Love Me to Hurt Me

Picture a jewellery showroom at closing time: glass cases lit like small suns, and one woman behind them who owns every stone in the room and still cannot sleep at night. That is Song in Love Me to Hurt Me (รัก = ร้าย), a Thai girls love drama with a title that reads like a maths equation. Love equals cruelty. Uff, somebody is about to get their heart solved for x.

Song, played by Duangkaew Piyaoui, is a glamorous jewellery mogul with money and status to spare. What she lacks is peace, because one woman broke her heart years ago and never left her head. That woman is Oh, played by Ornicha Ongsritrakul.

Then fate hands Song the chance she has been waiting for. Oh walks back into her life as the new private nurse in Song's family home, and a contract keeps her there. Song decides that revenge tastes better served cold, so she makes every day under that roof as chilly as she can. Oh takes it quietly, because she is guarding the real reason the two of them ever broke apart.

Living that close to an old flame is dangerous. Resentment starts to slide into longing, and old wounds open one by one. When the secrets finally come out, Song has to face an awful thought: she may have spent all this time punishing the woman who gave up everything for her. Is there still a second chance, or did the revenge come too late? Supapat Phoncharoenrat and Marilyn Kate Gardner, as Cream, round out the main cast.