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"Everyone!" Zhou Zejun took a deep breath, leaned closer to the microphone, his eyes red-rimmed, his voice trembling with suppressed emotion, but every word resonated deeply in everyone's hearts:

"My son, Zhou Liguang, served in the army for many years, received commendations and awards, and has more than a dozen scars of varying sizes all over his body! He was wounded while covering his comrades during a previous mission, resulting in the paralysis of both legs, and he still cannot stand!"

He abruptly raised his head, his chest heaving violently: "He was wounded for his country! He's a true soldier! In my eyes, Zhou Zejun, my son deserves any good girl in the world! But the Qiao family..."

At this point, he clenched his teeth, the muscles in his cheeks bulging as if he were desperately suppressing a raging fire: "But the Qiao family despises him because he's crippled! They despise him because he's a burden who can't walk! That Qiao Mingzhu, on the surface, pretends to be deeply devoted to my husband, insisting that she won't marry anyone but Li Guang, but behind his back, she slanders him, saying that he became violent and hit her after my son's accident. After we exposed her, she pretended to be nice to us, but in private, she was having an affair with her older brother."

Zhou Zejun closed his eyes in anguish, tilted his head back, and forced back the tears welling up in his eyes. His voice was hoarse: "It was all to use such despicable means to force us to break off the engagement, so that we wouldn't marry into this family..."

"If they don't want to marry, they can simply come and annul the engagement openly! Our Zhou family isn't some old-fashioned gangster or thug; we wouldn't do something as despicable as forcibly taking someone else's daughter! But she shouldn't have, absolutely shouldn't have, used such a filthy method to trample on the dignity of a war hero! To humiliate our Zhou family!"

These words ignited the emotions of the audience!

"Bang!"

A lean but vigorous old soldier slammed his fist on the table and stood up abruptly: "This is outrageous! This is simply too much!"

"Exactly! The Qiao family isn't even as good as animals!"

"Old Zhou! Don't be sad! We're better off without that shameless woman! Li Guang is a good young man; he'll definitely meet someone better in the future!"

Hearing the strong support from the audience, Zhou Zejun took a breath, suddenly opened his eyes, and his gaze sharp as a knife: "Today, in front of all the elders and comrades, I, Zhou Zejun, will make this clear! From this day forward, the Zhou family and the Qiao family are completely severed! From now on, the two families will have no connection whatsoever! Even if we meet on the street, we will be enemies!"

"good!"

A thunderous roar of applause erupted from the audience.

"Yes! We're completely severing ties! These disgusting in-laws should get as far away from us as possible!"

Among the guests present were many of Zhou Zejun's old comrades-in-arms from his time in the military. These old friends were all prominent figures in the army, with most holding high-ranking positions. Although most of them had retired, their protégés and friends were scattered throughout the military region, and their sons and sons-in-law mostly held positions in the military, and these positions were by no means low.

At this moment, the faces of these veterans were all ashen, as black as the bottom of a pot.

Let alone their life-or-death friendship with Lao Zhou, even if they were complete strangers, they would never swallow their anger upon hearing that a war hero who shed blood for the country had been humiliated by the Qiao siblings in such a way!

"Old Zhou, don't worry!" An elderly officer with gray hair and wearing an old military uniform stood up abruptly, his booming voice ringing out, "We old bones remember this! That Qiao Lijun, is he still a soldier? That beast doesn't deserve to wear that sacred uniform!"

"The old commander is right! He doesn't deserve it!" Several tough guys next to him roared in agreement.

"I'll call the military region as soon as I get back and give my son a clear explanation! From now on, I'll make sure they all stay away from that Qiao Lijun in the army! His character is utterly rotten; he's a menace!"

"It's one thing for his own sister to be immature and indecent, but for Qiao Lijun, a soldier who has received military training, to do such a despicable thing as conspiring with his sister to bully a wounded comrade! I want to see how long he can keep up that facade!"

"I don't know how long he can keep up," another bespectacled, stern-faced veteran cadre sneered, "but I do know that allowing such a morally corrupt person to rise in the military is not only a betrayal of heroes like Li Guang who shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, but also an extreme act of irresponsibility towards our entire military and our entire country!"

As Zhou Zejun stood on the stage, listening to these weighty words, his tense back finally relaxed slightly, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

With these words from his old superiors and comrades, Qiao Lijun's military career has come to a complete end!

Want to make a name for himself in the military again? Keep dreaming!

They bullied Zhou Zejun's son and still wanted to get promoted while stepping on his son's face?

Ha, if Qiao Lijun can move even half a step up from the position of company commander in his lifetime, then Zhou Zejun will have wasted all these years!

The Qiao family made his son lose face in the entire compound, so he will make sure the Qiao family can never recover from this day forward!

Zhou Zejun bowed deeply, put down the microphone, strode off the stage, went straight back to the main table, and sat down next to his wife, Liu Hongmei.

At this moment, Liu Hongmei's face was deathly pale, and her eye sockets were swollen like walnuts.

Although she had previously been dissatisfied with Qiao Mingzhu's spoiled nature, she clearly hadn't expected the Qiao family to commit such a shocking and disgraceful act.

She originally felt sorry for her son, thinking that as long as Qiao Mingzhu behaved herself after marrying into the family, she, as the mother-in-law, could forgive and forget, and even treat her like her own daughter to make up for the child's past mistakes.

But to her utter surprise, not only did the other party not appreciate it, but they also slapped her son hard across the face!

This isn't just breaking off an engagement; it's practically trying to break Li Guang's backbone!

Seeing his wife wiping away tears, Zhou Zejun felt a pang of heartache and reached out his rough hand to pat her shoulder forcefully. He lowered his voice, gritting his teeth as he comforted her, "Hongmei, don't cry. Don't worry, this matter will absolutely not end here. With me here, I will never let the Qiao family get away with this!"

Liu Hongmei's eyes were red, and her voice was filled with deep-seated hatred: "Old Zhou, you're right! We can't let the Qiao family get away with this! What kind of filthy thing is Qiao Mingzhu? Why should our Liguang suffer such injustice?! I, Liu Hongmei, will risk my old life to make sure that whole family gets away with this!"

Zhou Zejun gripped his wife's hand tightly, his eyes filled with malice: "Don't worry, they won't be smug for long."

He may have retired today, but his connections and network remain intact.

Today, he stands on this stage, airing his dirty laundry in public, peeling back his own skin for everyone to see, all for the effect of rallying a hundred voices and uniting them in hatred against a common enemy!

Meanwhile, at a large round table not far from the main table, several young soldiers in civilian clothes with buzz cuts were huddled together, whispering and talking angrily.

They were all soldiers Zhou Liguang had led before, brothers who had shared meals and slept together, and had fought side by side in the same trench.

Their most respected and righteous battalion commander was being bullied by two bastards, a man and a woman. How could these hot-blooded young men swallow this insult?!

"Who exactly is this Qiao Lijun that the commander just mentioned? Does anyone here know him?" A young soldier who joined the army late and had dark skin asked through gritted teeth, clenching his fists.

"I know him!" An old soldier next to him slammed his glass on the table, his eyes bulging with anger. "You joined late, so you wouldn't know. That Qiao Lijun, he was in the same unit as our Battalion Commander Zhou! They grew up in the same compound and were together in the army. Later, Brother Li Guang became a battalion commander through his own abilities, while Qiao Lijun only managed to climb to company commander. I heard from the older generation that they were childhood friends!"