SINGAPORE - When he was in Secondary 3, Mr Pi Jiapeng dropped out of school but he always told friends that he would make it big one day.
An only child, he lived with his single mother in a three-room flat in Yishun until December 2019, when he met Thai national Pansuk Siriwipa. They got married in September the next year but did not have a big wedding dinner.
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