Special forces soldier demobilization: Starting from the county government compound, a meteoric rise

The night of Qixi Festival.

The entire city was immersed in a sweet and bustling atmosphere. The dazzling lights outlined the streets like a flowing galaxy, couples embraced on the streets, and the fragrance of roses mingled with the aroma of barbecue skewers, creating a romantic atmosphere full of everyday life.

The lights were still on in the top-floor offices of the municipal party committee office building.

Xi Wanqing had just finished signing the last official document regarding the upgrade of the "City Brain". She rubbed her slightly sore temples and glanced at the clock on the wall; the hour hand was already pointing to nine o'clock in the evening.

She walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the bustling city below, a city that seemed like a dream. A hint of loneliness flashed in her cool eyes.

Today, Liu Ming said he had an "extremely important" foreign affairs meeting and couldn't spend the holiday with her.

She certainly understands.

At their level, personal joys and sorrows have long been relegated to a trivial corner, after national interests.

However, there's still a little bit of disappointment in my heart.

She picked up the trench coat hanging on the hanger, turned off the office lights, and prepared to go home.

However, the moment she stepped out of the office building, she keenly sensed that something was amiss.

It's too quiet.

Chang'an Avenue, which should have been bustling and lively, was eerily quiet. The constant flow of traffic had come to a standstill. One by one, the streetlights along the street were extinguished as if by an invisible hand, plunging the area into a deep darkness.

The entire city seemed to be silenced in that instant.

"What's going on? Is there a power outage?"

"Wait a minute, look in the distance, there are still lights on!"

The surrounding crowd began to stir, looking around in surprise and uncertainty, wondering what had happened.

Xi Wanqing's heart tightened for no apparent reason. With her keen intuition honed over years of handling emergencies, her first thought was of some kind of large-scale, premeditated public safety incident.

She immediately took out her phone, ready to dial the city's emergency command center.

But just as her fingertips were about to touch the screen...

A beam of light, like a sword of creation, suddenly tore through the darkness before us!

Across Chang'an Avenue, the 500-meter-tall Huaxia Zun Building suddenly lit up its huge LED screen that covered the entire building!

Next up is the China World Trade Center Phase 3! Then comes the Yintai Centre! And the city's restaurants!

One, two, ten, hundreds...

Centered on Xi Wanqing's position, all the LED screens on the skyscrapers along both sides of Chang'an Avenue were lit up at the same time!

The dazzling light converged into a rushing river of light, illuminating half of the city's night sky as bright as day!

Everyone was stunned by this sudden, miraculous sight and gasped in unison!

The next second, a scene that made their souls tremble appeared!

On those hundreds of huge screens, two elegant and powerful Chinese characters began to appear slowly and synchronously.

[Late Spring]

Xi Wanqing was stunned.

For a moment, her mind went completely blank.

Looking at those two familiar yet unfamiliar words, at those two towering names composed of dazzling light, she felt as if she were having an extremely unreal dream.

Immediately afterward, three more characters slowly appeared next to those two characters.

Marry me

Wanqing, marry me.

These five words, with an unprecedented and extremely domineering attitude, reigned supreme over the night sky of the entire city!

"OMG!!!"

"Who is this? Who is proposing? This is outrageous!"

"This is insane! Absolutely insane! How much money is this going to cost?"

The silent crowd erupted into a deafening roar of screams and shouts! Countless people frantically pulled out their phones, snapping photos of this romantic scene that would go down in history!

As the center of this storm, Xi Wanqing was already trembling slightly from the shock of this sudden and immense happiness.

She looked at those five words, those five words she had fantasized about countless times but never dared to hope for, and her eyes instantly welled up with tears.

Just then, a soft spotlight appeared out of nowhere and shone precisely on her.

The once noisy crowd, as if parted by Moses, automatically parted to both sides, making way for her.

At the end of the road, the man she longed for was holding a bouquet of vibrant red roses, walking slowly towards her step by step.

He wasn't wearing the Zhongshan suit that symbolized power, but rather a very simple white shirt and black trousers. He didn't look like the powerful vice minister, but more like a shy and nervous boy next door about to meet his sweetheart.

Liu Ming walked up to Xi Wanqing, looked into her eyes which were already misty with tears and as beautiful as stars, and gave her an extremely gentle smile, even with a hint of apology.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

After he finished speaking, under the gaze of tens of thousands of people in the city and the focus of media cameras around the world, he slowly knelt on one knee.

He opened the unique ring box, which was commissioned by Nangong Yao and designed by Cartier's chief designer. It took half a year to complete and the ring was made using a rare pink diamond called "Eternal Star".

The dazzling brilliance of the diamonds, for a moment, seemed to make all the surrounding lights pale in comparison.

"Comrade Xi Wanqing."

Liu Ming raised her head and spoke slowly and deliberately, with an extremely solemn yet slightly trembling voice.

"It took us ten years to travel the 3,682 kilometers from Qingyun County to the city."

"I owe you so much over the past ten years."

"So, I want to spend the rest of my life making up for it slowly."

"Are you willing to give me this chance?"

"Will you marry me?"

The moment the words fell.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Suddenly, countless dazzling fireworks burst forth in the city's night sky! Their brilliant light, along with the river of light on the ground composed of the words "Marry Me," transformed the entire city into a dreamlike city born of love!

"Marry him! Marry him!"

"Marry him—!!!"

The surrounding crowd erupted in thunderous cheers and blessings!

Xi Wanqing looked at the man kneeling on one knee in front of her, at his eyes filled with tension and expectation, and at the entire city behind him that had been lit up for her alone.

She could no longer hold back and reached out her slightly trembling hand to cover her mouth tightly.

Hot tears, like pearls from a broken string, streamed freely down her beautiful cheeks.

She wanted to say "I do," but overwhelmed with happiness and choked up, she couldn't utter a single word.

Seeing her tear-streaked face, Liu Ming felt a pang of anxiety and quickly asked, "What's wrong? Is it...is the scene too big, and it scared you?"

Xi Wan-qing shook her head desperately, looking at him with teary eyes, and finally squeezed out a reproachful sentence with a sob in her voice, yet it was incredibly genuine.

"Aren't you...aren't you afraid of the negative impact?"