Ploy Lom Phet (2002)

This lakorn has been one of my favourites since I was young. I'm surprise to see no reviews for this but a few ratings. I thought I'll submit one - though I may be bias because this is one of my favourites and I don't really have a real reason as to why.

I originally watched it in khmer with mayura dubbed on VHS, found it on vickii and youtube many years ago in thai and mayura dubbed. My thai isn't fluent but I've watched this many many times.
I would like to say thank you to spicycurry21 for helping me watch this lakorn again. Now onto the review!

Story: One of your typical mafia drama where you have someone who tries to outsmart the mafia(s), cheat, steal, tries to have a scape goat and is greedy. Karma will definitely take care of this. Lots of action, fighting scenes, gun shootings, kidnapping and running and hiding. One of the best things about the olden lakorns is that there rarely isn't unnecessary side plots and side drama and it doesn't interfere with the main storyline.
The leading couple hates (loves) each other and their romance/relationship is your typical push and pull.

Komute follows our female lead around Palin to bully here and tells her how she stole his sister's husband. He takes every chance he has to tell her how worthless she is and how bad she is. This is an extreme bully the girl you like. I've watched a few of the ML lakorns and he tends to play this character with FL a few times. He plays this type of role well and thai dramas at that time had a handful of ML and FL with this type of character. But no matter how mean our Komute is to Palin he is always there to rescue her each time. He is such an alpha.. geezes LOL. Also when he has a moment of weakness he shows clearly how inlove he is with Palin (hiding in the mountain, hospital). Also the cello tape kiss is one for the books!

Palin, we first see her as a timid character who allows herself to get bullied by her family. She wants to follow her father's wishes to listen to her uncle. The uncle honestly, he is just selfish and one of the worst. And he is the older brother.. greedy and he deserves his fate. As the lakorn progresses she stands up for herself more - including self defense. Her cousins are just rude people, always trying to throw her to Chanon (his mom is just as bad as him, honeslty). Palin's aunt is the only one who truly cares and has a conscience.
One thing that is really funny and the brother/sister pair truly deserves it was the ladder scene (and they try to blame Palin). They try to throw her off for escaping to SAVE THE UNCLE'S ASS ABOUT THE STUPID RING, ends up getting on the ladder - fighting with each other on it and falling down when all the servants let go.

James and Alice are my favourite support characters. I'm surprise they manage to hide their connection to the mafia for the length of time that they did.

Whenever I'm bored and don't know what to watch, I find myself looking to re-watch this. Very few lakorns make it to my re-watch list, and this is definitely one of them. This lakorn isn't the greatest but it's been one of the most enjoyable. It has a good mix of romance and action.

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"Not even once did i win over myself, Without any strength i failed fleeing from my own heart" -OST

This is a old-school action/ romanctic drama lakhorn from 2002 and like the title says, it is based aorund a certain ring called: Jewel Encircled Diamond which is first seen on our heroine`s Pan Pailin`s (portrayed by Namfon Kullanat) finger for the first time at her parents fashion show in Hong Kong. Chaos erupts and tragedy befalls when her both parents get shot and one man in particular manages to rescue her, our charming but cynical hero Komute (portrayed by Bee Petvisetsiri).

The plot thickens even more when she moves in with her uncle and tolerates the verbal abuse from her jealous and greedy cousins and then she from nowhere gets forcefully engaged to the oldest son of a rich family. It happens to be the man Komute`s sister had been engaged to and got her pregnant with- and who also cruelly left her. Komute`s rage intensifies and he takes his sister to the wedding and curses Lin & Chanon. His hatred intensifies even more when he has to travel to Hong Kong and meets Lin on the journey- not knowing that she actually had a secret deal with her uncle to return the Jewel Encircled Diamond to a Mafia Don. And from then on Lin gets chased with Komute having to rescue her and escape with her everytime. This was an unforgettable journey indeed, what an adventure!!!

Their chemistry was literally sizzling my computer screen, omg how i loved them bickering. Those rare tender moments of him just looking at her longingly and kissing her cheek...ahhhhh my heart!!I love how Komute hated so badly to fall for her against his will. But ahhhhh how it was to late. He fell before he even knew her poor smitten hero. Lin was a beautiful and vulnerable heroine who strived to be strong and to not be helpless, as she was in most cases. We have the supporting sidekicks James & Alice who actually were the children of the Mafia Don who always helped Komute & Lin. This was a amazing drama, never a boring episode!

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