The Taiwan-based star was bubbly when asked about her new direction. She was in town to promote her 10th album, Fall In Love & Songs - Don't Shed Any Tears For Him.
Leong, 31, tells Life! in an interview at Marina Mandarin Hotel recently: 'I am very happy and stable in my current relationship and I want my fans to know that.'
The guy who has stolen the sugary singer's heart is a 33-year-old known only as Tony whom she got to know in Shanghai through colleagues. According to Chinese media reports, he is in the wholesale alcohol business.
Going by online photos taken by the Taiwanese media, he looks quite the gent in a shirt, tie and black half-rimmed spectacles.
Leong previously had been rumoured to be dating Masa of rock band Mayday.
If there is a song to describe her life right now, she says it would be C'est La Vie (French, meaning this is life, though it is also a saying, that's life).
She gushes: 'The song is apt because I have a busy and hectic life now, yet I still have the support of my family and boyfriend. This is what I call life.'
This year also sees the singer act in her first movie.
She refuses to divulge its name or significant details, although she hints that she would play a comedic character.
On whether it will be difficult for the queen of heart-rending ballads to switch to something lightweight, she says she is fine with it.
She says excitedly: 'I can be quite comedic in real life and I often play pranks on my colleagues. I am absolutely looking forward to the role.'
It will certainly be a break from her constant output of saccharine songs about falling in and out of love.
Her 10th album, like those before it, comprises mostly love songs.
Critics have bemoaned the lack of variety, but the Taiwan Golden Melody award winner wants to stick to her winning formula of ballads and soothing songs.
She says: 'Some of my songs are cures to heartbreak and people like listening to them. In the latest album, I focused on the idea of purity of love, as can be heard in my closing cut, Nursery Song.'
Other songs on the album include the chart-topper No If and a schmaltzy duet called PK with fellow Malaysian singer Gary Chaw.
On working with the talented Chaw, who is also a composer, the artist says 'he was fun but a little shy'.
'He didn't dare to look straight into my eyes when we were recording our song in the studio, so it was a little awkward initially.'
The star with the closet joker streak says: 'We always ended up bursting into laughter.'
* Fish Leong's album Fall In Love & Songs - Don't Shed Any Tears For Him is out in stores now.
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