When Yifeng asked how he managed to pay off his debts, Mark said he had to quit gambling.

“Had I not quit, I’d be continuously be borrowing money and gambling again and again. Once I quit gambling, I gradually came to realise that I was able to pay my debts off in small amounts, like S$50 to S$150 over time,” he revealed. 

He shared that no one offered him assistance, and he found himself helpless when he had no money to return what he owed.

One day, he returned home to see his mother reading a newspaper. That image of her made him decide to quit gambling.

“From when I started gambling to when I lost money and racked up debts, my mum never said a single word about it to me,” said Mark. “Maybe it’s from her body language but I saw that she had a lot more veins in her hands. That was when I knew I really had to stop gambling.”