.) Do you think that just a kiss of characters or of actors? During all filming, there is hardly a photo or selca of them together except when they are preparing and rehearsing for filming and BTS photos are only taken by the production team for planned purpose. What do you think? If they are friends like they are with their other co-stars in other dramas, they might have not taking selcas like others. Right after the filming, they separate in their own schedule and only meet again in the award night. Why? In my opinion, they are careful in controlling their feeling as well as not letting out any misunderstanding. Do they need much carefulness like that if they are merely friends. However all are my assumption.
In an interview, LMH said that he will enlist for military duty in 2 years and he thought that marriage should come at his 35. For this time being, he surely doesn't want to let his woman waiting for him. He is a responsible man. So, there might be no dating news coming out soon. Hahaha
What I do hope now that they should continue like siblings. They need time to know their feeling. Love will be there if they are born for each other.