Shen Xubai's gaze was riveted, as if struck by a jolt of electricity, fixated on the series of minuscule numbers. 0721309. Gu Wanqing's student ID number. Ten years prior, within the hallowed halls of Columbia University, he had seen this number countless times, emblazoned on her slightly youthful student identification card. Back then, she was a budding university student, her eyes brimming with aspirations and a thirst for knowledge, while he was merely the Shen family scion who occasionally accompanied his uncle to the campus for business matters. Their life trajectories should have remained utterly disparate.
Yet, fate, with a cruel and twisted hand, had inextricably bound them together. The sudden, violent eruption of the shooting incident. Gu Wanqing's selfless act of saving him. An
