I Became a School Principal in Republican-Era China

The He Clan of Jiangyin, a family of scholars, has been distinguished for a hundred years.

As the youngest daughter of the clan head, He Qingshu excels at painting, calligraphy, poetry, and prose. From childhood, she could memorize anything after a single reading, and she knows the classics and histories inside out.

At fifteen, she crossed the ocean with her elder brother to learn from the West, studying diligently day and night in the hope of strengthening their country as soon as possible.

But on the way home, she encountered a life-and-death disaster and died!

When she woke again, He Qingshu had become He Qingshu, Rongcheng's top spoiled heiress and the young lady of the New Century Theater.

To challenge her sworn enemy's beauty pageant, He Qingshu splashed out on a newspaper campaign for a people's choice of handsome men. She then threw around a hundred thousand silver dollars, intent on putting the man she loved on the throne of "President of the Flower Kingdom."

When he found out, he was so angry and embarrassed that he publicly humiliated the spoiled young lady until she was utterly disgraced.

He Qingshu was about to become the laughingstock of the whole city. She eyed the slick-haired pretty boy and remarked, "Don't get the wrong idea. That hundred thousand silver dollars won't be spent on you. In terms of looks, you are nowhere near your elder brother!"

Then she turned to the elder brother of the man she loved, who was currently an education department inspector.

"Inspector Chen, all the proceeds from this pageant will go toward establishing a girls' school. Could we apply to build one with the hundred thousand silver dollars we've raised?"

The news that the city's most notorious wastrel, who knew nothing of learning, wanted to become a school principal soon became a "legend" among the wastrel set.

Everyone waited to see He Qingshu and her girls' school make fools of themselves.

Yet that very school went on to produce a famous female physicist, poet, professor, painter, pilot, politician, and many more.

For years afterward, whenever one of its students made a name for herself, He Qingshu's name and achievements would be remembered once again.

Theme: Study for the rise of China