When last we left our ghost and his reincarnated lover, their past-life selves started their relationship. Kinda.
Prom and Yai are still staaaaaaring
Later, Saen asks Yai if Prom will finally stop. Yai isn’t sure, but has hope. Why? Because he was found out and faced no consequences?
At the dance studio, Long-Haired Kaew’s long hair looks particularly beautiful. And, oh great, it’s Sophee. She’s there to pick out dancers for the Queen Mother’s Ceremony.
Turns out, during Loy Krathong, she saw Yai on that bridge with Kaew, Ruedee, and Kan. Naturally, she thinks Yai’s lover is Ruedee, and picks her to dance, leaving Uncle to pick the rest. Kaew and Kan are selected.
Jealous, horrible, rotten Sophee is all smiles when Yai gets home. She tells him about being in charge of the ceremony, leaving out how she picked only 1 dancer. Yai is pleased with her selection and agrees to watch the dancers practice with her. She wants to see his reaction to them
Prom hasn’t stopped, and this is all part of his new plan
He told his sister about Yai being in love with a dancer. Rather than kill Yai, he’s using his sister as a horrible distraction.
While visiting the dancers, Yai gets too free with his flattery and staring. Sophee is certain Ruedee is his lover.
Meanwhile, Kaew still finds Yai’s love for him overwhelming and too open. Yai understands Kaew is scared, but trying to stop loving Kaew nearly destroyed him. I feel like we didn’t get to see that.
He’ll let go of Kaew if he looks him in the eyes and lets him go without any pain.
Kaew looks him in the eyes and says he feels nothing. Yai calls him a liar and asks if it isn’t better to suffer together than suffer while hiding their feelings.
In the 1940s, no one can wake Kaew up!
That’s it for that, back to the 1910s.
Saen, who has encouraged Yai’s romance this whole time, is afraid to pursue Ruedee because he’s a widower with a child. Thankfully, Yai can be supportive too.
Uh-oh, Sophee has brought food and drink. Worse, she has a “special” dessert for Ruedee. One that she learned for when she and Yai are married. She forces Ruedee to try one, and Ruedee gets a strange look on her face before leaving.
Saen finds her sitting outside, blood on her mouth and hand. There was a shard of glass in the dessert.
Completely unaware of any of this, Yai has followed Kaew into an empty room. He goes for a sweet kiss, and it quickly escalates to hot sex.
Kan sees the latter, but luckily, Sophee misses it
Though she sees Yai and Kaew come out of a closed room together and seems to find it strange.
Ruedee thinks the glass was a terrible accident because Sophee is usually so nice. Saen warns her to stay away from Sophee. They have their own staaaring.
Kan wants Kaew for himself and makes him come down to the river to talk. But Kaew immediately squashes Kan’s hopes by calling him his brother. So Kan demands to know about his feelings for Yai.
Yai tells Adoptive Dad that there’s a plan to assassinate his majesty that is being investigated in secret. He warns that Prom might still be involved. Adoptive Dad is skeptical, but promises to confront Prom.
Prom is completely involved. He messes up the Anarchists’ oath of alliance by dropping his cup, which shatters. Symbolism! Someone helps him out by starting a new chant, and everything is okay! Clapping!
Next, Saen makes a love letter overly complicated
Saen can’t write, so he has Yai write one for him, but won’t let him sign anyone’s name. While Sophee watches, he hands the letter to Ruedee, telling her she’ll know who wrote it when she reads it. That never works.
Sophee has her servant steal the letter and easily recognizes the handwriting. It’s proof to her that Ruedee isn’t letting go of Yai.
We flashback to Kan interrogating Kaew to win his heart. Kaew denies having feelings for Yai, and Kan is snide about Kaew liking people out of his league. Very attractive.
Kaew doesn’t want to hear Kan say anything mean about Yai. When Kan mentions that Yai will need to marry a woman in his same social class, Kaew leaves.
Unfortunately, because the boys are fighting, Ruedee walks home alone
Kaew is bothered by what Kan said, but won’t admit it to Yai when they meet. Yai thinks he can fix Kaew’s mood with a kiss. It nearly works, but Kaew’s Mom sees.
Mom won’t talk to Kaew, and Kaew won’t talk to Yai. Eventually, Kaew apologizes for disappointing her, but says love is something he can’t control. He loves Yai the same way she loved his Dad.
Mom is worried about his heart getting broken because Yai is upper class, and one day Kaew will suffer alone. Kaew is willing to suffer for love, even if they can’t be together.
Kaew’s Mom just wants him happy. They cry and hug.
Meanwhile, Ruedee gets kidnapped.
The next day, Uncle receives a letter saying Ruedee ran off with her lover. Kaew doesn’t believe it. Ruedee doesn’t have a lover, wouldn’t abandon her duty, or leave without saying goodbye.
Kaew stalks off, running into Yai and Saen. When Kaew tells them what happened, Yai and Saen share a long look.
1940s Kaew wakes up, worried about Ruedee
Luckily, she’s sitting right there. But Kaew’s Mom says that if he does this one more time, his mind could get trapped in the past, unable to return. Kaew doesn’t care.
The monk told Mom that even if he didn’t help, Kaew would eventually find out. But would he find out in a way that doesn’t risk his mind getting locked in the past?
Kaew looks for Yai again, but the cellar door is padlocked shut.
Ruedee takes him for a relaxing walk to a cool location. He tells her he no longer sees any of the ghosts. But then he suddenly sees Yai. A glasses-wearing Yai who doesn’t recognize him. They quickly realize he isn’t Ghost Yai, but a new Glasses Yai.
After Kaew leaves, Glasses Yai says to himself that love happens in the blink of an eye. A woman with him recognizes Kaew as one of her students.
At home, Kaew wanders around the house calling for his ghosts, it’s… sad
Sin opens the padlock so they can go into the cellar, but they don’t see them there either. Kaew is certain they are there. He’s not wrong. We can see Ghost Yai, but they can’t see him.
Sin tells Kaew he’s been able to see his Dad since he was a kid. He guesses the ghosts paid off their karma, and they won’t see them again. There is no way to wash away sins, but merit-making gets people away from them. And I guess that’s paying off karma?
Kaew wants to help the ghosts, so he and Sin start meditating. We see the merit flowing away from them, down to the ghosts in the cellar.
Nanny Yam is already gone. Saen wants to say goodbye before they go, but Yai thinks they should just leave.
Mom, Ruedee, and Chai visit Kaew. Mom supports his desire to stay near the ghosts. Aww, Kaew recognizes that she is a good mom across multiple lifetimes.
But she does want him to keep going to school. Fair.
Ghost Yai appears and asks Chai for a favor, whispering something in his ear that we don’t get to hear. Ruedee and Kaew notice Chai acting strangely, but even when they ask if he saw Yai, he lies that he didn’t.
As they walk away, we see Yai longingly looking at Kaew.
All I want is for Sophee to suffer horribly
Rich, entitled, and certain that other people are property. She’s the worst.
And I don’t like that it’s well known she’s horrible, and no one does anything. I’m sure Adoptive Dad protects her, but can Yai at least try?
This is my issue with Yai. He keeps reassuring Kaew that he’ll take care of him and protect him, but it’s a lot of talk. Outside of that one fight, I haven’t seen him do anything.
It makes me feel like I’m watching a train slowly go down the tracks towards a cliff that everyone can easily see, but everyone is just hoping the train will stop. No one does anything. It feels less tragic and more frustrating, but with the same amount of dread.
At least our 1910s Kaew makes it hard on Yai. I get the sense that 1940s Kaew would be more honest with his feelings, but I’m not sure because we’ve seen so little of him lately.
But we’re nearly at the end, so I can watch this train go off the cliff and then see how the various reincarnated pieces all fit together.
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