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Thank you for all the information for the non book readers. I can sleep better at night now that I understand the ending! 😉

Question that I am wondering if they made more clear in the book… WHY ON EARTH did Yai decide to go to France - for YEARS!?! - after everything they had gone through to be together??? It was so out of character to me that i actually yelled “bullshit!” at the screen. I get that Yai’s dream was to go to France, but so was being able to be with Jom, WHICH THEY FINALLY ACHIEVED. [No thanks to Yai by the way. He would have been stuck in a loveless marriage for the REST OF HIS LIFE if it weren’t for Jom having the guts to intervene. My man Yai let me down by not putting up more of a fight about the engagement. I get that his options may have been limited given the time period and the circumstances, but his lackluster response did not show a man even trying to fight for the love of his life (or lifetimes, as it were).]

When Yai was lying on Jom’s lap at one point, he even said he would be ok with a “lesser” dream if it meant he could spend his life with Jom. Yet he didn’t hesitate even half a second when his mom made the offer, conveniently forgetting that THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE HAD JUST SAVED HIM from feeling dead inside for the rest of his life. (Oh, and btw, what was the plan if the marriage had gone through? Jom would be his not-so-secret lover? Jom would hang out just as a servant? Jom would leave?)

Is Jom just supposed to say, “Yeah, cool, cool, I just saved your ass, made it possible for us to be together, but yeah, no problem, I will just hang out here for YEARS, waiting for you to fulfill YOUR dream (which apparently doesn’t include me for several years).” I understand that typically a person might want to help their partner achieve a dream, but in this case… come on. (Also, a person might choose to stay with their partner after so many sacrifices had already been made 🙄)

Yai went on and on about how much he wanted Jom by his side, how he missed Jom so terribly every night they weren’t together, how he knew from the moment he saw Jom they had a deep connection, etc. It made NO sense to me that Yai’s character would just up and leave without a moment’s hesitation, and I felt it was just extremely, extremely selfish of him to chose to do so.

AND as if it couldn’t get any worse, Yai was still intent on leaving (when they were were under the tree at the end, Jom confirmed that Yai was leaving in a few days) EVEN WHEN he knew Jom was disappearing, although neither of them were sure on when that would finally happen. WTAF???

I really, really loved so much about this story (and even when I was angry at Yai, Bright’s performance was AH-mazing), but I was left with the feeling that Yai’s love, as passionate and effusive as it was, was ultimately naïve [he *was* only 20 and this was likely his first time being in love (in this lifetime)], and he was not really ready to make the mature sacrifices needed in these circumstances.

All that to say 😆 does the book explain why he made the choice to go to France - and let me take this opportunity to say yet again - FOR YEARS???