Payback

Theemekha "Sun" Rungsapdee (Min Thanakorn Wichanukhor) collects debts for a loan shark, a job he keeps telling himself is temporary, until the night one of those debtors puts a knife in his younger brother. In the same stretch of days his boyfriend, Thanapat "Bank" Loetkraisorn (Fuaiz Thanawat Shinawatra), disappears with the money set aside for his mother's cancer treatment. Five years later Sun is delivering parcels for a living when he looks up at a billboard and finds Bank's face on it: the man who took everything from him is now a rising actor working under the name Sunny. Sun talks his way into the same entertainment agency, close enough to take it all back, and in doing so walks straight into the path of Athip "Jay" Wanitsakitphaisan (Toptap Jarukit Kaewmoonrueang), the company's unlisted managing director.

Jay's interest in the new arrival is neither professional nor accidental; he has his own history with the events of five years ago, and what forms between the two men runs on leverage and mutual suspicion long before it runs on anything warmer. Moving around them, Sky (Shogun Paramee Thesdaroon), Kajorn (Khunnote Jirapat Uttamanan) and Songphon (Moo Klot Atthaseri) each hold a piece of what really happened, and none of them is inclined to give it up cheaply, while Pavinee (Nook Suttida Kasemsant Na Ayutthaya) and Jo (Gandhi Wasuvitchayagit) fill in an industry where image is the only currency that counts. The closer Sun gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell his revenge apart from everything else he has started to want.

Directed by Woodie Pongchaiphat Sethanand for Raize Up Production, with A Plan International Group, Kidari Studio, Copus Japan and Fuji Television Network, the ten-episode series adapts the Korean BL webtoon Payback (페이백) by writer samK and artist Fujoking, serialised on Bomtoon and Lezhin Comics from 2 June 2021 and itself drawn from samK's web novel. It aired Saturdays at 22:30 on One 31 from 30 May to 1 August 2026, with an extended streaming edition arriving on iQIYI the same night; the two editions differ in what Thai broadcast standards allowed on air. Carried by the ToptapMinlee pairing, it is a crime melodrama first and a romance second, grief, debt, betrayal, and the price a person pays for collecting on all three.