Amaryllis_Flower

Blame the authors of the book. From what I've heard they're following the plot pretty closely.

Watch Pit Babe then. The car racing should keep you from getting bored. And Pavel has a hot body. 🔥

I think they are actually very close in real life but unless there are some of Zee and NuNew's IRL friends here none of us know exactly what's going on between them. Whatever their relationship is I wish them to be happy but I'm not invested outside of enjoying them act and sing.

Yeah he said that at the Maybelline event he was at today. According to the people I know that are fluent speakers of Thai It means something like the one who has your heart. I have no doubt that they are very close but this is not the common word for boyfriend (faen).

When I showed this to my best friend who is a native Thai speaker she was just confused.

Ava is a teenager. Not going to happen.

Paytai was surrendered to the royal family when he was a little boy as a slave / whipping boy. He was groomed. He is either using his wits to survive or he has Stockholm Syndrome. Either way he has no control.

I didn't say that because of the coming attractions. I said it because Zee has been promoting episode 7 as "the one".

I don't follow a lot of BL actors. Only ones I am sure are together are MewTul and PorchArm. And I was also sure about BothNewYear before they broke up.

I haven't seen anybody else definitively saying that they are in a relationship. Dancing around the subject doesn't count for me.

But I also don't care if the people I see playing romantic partners in a TV series are partners in real life. 🤷🏻‍♀️

You've seen episode 7??

I agree.

Paytai is trying to survive the best way he can. He used the word pet instead of slave but otherwise I totally got the dynamics of that relationship.

Khanin is being rebellious against his new life but he's using cunning rather than a sledgehammer like Ramil does to get his way.

I like mentally healthy characters. Must be a flaw in my personality.

Sounds like it sucks to be a woman in Emmaly, probably for Ava too.

No. Being wet does not make Zee look old. He's still a baby, just turning 33 in September.

I would imagine consummation of this relationship will happen in the next episode possibly at the end like the kiss happened at the end of this episode. Zee and NuNew's sex scenes are on the tamer side, not like Max and Nat. And quite frankly the one at the end of Cutie Pie 2 actually bored me.

Zee and NuNew are more emotional in intimate scenes and that worked well in the first Cutie Pie but they tried to make the scene way too long in Cutie Pie 2. Nine minutes of that was like getting drilled in the brain.

After the Episode 5 reaction video I was expecting more background on everybody in Episode 6. The only real revelation was on Charan's background. Explains why he's afraid of the rain, why he sees himself as little kid, and his connection to Thatdanai.

Charan is not a blood relative of Khanin. Although I didn't read the book I assume the king brought him up because his parents are dead. The king is not any kind of relative to Charan, but the king is fond of him and allows him to address him informally when they are in private.

I think you going to find out more about it in Episode 6 because that's when the background of all the major characters is going to be revealed.

I must have missed that. BTW this is a summary and not every single thing they said. I summarized what I thought were the most important parts. Otherwise this would have been three times as long.

One more snippet about this subject. In my summary of the TNP reaction video above, Ohm describes Paytai as a no one who has to follow the prince. He's just a follower with no rights.

Not editorialized by me at all.

TNP Episode Reaction

I'll lead with the most important information from this video just in case you don't want to read my entire post. Episode 6 is going to be a pivotal episode where they reveal the background of all the main characters. Presumably this is going to answer a lot of questions like the history of Ramil and Paytai, what happened while Khanin and Charan were on their way back to Emmaly and the history of the four regional princes. So if you've been bored by the lack of action this is probably the episode for you.

The actors recapping Episode 6 will be the fathers and the king. None of the other cast members will be present.

The cast present for the Episode 5 reaction video were Zee, NuNew, Jimmy and Ohm. NuNew is wearing a very cool SuperSun T-shirt.

My comments will be limited to reactions. So this won't make any sense if you haven't seen the episode.

The princes gathering before seeing the king. Lots of comments about each other's outfits. Ohm (Paytai) says he's a no one who has to follow the prince. He's just a follower with no rights.

Meeting with the King and Opening credits.

Morpeus University. NuNew says if the professor (Charan) was that hot he wouldn't be able to focus. Jay (JJ) is walking with his friend and gets a nosebleed. Ohm asks why is he bleeding? NuNew wonders is he sick or does he have health problems? Zee replies there are reasons, but he doesn't elaborate on what those reasons are.

Net shows up and they make a plug for Love Upon a Time (upcoming NetJJ series). Ceremony before the filming will be on September 13th.

Chakri giving Khanin a history lesson, and the chase! NuNew said this scene took many takes. Zee said the chase scene reminded him of Tom and Jerry.

At Morpheus University after Khanin shows up. Zee said that Charan is more comfortable in his role as a professor at Morpheus than as a royal guard. (Big surprise). A lot of joking about who was the most handsome in this scene.

Flashback (?) of Ramil and Paytai in bed. NuNew says isn't this too much? Jimmy hugs Ohm while the scene is running. They argue about whether or not this was the first kiss of the series or if the pocky kiss was. NuNew says that Khanin and Charan's kiss was an accident but Ramil and Paytai kissed on purpose. Ohm replies Ramil and Paytai have been close since they were young. Jimmy adds that once Khanin and Charan become close they will beat them anyway.

Scene in Charan's office with Khanin. Khanin is really jealous when Charan says he had a special class with Paytai.

Khanin and Chakri sketching the apple. We don't get to see Chakri's sketch but everybody said it was hilarious. Nu said others were sketching an apple but Chakri drew everything. The table, and everything around the model, but the apple was tiny. Nu said he was fighting diarrhea while filming this scene. I know TMI.

Charan in his studio. Zee says he got 18 filler injections in his chest for this scene. They do joke around so hopefully this isn't true. NuNew says only a rich person can do that. Zee said this is the scene that shows his feelings about Khanin have become serious. He started thinking about Khanin when he drew the apple and had to keep himself from falling deeper, because there's no room for heart and duty.

Back in the studio with Paytai. This is the scene where Ramil drags Paytai out of the studio. NuNew asks isn't this too much jealousy, and says "wow" as Ramil pushes Paytai into the column.

Dog collar in the car. Scene is blurred out in this video. Zee wanted to wear the dog collar. NuNew said it was hot and he can't watch it. Zee said the kiss shook their heads and it was an angry kiss. Each character has its own shade of gray.

Khanin loses his fencing coach. Jimmy says the coach's face wasn't shown in the scene because the story hasn't been told yet.

Khanin asks the king to allow Charan to be his fencing coach. Zee asks NuNew why he didn't just ask the king directly and Nu replied he had to be strategic or his grandfather would be suspicious.

Charan agrees to be Khanin's fencing coach. Zee said Charan is finally back on Khanin's side now. He's got to take care of him and teach him.

Charan with his butler in the art studio. Charan hears from the investigator who sends him a picture of Thatdanai. NuNew says Dad's alive. Zee replies maybe it's someone who looks like him (but I don't think so).

Annoying ad for nose inhalers. Needs to be made into a drinking game. In fact all the ads do. You could get quite drunk.

Charan beats Khanin fencing. Jimmy says he really likes this scene because it's one of the scenes that makes Charan express his emotions.

Final thoughts.

NuNew: this episode was more intense and we know what to do to seize the throne. The rest is nothing new. Just me following a guy.

Jimmy: You guys are like the characters in the series right? We don't have so many people we can trust. Just one or two. For Ramil, it's just one. Besides Charan, who does Khanin trust?

NuNew: Charan, Chakri.

Jimmy: Who else?

NuNew: he doesn't trust his father yet. They haven't spent that much time together. No one else I guess.

Jimmy: What about Thatdanai?

NuNew: He's the one Khanin trusted the most, but he's gone now.

Zee: Speaking of this Charan doesn't trust anyone either.

Jimmy: He's been all alone?

Zee: Right. His mom passed away (means the scene with his mom will be a flashback) and he just follows the King's orders. But yeah, that episode hasn't come yet. I don't want to spoil it. So he's living alone.

Ohm. That's sad.

Jimmy: what about Paytai?

Ohm: That's like Charan. Maybe just Ramil. I don't want to say too much. I want the story to unfold layer by layer.

Jimmy: The background stories of us all will be revealed in the next episode.

Zee: each episode will have revelations.

The end . This episode was short only 45 minutes.

The history tells us he was forced. But I just watched the reaction video of Zee, NuNew, Jimmy and Ohm of episode 5. They blurred the dog collar scene, so if you didn't see the episode on IQIYI you wouldn't even know what you were looking at.

Jimmy and Ohm were way too embarrassed to say anything about the sex scene, and Jimmy's only reaction was "wow" when he threw Paytai against the pole before they went to the car.

Zee mumbled something about gray areas but none of them were willing to make any significant comments on the entire scene.

The only useful commentary we got about it was that episode 6 was going into everyone's background and we will have more insight into the writers intent. My guess is they're going to try and sweep the abuse under the rug because they know nothing about grooming or BDSM.

Zee said that in the next episode it's the fathers only that will be doing the episode reaction. I assume that will include Saksit Tangthong (Thatdanai).

I plan on writing something about the rest of the reaction to episode 5 in a separate post a little later on.

It's no more a gray area than anyone who was brought up in a fundamentalist Mormon compound and sold to some ugly old guy.

It's shocking that so many people here don't see the parallel. Hopefully the writers do.

There's a difference between not liking it and not liking the fact that people in these comments are saying it's consensual when Paytai was groomed to live in abuse as a kid. This isn't love and this isn't romance. It just needs to be called what it is, abuse.

There's an opportunity here to treat this relationship seriously for what it is. And I hope the writers will do that although I'm not optimistic that they will.