One of the earliest drama series from Singapore to be also filmed overseas, in Thailand and France as well.
The drama series that earned Zoe Tay her first Best Actress award at the 1996 Star Awards (the annual awards ceremony honouring the best of Mandarin productions from Mediacorp) until she broke the duck again in 2017. As of 2021, she has hold the record of winning it four times.
Fann Wong (as Mingzhu), Mak Ho-Wai (as Wind), and Fu Youming (as Sai Wu) were together in another drama series also in the same year in Yang guang lie che (1995).
Bryan Chan (as Brother Ji), Jin Yijin (as one of Li Qing's wives), Zoe Tay (as Xiaodan), and Chen Shucheng (as Sai Qilin) were together in another drama series also in the same year in The Teochew Family (1995).
Alex Man (as Sai Renniang) is actually from Hong Kong, while the people who played his parents Chen Shucheng (as Sai Qilin) and Li Yinzhu (as Jin Meiji) were actually born in China before settling down in Singapore.