Kāi Mén Jiàn Shān - 开门见山
aerysian
On our first day, our manager told us to introduce ourselves with names and an adjective that best described us. 'Hard-working,' 'meticulous,' and 'diligent' were repeated around the circle until his smile became a grimace that only deepened with every turn passed. When it came to me, I stood, making sweeping eye contact with my new co-workers, and said:
"Li Chunhua. Assiduous."
Manager's eyes brightened while others tilted their heads, filing the word away for later. It was an uncommon word, one I had picked by chance from this morning's newspaper, and I still wasn't familiar with the meaning myself, but it was the right choice because Manager nodded his head at me before moving onto the next person.
Four chairs passed without the same murmur of approval, though they took longer to think of unique words like I did. Everyone's eyes fell to the last girl, the only one in the room other than me, a slight thing just out of college with her hair clipped and windswept. She jumped to her feet and threw a v-sign into the air. Even at my distance, I had to lean back from her enthusiasm.
"Zhao Erxi," she said. "Loud."
She won the ice-breaker, I thought, wincing. She found the perfect adjective.
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