Qi Mu's affair was nothing more than a minor interlude.
Not long afterward, Yu Chuhui ran into trouble as well.
Because she had brought her mother to Shanghai and kept her there for a long time without returning home, her father came charging over in person. He found reporters to make a scene at her company, assaulted people on the street, got himself hospitalized and called the police—he put Yu Chuhui through hell. In the end, she put on an act, claiming she had borrowed from loan sharks and needed to use the family home as collateral to repay the debt. The house was what Yu Chuhui's father treasured most. There was no way he would let his daughter, whom he looked down on, use it to pay off her debts, so he hurriedly fled the hospital in disgrace.
That was another minor interlude. Wang Yan only learned about it because He Minhong had nowhere else to gossip, so she came to him, sympathizing with Yu Chuhui's difficulties, reflecting on her past hostility toward her, and condemning Yu Chuhui's father.
There was one more small interlude: Ye Zhenzhen's parents came to Shanghai on business and, while they were there, invited the other residents of the 22nd Floor and Wang Yan out for a meal.
Wang Yan was not dating Ye Zhenzhen. They were simply sleeping together. Although Ye Zhenzhen was terrible at keeping secrets and her parents had already sensed something, not dating meant not dating.
Still, throughout the meal, Ye Zhenzhen's parents looked at Wang Yan as though he were their son-in-law. The conversation itself was much more relaxed. Finance covered a broad range of fields, from traditional industries to the internet, virtual currency, and all sorts of conceptual matters.
They had originally intended to observe Wang Yan and