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I came here to ask this, too. His mom said if he follows in his grandfather’s footsteps, he won’t be able to have a lover. But the grandfather obviously did because he has a son. Was that before he started being a shaman? And why does Paran seem open to Prim if it would mean giving up his role? He seems fully committed to protecting this village and its people. Is he just going to walk away from that and get married?

He’s reminiscent of Boss Chaikamon to me.

Spending money on actors is a choice. It doesn’t entitle fans to a single thing about their personal lives.

There is not a thing in the world wrong with a 33-year-old man being in a relationship. These actors are PEOPLE, not products for fans to consume.

I'm assuming the scene where Akin is having dinner at the home of the couple and their daughter and the wife talks to him about marriage and what her wedding ring means was after Jin and Akin's breakup. It was very clear at the end of their last night together than Akin left the moon necklace on Jin's nightstand. But in the dinner scene with the couple, he's wearing it again. What's up with that?

Also, did it seem implausible to anyone else that the guy who was threatening to release the photos just gave up? He had photos that would have clearly showed both of their faces, right? So why wouldn't he just threaten to release more photos without the filter on them if Akin didn't follow through on what he had promised him? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it got resolved, but it just didn't make sense to me.

Ep 9 continuity and plot questions (I'll put the details in a spoiler comment below), but I'm wondering if anyone else noticed something about Akin's necklace. I also wanted to know who the couple was that Akin had dinner with (with the little girl and the hot pot.) Continued in the comment below...

Chian wasn't as all-in on Fou4mod for a long time and Fou4mod was about him, but I think that's okay. It's realistic. And he got there in the end.

Interesting. It really doesn’t seem that way to me. I think Chian is confused about his feelings.

Doesn’t it? There’s no amount of money you could pay me to go back to that stage of life.

I’m rooting for Fou4Mod and Chian, too, but geez, that’s a little harsh. I feel a lot of sympathy for sweet Baabin. He’s not owed required love, but he at least deserves a better friend.

I don’t think Chian knows what his intentions are for Fou4Mod either.

At this point, I need Lisa to come fix his poor little broken heart! 🖤💕

I’m not warming to him yet, but I fear tomorrow’s episode will drag me there and I’m annoyed about it. 😂

Yikes. I feel like this is a really harsh take on all the characters for them being like 15-16 years old. None of us were our best selves at that age.

Thank you. I appreciate it. I have gotten the sense that Mix may struggle with body dysmorphia and feels very insecure about his weight. That's why I think it's so important that we not bring it up, but I think in general it's just better not to make those kinds of comments.

Sure. The mom and daughter basically take over his house and make him live underneath it with the daughter's younger brother, who helps him run the orchard. The two of them eventually start a relationship, and the brother reveals that Thongkam's husband, Sek, had been in a relationship with his sister for about 10 years before he met Thongkam. Sek and Mo (the sister) initially plotted for Sek to seduce Thongkam in order to get access to his money, which was used to pay off the orchard. In the process of tricking him, though, Sek (who was secretly gay) fell in love with him for real and broke things off with Mo, who was devastated. She had loved him and had also spent most of her life caring for his mom. Thongkam realizes that he is in competition with Mo to inherit the farm when the mom dies, and to ingratiate himself with the mom, he becomes ordained as a monk temporarily, which is something that her son had wanted to do for her before he died. This is effective, and she starts to favor him over the adopted daughter, increasing her jealousy and bitterness toward him. While he's in the monkhood, Mo convinces her brother to overwater the durian trees, which causes a lot of the fruit to fall off before it is ripe, weakening the financial prospects of the farm. Thongkam figures this out and comes back to try to save the fruit, but Mo is scheming to get the mother to sign a paper saying Mo will inherit everything when she dies. When the mother refuses to do this, Mo pushes her up to the top of a hill, takes her out of her wheelchair (did I mention the mom is paralyzed from the waist down and pretty much depends on Mo for everything?), and puts her in a large fruit basket, leaving her there are deciding to walk away for good. The mom accidentally falls down the hill to her death, but just before that happens, she signs the paper and cries out to Mo to come back because she's had a change of heart. Mo lets her die, claims the farm, and then starts up a relationship with a local bureaucrat, who she marries soon after. Thongkam and the brother (Jingna) try to find a new buyer for the fruit that survived the overwatering, and they manage to make a deal to sell it for about 2 million bhat, I believe. They get half the money up front in cash and are supposed to get the rest when it's harvest time, but Mo claims the money and displays the piles of cash at her wedding, which happens inside the house. Outside the house, Thongkam and Jingna are in the orchard and say their unofficial wedding vows as the bride and groom are being pronounced married in the house. They eat a durian fruit together and carve their names into the seed like a wedding certificate. That night, as Mo and her new husband are sleeping, the two men try to secretly harvest the rest of the fruit to claim the other half of the money, but Mo wakes up, discovers them, and starts dumping all the durian down the hill into the river. She freaks out and attacks Thongkam, hitting him in the head with a spiky durian, bloodying his face. He fights back and both of them are wounded and furious. Then, in his anger, he ties her to a tree and says that if he can't have the farm, he's going to r*pe her so that at least his child will inherit it. She cries out for mercy and finally admits that Sek loved him and not her, which causes him to stop and realize what he's doing. (It seems like they both realize in that moment how tragic and hopeless their stories are.) Jingna comes running over to help Thongkam, but Mo's new husband has woken up by this point and comes running down the hill with a machete, slitting Jingna's throat. Both Thongkam and Mo are devastated. The husband grabs up all the cash and runs off, leaving her behind. In the end, Mo is seen standing in the house alone, looking out over the orchard, which is technically hers but which she doesn't know how to run and has no one to enjoy with anymore. Thongkam wants to claim Jingna's body, but he has no legal right to, and he leaves, having lost everything. So, yeah, it's a tragedy all around. : (

I wondered why Thongkam didn’t just take the paper and burn it.. I probably would have. I guess, though, the land would have just gone back to the state then. And he did care about Jingna.

I’m able to feel some compassion for her, though I agree she was a bad person, ultimately. Poverty and a lack of options cause so much harm.

It has a different sort of ending and tone, but I really highly recommend Hombres Armados (Men with Guns) from Latin America if you can find access to it.

I found it on YouTube (in the US) and I can say they seemed clear and logical to me. Of course I can’t speak to how accurate they are to the Thai.