Establishrelationship Stories

Johan Sirichai runs one of the largest industries in Thailand. North Kittisak is a 24-year-old electrical engineer who still takes the BTS to work and pays half of the grocery costs out of pure spite. They met four years ago because Johan had a bad meeting and walked in a direction he'd never walked in before. Three years and one shared apartment later, they're still "close friends" in every photograph that exists of them. Hill and Ter went public in February. Tonfah and Phoon at a gala. Arthit and Dao on a red carpet. Johan and North are the only ones left - and the only ones where one half of the couple has no family name, no fortune, and no idea what the internet is about to do to him. When the richest man in the country holds your hand in front of a camera, nobody asks whether you love him. They ask what you're after. This is a story about going public, staying private, and what it costs to be the ordinary one.