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Love Mechanics (กลรักรุ่นพี่)

Love Mechanics (กลรักรุ่นพี่, also romanized as Kon Rak Run Phi) is a Thai university boys' love (BL) romance series adapted from the novel กลรักรุ่นพี่ by Faddist, telling the story of Mark, a first-year engineering student, and Vee, an engineering senior who already has a girlfriend. The story exists in two screen versions: a four-episode 2020 installment of the En of Love anthology produced by Wabi Sabi, and a ten-episode 2022 full-length remake produced by WeTV and Fillframe, both led by the actors Yin Anan Wong and War Wanarat Ratsameerat.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	กลรักรุ่นพี่; also known as Kon Rak Run Phi, Love Mechanics: The Series, and 愛情力學¹
Source material	Novel กลรักรุ่นพี่ (Love Mechanics) by Faddist¹
2020 version	En of Love: Love Mechanics, 4 episodes of about 30 minutes, aired 11 April to 2 May 2020, produced by Wabi Sabi²
2022 version	10 episodes of about 55 minutes, aired 18 June to 6 August 2022 on WeTV, directed by Lit Phadung Samajarn¹
Leads	Yin Anan Wong (หยิ่น อานันท์ ว่อง) as Vee; War Wanarat Ratsameerat (วนรัตน์ รัศมีรัตน์) as Mark³
Franchise	Second story of the En of Love trilogy, between Tossara and This Is Love Story; has the 2023 side story Future the Series⁴^•³
Reception	IMDb rating 8.0/10 from about 2,200 votes; DramaBL score 75.0, in the site's top 25%⁵^•¹

Spoilers

Plot

The story centers on Mark, a first-year engineering student who confesses his feelings to Bar, a senior on the university swim team. Bar rejects him outright because he is interested in Kan, a medical student, and begins a relationship with him. Vee, Bar's friend and a senior in Mark's faculty, warns Mark to stop pestering Bar. Devastated, Mark gets heavily drunk at a bar; Vee finds him barely conscious in the parking lot at night and takes him home.³

In the bedroom, Mark, misidentifying Vee as Bar in his drunken state, initiates sex, and Vee eventually reciprocates. The next morning Mark is distressed by the encounter, and both learn that Vee has been dating his girlfriend Ploy for three years. They agree to forget the night, but Vee keeps checking on Mark, a second kiss follows, and Mark's feelings shift from Bar to Vee. Vee then flirts with Mark behind Ploy's back through dates and secret meetings, while Vee's friend Nuea openly pursues Mark as a rebound, with their social circle encouraging that match instead.³

The 2022 synopsis frames the dynamic as a rivalry that turns personal: Mark and Vee clash publicly, undermine each other privately, and the morning after their unplanned night leaves Mark trying to file the event away as a mistake while Vee keeps reaching for explanations and proximity, all under the constant complication of Vee's long-term girlfriend.¹

The 2020 original: En of Love: Love Mechanics

The first version aired as the second installment of the En of Love trilogy (โปรเจกต์ซีรีส์วาย : กลรักรุ่นพี่), between En of Love: TOSSARA and En of Love: This Is Love Story. It ran four episodes of about 30 minutes from 11 April to 2 May 2020, directed by Ko Nantalit Tampacha and Niink Karnpicha Sinlertpattana with screenwriter New Siwaj Sawatmaneekul, and was produced by Wabi Sabi, the Thai BL studio also behind Love by Chance (2018) and Until We Meet Again (2019).²^•⁴

Reviewers judged it the strongest of the three En of Love installments while still criticizing rushed storytelling, in which events happen without buildup and crucial scenes are replaced by single lines of dialogue. The compact four-episode length was seen as preventing the narrative from building momentum.⁴

The 2022 remake

The popularity of the Mark and Vee storyline led to a full-length remake titled simply Love Mechanics, announced while the 2020 series was still airing and streamed on WeTV from 18 June to 6 August 2022.¹^•⁶ Lit Phadung Samajarn directed, with screenwriters Bee Pongsate Lucksameepong and Brook Natthakorn Julrasorn, and production by WeTV and Fillframe.¹

Casting and production. Yin and War reprised their lead roles, as did most of the supporting cast; only the actors playing Bar, Kan, and Ploy were recast. The remake expanded each episode to roughly 55 to 65 minutes, for a total runtime of about 9 to 10 hours against the original's roughly 2 to 3 hours.³^•²

What changed. Reviewers describe the remake as a substantial improvement: polished production values, expanded storylines, more romantic content, and character development that the shorter version could not accommodate. The ending was also reworked, moving Vee's final gesture to a rooftop dinner with a ring rather than the classroom scene of the 2020 version.³^•⁷ Critics still flagged the same core problems in both versions, including a first-episode sexual encounter between a drunk Mark and Vee that lacks informed consent, and Vee's infidelity toward Ploy, which the story treats unevenly.³^•⁸

Cast

Yin Anan Wong (หยิ่น อานันท์ ว่อง) as Vee, the senior with a girlfriend who becomes entangled with Mark.³
War Wanarat Ratsameerat (วนรัตน์ รัศมีรัตน์) as Mark, the first-year engineering student; born 1994, his first BL project was the 2020 En of Love franchise, and he later led The Best Story (2021) and Jack and Joker (2024).³
Prom Ratchapat Worrasarn as Nuea, Vee's friend who pursues Mark.⁹

The Thai press coverage of the remake highlighted the pairing of "Yin" Anan Wong as Vee and "War" Wanarat Ratsameerat as Mark as the series' headline attraction.¹⁰

Reception and related works

The 2022 series holds an IMDb rating of 8.0/10 from about 2,200 users, with individual episodes ranging from 7.8 to 9.2 and the finale the highest-rated at 9.2.⁵ On DramaBL it scores 75.0, placing it in the site's top 25% of rated dramas.¹

The franchise continued with Future the Series (2023), a six-episode side story following Fuse, a supporting character from Love Mechanics, who begins a relationship with the dental student Ana; Vee and Mark do not appear but are referenced throughout.³ A Japanese Blu-ray release followed on 23 June 2023, and the series has been distributed in Japan through platforms including Telasa, Rakuten TV, and AbemaTV.⁹

The series belongs to the broader wave of Thai BL drama that grew into one of Thailand's most visible cultural exports in the early 2020s, a genre scholars describe as offering a positively framed romantic depiction of male-male love and one that the Thai government has increasingly treated as a soft-power resource.¹¹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › Turkish, Middle Eastern, and African serials › Thai serial dramas (lakorn) › Premiered 2008 to 2024

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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