Chapter 89: Extra G
The rebate was quite high even on small amounts, and they saved more than two hundred thousand yuan in rent. For the exterior design, Dunhuang's wishes were respected: golden flames wrapped around the three-story mall, and supports on the roof held up two large, sweeping, three-dimensional characters spelling "Dunhuang."
News of Dunhuang Mall's rise spread among the city's residents. In those days, Xiahai City's commercial districts simply had no names so fashionable and eye-catching. They were either something like "Red Prosperity" or "Dabao Department Store," or else along the lines of "Hong Kong Goods Market," "Fulai Hotel," and "Caiwang Wholesale."
Using things from the present was fashionable; using things from ten years ago earned you scorn for being clichéd; using things from twenty years ago got you called old-fashioned; using things from half a century ago earned you respect for being retro. Using things from a century ago, meanwhile, won you praise for being avant-garde.
So, among all those painfully awful names in Xiahai City's commercial districts, in an age when Wakin Chau's "Friends" and Jacky Cheung's "Kiss Goodbye" were popular, having such a commanding, thousand-year-old name as "Dunhuang" appear in Xinghai Square, the focus of everyone's attention, could certainly be called striking.
Another major event was approaching at City First Middle School, and the entire school was preparing for the Arts Performance coming up the following month.
For City First Middle School's Arts Performance, each class had to submit two acts for review. In Su Can's class, Senior Year Two Class Five, the girls took the lead in this respect. Both acts the arts representative submitted were girls' performances; the boys had contributed practically nothing. One was a short play by several lively girls in the class, and the other was Chen Lingshan's solo dance,