"Promotion... to Lieutenant?"
"How about that? You seem hesitant. Do you not want the rank? Fine, I’m going back—"
"No, Commander! I want it!"
Tang Xiaohua’s face broke into a smile.
Luo Haiyong chuckled, "Alright, everyone else can take a break to rest up. You’ve all worked hard!"
Seeing that Luo Haiyong seed to have sothing else to discuss with her, Tang Xiaohua stood still instead of leaving,
"Xiao Hua, there’s soone familiar here. Do you want to et them?"
"A familiar person?"
"Deputy Commander of Xilin Military Region, Major General Lu Ziqing."
Tang Xiaohua’s eyes suddenly lit up with delight, "Brother Lu is here!"
"Yes, he’s currently talking business in the Chief of Staff’s office, and I guess the eting is about to end."
"Then I’ll go change my clothes. Commander, please tell him that I will co to et him in a bit!"
Having said this, Tang Xiaohua imdiately ran toward the ship’s cabin.
...
"Commander Lu, we both share the surna Lu; we’re from the sa root. Isn’t this taking things too far?"
In the office of the Chief of Staff of the Navy Corps, Chief of Staff Lu Tian and Lu Ziqing were playing a ga of verbal Tai Chi.
Lu Ziqing, in his Xilin Army uniform, was sitting in a chair with his legs crossed and arms folded across his chest,
"Your ’Lu’ is not my ’Lu’—don’t falsely claim kinship. She was originally my person. When you borrowed her from , didn’t we agree that you would return her if I wanted her back?"
"That was then, this is now. The situation has changed."
"Oh, so the Chief of Staff Lu of the past was a man of his word, a gentleman. Has he now beco a scoundrel who turns his back on his promises?"
"Major General Lu, let’s talk nicely please. Personal attacks are not necessary."
Lu Ziqing raised his eyebrows, "Give a straight answer."
Lu Tian got up and walked over to Lu Ziqing, sitting on the coffee table, bracing his legs with his hands,
"It’s not that I’m unwilling to give her back to you. Just this morning, headquarters approved the resolution for Junior Lieutenant Tang Xiaohua’s promotion to Junior Lieutenant. You should know that this is not sothing that any ordinary person can achieve, which shows how much headquarters values Tang Xiaohua."
"That’s a matter for your Navy Corps, and it has nothing to do with . All I know is that she’s a soldier I trained, and when it’s ti to take her back, I should get her back!"
Lu Ziqing glanced at Lu Tian,
"Chief of Staff Lu, you’ve always boasted about the strength of your Navy Corps being no less than that of the special forces. Why don’t you train your own people instead of stealing soone else’s fruits—that’s called theft!"
"How about this: Xiao Hua is a person, not an object; we should at least hear her own wishes."
Lu Ziqing shrugged, "Alright."
Lu Tian circled around to his desk to pick up the phone and asked soone to call Tang Xiaohua.
The two of them sat in the office, in a standoff, neither yielding an inch, until Tang Xiaohua arrived and the deadlock was broken.
"Chief of Staff Lu, Commander Lu!"
Tang Xiaohua gave a solemn military salute, but her eyes clearly revealed a deep smile when they landed on Lu Ziqing.
This was not a common sight on the face of the Osprey assault team’s captain, Tang Xiaohua.
Lu Ziqing stood up and walked over to her,
"It’s been a long ti."
"Two years."
"Wasn’t it one year?" Lu Ziqing blinked.
"If you don’t count that last eting in Germany—I didn’t even get to speak before you transferred here—then yes, it’s been two years, Brother Lu... and your forehead..."
Tang Xiaohua touched her own forehead...
Lu Ziqing touched the scar on his forehead and laughed, "It’s a dal."
Tang Xiaohua smiled knowingly.
"That..."
Realizing where the conversation might lead, Chief of Staff Lu internally sounded the alarm, fearing that at this rate, Lu Ziqing could indeed take her away!
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