Leaving Research for the Border, Where I Meet an Ace Assault Trooper

[Military focus | Dual male leads, angst | Puppy-like military medic × ace assault trooper]

At twenty-two, I gave up my guaranteed graduate-school placement at the military academy and plunged headfirst into the most dangerous border special operations camp in Yunnan.

Everyone called me a fool for throwing away my future, but nobody knew I did it for the man who always stood between me and a hail of bullets.

His name was Lian Beike, the finest ace assault trooper in the whole camp. We promised to guard the border marker year after year, until a raging inferno burned everything to ashes.

In the instant the flames came crashing down, fate tore us apart with brutal force.

Later, I changed my name and stepped into endless darkness.

Only then did I finally understand: the boy who once stood shoulder to shoulder with me at the border could never go back to the way things were.

Also known as His Shoulder