Jiang Tang, 27-year-old head of the residents’ committee, gets a new apartment bought outright by her parents and moves in with her childhood friend, Zhang Yuyang.
In 801 lives Qiao Miaomiao, a vain vlogger. In 802 is Pei Tingyuan, a sharp-tongued investment banker. In 804 is Zhou Suiming, a financial journalist hidden away by her rich boyfriend.
Five women, five secrets, five lives.
They meet in the elevator, gossip in the hallway, and keep one another warm around the dinner table late at night.
Then…
Jiang Tang gets doggedly pursued by an awkward civil servant;
Zhang Yuyang impulsively marries her senior from flight school, a pilot;
Qiao Miaomiao’s carefully crafted image falls apart, and her father falls ill;
Pei Tingyuan breaks with her parents over her sister’s depression;
Zhou Suiming gives up her wealthy life and goes to teach in a remote mountain village.
When times are hardest, the women from the eighth floor are always there for one another.
This is a story about the people who are truly your own.
About a bowl of noodles late at night, the breeze on the balcony, the vulnerabilities too difficult to put into words, and the moments when someone catches you before you fall.
Haicheng is huge, but the eighth floor is small.
And as long as they’re together, anywhere can feel like home.
