Qiao Zizi + Ding Mom Arc:
Shu girl is gonna get married with Zhu kid. Before, when they were engaged, they did it so that Zhu old man would be happy. This time however, Zhu kid proposed 'for real'.
I think MC is already a female diplomat/ambasador? There was a scene in which Ding Mom saw MC on the tv and talked about her being it, but not sure if something didn't get lost in MTL... Anyway, Ding Mom wants to lie on MC's coctails, so she wants to go to the capital and get some benefits for herself from MC. After all, she thinks that 'since MC is now an diplomat, she can't let other people know that she's not fillial to her parents' or other bullshit.
Qiao Zizi want's to divorce her husband. She's currently staying with Ding Mom, since her husband slapped her in the face. It seems like Zizi was playing around with other men, so yeah...
I think there was another time skip that I missed. Qiao Nan has now been in the ministry for 7-8y, while the oldest count I had was 4y. Also, something that I missed before, was that MC's father moved to the capital 5y ago. NanNan's kids will soon go to junior high school as well.
Ding mom and Qiao Zizi came to the capital and wanted to go to MC's house. Before they got in, MC was driving by, so she stopped and took them to a teahouse. Turns out MC has been giving Ding Mom 1k $ a month for 'support', but Ding Mom is more greedy and directly said that she would like to live in MC's house. MC obviously didn't agree, and it ended up with keeping the 1k$ + adding renting a house for her in capital. Also, not sure if I understood it properly, but it seems that Zizi has a daughter as well, but I'm not sure on this one.
While that was happening, her husband went ahead and found himself a lawyer to help with the divorce. Turned out that he hired a private detective before, and has a lot of evidence of Zizi cheating on him. After he left the lawyer's office, the lawyer called Chen scum.
Turns out he's an classmate of Chen Jun, and the person with whom Zizi cheated was Scum Chen. Scum Chen wasn't bothered by it, since he pretty much thought of Qiao Zizi as a monthly subscribtion prostitute. Give her some money per month and she'll sleep with him, He just threw her away.
Xu friend Arc:
Qiao Nan has a friend with the surname Xu as well. I'm not sure where she came from, I somehow missed it. I think she might be a person from the English club MC used to belong to in college. Anyway, she's married as well, and her daughter is friends with MC's daughter.
Turns out her husband wants to divorce her, and found a lot of people claiming that she's a bad person, bad mother etc...
Surname Xu asked Qiao Nan for help, so MC found a private detective that used to be in the army before, and he found proof of her husband cheating on her and making another woman pregnant.
Also, while the husband looked pretty good before, taking care of the kid and all (since Xu was working in a good company and often had to stay for overtime), it turns out that their familly is pretty strict with their way of thinking, and they favour boys over girls. So the kid was taken care by the grandmother, and even tho they 'took care' of her, she still prefers her mother.
The house they live in, aside from a part of mortgage, was mostly paid with the money from Xu. Now her husband wants to divorce her, keep the kid, and get the house as a benefit.
They both got themselves lawyers, and it ended up with Xu's being on the winning side. She asked for the parental right of her daughter,
alimony, and the house. If he doesn't want to give her the house, then sell it and split the money (She has a higher share of the house, so she would get like 10+ M, while he would only get 2,5M).
Later, since the house was in a good neighborhood that had its prices rising each year, Qiao Nan bought the house. They paid the small part to the ex-husband, and Qiao Nan gave the house back to Xu (Xu will slowly pay back the rest of the money). It can be used as a dowry later on for Xu's daughter.