Episode 21 recap: Li Yi Jin joined colleagues in exposing Cui Bao Hui.
Xiao Yao, specifically to create a scene at Meng Yi An's company, apologized to Meng Yi An and wished Meng Yi An and Qiu Xia well. After Meng Yi An took Qiu Qiu away, Qiu Qiu expressed that she didn't want to learn dancing. Meng Yi An corrected Qiu Qiu's thinking, letting her know that learning to dance would be beneficial for her. However, Meng Yi An also believed that perhaps giving Qiu Qiu a happy childhood was the right thing to do.
Li Yi Jin went to the company early in the morning and received a call from Zhao Yuan, learning that Zhao Yuan was getting married and wanted her to be a bridesmaid. Li Yi Jin expressed her blessings to Zhao Yuan, entered the company happily, but then found out that Sun Xiao Ru had been falsely accused by Cui Bao Hui and had been slapped and retreated home. After understanding the situation, Li Yi Jin revealed the incidents of Cui Bao Hui harassing her, as well as secretly filming and threatening Sun Xiao Ru, and asked everyone to come up with a solution to help Sun Xiao Ru.
Li Yi Jin went alone to Sun Xiao Ru's home to console and persuade her, letting Sun Xiao Ru know that they would definitely find a way to expose Cui Bao Hui's true face. While Li Yi Jin was trying to solve Sun Xiao Ru's problem, she also had to figure out how to clear Meng Ming Wei's account. Coincidentally, Meng Ming Wei called, so she transferred money to Meng Ming Wei first, planning to compensate her with 400,000 and repay it over ten years.
Meng Ming Wei didn't expect that Li Yi Jin would really sever ties with her. She argued with Li Yi Jin in anger and said she would go to the bank to check the account the next day. After the argument with Meng Ming Wei, Li Cheng Zhi happened to return home, so Li Yi Jin asked for her salary card back. However, Li Cheng Zhi refused to return the salary card and didn't care about Li Yi Jin's affairs. He blamed Meng Ming Wei for not allowing the Li family to intervene in Li Yi Jin's matters, so now he had no obligation to intervene either. Because of Li Cheng Zhi's words, Meng Ming Wei accidentally dreamed of something that happened thirty years ago. At that time, she was pregnant and in an unstable condition, wanting to stay at home to protect the pregnancy. However, Li Cheng Zhi insisted that she go to her in-laws' house for the New Year.
Meng Ming Wei explained that the bumpy road to her in-laws' house was not conducive to protecting the pregnancy, and she wanted to wait until the child was born before going back. Unexpectedly, Li Cheng Zhi didn't agree and even pushed Meng Ming Wei, nearly causing her to lose the baby. After Qiao Hai Yun took Meng Ming Wei to the hospital, she set a rule that every daughter married from the Meng family had to return to her parents' house for the New Year's Eve.
When Zhao Yuan met Li Yi Jin to discuss marriage, Li Yi Jin inquired about Cui Bao Hui. Li Yi Jin believed that when Zhao Yuan resigned, she specifically mentioned Cui Bao Hui, so she must have also been harassed by Cui Bao Hui, just like her. Therefore, she wanted some evidence from Zhao Yuan.
Zhao Yuan explained that during company dinners, Cui Bao Hui would directly touch her thighs and later sent her explicit photos to harass her. She couldn't stand it anymore, so she resigned.
Zhao Yuan is getting married and doesn't want to deal with Cui Bao Hui anymore, but Li Yi Jin disagrees. She wants Cui Bao Hui to face the consequences and also wants to help Sun Xiao Ru get justice. Li Yi Jin asks Zhao Yuan to retrieve her old phone and extract the chat records with Cui Bao Hui as evidence for reporting to the police. Meanwhile, Li Yi Jin practices boxing at home with Tao Shu Na, intending to use it against Cui Bao Hui. Taking advantage of the opportunity to clean the house, Meng Ming Wei secretly takes her salary card that Li Cheng Zhi had hidden.
Meng Ming Wei goes to the bank with the salary card to check her balance, but to her surprise, her three years' worth of retirement savings is gone, and only the money Li Yi Jin transferred to her remains. Meng Ming Wei returns the money Li Yi Jin sent, but she can't stop thinking about the money in her account. As a result, she can't focus on even small tasks like grocery shopping and ends up tripping and falling.
After falling, Meng Ming Wei scatters the groceries she bought all over the floor. At this moment, a person claiming to be Xiao Gao from the same neighborhood comes forward and offers to help warmly. After helping, Xiao Gao becomes familiar with Meng Ming Wei and takes the opportunity to introduce her to the idea of making money through financial management. Meng Ming Wei doesn't take Xiao Gao's words too seriously and considers it merely a casual conversation between acquaintances. However, Xiao Gao later visits her and brings health products, pulling Meng Ming Wei into their group.
Thinking of a way to obtain evidence of Cui Bao Hui's sexual harassment, Li Yi Jin receives photos of Cui Bao Hui from Zhao Yuan and sends them to her other colleagues. The colleagues despise the perverted Cui Bao Hui and, after discussing with Li Yi Jin, devise a plan. Li Yi Jin pretends to have a fight with her colleagues and then seeks Cui Bao Hui's help. Taking advantage of the situation, Cui Bao Hui tries to harass Li Yi Jin again.
Cui Bao Hui asks Li Yi Jin to go on a business trip with him and makes inappropriate moves towards her. Li Yi Jin synchronizes the conversation with all her colleagues and uses their collective strength to take Cui Bao Hui to the police station, providing a huge relief for Sun Xiao Ru, who was victimized by Cui Bao Hui's actions.
Tao Da Lei, in order to please Meng Wan Qing, prepares a table full of food and plans to celebrate their new start together. Meng Wan Qing agrees to provide Tao Da Lei with living expenses and decides not to interfere in his extracurricular activities anymore.
What kind of character development is this? It's really infuriating to watch. Is Li Yi Jin supposed to be a doormat? She just takes everything in stride and can't even express her own opinions. And her mother is no better, a control freak who meddles in everything, constantly acting like she's doing it for her daughter's own good, but in reality, she's constantly belittling her own flesh and blood.
It's just speechless.