GAP (Novel)

GAP (ทฤษฎีสีชมพู, Pink Theory) is the Thai Girls' Love novel by Chao Planoy that Idol Factory adapted into a 2022 series. The author self-published it, and an official English edition of 941 pages was released as an e-book on 14 January 2022.

Mon has admired Sam since Sam helped her years ago. After university she pursues a job at Sam's company and finds that Sam is cold and exacting with her.

Sam is her employer, eight years older, and descended from royalty. Gender, rank and age all stand between them, along with company rules and social class. As Mon breaks through Sam's reserve, her admiration turns into love.

The novel is long, at roughly 129,167 words in English, and much of that length goes to the working relationship between the two women: an office where Mon now works for the person she once admired from a distance. Mon's side of the story starts from a single encounter years earlier, which the book then tests against the colder woman she meets at work.

Chao Planoy has written for some twenty-three years, with more than a hundred titles behind the name, roughly fifty of them Girls' Love. The 2022 series was directed by Nuttapong Wongkaveepairoj and aired from November 2022 to February 2023.

Idol Factory adapted the novel in 2022 as a twelve-episode series, with Freen Sarocha and Becky Rebecca in the leads.