According to Jinqiu, Hongsheng has been involved in contra trading, when grumbling about how they could not open their restaurant.
Before the scene of the board of directors meeting at Fanting was shown until Li Qing showed up close to the closure of the meeting, the text showed 'the eve of Wall Street crash'. It would have been referring to 'Black Monday', which took place on 19 October 1987. The meeting would have been taking place on Sunday, while Cuixiang mentioned that her husband Haowen has been in Hong Kong overseeing the business there...and that was before Haowen eventually rushed back to Singapore when stock prices began to fall.
It is known for the first time from Liji Construction's planned stock listing press conference, despite it was already known in the early episodes of the drama series that Renniang and Xiaodan have been friends since childhood, Xiaodan is also like Renniang, a Burmese of Chinese descent.
The Straits Times Index that Guoli was referring to is the benchmark index for the Singapore stock market, tracking companies listed on the Singapore Exchange.
It is known for the first time through a letter from Renniang's niece Jinfeng that since her university graduation in the United States where she has been since flying off to there back in Ep 16 (1995) and being last mentioned by her mother Cuixiang in Ep 27 (1995), she has remain in the country and working on Wall Street as according to Renniang. Her letter on telling her uncle to sell the shares was a warning on what would come to happen, Black Monday on 19 October 1987.