When last we left our reluctant time traveler and the stern-faced guard, everyone was in trouble.
Seeing Klao get beaten in a flashback is horrible
And now poor Nakun is in the same hut where Klao was killed.
Pim and Phop’s guy are murdered and tossed in the pond. Also, Harn stabbed Klao last time, not Cherd. But Cherd’ll do it this time.
Harn chats with Phop in the forest rather than killing him. Phop knew Harn was behind this some time ago, because the ink-smudged letter was written by someone left-handed. Harn’s father.
Speaking of Harn’s Father, Phop’s Father didn’t drink any poison, so he’s good to capture him.
Back in the forest, Harn attacks, but Phop’s backup has arrived. Defeated, Harn declares Klao is no doubt dead for the second time. Phop goes running.
Nakun’s not dead yet! Cherd is slow to the stabbing
Jom to the rescue! He punches Cherd a bunch, Kaew releases Nakun, and Phop arrives to punch Cherd more.
Later, we get the stories on how everyone helped, from our tea shop guys to the brothel madam. When it’s just the two of them, Phop mentions that Nakun’s mission is over. Nakun isn’t happy. He might be returning to the present soon.
But first, cute morning cuddling. Which they ruin by talking about Cherd’s Sad Past. Nakun has a sympathetic heart. Phop and I don’t. Then, Phop invites Nakun to a merit-making ceremony.
At the temple, Phop prays that his parents will let him marry Nakun so he can cherish him for the rest of his life. And if there is another life, they will seek each other out again.
Nakun wants Phop to promise that if he disappears, he will take care of himself. Phop won’t. He will seek Nakun out until he finds him again.
Our guys stop to look at wedding rings, but Cherd has escaped and is there with a gun.
Which brings us back to the beginning of the show
Cherd shoots and pursues them into the forest. Phop promises they won’t be parted, there’s choral OST, rain, a falling star, and Phop gets hit in the shoulder.
It goes dark, and we hear Phop promising to seek him out.
Nakun wakes up next to a flashlight, still in his old-timey clothes. His mother arrives with EMTs, hugs him, and cries. He was only missing for a few hours, but when she found him, she couldn’t wake him, so she got help.
The next day, poor Nakun is back to studying story structure. Cherd escaped, Harn was free, so he didn’t accomplish the mission. Why did he come back? He searches for info on Phop online, but finds nothing.
He’s determined to meet Phop again, somehow, but is depressed. His Mom calls Thee, who shows up with vitamins. For a moment, Nakun thinks he’s Jom.
Thee convinces Nakun to return to class, but he’s still not eating. Nakun only perks up at a chance to see the Fortune Teller again.
The Fortune Teller doesn’t know anything about time travel or the Oracle. To try and placate Nakun, they read his cards, but it’s all about loss, separation, and a deep fear of change. This doesn’t seem like a good sign, and Nakun freaks out.
Eventually, Pun and Thee drag him out.
But the Oracle is in the mirror, and states that Phop met his end, but will return.
Pretty soon, actually
Jom drags Nakun to a fancy hotel restaurant, where a reincarnated Sai works as a waiter. Also, Thee and Pun have grown closer, which Nakun knows is because of how he changed the past.
He wonders if revealing the truth about Klao’s father would have the same effect. And since other people are reincarnating, what about Phop?
Nakun isn’t feeling social and leaves. RIGHT after he gets onto one elevator, Phop steps out of the other elevator.
Then we get our hearts ripped out, jumping back in time to see Phop suffer after Nakun vanishes. Harn shoots Cherd, Some Guy shoots Harn before he can shoot Phop, that’s that.
But even after Jom treats Phop’s gunshot wound, Phop is literally sick with worry over Klao.
Our hearts get a break, and we return to present-day Phop
He’s a relative of Thee’s, somehow involved with the hotel, and Thee wants help getting Nakun a job. There’s an opening at the hotel cafe.
Nakun slowly perks up at his new job. Chuay is a bellhop, and his boss and coworker are the tea shop owner and assistant. He’s even found Pim and Varna livestreaming.
A reincarnated, glasses-wearing Cherd bumps into Pun, and Thee gets protective, in a cool way. While driving Pun home, they discuss reincarnation, and Thee mentions dreaming he was a doctor.
Pun has also had dreams. He feels like he’s fallen for Thee before, but kept getting rejected, and would wake up crying. They were so real, they made him realize he’d been mean to Thee.
Thee wipes Pun’s tears, promising he’s not mad. And even though he jokes around a lot, when he confesses his love, it’s never a joke.
Sweet, sweet kisses, and then a Spicy Domundi Sex Scene.
Nakun Knows What’s Up
He hugs them, happy Jom and Kaew’s wish to freely love each other openly has come true.
Then Nakun ends up in front of modern-Phop’s car while saving a child. After, he spills Phop’s coffee all over his chest. This… is also a Domundi thing?
They get right to the flirting, but neither brings up reincarnated lovers or time travel. But Nakun is determined to make Phop remember him.
To that end, he needs Phop to tutor him on history in the familiar setting of Ayutthaya. There’s more hint dropping, historical garb renting, and significant looks. Then Phop comments on how the place looks, and Nakun KNOWS Phop remembers their past.
He takes Phop’s hand and asks him if his memories are there, and Phop hugs him tight. Yesssss.
Phop remembered everything when he turned 20 last year
On his birthday, Past-Phop’s memories came flooding back. Modern-Phop realized Klao didn’t lose his memories: he was from the future.
He found Nakun, but it was before he went into the past, and he didn’t want them to meet and mess things up. Instead, he had Thee take Nakun to the Fortune Teller, who Phop had already given the rock. And watched Nakun nearly get run over by that truck.
Phop promises they will never part again. And takes Nakun to a seminar. Nakun’s ancient, anachronistic modern English notes have been discovered in the area and are being discussed.
Next, they visit Nakun’s Mom. Nakun realizes she’s Klao’s father, reincarnated. Her family has a long history of being officials. They share a sweet moment, and Nakun hopes to be her son in every lifetime. Aww.
Also, she loves Phop and is ready to hand Nakun over to him.
Nakun has embraced Time Travel
He’s learned from it to focus on the present and not worry about the future.
Phop has them focus on the present by having hot sex.
After, Nakun is amazed that they found their way back to each other. Phop credits the Fortune Teller’s wishing stone. Back in the past, they retrieved Pim and that Guy’s body, and found Klao’s corpse too. The body had a stone with it.
Confused and heartbroken, a dying Phop held the stone and wished to be reincarnated near Nakun, remember him, and have a chance to love him again.
Or maybe the magic is in their love, not the stone.
Phop promises he’ll find his way back to him in every lifetime. He doesn’t want Nakun to worry about the future, but to focus on loving each other as much as possible right now.
Phop proposes to him with a family heirloom. They get married, in historic clothing, not the first day they can, but the date the Fortune Teller gives them. Thee and Pun are there! So are the parents!
Rings go on! Phop says he’s been waiting 400 years! My heart.
We get a montage of them struggling in the past, and happy here, together, now! Yaay!
The past really did suck
So it was nice to see everyone from Pim to the tea shop guys having a chance to live better lives. Even Cherd, I guess.
Well, Chuay and Sai are still in the service industry, but at least their boss can’t casually kill them. And they can get promoted.
I think I’m even happier seeing Pun and Thee together than I was to see Jom and Kaew.
I really liked the wishing stones. Maybe because rocks are so unaffected by time, and seeing them travel around in the present and the past has a nice circular, time-really-isn’t-linear feel.
Or maybe it was just the power of love. That’s fine too.
The pacing of these last two episodes also worked for me. I’m really glad I didn’t have to see Phop and Nakun separated for too long.
And I really didn’t want a Nakun who remembered the past to meet a Phop who didn’t. There’s something really unsatisfying about that imbalance for me.
I really liked the device with past-Phop’s final wish, effectively sending him to the future, just as Klao’s final wish had brought Nakun to the past. And thankfully, poor Phop only had to spend a year with his memories of Nakun, but no Nakun.
All in all, I think these were a strong final two episodes to one of the stronger historical BLs I’ve watched.
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