What do you get when Thai Indiana Jones meets royalty meets a striking student? Well, Khun Chai Tharatorn of course, story one of the Five Gentlemen Series. The premise of the story centers on Khun Chai Tharatorn Juthathep (aka Khun Chai Yai played by Grate Warintorn), eldest of five siblings, hailing from a long line of Mom Rajawongs (Thai Honorables) who is a professor and archaeologist. This is where the Indiana Jones comes in because our Khun Chai Yai goes on an archaeological excursion to a prasat (ancient castle) and finds himself having to protect the national treasures.
Conflict number two comes in the form of an old age promise his noble father made to his friend: that one of his five sons must marry one of his friends three daughters. We learn that this is due to a debt that their father owed his friend: he saved his life during WWII. Now if one of the three daughters were our main girl, then all would be a fairytale story. Instead we have three girls whom two are pretentious and self-serving, while the eldest is a good egg. Between the two families, everyone presumes that Khun Chai Yai will be best suited for Khun Kate (Mint Natwara), who is demure, unpretentious and kind. It’s hard to hate the girl and you can’t blame Khun Chai Yai for agreeing to see if they click and have any potential future together.
The only problem is, Khun Chai Yai grew up with Momluang Raweerapai aka Maprang or Prang (Pream Ranida), our main girl. She’s sharp, adorable and praises the ground upon which Khun Chai Yai walks upon, not to mention that she’s his student (scandalous!) Khun Chai Yai adores her and treats her very platonically although secretly he thinks about her more than he should think about any mere student or “sister.” But needless to say, our guy is not fully aware of his feelings about this Nong Prang.
