When last we left our ghost and his reincarnated lover, Ghost Yai was being a ghost again.
But we’ve still got to deal with 1910s Yai’s Problems
Prom is furious that Yai told on him to Daddy, and his revenge is to spread rumors about Yai. Again.
Kan gives Kaew the cold shoulder for not doing what he tells him. They overhear gossip that Yai is infatuated with a dancer, and this is more upsetting to Kan than Ruedee being gone. No one cares that Ruedee is gone.
Sophee and Adoptive Father are also upset about the Yai rumors. Plus, Sophee thought she killed Yai’s dancer (it was too much to hope Ruedee was just kidnapped).
Yai refuses to tell Adoptive Dad who he loves, nor is he willing to marry Sophee. For that, Yai gets kicked out. Kaew learns this from Saen, and then starts avoiding Yai.
Back in the 1940s, Ghost Saen accidentally reveals himself to Sin
Sin learns the ghosts are avoiding them because Yai thinks this makes for a less painful goodbye. But Sin and Kaew are meditating all the time to help them and hopefully see them. Kaew keels over from exhaustion while doing so, mumbling how much he misses Yai.
Sin rightfully asks if this is really the least painful way. He reminds Yai about how much it hurt to wait for Kaew, and now Kaew is suffering the same way.
Later, Ghost Yai watches Kaew draw when Glasses Yai suddenly arrives. Ruedee brought him there because he really, really, really, really wants to draw Kaew’s house. Kaew won’t let him, no matter how needlessly pushy he becomes. But Ghost Yai is depressed about having Alive Yai competition.
Worse, Glasses Yai is interested in Kaew. But Kaew only loves Ghost Yai.
Unfortunately, Sophee sees Glasses Yai. To her, this makes Kaew a lying liar who lies and deserves death.
Oh no, it’s special dessert time again
Sophee pretends to be friendly, kinda, and pushes Kaew into it. He doesn’t immediately die, and she taunts him with his portrait of Yai. He wants it back, but she won’t give it back.
The poison hits, and Kaew chokes and collapses. Ghost Yai senses this and transports to Kaew, but can’t physically help.
In the 1910s, Saen lies to Kaew about Yai jumping in the river to get them to meet. Yai would rather die than be without Kaew, and is encouraged when Kaew doesn’t want him to talk about dying. He promises that even if dead, he would never stop loving Kaew.
They take a romantic, tiny boat ride together. Yai gets Kaew to agree to spend his life with him, and they have sex.
Sophee and Adoptive Dad are upset when Yai really moves out. Yai reassures murderous, servant-beating, horrible Sophee that she’ll always be a beloved sister. Someone will have the great fortune to marry her.
Yai brings Kaew to their house, which he’d had built some time ago. Kaew agrees to move in with him, and there’s kisssssssing.
Unfortunately, Kan saw everything and is stupid
He asks Sophee to get Yai to leave Kaew alone. Now Sophee knows which dancer Yai loves. Although she would have found him at the house eventually anyway?
We flashback once more to Long-Haired Kaew doing the Chui Chai dance and then thinking Yai wants sex. This time, we see Yai give him the same rings that Ghost Yai gives 1940s Kaew. They say eternity, and Yai puts one on Kaew’s finger and promises to love him until the time is through.
Kaew puts the other one on Yai’s finger, promising his heart will always belong to Yai. Then we get kissing, and that sex scene again, kinda.
The next morning, there’s a weird sex scene I don’t know how to interpret. Kaew tries to take the initiative, and Yai isn’t into it. Yai takes the lead instead, but they’re interrupted by Saen. Horrible brother Prom has been arrested.
While Yai is gone, Sophee attacks Kaew and hacks his hair off, warning Kaew she’ll do worse. Meanwhile, Yai reassures Adoptive Father that his horrible son shouldn’t face too many consequences for his actions.
Sophee is confident Kaew won’t tell on her
And unfortunately, she’s right. Yai gets home, and Kaew says he changed his hair for the weather. Yai reassures Kaew not to worry about Prom. Great.
Now it’s time for that business trip, after which Kaew promises to literally say he loves Yai, instead of just agreeing to eternity together. Yai is reassured that Kaew has the elderly Nanny Yam with him to… feed him?
Now that Yai is gone again, Kaew gets an invitation from Ruedee. The meeting place is a dilapidated building where he finds her hanging corpse. Then he’s beaten by two men claiming to have been hired by Yai, and left hanging from a tree by his wrists.
Live Yai senses that Kaew is calling for his help. This is nice, but I still prefer actual communication over psychic communication.
Yai comes home and discovers everyone crying over Kaew’s corpse. Adoptive Dad reveals Sophee did it.
Yai strangles his unrepentant, beloved sister, but Adoptive Dad asks him not to kill her, so he doesn’t. But we know how this ends. Sophee stabs herself with a hairpin, vowing to remember this love and pain into the next life.
Yai really can’t live without Kaew
Refusing to eat or drink, he dies by Kaew’s side. Saen, despite having an invisible young child who probably needs him, vows to follow him.
Back in the 1940s, Ghost Yai watches helplessly as Kaew is tied to a chair while Sophee sets fire to everything. He seems weirdly surprised by her murderous tendencies.
Just as she’s about to set Kaew on fire, Glasses Yai shows up and knocks her away. And leaves her there as he goes to untie Kaew. Sophee murders him with a garden tool to the back of the head. Then sits and sobs in the fire.
Ghost Yai slips into Glasses Yai’s body so that he can rescue Kaew. Kaew recognizes he’s Ghost Yai and hugs him. Sophee screams because she’s on fire.
Many days later, cousin Sophee is dead. Glasses Yai has recovered and sends Kaew a gift via Chai. It’s blueprints he drew of the house, so Kaew can rebuild it.
But Glasses Yai is leaving. On his way out, Ghost Saen stops by for a final goodbye before he vanishes to be reincarnated.
Kaew stops Glasses Yai before he can leave
He knows that Glasses Yai couldn’t draw the blueprints. It’s his Yai. He wants to know why he’s hiding from him when he missed him so much. Yai hugs him back and says he loves him too. He promises never to leave him again.
Sometime later, they’re in the reconstructed house. Yai feels guilty about the body he’s stolen, but he tried to give it back. Kaew suggests that Yai use the body to do good deeds and make merit for Glasses Yai.
Many years later, Kaew discusses eternity with Yai. It’s… a long time. Yai says eternity isn’t something that you count, but a strong heart that never wavers. Okay, I like that.
Kaew vows to love and stay by Yai’s side until they lose track of eternity. Kissssssssssssing! Cuddling!
Suddenly, it’s present day, in that same house, but with a New Kaew. His Nana tells him a new, partial owner of the house is arriving. This would be New Yai, who calls New Kaew’s Dad Saen, though that’s not really his name.
Nana pulls out the eternity rings to share with New Kaew, but one of them escapes her, rolling to New Yai.
Kaew says it’s his ring, and New Sunglasses Yai says he hasn’t changed a bit. They give us some VO about love, lifetimes, and eternity.
I really hope Sophee doesn’t reincarnate and go after them again
This show was admirably ambitious, but I have so many questions.
What were Ghost Yai and the Monk trying to do? Ghost Yai was determined to make Kaew remember that promise. And I guess he did? But, then what?
Kaew was warned against using that incense, but he kept using it and… What?
What did Ghost Yai whisper to Chai? It can’t have been about the blueprints, because Ghost Yai couldn’t know the house would burn down.
Was Nana Ruedee? But then, New Kaew’s Dad/Saen was her son?
The show acted like the biggest risk was them being two men, but in reality, it was Yai’s obliviousness to his psychotic adoptive family. Sophee killed regardless of gender. It was frustrating to watch Yai and Kaew be too nice to realize they had an enemy.
But I didn’t find this show interminable. I loved the ghost’s powers, the dancing, the different times, Saen, and the production looked great. They needed to take scissors to the script, and then deepen what was left.
Poor, confused Glasses Yai, but I liked the resolution for Ghost Yai and 1940s Kaew. I’m glad neither of them had an interminable wait to meet the other in the next life.
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