Khunchai Tidru Khunnu Tid Din

Khunchai Tidru Khunnu Tid Din is a romantic comedy-drama about class differences, hidden identities, family expectations, and tangled love in both the city and the countryside.
After the annual wild Siam tulip festival has ended, Jandong (Siraphan Wattanajinda), a young development worker and founder of the integrated agricultural fund for the community of Ban Khao Ta Yen, travels to Bangkok to look into a snack factory business at the invitation of Ying Jongkol (Watchararasamee Sunthonpanawet), wife of In (Ped Chernyim). Although wealthy, Ying Jongkol and In still deeply cherish their rural roots — so much so that they even keep buffaloes on the grounds of their enormous mansion.
Although Jandong’s arrival is welcomed by Ying Jongkol and Phra In, it leads to constant verbal sparring between them, because in the past they were romantically linked to Phuyai Mueang (Warut Woratham) and Janda (Punika Yogakul), Jandong’s parents. Ying Jongkol wants Jandong to train at her snack factory because she wishes to support the experimental rice developed by Jandong and the villagers and use it in snack production. More importantly, she hopes Jandong can help reform the behavior of her son Khunchai Usman (Natthaphon Liyawanich), a spoiled young man who wastes money and spends his life chasing women — especially Nongphanga (Chalisa Boonkhrongsap), whom Ying Jongkol absolutely forbids him from dating.
The woman Ying Jongkol believes is truly suitable for Usman is Kachamat (Piyada Turongkul), the beautiful owner of a flower shop. But Kachamat is instead interested in Laikhaen (Jutarawit Kochanuam), a country boy from near Jandong’s home, whom Ying Jongkol has supported through his education and later brought in to help manage the snack factory. Usman dislikes this but can do nothing about it. As for Laikhaen, he does not dare to reach for someone as high above him as Kachamat.
Meanwhile, Jandong disguises herself as a fat buck-toothed woman because she does not want Usman to recognize that she is the same woman he has previously clashed with, and because she wants to teach him that rich and poor people are equally human and should not be looked down upon. She tells everyone that her name is Jandong, and that she is the twin sister of Jandai. Usman feels miserable that his mother forces him to drive her back and forth to her lodging every day. By coincidence, the apartment Jandong rents belongs to Nongphanga, who becomes furious seeing Usman pick Jandong up, especially since she previously had conflicts with both Jandai and Kachamat during a night out at a club.
Jandong and Kachamat, after meeting by chance in a pub, quickly grow close and take a liking to one another. During the internship, Jandong and Usman are constantly at odds. When her training period ends, a farewell party is held, with both Usman and Kachamat attending. But because Usman becomes jealous over Kachamat, he gets into a fight with Laikhaen and insults him as a country bumpkin. Deeply hurt, Laikhaen resigns and returns to the countryside with Jandong without even properly saying goodbye to his elders. When Ying Jongkol and Phra In hear of this, they are furious and punish their son by ordering him to bring Laikhaen back to work and apologize for insulting Jandong as a rural nobody. That is not all — Usman is also sent to Khao Ta Yen for three months to be disciplined, living with Phuyai Mueang and Janda. At first he refuses, but once he learns that Kachamat is also going to bring Laikhaen back, he goes willingly.
Back at home, Jandong discovers that the storage house for her experimental organic compost fertilizer, which she had developed to provide affordable and effective fertilizer for local farmers, has been looted and destroyed. The culprit is Sia Chatchai (Supoj Jancharoen), a wealthy fertilizer businessman in Khao Ta Yen. Helping him are Thong (Derr Doksadao), a villager hired by Jandong’s parents to guard the storage house, and Thong’s daughter Saitharn (Lakkhana Wattanawongsiri), who are secretly working for Chatchai and frame Chomchan (Jaturong Kolimart), a traveling film-show operator, for the crime. Thong is drowning in gambling debt and desperately needs money, while Chatchai knows the secret that Thong and Saitharn are father and daughter. Thong keeps this hidden from the villagers because he does not want his wife Uan (Ann Karuna) to know he once had another family, since that could cost him her financial support. Saitharn, meanwhile, has had to sell herself for favors just to get a car from Chatchai so she can travel around singing.
When Usman comes to live under the same roof as Jandong, she has to go back to wearing her buck teeth disguise. Everyone in the house becomes suspicious, but she manages to deceive them all — except for her younger brother Kangkaew (Master Paphichan Khamphiranon). Meanwhile, Laikhaen brings Kachamat to stay at Jandong’s house because he does not want people gossiping about her. Jandong then gets her revenge on Usman by making him spend the night guarding the fertilizer shed in place of Uncle Thong. Even with a strong young man like Usman guarding it, Sia Chatchai remains unafraid and orders Thong to mix chemicals into the compost, even sending his thugs to attack Usman. The plan fails, however, because Jandong, her parents, and the villagers arrive in time to help, though Usman is injured.
This incident causes Usman and Jandong to begin developing warm feelings for each other. But because each assumes that Laikhaen likes Jandong and Usman likes Kachamat, neither dares reveal their true emotions. Kachamat, in contrast, openly shows how much she loves Laikhaen — even going so far as to flirt openly with him at his farm. Yet Laikhaen pretends not to notice, even though he has already begun falling for her. Believing he truly has no feelings for her, Kachamat feels ashamed and returns to Bangkok. When Laikhaen learns that she has gone, he realizes he does not want her to leave and begins trying every day to win her back. Eventually, with help from others, Kachamat returns to Khao Ta Yen.
Jandong, devastated by being blamed for things she did not do, goes to a cliffside border area to release her sorrow. Usman follows her there, and the two finally begin to understand each other better. But on the way back, Nongphanga orders Chatchai’s men to ambush Jandong. Luckily, Usman arrives in time to save her. Just then, Chomchan happens to drive by in his fertilizer truck, causing the two to once again mistakenly suspect him. Yet Chomchan is also chased and shot at, leaving him injured. Later, Nongphanga manipulates him into believing that Jandong’s side is responsible.
Saitharn gradually becomes disgusted by the evil deeds of Chatchai and Nongphanga and begins to pity Jandong, Chomchan, and the villagers who have suffered because of them. She starts looking for a way to expose Chatchai’s secrets and help the entire village.
Even after so many troubles, the romances among Laikhaen and Kachamat, and Usman and Jandong, remain unresolved because none of them are willing to fully open their hearts and face the truth.
How will the tangled love among Usman, Jandong, Laikhaen, and Kachamat move forward, and how will it finally end?
Find out in “Khunchai Tidru Khunnu Tid Din” (The Fancy Young Master and the Down-to-Earth Young Lady), airing every Monday to Friday at 7:00 PM on Channel 3, beginning on Friday, December 10, 2010.