This is a lot better - if you are deciding either to watch this lakorn vs (what I like to call the reunion drama) Praomook, this one is the way to go. I watched Praomook with both Pon and Bua before watching this one, and I feel that, that drama was a step back in many ways. If anything, I felt that their chemistry was a lot better in this one, which makes zero sense to me as this one was their first together.

As for the storyline, I felt this one was a little more "justified" (and I use that word loosely) - we have a revenge story about a a boy named Peat who hated life because his father was never there for him and his mother, and around the same time his mother died, his father brings home another wife and adopted her daughter, Kiew, who happened to be the same girl he was starting to fall in love with at university. In a fit of rage, he is determined to get revenge on his father who was convinced was a adulterer, as well as Kiew, who be believed to be a gold-digger.

I feel like this story was broken out into a few different thoughts;

Peat having absolute zero trust in anyone, living off his prejudices and thinking the worst of people. He became almost this boy who called wolf character, where he kept doing bad, until the moment bad actually happened that he was not apart of, but it was too late and everyone associated him with anything bad that happened.

We very toxic friendship - Peat's friend group (him, Kriss, Chaya, and Katha) was this weird toxic energy where these people would do things to hurt one another, but Katha was trying to keep the glue together and justify that it is all love and we all get jealous sometimes. And I tried to accept this fact, but I feel like there is a line that is crossed when someone wants to seek revenge on you, so they kidnap your wife, steal from your company, pin it on you, and holds you at gun point. The way everything was fixed at the end was so casual, that I was anxious because how would you act around people like that after everything that had happened?

We saw a few different evils - Peat would emotionally manipulate people, but would mix his revenge in with his true feelings of love. We see this with his love with Kiew. It was almost like he was killing two birds with one stone - he got to act on his love for her, but also emotionally abuse her as a way to get back at his father. Both he can do while keeping her close. We saw Kriss's act out of jealousy and his love for Chaya. And maybe whoever is reading this will dislike me for saying this, but I enjoyed Kriss's chaos. I hated that he was doing this because of his love for Chaya, because honestly f*** that girl, but I felt that the story needed Kriss's revenge plot as a wake up call for Peat. I truly believe that Kiew's love wasn't enough for Peat to want to stop with his revenge plot. Maybe a 50 / 50. Kiew was his emotional support as she was always there to defend him and take care of him, but he didn't realize how much he needed that, until Kriss stepped up to the plate and all his thought out planning finally hit all at once. Then we have Chaya who I think was the true villain of this drama, right before Peat. Chaya was motivated by her interpterion of love - she acted like an empty vessel who would follow whoever he loved blindly. In this case, she was in love with Peat and everything she did was motivated by, if I follow him blindly, he will love me. If I help him ruin his relationship with everyone, all he will have is me and he will love me. I couldn't even count on my fingers and toes how many times she told Peat to love her, and asked Kiew to break up with him and convince Peat to marry her. But the thing I disliked the most about her was that she was like the devil on Peat shoulder - every time he seemed to come up for air and contemplate if his revenge was worth all the hurt he was causing Kiew, she would bury him back down and remind him that everyone sucks and is out to get him and all he needs is her. Honestly, her fate at the end of the the drama made me give this review and extra half a star.

Kiew, unlike Praomook, was a female lead I could get behind. Throughout her journey and emotional abuse, her morals remained the same, and if anything she became a stronger individual who spoke up and knew her limit. I disliked how long she supported Peat and his abuse, but I could empathize with her believing in her love for him and that he was acting out on revenge and wasn't being himself. She remained that support for him, even after all the bad he was doing, hoping that one day it would be enough and she would comfort him with open arms. But I did appreciate that she did have a line, and when Peat crossed it, she was out. And when she decided she was out, she committed. And it made me so happy that once everything related to revenge was figured out at the end, she was like, awesome, I am happy that you guys figured it out and have no more hate against one another, but you still abused me emotionally, and that changes nothing. Eventually, though, we get our happy ending, and all if forgiven (a bit too easily in my opinion). And I would be more upset, but I did enjoy all the lovey scenes between Peat and Kiew. I felt like there was so much love there between the characters and even maybe the actors.

I would say, if you enjoyed this one, don't bother to watch Praomook. Or you could watch that one first and then this one because this drama definitely saved the day.