She chose the guy she wrote letters to, but her heart stayed at the post office.
Season 1 • Episode 1
LatestWhen she was still a little girl, Qiao Shan (Joanne Peh) would pour her heart out to her father who was working overseas through handwritten letters. And receiving his letters and gifts was the greatest happiness she knew then. Hence it's no surprise that she maintains her long-distance relationship with her boyfriend Caleb (Pierre Png) through snail mail. Which explains her frequent visit to the post office. The very place where she crossed paths with destiny - freelance interior designer Zhang Shao Qi (Roy Chiu). Caleb finally returns home. But Qiao Shan's rashness stirs up much unhappiness between them and leads to a break up. Although already besotted with Qiao Shan, Shao Qi encourages her to go back to Caleb as her heart is still with him. Caleb re-accepts Qiao Shan. Yet an unexplainable sense of loss overcomes her as she returns to his side.
Acting
Roy Chiu's pining looks could power a small city.
Production
Handwritten letters as actual plot devices, not just aesthetics.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2006 Singaporean telemovie captures a specific pre-smartphone era where snail mail still carried romantic weight, making it a time capsule of early-2000s Asian melodrama.
Roy Chiu and Joanne Peh would later marry in real life in 2014, making this early collaboration almost uncomfortably prophetic.
