Chapter 5: Three Extraordinary People (Continued)

Qu Chaoyan, a native of Pen City, was born into a humble family. However, he was a very diligent student in his youth, blessed with extraordinary intelligence. At the age of seventeen, he managed to secure a place at Jiangzhou Normal University. After two years of study in Yuzhang City, his eyes were opened to the wider world, and he no longer aspired to being a teacher. Instead, he aimed to enter the legendary military academy of Da Hua, and, as he wished, he got in.

Three years later, Qu Chaoyan graduated from the legendary military academy as the top student in his class. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and became a platoon leader in the Central Army's elite 5th Army.

Based on his academic achievements and the credentials of having personally been given his rank by the Principal of the military academy, who also happened to be the President of the Republic, he could have been promoted to a colonel within a decade during peacetime.