Eleven at night.
Shao Shuangshuang drove home alone.
Although Evergreen Liquid Group's standing had risen steadily during this period, her quality of life had not improved much.
Her car had merely gone from a 180,000-yuan one to an 800,000-yuan one, while her home was still the same old home.
She had not moved because she was used to living here, and she had been too busy lately to spare much time for house hunting.
In fact, Shao Shuangshuang had been preparing to move soon. She planned to buy a villa on Tiger Perch Mountain and pick a day to relocate.
The neighborhood had been rather noisy and dirty at night lately.
A tenant—an elderly woman who loved collecting junk—had moved in. Every day, she rummaged through trash bins, then dragged piles of scrap around the neighborhood, making everything filthy.
That would have been one thing, but the problem was that whenever she collected too much garbage and did not want to keep it in her home, she piled it in the stairwell and even inside the elevator.
Sometimes, when Shao Shuangshuang came home, there was nowhere to stand in the elevator. It was packed with discarded cardboard boxes and miscellaneous junk.
A perfectly good elevator had been made disgustingly dirty by that old woman.
Winter was manageable, but if it were summer, it would probably be swarming with flies.
Many residents had gone to speak with the old woman, but it had been useless. Instead, they got cursed out. The old woman was probably poorly educated, and her insults were extremely vulgar. A female student downstairs had been reduced to tears by her foul abuse.
The residents had no choice but to complain to property management, but the old woman immediately began cursing at them as well. She was elderly,