A Soldier's Honor

JiaobeiXiaoxiang Academy2018

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Word count: 496K words
Chapters: 10

Summary

Dai Tiande, an entrepreneur in Fengyang Town, is troubled by his only son Dai Feng, who drinks and idles all day and has no interest in studying. After discussing it with his wife Li Ling, he decides to send his son to the army, hoping military life will grind away his bad habits. Dai Feng resists fiercely at first but finally agrees, persuaded by his mother, to at least take the physical exam. After enlisting, he goes through rigorous recruit training—inspections, push-ups, military posture, the three-kilometer run, Goose Step—and under the hammering of company commander Wu Hao and veteran soldiers gradually comes to understand what comrades-in-arms and the collective mean. The story follows his transformation from a rebellious youth into a qualified soldier and eventually a special forces operative, interwoven with drug-busting and rescue missions, and explores the relationship between personal value and a soldier's honor.

Editor's review

A military coming-of-age novel leaning toward realistic combat, opening with a rich young man sent to the barracks by his father. Training details are dense—push-ups, military posture, armed swimming—and written with some realism, suited to readers who want barracks life without cultivation-style cheat powers. The characters are vivid, and company commander Wu Hao and the comrades-in-arms thread have a lived-in feel. The weaknesses are plain prose and rough language, slow pacing early on, and a somewhat rushed conclusion to the drug-busting subplot later.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Male-oriented readers who like military themes
Readers interested in daily barracks training
Readers who want to see a rebellious youth grow and transform

Not a good fit for

Readers who prefer fast-paced power fantasy
Readers with higher demands on prose and storytelling

Reading tips

Start from the recruit training chapters to get quickly into the barracks mainline
Note Dai Feng's interactions with comrades and the commander; they are the emotional anchor of the book
Read the later drug-busting subplot in one stretch to avoid interrupted comprehension

About the publisher

Xiaoxiang Academy

Xiaoxiang Academy is a book publisher whose main line is online-literature publishing; publicly available information is limited, and its founding year and country/region have not been confirmed. Its catalogue contains 11,338 titles, with common categories concentrated in premium fiction, women's fiction, quality web fiction, girls' fiction, time-travel and alternate-world stories, and ancient romance, indicating a selection aimed at female readers and weighted toward romance and time-travel themes. Representative titles include Shanli Renjia, the Quick Transmigration System series, Shoufu Jiaoniang, Muchuan Xiangwan, This Is Not A Song of Ice and Fire, The Houfu Miss's Entertainment Career, and Mr. Long, Please Take Care of Me for the Rest of Your Life, covering quick transmigration, ancient romance, alternate-world time travel, and modern romance. Representative authors include Zhu Li Qingcha, Yun Sansan, Pian Fangfang, Si Jin, Xiang You, Tanjian Tingchan, Han Jiangxue, and Linghu Qianxue, with a author base made up mainly of web-fiction writers. Its publishing profile can be summarized as relying on original web fiction, focusing on female-oriented romance and time-travel/alternate-world narratives, and covering popular subgenres such as light sweet romance and system-based quick transmigration.

Chapter 1 Dai Feng
Chapter 2 Agreed
Chapter 3 No Way
Chapter 4 Ecstasy
Chapter 5 Caught
Chapter 25 Inspection
Chapter 52 A Soldier's Honor
Chapter 100 Hold On! No Other Way
Chapter 292 Really Urgent! Go Find the Leaders!
Chapter 294 How Do You Want Me to Help! (Final Chapter)

FAQ

Is this book fantasy or military?

Despite the mixed labeling of the title, it is in fact a military novel about recruit growth and barracks life.

What kind of person is the protagonist Dai Feng?

An eighteen-year-old from a wealthy family, rebellious and idle, who gradually transforms after his father sends him to the barracks.

Is the book completed? How many words?

It is completed, about 294 chapters and 496,000 characters, with the final chapter titled "How Do You Want Me to Help!"

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About the author

Jiaobei Author

Jiaobei is a Chinese online-literature author whose nationality, birth and death years are unknown, and whose publicly available information is limited. Two works can currently be confirmed. His writing spans two categories under the broad label of male-oriented fiction: the military novel Honor of Soldiers and the xianxia-wuxia novel Record of the Immortal's Return. These two representative works suggest that Jiaobei does not confine himself to a single genre, moving between the tough, honor-driven narrative of army life and the imaginative world of immortals and martial-arts Jianghu. Because very little verifiable information exists about the author, no reliable material is available on his background, the formation of his style, or his creative ideas, and readers chiefly know him through the two works mentioned above. According to the existing categories, his works are aimed at readers of male-oriented fiction, with military and xianxia-wuxia being the labels most often applied to them; his specific stylistic features await more works and materials to be fully shown.