When last we left our ghost and his reincarnated lover, their past-life selves were staaaaaaaaring.
Oh, it’s Loy Krathong!
Saen, best wingman ever, tells Long-Haired Kaew the Sad Story of Yai floating his krathong All Alone. Kaew humors/pities Yai and invites him to be his partner.
Yai makes sure to buy Kaew the krathong he likes the most, and the two go down by the river to release them.
Yai claims that if their krathongs float side by side for long enough, it means they will be long-lasting lovers. Kaew thinks it would be the natural result of releasing them together. Also, they’re both men, whether krathongs float together or not.
Next, Yai buys candied jujubes on a stick and gets Kaew to feed them to him. Finally, Kaew’s friends arrive, and he goes off with them.
Saen, best wingman ever, does his best to distract Sophee
But eventually she loses patience. Also, strangers are loudly gossiping about seeing Yai with someone attractive. Luckily, by the time she reaches him, Kaew is gone.
Yai is annoyed he can’t court Kaew outright. Kaew is more conflicted, thinking about Yai and thinking that he shouldn’t be thinking about Yai.
The next day, Yai’s back at Kaew’s Uncle/Adoptive Father’s place, but not for Kaew. He talks with the Uncle about traitors and his majesty. This is the real reason Yai keeps visiting. Kaew stops by briefly to ask permission to leave.
After Kaew leaves, Uncle reveals he’s very open-minded about sexuality. Love, as long as it is not unfaithful and doesn’t hurt others, is always okay. People make up too many rules just to satisfy themselves. Agreed, Uncle, agreed.
Yai is encouraged by this encouragement
Saen, best wingman ever, confusingly tells Yai to be careful and then encourages him. He also takes care of the guy Sophee sent to spy on Yai, so Saen’s the best.
Kaew is so bothered by Yai that he mistakes him for a hallucination. But it’s really Yai, there to get to know Kaew better. Kaew wants to know why, but before he can answer, Kaew’s mom faints.
She insists she’s okay, but Yai still has a nice doctor come and prescribe her “medicine”. From Kaew’s Mom, I learn that Yai is part of the royal guard, which explains his status and worry about his majesty.
This is part of the problem for Kaew, who doesn’t think Yai should visit a lowly dancer, but gives him permission to visit.
This is shocking, but Sophee doesn’t treat her servants well
Nanny Yam is not a ghost and watches the servants fight over a switch needed to beat them for the failed spy attempt. Sophee’s brother, Prom, suggests that murdering good servants is bad.
Yai arrives home, and Prom glares at him because Daddy loves Yai more. Speaking of Daddy, Yai talks to his adoptive father about the threat of rebels.
Meanwhile, Kaew realizes he never found out why Yai wants to see him, and he wants to know why, and he wants to know why he wants to know why. But his Mom thinks Kaew shouldn’t get involved with a man like Yai.
Prom didn’t stop Sophee from beating the servants because he’s nice. He wants their help spying on Yai. The servant immediately reveals that Yai keeps visiting Kaew’s Uncle.
But right now, he’s visiting Kaew at his Mom’s, only to discover Kaew has gone cold again and won’t explain why.
Saen interrupts because Yai is needed at Kaew’s Uncle’s place. There’s an injured man there, being tended by Ruedee. He’s supposed to have an important list of names, but they can’t find it.
Prom is also visiting and sees Ruedee carrying bloody bandages
They make excuses about servants fighting, but Prom doesn’t believe them. Prom claims to be there with gifts from his father. They don’t believe him.
Which is good, because here he is at the Anarchists Association. They tell him a spy escaped and got injured. Prom quickly connects this to the injured man at Kaew’s Uncle’s.
Yai confirms Prom lied about why he visited Kaew’s Uncle and assigns Saen to keep an eye on him.
So Saen gets a cool fight scene with someone trying to sneak into Kaew’s Uncle’s place. The next day, Kaew learns about all this from Ruedee.
Yai tells Prom that he might be hanging with the wrong crowd, and Prom tells Yai he’s an orphan. It’s not great, but Yai is now certain Prom is involved with the anarchists. The anarchists who want Prom to kill Yai.
Kaew waits for Yai while pretending he isn’t, and Yai stares at Kaew’s place at night. It’s silly. The next day, Yai finds Kaew on a walk. Kaew wants to keep Yai at a distance because they are both men. Yai confesses his love.
Kaew thinks he says it too easily, but Yai thinks it’s a simple thing.
Then a guy comes out of nowhere with a sword
Yai fights back, but a second man slashes him in the back.
Then, we’re back in the 1940s, the incense having worn off. Kaew can’t stop worrying about what happened to Yai after getting attacked, despite living in Yai’s house and knowing Yai is a ghost.
He wants to burn more incense, but the monk said no, something vague and bad will happen if he does this.
Ghost Yai tries to comfort Kaew by playing the treble fiddle (or saw duang), and his Mom tucks him in because she’s the sweetest. But Kaew can’t let go. He tries to find Yai, but once again can’t see him.
Kaew ignores the risk of non-specific danger and lights more incense.
Back in the 1910’s, Yai is fine! After getting slashed, he keeps fighting back. He recognizes one of the masked attackers as Prom and tells him not to disappoint his father any further. Saen shows up to help, allowing Yai and Kaew to escape.
Yai doesn’t want people to know he was ambushed and ruin some plan, so he takes Kaew to a secret cottage.
Kaew shoves medicine into his wound
Yai apologizes for involving him and thanks him for staying by his side. Since Kaew is now literally cold, he changes into less clothing and sits by the fire.
Yai uses life’s shortness as an excuse to declare his love again. Kaew’s main objection seems to be that they are both men. Yai says his heart has no rules, except that it has to be Kaew.
Yai slowly goes in for a kiss that starts on Kaew’s cheek, and… things get hot and heavy.
After, Kaew gets shy and wants to sleep separately.
At home, Sophee and her father worry about Yai
Prom not so much. He insinuates that Yai is probably at Kaew’s adoptive father’s because of a dancer. This sends them in the wrong direction, so Prom can intercept and kill Yai on his way back.
The next morning, Kaew helps Yai bathe, but still thinks a relationship is impossible. Yai says they’ll find a way. He pulls Kaew into a kiss, and Kaew doesn’t think kissing is impossible, but Saen interrupts.
Saen warns them they need to rush home because everyone is worried about them. They go to Kaew’s place first, where they make an excuse about bandits. One of Kaew’s friends guesses that Yai was the real target.
Yai is ready to declare his feelings for Kaew to everyone, but Saen convinces him that the timing isn’t right.
Luckily, Yai knows to take a secret route home. Sophee and her Dad are happy to see him, but Prom is less so.
Dad wants to know where Yai was. Yai looks at Prom and… We’re out!
Oh no, anarchists!
In this show, Love in the Moonlight, and To Sir, With Love, our couples first consummate their relationship in cottages away from civilization. There’s some kind of not-just-symbolic separation from real-world repression necessary before their love can fully be freed. But at the same time, it’s a fantasy, because it’s separate from the reality they have to live in.
Not only that, we know that later Yai moves himself and Kaew to their house. This also matches the other two shows, where our couples find a way to live life on their own terms without fully leaving society. They find a way to make their fantasy real.
I sound like I’m writing an academic paper on the BL version of Hero with a 1000 Faces.
Poor Yai, his adopted siblings suck. And because he’s adopted, I think he feels obligated to treat them better than they deserve.
I hate it, but I understand Long-Haired Kaew’s Mom’s worries. Yai isn’t the problem. It’s everyone around him. And because of his situation, Kaew would have no way of protecting himself from them. Which is what I think we will, unfortunately, be seeing soon.
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