Prang Kannarun is beautiful. I'm not much into Mai Warit, though. Either way, she is (secretly) paid to date him (even gets bigger money if she marries him... some weird set-up by character played by David Asavanond, who managed to cram himself into a suit for this role) while also being his secretary. I thought either she dates him or works for him, I didn't like mixing the two things up, even if she was just hired to do it.

It is extremely easy for a girl with looks of Prang Kannarun to perform her task (I think she has a hospitalized loved one she needs the money for), the guy is interested in her right away. He ostentatiously fights over her (not a fistfight, of course) with Ball Jitpanu's character but, as I don't like Mai Warit, I rather felt mischievously pleased whenever Ball Jitpanu's character was winning. Not that I like Ball Jitpanu that much better, but Mai Warit was the girl's boss at the same time so I found it uncomfortable that he was after her. But, like I mentioned, the girl had her own agenda. Maybe there was some comfort in that:)

Yes, it's definitely refreshing that this nang'ek doesn't act like a saint. She is not the loud and screaming type, either. The actress is almost 30 so it's good the role fits her (I was tired of watching 28-29 year old actresses potraying nang'eks who were NEVER kissed, lol).

The main guy I find so little attractive that I would prefer even Ball Jitpanu to him also runs a SUCCESSFUL company, despite the company being named 'Way Ex'. The way thai "understand" english is always funny, so one should not get distracted by that, lol.

I must say watching the main girl working as a secretary while her boss, her colleague, her boss' mother and her boss' girl/friend all pestered her was a strain. These 4 people say such things to her that if I heard just one of them said to me in a workplace it would make me leave immediatelly without notice, even forfeiting my money. Of course the reason the girl put up with that was she was obliged to her real boss, who hired her to get close to the guy. Still I thought that could be achieved by many other ways than working at his office. This irritated me as I am quite sensitive to "work dramas";)

Anyways, after such workday, when her boss was all trying to date her in the evening, I just found it rather creepy. Meanwhile, there is yet another desperate rival girl who is after the main guy AFTER he repeatedly rejected her for no reason at all (she's got similar looks to Prang Kannarun, and is available without any hassle). She, also for no reason at all, acts like he's the only guy in the world and of course she must be fighting against the main girl nonstop, which is just silly and tiring. Plus she drags along her gay friend, who of course is supposed to be funny (and isn't, much). Perhaps I sound bored but it's 2020 (2021 for me, even) and obviously writers STILL didn't update the scriptwriting style.

The two leads are seen jogging together and having breakfast, for us to understand they are getting closer. Then during dinner, he asks her to be his gf. I just didn't see how it fits together with them playing total master & servant in his posh office during daytime, but never mind, the plot was about her hidden agenda, here. Then tragedy strikes and she needs a million baht (lol) IMMEDIATELLY to save her gravely ill father, so there's no more time for playing. The beloved daddy is everything to our nang'ek, she states she would make an agreement with a devil himself if she had to. So, there comes the "devil" played by David Asavanond... LOL.

Then the hidden agenda stays no longer secret, as nang'ek is offered for a price to pra'ek. To be fair, it's possible that nang'ek's dad's illness was caused by chemicals used by pra'ek's company, but still this is a blow to him. He gets drunk, looks like he's lost his hope in her but then he hears Ball Jitpanu's character is lining up to buy the girl, too. So he buys her first. Even sets a clause in the contract that she must live with him and that he can sleep with her even without wedding, lol. The competition with the other guy seems very important to pra'ek.

But then, we're at episode 5 out of 19. After paying MILLIONS for the girl to BELONG to him, she still attends the office, talks to the other guy portrayed by Ball Jitpanu, that stays on. Pra'ek first looks like he'd drag nang'ek into his bed immediatelly then says he was kidding and decides to take things slow, that stays on. The runnings with the jealous other girl stay on... It felt so dramatic at the end of the 4th episode when pra'ek first learned the truth about under which status the girl actually approached him, but somehow all that mellowed down to a dragging usual thing with each side-actor keeping their recurring appearance in prolonging the screentime, the main couple navigating in between them in usual "step forth - step back" bickering courtship stretched to as many episodes as possible.

That's what's obviously awaiting us: when by the end of episode 5, nang'ek is buying groceries saying she would COOK for pra'ek, but that's IT. Later she'll get a proper job and pay the money back. LOL. Somehow the carefree atmospehere settling in did not correspond much with the fact that pra'ek just paid a sum of money she was not going to earn back in her lifetime, or 2 lifetimes. That if he hadn't, someone she loves would die. That she should not as much as LOOK at other guys now. No, she laughs with her friend, shrugs her shoulders and gets him a frozen takeaway meal. Why should she bother cooking?

If there is a "drama" to be had, then it would come from loud screaming females. It's either praek's aunty or his other girl. Engaging in many loud screaming scenes with our nang'ek. Why did they bother with this lakorn having more interesting plot than usual, when we practically don't work with it and just watch the usual henhouse? Probably the runtime stretch. I guess we might get to the plot back later in some episodes nearing the final.

So. Next episodes follow this pattern. I do understand they need to fill the screentime and employ all the side actors. It doesn't make sense for nang'ek who was BOUGHT by pra'ek to keep "working" at his office, but we need to see the other secretary (with nang'ek onboard, pra'ek has double secretaries) to employ the side-actress. We also employ Ball Jitpanu so he actually shares some scenes nang'ek should normally have with pra'ek, to still be a part of her story (and he is just as likeable a guy as pra'ek is... also double). We employ the rival girl and her gay friend... We employ the hysterical aunty role. Nobody cares if it makes sense.

Then SLAP/KISS begins. It's not a good kiss. It's a bad slap. Nang'ek says to pra'ek that he doesn't own her. Except he DOES. I'm sorry, but it's stupid. This world is full of even more beautiful girls than she is and she got paid millions just for nothing. Then she acts all offended. It's ridiculous. She either needs to experience more hardship besides the silly scenes with her home-invading loan shark, or she should keep those in mind. Nevertheless, Prang Kannarun cried half that episode. Her eyes were not red but there was impressive amount of water coming out of them. I wonder which technique did the make-up use.

Episode 8 she finally visits her dad, who says such heartbreaking things like he'd like to hug her every day, like when she was little. Prang Kannarun then cries a lot of her onscreen tears again, but I wondered if this finally should put the character she portrays in more perspective. The person to witness this visit is of course not pra'ek, but the second lead. I say this double-script involving surplus characters shall prove double-edged sword later. Pra'ek cannot develop that much connection with nang'ek if he has to share with one other person. After all, the leading couple should be the people who get close the most.

Besides that, nang'ek tries to investigate if praek's company really harmed her dad, and she thinks she'll find the company's compromising documents in pra'ek's bedroom. I'd think if someone really knows about this it would be praek's dad, morelike. Moreover, I think putting stupid plots like this in romantic lakorns is rather a disservice. I wished they'd put more energy in building the relationship. If they wanted to add something they should find a really hot guy to be the pra'ek and not Mai Warit. As for Prang Kannarun, she's really cute, even more without heavy make-up on. That's true beauty. Pitty the nang'ek she portrays is "smart" enough to use her mobile phone to sneak some pictures from pra'ek's company folders, but apparently not enough to realize she should tell him the truth about couple of things, now when he already tells her that he loves her.

Episode 10 out of 19 he even proposes to her. Then I thought she definitely had to talk to him, to clear with him before entering marriage else I could not approve. Of course things are more complicated as she's got the deal with David Asavanond's match-guy with millions at stake. But she is lucky to have rich suitor enough to pay it. She even has 2 to choose from: might as well have picked the other pra'ek portrayed by Ball Jitpanu.

Episode 11: I'm seriously bored. I don't care for any of the side-characters, like both the annoying aunties...
And I don't care for the main couple either, I'm not into Mai Warit. I don't feel the need to see all 19 episodes.