Apt 208

Storyline

She married him because her parents used an abacus bead and the eight signs of fortune. Her husband's family was a Nanyang overseas Chinese businessman (common in Hong Kong in the 1960s), and a divorce would have caused her family to lose their overseas Chinese remittance support. Neighbors complimented her on her virtue, and her husband's shirts were always snow-white. But they don't know that behind the glamorous life and the happy family that everyone praises, there are many lipstick marks on her husband's shirt that she try to ignore. The only thing left was the numbers on the remittance slips and the letters she sent to her family where she wrote that her mother-in-law and husband treated her very well. Later the man left for the Nanyang and she still lives in the old house. It was not that she was old-fashioned, but that she had once met someone there who had allowed her to briefly salvage herself from the ruins of an arranged marriage. But in the end he hadn't been able to take her away, and she hadn't been able to break free of her chains, and it was the memories that kept her here now. She always looks back at her life in this house and wonders if she would have ended up differently now if she had been braver.