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Sua is trained in a male dominated culture at the college. The motto is
tradition, unity and seniority. His adventure in the forest begins when he is
confronted by the great bandit, Sua Term. Sua's daring and tact wins Sua
Term's admiration. He is also persuaded to give up illegal logging. Sua
graduates in the midst of WW II. After the War, he furthers his education
at the Bangkhen Agricultural University in Bangkok.
At the Forestry Department, where Sua takes up his career, he is assigned to
various parts of the country. His adventures bring him face to face with the
tycoons in the logging industry, corrupted colleagues, police officers and local
administrators, gangsters, bandits and hooligans, and a variety of women. The
hero never fails his mission. His honesty, reliability and hard working
personality is renowned and these virtues, coupled with his modesty and the
religious principles of his childhood enable him to triumph over his enemies.
From his humble origins as a country orphan Sua becomes a respected civil
servant and the heroic guardian of the forest.
Mia: the emotional adventure of the Goddess
Mia is a romance story of a country girl. Arunphrapai's emotional adventure is
set within her arranged marriage with the son of a bourgeois family in the
capital city. The heroine's father is a local administrator in a small town in
the central region. After graduating from college the heroine takes up a job in
the catering department of a first class hotel in Bangkok. She agrees to marry
the hero, Kongkai, as an escape from her ex-boyfriend. She also gives up
her career in order to be a full-time home-maker.
Khunying 1 Pawan, the hero's mother manages both the family business and the
domestic affairs. She re-establishes the business after her husband's bankruptcy
and suicide. Although her son is the managing director she continues to be
the real influence in his work and personal life.
The hero is a philanderer. He consents to the marriage arrangement to please
his mother although it interferes with his love affair with Prungchat, the
daughter of an aristocrat family. The complications in this triangular
relationship begin when both women struggle to win the true love of the hero,
and not least, the legal title of 'the wife ' . Despite Prungchat's pretence that
An honourary title for the wives of aristocrats, high ranking civil
servants and the nouveau riche.
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