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2	[[caption-width-right:301:Clockwise starting from the bottom right: An Di, Fan Sheng Mei, Qiu Ying Ying, Guan Ju Er, and Qu Xiao Xiao.]]
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4	''Ode To Joy'' (&#27426;&#20048;&#39042;, ''Huan Le Song'') is a Chinese drama based off a novel series by A Nai. Airing in 2016, it follows the stories of five women living in floor 22 of the Ode to Joy apartment complex in Shanghai.
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6	An Di is a Wall Street businesswoman who recently moved to Shanghai to find her brother; Fan Sheng Mei is an HR executive who is currently pursuing rich men to marry; Qu Xiao Xiao is a young CEO who wishes to inherit her family business so it stays out of her brother's hands; Qiu Ying Ying is a young, impulsive worker wanting to make something of herself; and Guan Ju Er is a young, shy intern who struggles to keep up with work.
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8	Currently there are two seasons, with a third one being planned.
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13	!!Tropes:
14	* AFriendInNeed: Pops up a lot after the girls develop.
15	* BlindDate:
16	** Sheng Mei frequently goes on blind dates with rich men.
17	** After Guan Guan expresses her worries with work to her parents, they set up a blind date without her knowledge, to her annoyance.
18	* CallingTheOldManOut:
19	** [[spoiler:Fan Sheng Mei calls out her family for favoring her brother over her and constantly demanding her money without considering her needs.]]
20	** [[spoiler:An Di calls out her father for abandoning her mother because of her mental health after she was born.]]
21	* DontSplitUsUp: An Di and her brother in a flashback sequence.
22	* SlutShaming: In the second season, Ying Ying's brief relationship with her manipulative manager in the first season comes back to haunt her when introducing her new boyfriend to her friends. Some good-natured teasing from Xiao Xiao towards Guan Ju Er over being the only virgin in the room inadvertently reveals that Ying Ying is not a virgin, which results in her boyfriend dumping her and his mother disparaging her character. However, everybody else considers this sort of attitude beyond old-fashioned and misogynistic.
23	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Tan gives this to Wei Wei after finding out that he brought An Di's father to her workplace without telling her beforehand.]]
24	* TrueCompanions: Floor 22 becomes this as the series goes on.
25	* WhamEpisode:

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