Chapter 591: Matchmaker

One glass wasn’t enough to get Fu Mingxue drunk.

However, when Li Zhao asked her again, Fu Mingxue stopped him.

"You guys go ahead and drink. I can’t have any more. I have to save room for dinner."

Li Zhao didn’t press the issue and poured himself a glass.

The New Year’s Eve dinner was quite enjoyable.

After Fu Mingxue finished eating, she got ready to go to work.

’She was just sitting around anyway, so she might as well not waste the time.’

’Going back to her dorm alone would be cold and empty; it was much livelier here at the base.’

Just as she was walking out of the mess hall, Li Zhao’s voice called out from behind her. "Group Leader Fu, wait a moment."

Fu Mingxue heard him and stopped.

By then, Li Zhao had already walked up to her. "Group Leader Fu, I’d like to ask you something."

Fu Mingxue looked up at him and saw that his face was quite red—’Is he drunk?’

"What is it?"

"Group Leader Fu, what do you think of me?"

Fu Mingxue was taken aback. ’What does he mean by that?’

Her tone became a bit distant. "—You’re a great guy!"

"Group Leader Fu, since you think I’m a great guy, would you be willing to be a matchmaker for me?"

The sudden turn left Fu Mingxue stunned.

’She had thought—Ugh! Right, one shouldn’t be too full of themselves.’

’It had truly given her a scare.’

’But it was a good thing. Otherwise—it would have been incredibly awkward. After all, they would be working together for a long time to come.’

Breathing an inward sigh of relief, she asked curiously, "—Who have you set your sights on? That you’d need me to play matchmaker?"

"It’s your sister-in-law, Comrade Qin Wenying. I’d like to ask you to be the matchmaker for us!"

Fu Mingxue’s eyes widened the moment she heard that.

She was truly taken aback.

She never imagined that Li Zhao would have set his sights on her sister-in-law.

If she recalled correctly, her sister-in-law was dead set against marriage.

The last time they were repairing a plane, she’d heard Qin Wenying say it would’ve been for the best if she hadn’t married Qin Wenhao.

She’d said that Qin Wenhao was really holding her back.

She’d also said it was a good thing she herself was against marriage.

"—Have you discussed this with Qin Wenying? Do you two know each other well?"

Li Zhao replied immediately.

"We’ve only met once, but I feel that Comrade Qin Wenying is my ideal partner. I admire her a great deal, which is why I wanted to ask you, Group Leader Fu, to be our matchmaker. If the setup is successful and Qin Wenying takes a liking to me, I promise I’ll treat her very well. Of course, if she’s not interested in me, that’s fine too. She’s an outstanding comrade."

Fu Mingxue found his words a bit strange.

’They’ve only met once and he already thinks they’re a good match?’

’An ideal partner, even.’

"As for this, I’ll have to ask my sister-in-law first. She has to be open to the idea."

’She really didn’t want to get involved in matchmaking.’

’Although Li Zhao seemed like a good catch...’

’But a match for her sister-in-law... To be honest, there weren’t many people in the world who were worthy of her.’

’She was an eagle, meant to soar through the sky.’

"My sister-in-law is devoted to the military. She’s said before that she has no plans to get married right now."

Li Zhao immediately said, "That’s fine. If she thinks I’m not good enough for her, I won’t pester her."

Fu Mingxue quickly corrected him. "That’s not the right way to put it. It’s not a matter of you not being good enough for her; she just doesn’t have any plans to get married for the time being. As I said, she’s devoted to the military. It’s not personal, so you can’t just assume she thinks you’re not good enough because she doesn’t want to get married."

"My sister-in-law’s heart belongs to the blue sky."

Li Zhao was quick to apologize. "You’re right, I’m sorry. I misspoke."