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<19> Rumours And Criticism

On the second day When Grace arrived at the Royal club, she found something strange. Two or three people were gathering together and talking in whispers while pointing at her.
Grace was not really bothered. Maybe it was because that she, a cleaner, was abruptly promoted to the P. R. Department that had shocked them.
But the thing happened in the lounge of the P. R. Department later reminded her that she had been too naïve to think so.
"Hahaha, here comes the dog." THE unexpected taunt made Grace's face bloodless. She recognized that the one who was pointing at her and insulting her as a dog was Luna, the hostess of Room 606.
"Luna, lower your voice. We're not blind, and we can see a female dog just came in."
Luna was amused, "Oh, it's a pity that you didn't see it by yourself. When Young Master Joyce Lance ordered her to crawl on her knees to pick up the notes, this woman, with a clown costume and a thick make-up, simply
followed the order and crawled on the ground. Young Master Joyce Lance ordered her to wag her tail, and she also complied. Real talk, I was
bug-eyed in shock." Boom! Grace felt as if all her blood had flowed back. She blinked her eyes in confusion. Who had turned off the light? Why did she feel it so dark in the room?... But inthe eyes of others, Grace was
standing there motionlessly, with terror
on her face. But what they didn't know was that, Grace was indeed frightened by the
sudden loss of her eyesight. Although she temporarily lost her eyesight, her hearing was sharper than ever and she could hear clearly all the teasing and taunt of those hostesses
and models.That was why, for a second, she
had a though of "I wish I could die now "But at the next second, Leona's face, which was always filled with hope for future, appeared in her mind again. No way... How could she die now? She should live her life for the girl
who died for her.then she gradually saw specks of light and regained her eyesight. Like a lifeless doll which would never get mad, Grace ignored the gossips and all kinds of wordy humiliations from the people around, seeming not bothered to refute them.
Luna felt annoyed when seeing Grace acting like this. She stepped forward and pushed Grace, "What are you pretending for? Don't act like a saint when you're just a bitch! I didn't see your arrogance and dignity when
you swing your hips to entertain the guests!" Luna felt that it was not enough with these words and kicked Grace hard. Originally, Grace's legs were problematic; so naturally, there was no way she could withstand a kick from Luna's stiletto. Then with a loud sound,
Grace stuck the ground heavily. "Luna, you should be gentler. How could you kick her onto the ground?" One of the onlookers began to
condemn Luna. It was fine to humiliate Grace verbally, but beating her had gone too far.
Luna refuted defensively, "I didn't use too much power! How could I know that she's so weak?" As she was speaking, she let out at Grace again, as if she was kicking a piece of trash, "Isn't it enough? Stand up. It won't
work even if you keep pretending. Even if you want to pretend to be weak to win their sympathy, there's a prerequisite - you should have a good appearance."
Unsatisfied, Luna turned around and grinned evilly at the girls, "Oh, did I kick her onto the ground just now? Why did I have no idea about it? Eek, didn't I kick a dog just now?"
"Hahaha... Correct. Luna is not the kind of person who would kick people. She kicked a dog just now."
"Come on, bark like a dog."
"I got a good idea. What about you crawl on the ground and wag your tail like you did in the private room yesterday? If we are pleased, we
would also reward you." The jeers and taunts lingered in the room. Yet Grace ignored them and quietly propped herself up from the
ground. "What are you doing here? Don't
you have to work?" The door was suddenly opened. Gloria hadn't expected that she would see such kind of a scene when she opened the door.Obviously, Grace James, that silly girl,
was bullied. Gloria was so furious that her expression tuned hard. She glared at the girls, "Why are you gathering here? Come back to work!" The girls in the room had been so
rampant just now, but upon hearing Gloria's words, they rushed out of the room with their heads lowered. They all knew that Gloria was
ruthless. Although they hadn't experienced it by themselves, they had heard about it, and none of them wanted to be punished by Gloria.
"Are you stupid? They were bullying you, but why didn't you fight back?" Gloria was still angry as she ran to Grace and helped her stand up. Gloria just couldn't bear to see
Grace being bullied. She had found out the secret of Grace's kidney, and watched this silly woman being fooled by those dudes yet not complaining about anything or shedding a tear. From the moment when this woman gave her stacks of notes without any reluctance, Gloria felt that she could not help herself to show more kindness to that silly woman named
"Grace James". It was just that... Grace resembled her past very much.
"Gloria, is there work for me?" Gloria was stunned. When she looked at the woman before her, the anger in her heart crumbled to dust.She heaved a sigh helplessly, "Have a
good rest first. You look not good today."
"I'm good." 'Fucking good!
Gloria nearly swore out loud. But she indeed uttered, "There's still no work for you. How could there always work for every girl every day?" "All right, then I will wait here." said
Grace, "Gloria, tell me as soon as there is work for me. Although I don't have a good appearance or an S-shape figure, I'm willing to do anything no matter how dirty or onerous it would be. I can do those that others are not
willing to do to entertain our guests. I just have a request - please don't ask me to drink alcohol." As a matter of fact, Grace had never thought of selling her bacon. In her opinion, no
one would interest at her current appearance.
"Gr... All right, it's at your will." Gloria shook her head and walked out of the P. R. Department. She didn't plan to arrange tasks to Grace today.
But Gloria hadn't expected that... As Grace walked out of the washroom on the third floor, she was dragged into a private room.
"Tsk, Mr. Zavier, this is Grace
James. I've mentioned about her before."
It was Queena who was speaking to a middle-aged man with bulging belly on the sofa while smiling coquettishly at him. Grace recognized that Queena was the model who was kissing passionately with Franklin at the
stairwell when she ran into them. "Grace, come over here. Mr. Zavier said that he wanted to treat you a drink. Grace shook her head, "I'm allergic to alcohol."
Queena suddenly pulled a long face,
"Grace, how dare you to turn down Mr. Zavier? Are you despising him?" Grace stole a glance at Mr. Zavier and as expected, she saw his gloomy expression.
She had no choice but to explain it,
"Mr. Zavier, I'm really allergic to alcohol. And I even died of it once. What if... I drink the wine and then get allergic. I'm afraid that it will trouble. you. That would be such a shame."
Mr. Zavier was still unsatisfied with the explanation. Although he didn't Grace her to drink alcohol, he didn't plan to llet her off easily.
"Then what can you do?"
" ..."
Queena interrupted Grace, "Mr. Zavier, what about asking her to sing songs? To think singing songs with her horse voice, that must be interesting!" Grace voice cords were ruined
when she was in jail and therefore she had a hoarse voice which was unpleasant to ears now. Usually, she. didn't like to speak; even if she had to speak, she would speak a low voice
deliberately. "Her voice sounds awful. Will the
songs pleasant to our ears?" "Mr. Zavier~" Queena sat on Mr. Zavier's lap and began to play coquetry, "Mr. Zavier, it's easy for us
to hear melodious songs. But it's rare to hear a terrible singing. It must be very interesting. Let's have her sing one song after another. If you don't like her singing, then we can just plug
our ears." " "She already sounds horrible, so
why do you want her to sing?" asked Mr. Zavier. "It's precisely because she sounds
horrible that I want to see if it would be more horrible if her voice get hoarser."
As Queena was speaking, she leaned onto Mr. Zavier's arms, "Come on, Mr. Zavier. Please... Please..."
Allured by Queena, this libidinous Mr. Zavier had no sympathy to spare for Grace, and agreed forthright ly, "Well, it's at your disposal." As he was speaking, his hairy hands cruised on Queena's thighs.
"Yuck, don't blame me not for being benevolent." Mr. Zavier took out a stack of notes, which were roughly worthy of 50, 000 CNY, from his black briefcase and added, "1, 000 for a song. If you sing 10 songs, you can't take 10, 000; if you sing 20 songs,you'll get 20, 000; and if you can sing 50 songs, you can take all." But it took at least three hours to sing 50 songs."Oh, Mr. Zavier, why will you reward
her so much?" "Dearie, I'll give you more later." He curled his lips into a charming smile, of course only he himself thought so, and
added, "Sweetie, don't hurry, I will also gift you the most essential and precious thing of my body."
"Oh, Mr. Zavier, you're so bad." Queena got up from Mr. Zavier and headed towards the machine swing her waist, and then added several songs to the list.
After finishing it, she slowly and charmingly walked towards Mr. Zavier.When she saw that the first song was  'Qinghai-Tibet Plateau', she was petrified. Then she saw that the second song was 'Death Love', and the third song was 'Eighteen Curve of Hill Path'... As Grace scrolled down, she gradually accepted these high-pitch songs selected by Queena. Queena wanted to completely ruin
her voice today If something had not happened to her voice, the songs she sang would be so pleasant to ears. But now, her
voice was ruined. When the rough sound rang out in the room, Mr. Zavier immediately furrowed his eyebrows into a knit, while Queena Grace sang one song after another, yet no one was listening to them. Mr. Zavier was Grace picked up the microphone...watching movie with Queena in his arms, while Queena was playing a mobile game.
None of them had asked Grace to stop, so Grace had to continue to sing, until she found her voice couldn't work. Although with a microphone, her voice was almost inaudible. Grace ignored the pain on her legs and
continued to sing those high-pitch songs.
"All right, pretty much." Mr. Zavier suddenly stood up from sofa, pulled out the earplugs, and looked at Grace with his eyebrows furrowed, "You can take all the money on the table."
Queena swiftly stood up, "Mr. Zavier, she hasn't finished all songs." "All right, sweetie, come on, I don't want to torture my ears with such scrannel songs, and her voice is disappearing. The night of rendezvous is always too short, now I want to enjoy my time of being your 'hubby'."
Although Queena was still unsatisfied, she was not that stupid to offend her sugar daddy. She blushed and looked down, and nestled in his arms, fawning, "Mr. Zavier, oh-"
"Don't call me Mr. Zavier, call me hubby. Go, let's come to our wedding room'." After finishing the words, Mr. Zavier carried Queena, who grumbled flirtingly because of his action, and left the room.When they passed Grace, Queena said complacently, "Although your voice was disappearing, it became more pleasant to ears after singing
these songs. You should praise me for the idea. I asked you to sing the songs and therefore your voice became pleasant."
Grace didn't reply. When Queena stepped out of the room, Grace finally failed to support herself with her legs... "Bang!" With a loud sound, she slumped onto the ground
Grace sat on the ground with her mind drifting away for half an hour.
Then she massaged her knees and her muscles to alleviate the pain in her legs before standing up. Shivering, she reached out her hangs to grasp the notes on the table, and then walked towards outside.
"Gloria, do me a favor, please help me deposit them."
"Where did you get the money?"
Gloria's gaze became sharper. She hadn't arrange any work for Grace today!... "By the way, what's wrong with your voice?"
"Nothing. It's just that I haven't sung songs for a long time. Just now, one of my colleagues introduced me to sing songs to a rich man, and then I got the rewards." Gloria was so shrewd, so naturally she discerned that Grace didn't want to continue this topic. She suppressed the doubts, nodded, and took the money from Grace while handing her a glass of warm water, "Drink it."
Watching Grace gulping down the water, Gloria's gaze became even colder Grace was so thirsty, and Grace's excuse of sing several songs was not enough to explain it.
"Gloria, I'll go to the canteen." Royal Club served its employees a free dinner every day. Seeing that it was approximate to the meal time, Grace said goodbye to Gloria and headed
towards the canteen. After having the dinner, Grace simply killed time until it was time to get off work, and then went back to the staff dormitory in South Bay House Her roommate, Ruby Carter, had come back earlier. When Grace stepped into the dormitory, Ruby
swiftly stood up, "Gr... Grace Sis." Grace nodded and walked towards her bedroom through the living room. "Grave. Is that true?" Ruby suddenly asked a question.
Grace looked at Ruby in confusion. "Is the rumor true?" asked Ruby, "Grace, it was widely spread that you. you crawl on the ground and
wag your tail, just... just to take the rewards... Tell me, they were liars. It's not true, right?" Ruby became emotive.Ruby's words were like a hammer blow on Grace's chest. Her whole
body tautened and shivered slightly. After steadying herself, Grave shot a bland glance at Ruby, "It's true."
"It turns out that they were not telling lies!" Ruby goggled in disbelief and exclaimed, "Grace Sis, I haven't expected that you're such kind of a person. How could you sell your bacon just to get the money?"
"Grace Sis, how could you do this? How comes that you're this kind of filthy person. I stood out to put in good words for you when they gossiped about you, but I regret it now. How
could you do such a shameless thing?"
Ruby shouted and criticized Grace angrily, "I was mistaken about you!" Grace stood at the door of her bedroom and listened to Ruby's
criticism quietly. She looked at this university student with composure and gave her a light smile. "What are you smiling at?" Ruby asked in disbelief, "How can you smile at this moment? Grace, to get the money, you can do everything, right?" Ruby was irritated and shouted at Grace, "Is money so important to
you?" Ruby's voice became sharp and
rasping. Grace was still composed and calmly casted her gaze on the exciting and angry girl, "If money is not important, why do you work in Royal Club?" She slowly uttered the words in
a composed manner, as if she was stating a truth.
"... "
Ruby's expression changed. "This is totally different! I work as a waitress in Royal Club, and what I need to do here is to take the dishes to the table. You also know about the
condition of my family! I just want to earn my tuition fee and living expenses. Ruby glared at Grace as if she was looking at something filthy, "I won't be like you. You can do anything to get the money and have no bottom line!". Grace smiled again. Ruby just
scolded her for having no bottom line. But as a matter of fact, she did have a bottom line - she won't drink alcohol,and she must live her life!
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