This time, Li Wei was promoted one rank, becoming a major.
At the same time, she was awarded an Individual First-Class Merit.
When that golden medal of military merit was pinned to her chest, Li Wei's military posture was far from standard, but at first glance, she really did look the part.
After the entire award ceremony, aside from the moment when her toes nearly clawed into the floor while she read from the script, what left the deepest impression on her was the changing of her shoulder insignia.
The Lieutenant General who had personally come onstage to replace her insignia with a major's rank was smiling so broadly that his wrinkles piled up.
He was so warm and affectionate, it was as though he had found a long-lost daughter.
While carefully straightening Li Wei's brand-new collar insignia, he asked after her welfare.
"Major Jiang, are you having any difficulties in your life or work?"
"If you are, you must tell Uncle Zhang!"
The moment Li Wei heard him call himself Zhang, her heart gave a sudden jolt, and she instinctively grew wary.
But then she thought it over. Something was off.
She was enemies with the Zhang family. The man before her was smiling so kindly—he was probably just someone who happened to share the same surname.
It seemed that apart from that small faction of the Zhang family in the northwest, plus Zhang San...
There were still more good people surnamed Zhang after all~
As the ceremony was about to end, Li Wei was once again surrounded by a group of officers, an unusually large proportion of whom were surnamed Zhang.
The leader was precisely that "Uncle Zhang." One after another, they showered her with flattery and praise, each of them so enthusiastic that she could barely