During his time in home quarantine, He Wenjie passed the time entirely through the gossip Liu Jing shared about her two good friends. For instance, Xia Meng and Wang Jichong were clearly living together, yet during video conferences they insisted on staying in separate rooms. The moment Xia Meng refuted Wang Jichong's proposal on screen, the two of them would switch offline the second the meeting paused to argue face-to-face. Xia Meng, who had just put on airs of authority a minute prior, would then have to use honeyed words to coax Wang Jichong in order to save his face. Straight after that, Xia Meng would complain to her girlfriends in their chat that Wang Jichong's proposal was garbage, and having finished complaining about Wang Jichong, Xia Meng never forgot to drag He Wenjie into it, getting Liu Jing to pass on a message telling He Wenjie not to drag Wang Jichong into playing video games anymore, as it was affecting his work on the planning proposal.
The gossip about Fang Xin and Ma Zhenyu was even more dramatic than Xia Meng's. The fact that Ma Zhenyu had been exposed for cheating during the pandemic screening was explosive enough, and the result of this incident was that the two people who were in the middle of a messy divorce were now forced to be locked up together for half a month. Because of a food allergy, Fang Xin couldn't stomach the boxed meals sent by the epidemic prevention workers. At that point, she remembered the custom-made diet Ma Zhenyu had bought from…
Chapter 1086