When last we left our ghost and his reincarnated lover, they hadn’t met yet.
And after using his ghost energy, Yai isn’t looking good
Meanwhile, Kaew is surprised that the man he saw briefly looks like the one from his dreams. Then, he notices Yam and Sin acting strangely, and spies them going down to a hidden cellar.
When Sin leaves, he starts down the staircase, but for some reason doesn’t go all the way.
The monk helps Yai, sending some kind of spiritual power to him.
Later, Kaew tells his Mom that he thinks there’s someone else in the house. She tells him not to worry his silly little head over it.
That night, Kaew notices Sin “guarding” the cellar, asleep. But Saen catches him and tells him he’s forbidden to go down there.
Homeowners aren’t usually forbidden from areas of their homes
Good friend Ruedee agrees this is odd. Kaew sees himself as a tenant, not an owner, so maybe that’s why he didn’t go all the way downstairs when he had the chance. But he thought he saw someone’s shadow down there.
Ruedee thinks it could be a house spirit. He thinks it’s not a ghost, but a person. What does that mean?
Next, Ruedee chaperons him when he turns his portrait of Yai into his creepy teacher. Even though he brought her and needs her to escape the gross man, he doesn’t think the teacher is interested in him.
Kaew and his mom make more merit with the monk. We see the spiritual energy reaching Yai in the cellar. The monk then speaks outloud to check if Yai’s okay, and they can communicate despite the distance.
But Kaew is confused, and so am I
Are they trying to hide Yai or what? As usual, Saen makes vague excuses.
Flashback to 1913, to right after Yai and Long-Haired Kaew ran into one another. Yai notices the other person’s lack of breasts. In 1913 logic, that means Long-Haired Kaew is not a woman.
Back in 1947, Yai is no longer concerned with Kaew’s breasts. He’s concerned he’s about to fall off a ladder. He does, and Yai’s ghost arms can’t catch him. But, suddenly, Kaew can see Yai. And thinks he’s an intruder.
No one has an explanation prepared. First, Yai is described as the landlord. But that would mean the house isn’t Kaew’s. So he’s a friend of the old, dead landlord. According to the will, he gets to stay there too.
Kaew has noticed Yai resembles the person in his dreams.
Okay, so the plan is for Yai to reincarnate?
To do this, he needs to fulfill his promise, and Kaew needs to remember them. He leaves a flower on Kaew’s pillow that used to help Long-Haired Kaew sleep. That night, Kaew again dreams of Yai playing his favorite music.
After that success, Yai follows Kaew around the next day. Kaew is annoyed, Yai calls him sulky as always, and Kaew wonders why he talks about him like he knows him.
Yai wants Kaew to ponder if they’ve met before. It’s like he’s giving him homework.
When Ruedee arrives, Yai reveals he already knows her name, then leaves. Saen advises him that following and staring work better for ghosts. Yai points out he’s doing the same to Ruedee.
Saen comments sadly about being too lowly a person to do more than look in every life.
Oh, good, Sophee’s here, watching from a car outside
Kaew spills the tea on Yai to Ruedee, still certain they’ve never met. They come to no conclusions about what is going on.
Ruedee is there to ask Kaew to do a portrait for Sophee. That’s a no, because the portrait of Yai is still a fluke.
Also, Ruedee’s nameless brother drove her there, and has a name, it’s Chai. Sophee loses her mind when she sees Kaew really does live in this house again.
Yai loses his mind when Kaew brings Chai inside and introduces them, acting uncomfortably rude. Chai finds the place creepy, and that’s before a grim Nanny Yam appears and gives him a horribly bitter drink.
But Chai is too touchy and keeps putting his hand on Kaew’s knee, despite Kaew looking uncomfortable. Yai uses his ghost powers to knock over some stuff, then menaces Chai with his eyes, making him space out.
Ruedee reads the room and decides it’s time for her and Chai to go
Yai continues his seduction campaign by telling Kaew never to invite Chai over again.
Back at their home, Chai feels there’s something off about Yai. Ruedee loses friend points by telling her too-touchy brother the entire dream story.
Next, Yai gets touchy with Kaew during morning merit making. I understand this to be part of the ritual, so I’m unsure how to read Kaew’s reaction. He doesn’t seem as bothered as with Chai?
Yai unsubtly asks the monk about merit-making to stay together in this life and the next. Then he asks Kaew if he can join him every morning. Kaew says sure, but I’m not sure if he’s doing it out of anything more than politeness.
Alone, Yai comments to himself on how hard it’s been, and he won’t give up easily.
This is an excuse to flashback to 1912 again
Oh, good, here’s Sophee. She tries to force Yai to spend time with her, but he makes it clear he isn’t interested.
Later, he’s invited somewhere and sees Long-Haired Kaew practicing dancing. A 1912 Ruedee is there too, besties with Long-Haired Kaew, who sees Yai and worries he might have offended a lord.
Back in the 1940s, Saen feels Yai’s wooing strategies are old-fashioned. I think they’re dangerously close to Sophee’s. Maybe that’s the same thing.
Speaking of Sophee, she visits to insult Kaew and demand that he do her portrait. He explains he doesn’t do portraits, but thanks to his creepy teacher, she’s seen his drawing of Yai. She demands to know more about the man in the picture.
Yai and Saen are watching, but she can’t see them. Possibly because they no longer share karma. To hide that Kaew has met him again, Yai makes Sin tell her that Kaew saw him in a dream.
Yai worries that Sophee is a reincarnation with memories of the past
He’s not wrong. She hates Kaew and thinks Yai belongs to her.
Yai visits the monk for advice. Using telepathy, he tells Yai that karma works in mysterious ways. He can only brace himself to handle what comes. It’d be nice if he had a plan, but fine.
That night, Kaew dreams/flashbacks to Sophee cruelly cutting Long-Haired Kaew’s beautiful long hair off. He wakes up and reaches for hair he doesn’t have in this life, upset.
Next, he deals with Yai’s perplexing courtship. He’s set up Kaew’s art supplies, tells him to draw the person he’s missing, and offers to model for him. This would ruin my morning, but Kaew humors him.
But he flashes back to Yai posing seductively for Long-Haired Kaew. So maybe Yai’s efforts are working.
Present-day Yai teases Kaew for blushing, and Kaew fights back by telling him he talks like he’s ancient. Yai doesn’t argue and says he’s known Kaew for a long time. Kaew is confused, Yai wants him to think about it more, and Kaew is done.
Yai remembers the monk’s warning and hopes that Kaew will remember him before anything happens.
Back in his room, Kaew is thinking about it more, but only remembers meeting Yai now.
Then he dreams about Long-Haired Kaew drawing Yai again. The act of making art is too much for them, and they have passionate sex. Then we again see Long-Haired Kaew, promising to only paint for Yai. They kiss sweetly.
In the 1940s, Kaew wakes up happy, then flustered. Then he wonders what time he fell asleep.
Is the time he fell asleep significant?
What an odd way to end an episode.
Anyway, it’s hard to follow their past-life love with these out-of-order flashbacks. But, I guess 1940s Kaew isn’t remembering them in a neat, drama-like order. We’re experiencing it like he is, and I like that.
I guess we know what Yai’s goal is now, but it still seems needlessly confusing. They keep making vague references to how Kaew can’t know things or needs to know things at certain times. But then Yai makes all kinds of teasing hints about how Kaew should know things. What can and can’t they do? And why?
Maybe the secrecy is because of something the monk said. But the monk then talked openly to Yai when he wasn’t there, in front of Kaew. Why?
We could use reasons and a ticking clock. Like, Yai needed to meet Kaew at the same age he met Long-Haired Kaew. If Kaew doesn’t remember him within a year, then Yai’s soul is doomed to… something.
These things may yet be revealed, but I’m feeling impatient.
Much as I dislike Yai’s courtship methods, Kaew might need a protective partner. Both because fate has him at a disadvantage to those with power, and (maybe because of that), he is too accepting of poor treatment from others.
I want to shake him a little, and I’m looking forward to seeing Yai rush to rescue him.
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