"Lingxi?"
"Mom, I..."
Just then, the door to the study was opened from inside, and Shen Xinhui called out to Shen Lingxi before she followed him into the study and closed the door behind her.
"Dad..."
"How did it go with the selection of the officer candidates?" Shen Xinhui asked in a heavy voice.
Shen Lingxi involuntarily swallowed her saliva, "Dad... I... didn’t make it."
Shen Xinhui’s eyes narrowed, and Shen Lingxi shrank back, hurriedly explaining,
"I completed the task within the stipulated ti and was within the top twenty, but still, Commander Lu announced that I didn’t make it."
"What did you say?"
"Commander Lu even relaxed one spot for Tang Xiaohua. Dad, I did my best in this selection."
Shen Lingxi said with her head lowered.
Usually, she was indeed Shen Xinhui’s treasured daughter and was quite favored, but the condition was always that she had excellent results that did not tarnish his reputation as the Commander of Xilin Military Region.
Now, having failed to make it from eighty to twenty...
She suddenly felt a lack of confidence in front of her father.
"Excuses!"
"..."
"The officer candidates are directly appointed by the President to Ziqing! Once selected, do you know what that ans? Without even graduating, you could beco a senior officer in so army unit! You could attain glory and power unattainable to others with the youngest stature."
"Dad, I know! I really tried my best, but I can’t figure out Commander Lu’s ga at all."
"You an to say, Commander Lu deliberately targeted you?"
Shen Xinhui’s eyes narrowed even more fiercely, and Shen Lingxi unconsciously swallowed again,
"Dad... I think... the one Commander Lu was targeting... probably wasn’t... ."
"You’re full of nonsense!"
Shen Xinhui shouted at Shen Lingxi with a loud voice!
Shen Lingxi took a deep breath and looked up,
"Dad, I’m telling the truth. Today, he criticized in front of so many people and even dragged you into it."
"..."
Shen Xinhui pursed his lips, his old, calculating eyes were brewing sothing.
Shen Lingxi knew her father’s temperant better than anyone; what outsiders said about him being a doting father, a show-off of a father, was just a facade.
He had no sons, so he raised his daughter as if she were a son, placing great expectations on her. From a young age, eting his expectations or not eting his expectations ant a world of difference—like heaven and hell.
She wasn’t sure if Wen Nian had actually implicated her father because of what she did to Tang Xiaohua.
But she couldn’t risk the chance, nor dare let her father know that his need for review might be related to her.
If things were as she suspected and he did find out, he would indeed... kill her, even though she was his biological daughter.
"Dad... I should return to the military academy first."
After Shen Lingxi finished speaking, Shen Xinhui thought for a mont and said, "I’ll go with you."
He wanted to see Ziqing.
Suddenly being reviewed, his daughter mysteriously failing the selection—these two events couldn’t possibly be unrelated.
Had Ziqing, who had been eyeing his position for so long, beco impatient?
This was what Shen Xinhui was contemplating.
————
Song Lili slept until the next morning. All the students selected as officer candidates got a three-day holiday to rest and adjust.
Early in the morning, she returned to the county town to pick up Tang Xiaocao.
But she couldn’t have expected that as soon as she opened the door, she would hear soone talking inside...
Song Lili was on full alert, pulling Tang Xiaocao behind her, instructing him to wait outside as she carefully walked in. As she got closer and listened, she realized the speaker’s voice was so familiar...
Before she could react with surprise, the person in the living room on the phone turned to face her. He hung up and gave her a slight smile,
"Back already? Xiao Li."
Song Lili was stunned, and Tang Xiaocao peeked his head in, equally surprised, saying,
"Brother Nian...!"
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