There’s SO MUCH time-skipping here. But I’ve got it figured out.
We start at Dream, a top entertainment company in the industry. Our lead, Sun, is told to leave an audition because of his bruised face.
Instead, he stabs a knife into a table and says he doesn’t want to be an actor. He’s here for REVENGE!
Some guy watches him on a monitor. (It’s Jay).
Time for the first of MANY flashbacks
Sun, working as a debt collector, threatens a man’s young daughter if he doesn’t get repaid. The man hands over the deed to his house and tells Sun that karma will one day come for him.
Sun doesn’t believe in karma. Yet.
Later, Sun gives his younger brother the money. Most of it is likely going to their sick mother’s hospital care. But we’ve barely met this brother when he’s stabbed in the stomach by the father from earlier.
Back to the present, kinda, because it’s before that audition. Sun delivers packages to the Dream offices and sees Khajorn, a talent manager, being abused by Bank, an actor. Khajorn is only putting up with it for his daughter’s sake.
Khajorn thinks Sun has potential and gives him a business card.
Hold your BL wipedown towel, it’s 5 years ago again
BEFORE Sun’s brother was murdered. Yeah, I know.
After being expelled from school, Sun tries to stop loan sharks from setting a school administrator ON FIRE. This gets him a beating and a job with the mafia debt collector.
He lives in the Jack and Joker apartments with his boyfriend, Bank. Bank is the abusive popular actor from earlier/later. Pre-fame, he manipulates Sun into insisting on paying for his acting classes.
Still-Alive Little Brother tells Sun their mother has been diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. Treating it is expensive, but Sun will find the money.
Present Day-ish, Sun delivers more packages to Dream
Including an envelope that goes to Jay. In it is a flyer for karaoke featuring an uncomfortably sexy pink bunny.
ANOTHER flashback. Jay is saved from being stabbed by a man in a pink bunny costume. Then they have sex, pink bunny keeps his costume head on, then throws money at him. Fun.
Back to the pre-audition present day, Sun overhears that the director is looking for someone he met 5-years ago. Maybe a love at first sight thing. Maybe a money thing.
Bank is one of the gossips and abruptly recounts how he nearly got stabbed while dating a stupid idiot who couldn’t even graduate. He sent the guy with the knife after the stupid idiot’s brother. Uh oh.
Sun overhears this. It breaks his brain.
Flashback to AFTER Sun’s brother dies. Bank took Sun’s money and disappeared. Sun took a big loan from his loan shark mafia boss to care for his sick Mom, but she eventually passed away.
At that point, Sun believed in karma.
But in the pre-audition present, he realizes it’s not his fault
On the roof of Dream, a brooding Sun offers money to a smoking Jay for a cigarette. Jay drops the one he’s smoking, and after Sun takes it, Jay tells him it costs a crazy amount of money.
Sun thinks Jay is insane, but never mind that. He’s ready to get revenge. He calls Khajorn.
Still time-skipping, we see a pre-disappearance Bank running lines with Sun, who also records him. Sun isn’t very good, and Bank teases him. They’re kinda cute.
Then we hop to present-day-ish Khajorn, bringing a birthday cake to his daughter. It’s just the two of them. He says he’s full, so she can have the entire cake. Good dad or mysterious illness?
He’s eating ramen later, so maybe he’s fine. That’s when Sun calls. We’ve caught up to the end of the first ep now.
Sun meets Khajorn and one of the actors he manages, Sky. Sun asks about a poster of Bank and learns he goes by Sunny (I’m still calling him Bank) and is a top actor. But Khajorn no longer manages him, which is why he’s scouting new talent.
Sun asks if he can be more famous than Bank, but Bank is really famous. That’s when Sun explains he’s there FOR REVENGE.
Maybe honesty isn’t always the best idea
Khajorn is nervous about his potential new actor. Despite his trepidation, he prepares Sun for a trainee audition in three days.
He notices a scar on Sun’s forehead and tells him not to get any more.
A time-hopping montage reveals Sun repaid his monetary debt two months ago. But now the people who wronged him owe HIM. He’s not waiting for karma.
He runs into Jay again on the roof. Jay vaguely says he works in the company’s finances and thinks Sun is trying to use him for his career. Because Sun’s too unremarkable to get anywhere on his own.
Jay, knowing an actor needs to look good, attacks Sun
No longer the violent debt collector he once was, Sun blocks and doesn’t fight back. But Jay lands several blows to his face.
Sun tells Jay he doesn’t know who he is. His phone vibrates, and Jay picks it up. Khajorn is still nervous about this whole “acting for revenge” thing. Jay hangs up without saying anything.
Jay tells Sun that if he gets through the audition, he’ll be his backer and help with whatever revenge he wants. Sun isn’t interested.
Later, he asks Khajorn about the tall guy in finance. Khajorn has no idea who that might be.
Sun stiffly runs lines with Sky. Apparently he’s still better than Sky, who gets so nervous in front of the camera that he only does stage plays. Later, Khajorn tells Sun to be himself as much as possible.
Sun also learns that Bank imitates more famous people and replaces them. Right now he’s after Dream’s Top Guy, Penneung.
At home, Sun watches his recording of Bank’s acting. Before the audition, he doesn’t let Khajorn conceal his bruises. Because He Can Do It.
Finally, we’re at the beginning of the first episode
This time, we see that despite the bruise, they gave him a chance. But Sun stands there, and He Can’t Do It. They tell him to leave again. Then Sun remembers Khajorn telling him to be himself, and that’s when the knife comes out.
Khajorn races in to stop him. Sun drops the knife, then repeats Bank’s lines from the recording. The judges recognize the drama they’re from. Even though it’s part of his audition, they aren’t thrilled.
But one of the judges gets a call. After hanging up, Sun gets three months’ probation. When it’s up, they’ll evaluate whether to sign a contract. He will not get a second chance.
Later, Sun asks who called the judge, but Khajorn doesn’t know. Sun thinks the call is the reason he passed.
On their way to a celebratory dinner, Khajorn and Sky run into Bank. He accuses Khajorn of being a scam manager. Khajorn explains he wouldn’t accept a sponsor in a grey business. Bank says he’s a terrible manager with useless and unusable actors.
Sky declares that Khajorn has someone new who is godlike and has passed his first audition.
Sun, who overheard everything, follows Bank to the roof, still staying hidden. He hears Bank on the phone, telling someone to get rid of Khajorn’s new kid. Then, Sun’s phone makes a noise.
Bank hears it and is about to find him when Jay comes around the corner.
I definitely understand the reason FOR the revenge
Though these episodes were all set up, it was well written. Not only do I understand Sun, but I also get why Khajorn is desperate enough to take him on.
I’m curious if there’s more to Sun’s focus on Bank rather than the man who stabbed his brother. It feels like the murderer deserves the larger share of blame.
But Sun threatened that man’s daughter first. Not that killing his brother was fair, er, payback, but that was the extent of their relationship. With Bank, Sun loved and supported him. It’s a more personal betrayal.
I’m hoping we learn what happened to that father. I’m also curious if Sun will get a chance to redeem via Sky or Khajorn’s daughter, or both.
Bank is horrible, but it was nice to see him be cute with Sun. Often the exes are so horrible I can’t imagine why ANYONE would be with them. Here I can see that there were “good” times, even if Bank was acting and manipulating Sun.
It doesn’t hurt that Bank is played by Fuaiz Thanawat Shinawatra. He’s an excellent actor IRL.
Sun is… very uncomplicated and straightforward. I wonder if he’s going to learn to be more clever about hiding his intentions, or if this single-mindedness helps his acting. Maybe Jay will help him with the complicated parts.
I’m hoping to get a lot more of them together in the next episodes. Revenge is fun, but I also need BL in my BL.
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