After six years in the army and three enlistments, Chen Lie has become the laughingstock of the entire mechanized infantry brigade.
The first time, his grandfather called him back just as he was boarding the bus. The second time, his paperwork got stuck, and he was shoved back into his company to start over. This time, the whole family signed off on his release, his discharge papers were stamped, and even his household registration was transferred. He was finally out.
But before the discharge bus could reach the city, his mind suddenly went "buzz."
[Military System successfully bound. Activation condition: Host must be an active-duty soldier. Current status: Not a soldier. Activation failed.]
The ink on his paperwork was barely dry, and he was still warm from the army, but the System told him: Want to use your golden finger? Go back and enlist.
He rubbed his face and cursed. At the first meal after he got home, his grandfather held a tin mug without even raising his eyes. "This account is a lost cause. Start a new one. Blind date tomorrow, wedding before the end of the year. I'll raise my great-grandchild myself."
On one side, the System was pushing him to enlist. On the other, his grandfather was pushing him to get married and have children.
Caught between them, Chen Lie discovered an even more fucked-up fact: the first three times he'd gotten back into the army, it was only because connections had forced him in. This time, his name had been permanently deleted from the recruitment system.
He wanted to be a soldier, but he couldn't.
He didn't want to get married, but his whole family was forcing him into it.
The System's countdown kept ticking, and his grandfather's mug kept clinking against the table. It seemed the Chen family's front gate had no intention of opening for him a second time.
And Su Muqing, a military medical university graduate, didn't seem very interested in dealing with him either.