The Last Peony Petal

Story

The Author “Sampaothong” has recently received the Best Book Award for his novel “Botan Gleep Sudtai”. However, no one knows who Sampaothong is. He is really Ah-Joo, the 3rd son of Ah-Cheng and Meiling, a Chinese couple who runs a food shop in Thailand. His oldest brother Ah-Jo works at an electric appliances and the 2nd brother works at a bank. Ah-Joo’s father has never cared about him as he thinks Ah-Joo is a jinx on his family. However, his father likes reading “Sampaothong”’s novel although it’s written by his son, so Ah-Joo tries to communicate with his father through the book and decides to write a story about a family with three daughters. The Ah-Chang family has three daughters; Dala, Panan and Tanyong. To do research for his book, Ah-Joo applies for a labour job at the family’s Chinese Opera House ‘Chang-Sin’. Tanyong, the youngest, thinks Ah-Joo is a spy from another opera house so tries to drive him away by teasing him and trying to find faults.