If you’re looking for a drama with a strong, lovable male lead, this lakorn is not for you. Let me begin by saying the male lead in this lakorn have a long list of horrible characteristics that will make you just want to punch the screen and your blood pressure will go up. So if you are planning to watch this, get ready to rant and buckle up for a whole lot of WTF moments.

Personally, I did enjoy the rom-com like storyline of the whole arranged marriage concept with the twist of switching the actual bride from the rich family to our lovely female lead to deceive the male lead despite the whole backlash received due to a specific explicit rape scene on Episode 9 and the aftermath of that scene. Regarding this scene, I do have to agree with the audience and I find the backlash reasonable as this aired on a family-like channel which barely shows “lovey dovey” scenes (For example, most of the kissing scenes are usually edited out in their lakorns, but this scene went live and felt that it is inappropriate). However, the aftermath of the whole alleged rape is reality in some cases. Even though we all hated seeing the female lead facing negative reactions from people surrounding her (especially her husband), that is just reality.

Personally, even with the backlash, I did not feel like dropping this lakorn half way through, I wanted to see what goes on up until the end. Beginning to middle of the lakorn felt way too overdramatic for me. Like I found the male lead’s acting overdramatic and cringy in the beginning episodes. He definitely ended up in my list of worst male leads. Gem of the lakorn for me was the female lead. I loved her acting, loved her characteristics. I felt her acting made her character more realistic to the point where viewers felt her happiness and sorrow where at a point, I wished the female lead does not end up with the male lead and have their “happily ever after” ending. However, the last couple of episodes made their feelings more genuine (maybe because of the less overdramatic rom-com like acting). Most of the time, I enjoyed the lead couples FIN moments towards the end of the lakorn and I really wanted to see Jiew and Tee together! I thought they would make such a cute couple.

Overall, this is a decent lakorn. The plot was solid and ended very nicely. I loved the OST. The production was not the best (like the last episodes were edited badly, I believe they had to remove scenes and re-edit due to the backlash). Cast did a fantastic job as well. So I am definitely looking forward to see Pie Ramida and Bright in the future lakorns.