With Aunt Zhao Yun's help, she changed her name from Hua Yan to Hua Yan. Although it doesn't bear the surnames Hua or Yan, it's a reminder to herself of her mother's death and the inextricable relationship with her lousy father.
The insurance money was only four million, which Aunt Zhao Yun painstakingly retrieved for her. Adding to it the one million her mother had saved for her, plus the interest accumulated over the years, totals up to five million and fifty thousand.
In 2010, property prices in the better areas of Chaoyang District, Beijing, had risen to 28,000 per square meter. Hua Yan bought three 50-square-meter one-bedroom apartments in the same neighborhood because she paid in full, with additional help from her mother's friends. In the end, she purchased three apartments for four million, leaving the remaining one million for renovations.
