Steel Cradle

When he was eighteen years old, Lin Yue failed the college entrance examination. His father gave him two options: become a soldier, or get out of the house. He chose the first option. He was as thin as a bamboo pole, could not run five kilometers, could not pull up a horizontal bar, and all five bullets he fired missed the target - he was the worst soldier in the company. But he met three people: Zhao Dayong, a Northeastern man with a stronger temper than strength, called him a "little chicken", but carried him across the finish line when he was vomiting; Chen Feng, a Tibetan hunter, is taciturn and has great marksmanship. He will silently fill his kettle with hot water late at night; Fang Yan, a college soldier, was full of professional jargon and was ridiculed as a "nerd", but he was the first among the four to find his way. It took Lin Yue twenty years to go from the recruit company to the reconnaissance company, from the Fang Special Forces Brigade to overseas escort, from being called "trash" to becoming what others call a "company commander". In the past twenty years, he has fired, killed people, had nightmares, and shed tears; he has seen off retired veterans and received the relics of his fallen comrades; he has been in a cold war with his father for ten years, and finally heard the words "You are the greatest pride of my life" on the day he retired. This is not the story of a genius soldier. This is the story of an ordinary person and three brothers who spent twenty years in the military camp to find themselves, accept themselves, and transcend themselves. How is steel made? The answer is: stay in the furnace long enough.