Teo said that she used this work collaboration as an opportunity to ask for Wong’s handle on messaging platform Telegram, so they could communicate easily.
“I tried to speak more with him on Telegram. But you know what? He never replied. He only replied to me when it came to the work side of things,” she said, laughing.
“But when I started to steer the conversation towards our personal life, he would reply to me after some 14 hours with some response I can’t reply to like ‘haha’ or ‘okay’, that kind of thing.”
When Teo asked Wong out for supper one day, she said that it “opened up the foundation of our relationship”.
“That night we spoke for a solid three hours. We just went on and on and on,” Teo recalled. “After that night, it just felt like we could still keep talking about so many more things. And that’s when he became more responsive on Telegram.”
“I could feel the dynamics between us shift a little bit. Things between us progressed quite smoothly and swiftly, because it just felt so, so right.”
They met each other’s parents within three months of dating. “My parents are in love with this guy. They say ‘He’s so polite, he’s so kind’, and he treats my parents very, very well, just as he treats his parents well too.”
“I believe in dating a guy who is very filial,” she added.
