well i think this kind of thai lakorn is actually pretty cliche in love novels and many chinese/asian
1) girl left guy for unexplainable reason for some years,
2) girl come back(or get caught back),
3) guy is rich and powerful and famous and hot, then starts torturing the girl.
4) purposely goes with other women to make girl jealous cause he wants to know that girl still cares about him
5) despite his means doings to girl whenever girl is REALLY in distress he does seem to care
6) and no matter what he does to the girl we think it cute cause it is out of LOVE (well, distorted love)
only difference is the lack of R-scenes.
I am LOVING it, because i think Jai Rao makes more sense and is more practical than SB or JLR. SB, ken's character is just 100% in anger most of the time hurting everyone he can, he rapes a girl 4 freaking times and everything still turns out alright, talk about WEIRD? In JLR, aff has already decided to pretend as her cousin, which means whatever treatment she gets from harit, she 'deserves' it, then why the hell was she so mad at him when he found out she's not sansanee? I mean, she was the one that decided to take whatever hatred for her cousin, it is her own choice.
In Jai Rao, you can clearly see that although Vic is being a total ass right now, he did it because he loves aeoy, he wants her to suffer because then it can calm his anger and well, it is also a form of teasing actually that shows he cares. I don't see him being mean to any other woman in the show.
I ADORE this kind of plotline, ones that start with deep love/hatred already, because then you can feel in intensity. Those that start with falling in love scenes, talk about predictable? Bicker, bicker, bicker, rape, then love.
Thus Jai Rao is of a more, deeper type of lakorn, it analyzes love from a hurtful and painful way, and even if it is not like any K-drama, so be it.