★ A shipping company owner who built her business from nothing x a women's school principal who returned from studying abroad
★ A carefree businesswoman x a gentle scholar
01.
When fifteen-year-old Lin Baixi returned from ferrying someone across the river, a crowd had gathered outside her family's thatched cottage.
She stopped by the stream and watched the so-called young lady from the city come up to her. The girl called her "Baixi" in a soft, delicate voice and said, "I look forward to learning from you."
From then on, Lin Baixi had a little shadow who carried a book everywhere she went.
She gave the girl half her bed.
The little shadow slept beside her for a year, gradually losing the sickly look on her face. Then one morning, she left without a word.
Lin Baixi couldn't remember the date the little shadow left, only that the moon that night was a thin crescent, like the curve of Wen Zhishang's eyes when she smiled.
02.
The next time Lin Baixi came across the name "Wen Zhishang," it was in a newspaper. The Wen family's young heiress had returned after studying at a prestigious university overseas. In the photo, her eyes didn't curve as much as they used to.
Lin Baixi fell silent for a moment, then suddenly asked her secretary, "Do you have Wen Zhishang's contact information?"
"I'll try to get it for you," the secretary said. "But what do you need it for?"
Lin Baixi closed the newspaper, rotated her wrist, and said coolly, "To settle a score."
The secretary: ???
03.
Wandu Shipping donated three million silver dollars to Zhishang Academy.
The company's owner, Lin Baixi, came to visit the school.
Principal Wen Zhishang greeted her personally. She coughed twice in the cold wind, then gently asked how Lin Baixi had been.
Lin Baixi tilted her head and stepped closer.
"Not very well." Just as she had thirteen years ago, she adjusted the scarf around the person before her and whispered in her ear:
"Principal Wen, why did you run away from me?"
Theme: I chased the past, then flung myself into your arms.