My Dearest Assassin Ending Explained: Are Pran and M Dead?

Helmed by Taweewat Wantha, Netflix’s ‘My Dearest Assassin’ or ‘ Lueat Rak Nakkha’ is a Thai action thriller that follows Lhan, a young woman who is not allowed to leave her house. Though she lives with an eccentric group of assassins for hire, Lhan is never allowed to participate in the training, either, just like the master assassin’s son, Pran. Over time, the duo builds a powerful friendship, not realizing exactly how badly the world outside is looking for Lhan. In reality, she possesses the rarest blood type on Earth and is being hunted so that every last drop of her blood can be used to keep a CEO alive. Determined to regain her autonomy once and for all, Lhan decides to learn the ways of assassins and become strong enough to take out her enemies without shedding a drop of blood. SPOILERS AHEAD.

My Dearest Assassin Plot Synopsis

‘My Dearest Assassin’ begins inside a hospital, where a wealthy CEO appears to be on the brink of death. What makes things infinitely trickier is that the CEO has aurum blood, another name for the rarest blood type in the world. For now, only one donor seems to be available, and the CEO’s second in command orders the doctors to drain that man of all of his blood, even if it means killing him for certain. While that is indeed what happens, they only manage to save the CEO’s life for the next few days, perhaps just hours. To keep him alive for longer, they need more blood, and hearing that the CEO’s underlings hire an assassin to locate people with aurum blood.

After looking all over the world, the hunter settles on Vietnam, where a girl named Lhan lives peacefully in a village with her family, not knowing how valuable her blood is. When the hunters step in, they ruthlessly kill Lhan’s parents first, before attempting to drag her back with them. By pure chance, however, we learn that there was another party that had already made a deal with Lhan’s parents to take her away, and they arrive just in time, saving her from the hunters. This third party turns out to be a house of assassins, and Lhan is supposed to lead the rest of her life without leaving the house even once, as the hunters are still at large. Over time, she befriends the master assassin’s son, Pran, and his best friend M, who is training to be an assassin himself. Pran secretly trains with M and proves to be the superior assassin, but still isn’t selected by his father for a mission.

One day, years after Lhan first arrives at House 89, Pran suggests sneaking her out of the house for a date night. While things get very romantic, by pure chance, she runs into the hunter again, who recognizes her by the scar he left on her years ago. Eager to settle the score and get her blood for the CEO, the hunter pays a hefty sum to the rival assassin gang, Mala, who launch a stealth attack the following night. While House 89 is able to respond in time and takes out most of the underlings, in the process, Pran gets severely hurt. Soon, it’s revealed that he, too, has aurum blood and that Lhan was taken in mainly as his blood bank. Though Pran survives, his father and many other assassins die in the process. Desperate for revenge, Lhan decides to train and become an assassin herself, and by the time the hunter and Mala inevitably discover House 89’s new hideout, she’s ready.

My Dearest Assassin Ending: Are Pran and M Dead?

At the end of ‘My Dearest Assassin,’ both Pran and M sacrifice their lives for the sake of Lhan, taking down the Mala group with them. Although Lhan trains with everything she’s got to beat the hunter, it turns out to be not enough in front of an army of assassins. After a successful initial charge, House 89 begins to get overwhelmed by Mala, with Lhek and Doji dying in quick succession. At the end, Lhan defeats the hunter and leaves him to die, and is soon joined by Pran and M, who’ve just defeated Chaba and Blue. Their fatal mistake, however, is not finishing off Chaba, who uses that opportunity to open fire on the escaping trio’s car, shooting Lhan in the process. In a twisted turn of fate, the bullet ignores her vest entirely and lodges itself deep into her chest.

With not enough time to get to the hospital, M and Pran end up conducting an emergency treatment to save Lhan’s life, but the biggest problem turns out to be not her injuries, but her blood loss. To make things even worse, Chaba decides to give the trio chase, slowly gaining distance with their own car. At this point, Pran and M have no choice but to split responsibilities, with the latter taking on Chaba, and the former using his own blood to save Lhan. The moment marks a poetic reversal of roles, as this time it is Pran giving up his blood to protect the person he loves most. While Lhan never would have hesitated from giving her blood to him, it still doesn’t change the fact that she was raised essentially as a blood bank and forced to stay shut behind closed doors.

Unlike the last time that blood was exchanged between Pran and Lhan, this time the connection is in reverse, with Pran making a selfless choice at the cost of his own life. When his blood dripping slows down, he fills his body with blood-thinners, despite knowing that this might make the process irreversible. Meanwhile, M’s battle with Chaba gets particularly gnarly as well, as both sides wrestle for control over any weapon that can tilt the fight in one direction. Ultimately, Chaba finds a knife first and plunges it into M’s body, creating a wound that ultimately takes his life. Similarly, Pran sacrifices every last drop of his own blood, subverting the entire first sequence of the show, where a man is killed for every bit of blood to be extracted. While that blood is used to keep an evil businessman alive, this exchange of blood is an act of love, which is precisely what makes it so powerful.

Is the Child Pran and Lhan’s Son?

The final sequence of the movie introduces a child who is strongly implied to be Pran and Lhan’s son. Given that Pran dies after the climactic flight, it is likely that this child was conceived the first time Pran and Lhan had sex. Lhan, who now leads a quiet life with her son, appears to have continued the assassins’ trade, except this time as the sole member of House 89. In doing so, she also recreates the cycle started by Pran’s father, who did everything within his power to protect his son, someone with an extremely rare blood type. As fate would have it, Pran and Lhan’s son also shares this blood type, which makes him one of the rarest people on Earth. Lhan, knowing the tragedy that can come out of this rarity, resolves to never let such a fate befall again.

While Lhan returns to Vietnam with her son, her life here is completely different from how it was before. No matter the journey that got her here, Lhan more than anyone understands that leading a caged life isn’t any better than being hunted day in and out. While Pran’s father prefers the former, sheltered way of life for the people he loves the most, Pran and company take the more aggressive approach. Even though they all lose their lives at the end, they die knowing that someone is still there to carry that torch forward. For Pran and M, that someone is Lhan, the person they both loved.

In keeping with the spirit of the sacrifice by Pran and the others, Lhan vows never to have her blood drawn out because of conflict ever again. While there is a powerful element of self-autonomy at play here, Lhan reveals that this vow is also because her body now shares the blood of the person she loves, Pran. For this blood to go away would sever her direct connection to him, which is why she fights so hard to protect it. Thus, Lhan, well into this second chapter of her life, moves forward in constant remembrance of the people who got her to this point, especially Pran.

Does Lhan Kill the Hunter?

While Lhan remains dedicated to protecting her son from external threats, a part of that duty is to get rid of external threats. Surprisingly, the very last set of scenes reveals that the hunter survived and eventually escaped the fight, but was killed by Lhan years later. Given his love for antiques, it is likely that she manages to bait him with a prospective deal. However, when the hunter does arrive, she offers him his own gun packaged in a box, signaling the end of the line. Without a warning, Lhan stabs him right where she originally intended to, except this time, it has enough force to get him to bleed out to death. The strike is reminiscent of Pran teaching her about the most vulnerable spots in the body, and for her to use that as a finishing move is likely no coincidence.

Killing the hunter goes beyond just securing the future of Lhan and Pran’s child, as it’s also the culmination of a longstanding vendetta that Lhan has held in her heart. The cycle began with the hunter killing her family and branding her for life, which makes it only fitting for the movie to end like this as well. While the CEO who was taking on the aurum blood is most likely out of the picture now, there might still be more hunters gunning after Lhan and her child. However, given what we have seen of her martial prowess so far, she is likely going to pull through one way or another.

What Happens to Chaba and the Mala?

Though Pran and M die at the end of ‘My Dearest Assassin,’ they ensure that the Mala house of assassins is definitively taken down. While Blue is killed in the earlier assault, Chaba meets their end in the final knife fight with M. While we don’t get an exact confirmation about when they died, by the next morning, two dead bodies can be seen in the background, presumably belonging to M and Chaba, respectively. While this brings an end to the years-long rivalry between the assassin houses, it comes at a severe cost. Between both parties, Lhan is now the only remaining assassin, and ironically enough, that satisfies the iron-clad rule of this craft that Chaba recalls earlier in the movie. A battle between assassins only ends after one side is completely demolished, and in this case, it’s both.

While Lhan has the skills and resources to restart House 89 from scratch, it’s unlikely she ever decides to do so based on what we see of her future. From the looks of it, House 89 retains its nature as an antique furniture shop, which is fittingly the kind of normal life that Lhan has craved her entire life. Though she no longer has Pran, M, or the rest of the crew to share this happiness with, she vows to carry all of their memories forward, with her son by her side, reminding us that this is primarily a story about family more than anything else.