A few days later, news came from the military academy that Qin Xiangyang's application had been preliminarily accepted, and his middle school exam scores were also satisfactory. However, he still needed to attend an interview which was scheduled for September, the same month Qin Xiangnuan would start school.
Qin Xiangyang, ecstatic that he had passed the initial selection, began to train his body intensely as instructed by Jian Zhiqing. With nearly three months ahead of him, he was determined to get in the best physical shape possible to face the military school's interview.
Every morning, he would get up early to run with sandbags strapped to his legs, then come back to do push-ups, and lift buckets to and fro. No matter if it was windy or rainy, he never missed a day. He was set on getting into military school; becoming a soldier was his dream, and getting into military school was nothing short of a miracle in his life.