Ron Does Stuff

We got some tragedy in the previous episode, with Tonkla dying. Let’s see how this affects the story moving forward, especially since we only have two episodes left.

Tonkla is well and truly dead, with the first scene of this episode being his funeral. There’s some flashbacks to their younger years and even to their recent times at college/university/however they call it in Thailand, and I guess it’s a small blessing that Tonkla is an orphan because I can’t imagine what his parents would have felt if they found out why Tonkla died.

Tong is understandably inconsolable, although Mark tries his best. Mark also helps him clear out Tonkla’s things from the student accommodation, and joins him as he mourns Tonkla in the apartment. There’s cuddling, but not the horny kind.

Back at Thara’s place, we’re still on this ~stay away from each other~ story and I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I’ve had it.

This show has started and dropped plot lines within a single episode, and yet this is the one that they can’t shake off. There’s only two episodes left of this thing! Why are we still on this! This is not a last third of the season kind of plot. By this point, they should be resolute in their love and their challenge should be something external, like Nakan!

I think the show is aware of this as well, because it distracts us with Mark taking Tong to the bathroom, where there’s a bathtub full of roses. And being a simple man, I am distracted. I never claimed to be a complex being!

Tong, however, isn’t as easily distracted. Tonkla’s death still weighs heavily on him, and he convinces Mark to let him join him when he interrogates one of Nakan’s men. He doesn’t think that Nakan will hurt him, and that’s there more to Nakan’s plan when it comes to his precious fairy vagina Golden Blood.

During the interrogation, Tong steps in when it doesn’t look like Mark is getting anywhere with the prisoner and use his precious fairy vagina Golden Blood to get the minion to talk. We find out where Nakan is, but Thara isn’t happy about how they got the information, but what are you going to do about it now? It’s already done.

Mark and Tong have to separate again as Mark is off to hunt Nakan, and just to make sure that he and Tong don’t miss each other too much, they swap shirts so they can keep their smell on each other.

Mark takes Tong to Thara’s place, and while Thara is being her usual disapproving self, the show gives us an audio cue as Tong walks into Thara’s home. Is there going to be a twist where Thara is the one who’s been evil all along? We don’t find that out just yet, but we do find out that Tong will be staying in Mark’s old bedroom.

After a sequence of Mark and Tong looking out their respective windows, looking up at the same moon, we get Tong being offered a non-conditional scholarship by Thara to study abroad, in any field that he chooses. And as a pewr, can I just say I would have jumped on that scholarship in a heartbeat? Non-conditional? Bitch, I will gladly take your money and run. But I do have to commend the show on this take on the male lead’s mother-in-law paying off the female lead. Or in this case, the other male lead. And Tong acts like how you think he would, refusing Thara’s bribe and telling her that he’s still going to be with Mark, no matter what she says.

And then Thara calls Mark back? I thought he was off chasing Nakan, but I guess not? She’s not happy about the two of them insisting to be together, but she offers a deal: Bring Nakan to justice and she’s willing to have another discussion on this.

While Mark is off searching for Nakan, Tong finds himself in a secret room after following Mark’s cat around Thara’s house. Mark’s scenes are easy to understand for me — fight scenes — but I don’t know where they’re going with Tong’s, since they’re not showing us what it is he’s seeing in those torn pages. But we get an idea from Nakan, who reveals that Thara wants Tong’s precious fairy vagina Golden Blood for herself to turn it into an elixir of life. But she’s already a vampire? ANYWAYS.

We then find out that Tong’s precious fairy vagina Golden Blood doesn’t lose its power once he turns 21. Instead, it gives whoever drinks it the power to kill other vampires. Tong isn’t the first one to have it, and what Thara has been doing over the centuries is drinking all the ones who’ve had it to destroy her competition and climb to the top. However, using that power also leads to her body deteriorating. And you know what? This revelation made some of the ugh moments of this episode vanish for me. I didn’t even care for the flashback to the bathtub scene right after!