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He's Coming To Me (เขามาเชงเม้งข้าง ๆ หลุมผมครับ)

He's Coming To Me (เขามาเชงเม้งข้าง ๆ หลุมผมครับ) is a 2019 Thai television series about a lonely ghost named Met and the boy Thun, the only living person able to see and speak with him, whose bond grows across the annual Qingming (เชงเม้ง) grave-tending festival while the two investigate Met's suspicious death¹^•². It was produced by GMM TV together with LINE TV, directed by Nopnach Chaiwimol (นพณัช ชัยวิมล), and ran for 8 episodes, first airing on LINE TV with a rerun on the GMM 25 channel¹^•³.

Key fact	Detail
Native title	เขามาเชงเม้งข้าง ๆ หลุมผมครับ; English title He's Coming To Me³
Basis	Adapted from the novel เขามาเชงเม้งที่ข้างๆหลุมผมครับ by larza⁴
Format	8 episodes, 1 season, status ended; start date 7 March 2019¹^•³
Broadcast	LINE TV (first airing), GMM 25 (rerun)¹
Director	Nopnach Chaiwimol (นพณัช ชัยวิมล)¹
Lead cast	Prachaya Ruangroj (Singto) as Met; Pawat Chittsawangdee (Ohm) as Thun¹
Genre mix	Romance between the living and a spirit, mystery of an unexplained death, family and friendship themes²

Spoilers

Premise

The story opens on Met (เมษ), a young man who has been dead for more than twenty years with no one who ever came to tend his grave¹. As a ghost he cannot contact other people, and after his relatives stopped visiting he waits each year through the Qingming festival, the Chinese ancestral grave-sweeping day that gives the series its title⁵.

Everything changes when Thun (ธัน), a ten-year-old boy, happens to come sweep a grave next to Met's that year. Moved by pity for a grave that looks as if no one will ever visit it, Thun leaves a heart-shaped candy from his pocket, not knowing that this small gesture will become the beginning of an attachment¹. The boy promises to return, and he is the only person who can see Met and talk with him⁶. The series then follows the two worlds of the living and the dead, and the search for the mystery of Met's death, across the years as Thun grows up².

Plot development

As Thun grows into a university student, he teaches Met about modern life, and Met begins to enjoy learning new things in the present day⁷. Two revelations drive the middle of the story. First, Met learns that Khwan (ขวัญ), Thun's mother, played by Sai Charoenpura, was a junior of his whom he secretly loved while he was alive, which may explain his special attachment to Thun⁷. Second, the mystery around Met's death becomes clearer when Thun discovers that Met is a relative of Prayfah (ปรายฟ้า), played by Sarocha Burin, a woman who secretly likes Thun⁷.

The romance between the two leads develops alongside the investigation. In the source novel, Met, who died of a heart attack at age 25 and spent ten years alone as a ghost, comes to treasure the boy's yearly offerings until his feelings turn to love⁸. A dialogue scene in which Met proposes that they become a couple, without the words sounding like a confession, is cited in an academic study of the novel as an example of purposeful romantic dialogue between the two male leads⁹.

Cast

Prachaya Ruangroj (ปราชญา เรืองโรจน์), known as Singto, played Met, and Pawat Chittsawangdee (ภวัต จิตต์สว่างดี), known as Ohm, played Thun¹. Supporting cast listed for the series includes Wachirawit Ruangwiwat as Prince, Hatthachat Chuwikharun as "Golf" Khiewkhem, Gigi Sarocha Burin as Praifah, Ampere Suttahip as Wuttichaipradit, Ngoon, Jeng, and Intira Charoenpura as Kwan Amata Piyavanich¹⁰.

Singto said in a GMM Grammy interview that playing Met was his first ghost role and, at first, he assumed the ghost would be frightening; the director told him the ghost of this series had to be lovable. He described the hardest part as acting against green screens for the computer-generated effects, performing scenes two or three times while imagining passing through solid objects, and a death scene that required him to hold his breath and keep his eyes open while conveying emotion¹¹.

Themes and reception

A study of male-male romance in Thai Y series classifies the show's coming-out scenes as a distinctive feature: Thun chooses to come out to his mother, while Met comes out to Prayfah, the woman who secretly liked him, and in both cases the other person ultimately accepts them¹². A review of the series praised its cinematography for building attachment to the slowly forming relationship, and singled out the casting of the child and adult Thun, whose matching smiles make the two actors read as one person¹³.

The series carries a 73% score on TMDB, where it is listed as a mystery drama created by larza with GMM Grammy among its companies¹⁴.

Source novel

The series adapts the novel เขามาเชงเม้งที่ข้างๆหลุมผมครับ by the writer larza, published on the Tunwalai platform, where it runs to 30 chapters and has drawn about 1.72 million views⁴. The novel's tagline captures its premise: because Met had neither relatives nor friends, no one came to sweep his grave, not even a single person⁴. A reader review describes it as a gentle fantasy that concentrates on the relationship between Thun and Met rather than on horror or the supernatural, with a simple plot that gradually builds attachment and suspicion until the reader wants to know the truth⁸.

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026