"A hundred and seventy years ago, the greatest President in the history of Country G, Mo Qi, authorized the then-mayor of Xilin City to establish a military academy, with the students guaranteed by the President himself. That year, Xilin Military Academy had only fifteen cadets and five officers..."
From Xilin’s history to its future prospects, from alumni to their accomplishments and dishonors...
Shen Xinhui was giving a speech to the newcomers on stage.
The new cadets, sitting neatly in rows and dressed in light blue uniforms, sat up straight; Song Lili’s looking around stood out as somewhat conspicuous.
"I’m going on at such length here to ensure that, on your first day at the academy, you understand the environment you are in, the responsibilities you will have to shoulder and the glory you now possess. To the 812 newcomers sitting before me, I am proud of you for being here, and I am heartened by the effort you put in before this!" Next, let’s have Captain Lu Ziqing from the Xilin Military Region say a few words to everyone.
As soon as he finished speaking, the audience became restless.
Even though Shen Xinhui was the Commander of the Xilin Military Region, in the hearts of the young students, Lu Ziqing was a true war hero and a legend in the academy for the past decade, practically a role model for this younger generation.
Lu Ziqing stood up, took the stage, his handsome face showing a slightly wicked and unrestrained smile, cleared his throat, and spoke under the gaze of expectant eyes,
"Hello, young comrades, I am Lu Ziqing, an excellent instructor who will make you cry for your mothers!"
Almost everyone was stunned.
Even Song Lili, preoccupied with her thoughts, was taken aback... an excellent instructor who’d make you cry for your mothers?
His hawk-like eyes scanned the "tender shoots" below as he continued,
"I’ll just say one thing, as long as you are at the military academy, you are soldiers every single day, and the most important thing for a soldier is honor and dignity. If you do not take honor and dignity seriously, you might as well take off this uniform right away; don’t disgrace it."
During his brief speech, not a single person made a sound to interrupt.
Song Lili didn’t know how others felt, but her own heart was boiling with passion; Lu Ziqing’s words played over and over in her mind...
Honor and dignity, those were the things her father had never wanted to let go of, the reasons her mother held both love and resentment towards her father.
At this moment, she knew she had made the right choice coming to Xilin.
She gazed intently at the imposing man on stage, dressed in a dark blue military uniform.
Lu Ziqing, he was the youngest captain in the history of Xilin Military Academy.
It seemed that the school authorities had also realized it was getting late, so the secretary took the stage to commend this year’s two top-scoring newcomers.
One after the other, they went up to the stage, the one in front being Shen Lingxi, and the one following, Qing Luo.
What caught Song Lili’s attention slightly was the young man named Qing Luo, about one meter seventy-five in height, appearing a bit slender among the group of boys, but his silver-white hair was too striking to ignore, and his azure blue eyes; he was a foreign student from Country M.
In her past life, she was accused of secretly selling national military intelligence to a Prince from Country M, a charge she never understood up to her death.
The young man called Qing Luo was quite shy; when the school authorities asked him to speak on behalf of the newcomers, his pale skin turned red immediately, and his youthful face exuded a friendliness that was hard for the girls to resist.
The school authorities didn’t push him and let Shen Lingxi speak on his behalf. But who knew Shen Lingxi wasn’t an ordinary person; she took the microphone and questioned,
"What is this about being tied for first? I cannot accept such a result."
The school’s secretary was momentarily stunned, then gave an awkward smile, "Then... what would Student Shen like to do?"
"Let Commander Lu set a question on the spot, test me and this foreign student from Country M. Whoever answers faster and more accurately is the true first."
A collective intake of breath swept through the audience; even the tired students were suddenly wide awake.
Song Lili glanced at the time, truly not in the mood to watch the commotion.
Just as she was about to sneak off to the restroom under the pretense, her cell phone rang in her pocket at just the wrong time, its gentle ringtone slicing through the quiet atmosphere...