"Ratee Luang" (which also goes by the title "Love and Deception") is a thai lakhorn from 2022 that stars Puen Kanin as the enigmatic and hot-tempered male lead Pitai "Tai" Phitsanukan and Chippy Sirin as the stubborn and tough female lead Pla Chadathan. We get a lot of Cupid references and symbolism in "Love and Deception" where Cupid who is the god of love & desire along with the mystic forces of destiny leads our main-leads on a merry ride. Pla and Tai starts off as friends with Tai falling for her older sister Koong and planning to marry her. But finding out that Koong cheated on him with his own father enrages him into a soul deep bitterness and rage, not only directed at his father and Koong, but also Pla. We watch him race towards the rainy storm in middle of the night, uncaring of his fate.

But Cupid and the forces of destiny have other, more magical plans in store for our heartbroken hero. We see him running away from Pla in one of the flashbacks in ep 1, while hiding he angrily watches Pla from afar, with a statue of Cupid right near him with his raised bow. Ultimately...the deep fixation Tai has for Pla-and in his anger of her...steams of desire will grow until he do force and blackmail her into marrying him. Love bloomed without neither of them really expecting in their course of fighting each other. Pla gives him the kiss that awakens him from his cloud of hatred and vengeance. It is such a intense but highly entertaining journey. They are lovers to be tested in this long sweet journey, but as Cupid wills it, "love conquers all".

Romance in "Love and Deception" really worked out for me because Pla and Tai were both interesting characters and together they fired up the screen. Their relationship developement was done and built very well.All props to the actors Chippy and Puen as well, its my first time watching them on-screen and they gave delightful performances. I totally loved the child-actor playing Tan as well, so cute! What i had most problem with this lakhorn was actually the editing. It was good sometimes, but very bad in some other cases which was very obvious in the start and end of this lakhorn.