Du Hong was having her moment, befitting her name. [1]
She was fairly popular before, but now, she was the "it-employee". In merely three days, she rose to the number one masseuse of the salon. It had become common scene that seven or eight customers would line up for her at a time.
She was often too busy to serve all customers and had to ask that non-talkative girl for help, and the latter as a result made quite a lot of extra cash. The other masseurs watched all this in envy. They tried to find faults with her, directly and indirectly, but it was to no avail. Their skills were simply not as good.
It was early December now and as usual, the salon was going to rank the therapists it employed by their performance in the previous month, giving them some incentive by giving out bonuses.
