Dark Casttle Summary
Starring: Willy McIntosh as Dr. Paroot, and Mew Lalita as Princess Ouma
Princess Ouma (Lalita) just graduated from University of Letters. She found out that her mother would remarry with a rich businessman. She was upset with her mom and decided to run away on the day her mother got married. Her disappearance on that special day made everyone worried, especially a nephew of her mom's new husband who was really in love with her, tried to look for her after he got some information from her maid.
At the Train Station, he was chasing after her. Ouma frustrated. She hurried and ran into the handsome man (Willy McIntosh) who was just about to stand up. That was a sweet scene, their eyes met and held for a breathless second before Willy helped to pick up her suitcase and asked her (in a cold voice) whether she got hurt or not.
On the train, Willy's eyes were observing Ouma intently. Ouma sat still, her mind flew away until a strange man came to sit next to her. She was frightened, and she looked at Willy whom she thought that he would protect her, so she decided to move to where Willy was by excusing before she sat down beside him. Willy started his conversation with what he had in his mind by asking where she headed. Ouma told him that she was going to Lampoon to look for a job and stay temporary with her friend. Willy showed a little surprised and continued asking her whether she had been in Lampoon before. She said no, but assured him that she would be fine.
After they got off from the train, Ouma looked at a cute/gentleman (Willy) a little bit as if a sign of thank you or good bye. Willy stood still and watched her until she was gone. He told his driver who just came to pick him up that he would like to stay at the station for awhile. For some reasons, Willy expected to see Ouma back.
Like he thought, she went back to the train station. Ouma found her friend's address, but she was told that her friends just moved out from that area. She walked back to the station pondering a question of what she was going to do. Watching her sitting there alone, Willy walked toward her and asked her to join. Ouma surprised to see Willy was still there. After a short talk, he offered her a job to governess his little sister who was disabled. Ouma accepted it immediately. He didn't show much happy in his face. The nearest he had come to smiling had been when his mouth curved with derision and mockery. She just followed him to the car.
On the way to his home, Willy didn't even talk to her. Ouma tried to study his character. He was really the most unusual man she had ever met. His cold, unsmiling features had come close to making her feel that he looked troubled and also a little lonely. It seemed as if he was fighting a private battle. According to his maid calling him, she knew that he was a doctor. Dr. Parrot….what a strange name, Ouma thought. The house was situated in such beautiful surroundings, even thought it looked kind of old. She was introduced to Jai, his sister, a middle age woman, Chhem, and Kangnaa, a girl who was deeply in love with Dr. Paroot. Kangnaa wanted him for herself. She was very jealous to see Willy brought back such a beautiful girl to governess his sister Jao. Ouma noticed immediately that these two women despised her.
In the next morning, she was called to have breakfast while she was sill sleeping. She went down in a hurry, and heard Kangnaa blamed for her being late in the first day. Kangnaa asked Willy to send Ouma to eat at the kitchen with other maids. Ouma heard it, and then she walked in and said that she would agree to eat at the kitchen. Dr. Parrot interrupted their arguments by telling Ouma to join him here every meal.
Ouma became very friendly with Jao (his little sister). She taught her how to write, read, draw, crochet, and play a piano. Jeo was learning rapidly, and very gradually she was developing into a normal, happy girl. Dr. Parott was very happy to see them got along very well. He told Ouma that he hadn't seen his sister smiled for so long (well I think he meant it to himself too)
One midnight, Ouma heard the screaming voice…it was a sound of a woman who cried out as if she was under tragic and mysterious. Ouma got up and opened the bedroom door to see if anybody had heard it too. As her door opened, she saw Dr. Parott stood right there in front of it. She asked him whether he heard the scream or not...but he acted as if he didn't hear anything. Instead, he told her to go back to sleep, and not to worry about it Ouma was beginning to suspect that there was very little happiness in this house. It was as if a somber shadow had settled over the house.
Kangnaa and her close servant Chheam (that turned to be her mother at the end) kept find the way to send Ouma out of the house. Kangnaa and Chheam realized that Dr. Paroot was interested in Ouma.
Chheam warned Dr. Paroot several times not to be in love with Ouma, but Kangnaa. However, she would explore his secret about what he had done in killing his ex-wife. Dr. Paroot got so annoyed with her warning…. But nothing he could do. He was afraid that he would lose Ouma when she knew that he was a murder. Oh Willy...you're poor thing!!!
Chheam and Kangnaa had several plans to kill Ouma. One of their plans was sending her to see the victim woman who lived in the small house far behind the casttle. Chhem knew that Ouma wanted to know the mystery behind the house along with Willy's private life. Chheam had a nephew who lived there with her and worked as one of Dr. Paroot's guards. His name was Chhout. Through Chhout, Chheam tricked Ouma to see Mak Tip (a victim woman - she was Willy's mother), but Dr. Paroot got there on time to help her.
Dr. Paroot would love to do anything to make Ouma happy and stay here to governess his sister. He offered her to ride his horse every day during the time Jeo took a nap. Seeing her riding a horse, Chhem got an idea in starting her second plan. Once Ouma rode a horse round the yard, Chhoot let loose a poisonous snake to fright a horse, so Ouma would fell down from it and would be killed. Again, Willy came on time to save her life. He knew that it would be a Chhem's trick. Still…he couldn't do anything, but convinced Ouma not to give up in riding a horse.
One day, Ouma rode a horse up the hill and met a young pretty girl who owned the house with a beautiful landscape. Her named was Sreymatt. Sreymatt and her brother Vesnook were welcomed her as their new friend/neighbor. Visnook fell in love with her right away. In her next visit, Ouma met the Prince Tevong. He liked her in a way too. Prince Tevong was told that he and Princess Ouma were arranged and would be ready to marry when they both grew up. He wasn't sure if Princess Ouma that he was searching and this Ouma, Jeo's teacher were the same girl, but to watch her character carefully, Prince Tevong would guess correctly that it was Ouma who was the princess he was looking for.
Ouma's relationships with Srymath, Vesnook, and Tevong made Dr. Paroot unhappy. He was told that those two cute men were in love with Ouma. Dr. Paroot started to feel that he couldn't compare or compete with them, no matter how handsome he was or how close he and Ouma be together in the same roof. His unclear background could hold Ouma's decision in choosing him. He kept telling himself and his sister not to deeply in love with Ouma because one day she had to leave… she had to have boyfriend…and when that day had come, he and his sister would had been broken heart.
One lunchtime, Chhem came to tell Ouma that she had a guest waiting outside. She even mentioned loudly that it was "A MAN"...as if she wanted to catch Dr. Parroot's attention. Dr. Paroot told Chhem to bring the man in. He was Srymatt's employee. He brought Ouma the letter from Srymatt inviting her to join a special dinner that she and her brother made to honor Prince Tevong. Ouma knew that Willy wasn't happy with it. However, she told Sreymatt's maid that she would go. That evening, Vesnook came over to pick Ouma up. Before Ouma got out to meet Vesnook, she had an unhappy conversation with Dr. Paroot. In fact, every time Ouma asked him permission to visit Srymath and Vesnook, she always had an argument with Dr. Paroot. It was hard for her to understand whether he was jealous or else.
Dr. Paroot walked her out and introduced his little sister to Vesnook. In the meantime, Minn (his guard) came up with another man asking Dr. Parrot to help his wife who just about to deliver the baby. Dr. Parroot agreed, and before he left, he looked at Ouma, wishing her to have a pleasant dinner when he was going to work. He even said that between him and her, he didn't know who would come home first. That made Ouma felt very sad.
Ouma spent an uneasy evening in that party.. She could not be sure how long she stood by the table, helped to set up the dishes with her mind thinking about Dr. Parrott. She had to force herself to dance and play a piano. When Dr. Parrot came back from work, he stopped by the party's house…without their notice… just wondered what the party was. Unfortunately, he couldn't get away from spying them, so he made an excuse that he just came back from work and wanted to pick Ouma up back home.
One day, Dr. Paroot had to go to Bangkok for business. He asked Ouma to accompany him to the Train Station. Before he got in to the train, he told her not to trust anybody in the house besides Minn. He even gave her his gun in case something would happen.
In Bangkok, he had a chance to meet Ouma's mother. More than that, he met a young girl whose her face looked close enough to his little sister's Jao. While he was there, in his house at Lampoon had an incident. It was an unknown man tried to attack Ouma. He even called her "Pavin" (it was the name that she had heard several times in the past and couldn't figure out who she was).
Willy tried to find time to tell Ouma of his miserable private life, but Kangnaa always came to interrupt. Chhem started her third plan to break Ouma away through tricking Dr. Paroot to see the poor patient up far along the hill. This time, he had to ride a horse and asked Chhoot to escort him there. Chhoot came back to tell Ouma that Dr. Parrot had an accident…with her concern about Dr. Paroot's life, Ouma volunteered to go with Chhoot. Fortunately, Dr. Paroot came to help her on time. However, they got stuck under a heavy raining. Willy found the cave to stay while Ouma was faint. This part was a romantic scene that Willy and Ouma had to be together alone inside the cave (you got to see this…Willy took his advantage kissing Ouma).
Since then their felling toward each other are very deep. Unfortunately, the more they understood each other, the more Chhem and Kangnaa got really hurt. Chem got a new plan by telling Ouma the untrue story she made up…like he killed his ex-wife, Pavin; Mak Tip was Dr. Paroot's mother; and more importantly, Chhem forced Ouma to see Dr. Paroot with Kangna in his bedroom. (Chhem and Kangnaa set up this trick expecting Ouma to see it before Kangnaa was asked to leave the room).
(To make a long story short, I just copy the continued part from my internet sister, Sofia)
Ouma felt a big lost. Ouma decided to leave one day. She was falling in love with the handsome doctor, and wanted to escape from getting herself even more attached to the people living in the dark mansion. Through Visnouk, she found herself another job in another place.
Later Jao was dying so Ouma came back to visit her. In Jao's will, she gave everything to Ouma, so Ouma had to go back there to pick up the things. ( She didn't want anything really, all she wanted was stuff that she and Jao made together like the sewing and stuff.) Truths begin to reveal. At the end, everything was out in the open. Chhem was sent to jail for the murder of Dr. Paroot's wife. They found out Kangnaa was Cham's daughter, but she changed and they let her stay. Ouma and Dr. Paroot confessed their love and got married right away. Vesnook started to date Pim who was Paroot's other sister. Tevong, settled for Sreymat. They all lived happily together.
THE END