Janet shook her hands in denial when she heard him. She then boldly put her hands on her hips and kept on running.
But, after another one kilometers, she dropped out exhausted again.
Janet was too tired to run and now stood still, gasping for breath. She stared at the enigmatic Brian, and asked him, "Why are you following me? Do you want to make fun of me again?
... Upon hearing this, Brian suddenly didn't know what to say next. Was he being spiteful in any way towards her?
He squatted down to her, and said, "Let me carry you."
She then suddenly stopped gasping for breath and looked at the man in front of her aghast, and said, "What are you doing?"
Brian looked back, and replied, "If you don't hurry up a bit, there won't be anymore breakfast left for you."
"No, no. I can do it." Janet shook her head in dismay. She was afraid that if her colleagues saw Brian carrying her, they might then look down upon her.
But, nonetheless, Brian lifted Janet up and ran with her forward.
"No, Brian, stop! I forgive you for the push-ups you asked me to do. Put me down, now!" Janet's face flushed bright red. She wanted to push Brian away, but didn't know where to put her hands first.
"Easy now. I'll put you down if someone spots us, " said Brian.
Janet fell silent; he seemed to know what she was thinking all the time. Was she that obvious?
But she didn't want Brian to carry her. "Brian, you don't have to carry me. You'll get tired, too. Please, put me down, now!"
"It's OK. Marching for five kilometers is a piece of cake for me. I can carry you and run for tens of kilometers more."
Janet became more and more anxious by each passing moment when Brian refused to put her down. She wanted to struggle and escape, but found that her legs were tightly buckled under her and that she was also deprived of any strength to do this.
Finally, what she feared most, happened.
One of Janet's colleagues saw Brian carrying her...
Brian put her down immediately, and Janet found she had regained her strength again. Seeing her colleague staring at them in shock, Janet knew she was unable to wash herself clean this time.
Janet didn't know how to explain all of this, and so instead she ran away quickly.
The farther she ran, the more of her colleagues she saw. Everyone looked at Janet suspicious when she quickly ran ahead of the team.
Brian couldn't help but smile when he saw the little girl in front of him.
They had finally ran the five kilometers, and their destination was actually the starting point from where they initially began their run.
Lying in the tent, everyone was too tired to talk, but the gossip about Janet spread around quickly.
They not only talked about it in the tents, but they also related it to their other colleagues working in the company.
And, not before long, the whole company now knew that Janet was carried by the instructor.
In the meeting room of the SL Group
Two employees were gossiping about Janet and then spread it to another employee in vivid details.
"Holy shit! Really? Janet Shao is such a slut! She even hooked up with that instructor in just a couple of hours!"
"No, I heard he was a colonel, not just a little instructor!"
"Why does a colonel have to train them personally? Does he participate in the training just for Janet Shao's sake?"
...
Cough! Cough! A warning cough sounded, and the three employees instantly panicked when they saw who the people behind them really were.
"Mr. Si, Mr. Shi." After they greeted Daniel and Spark, they immediately scattered to their work desks.
Daniel glanced with indifference at the three employees, and demanded, "Spark, employees who gossip in the company must be downgraded to lower positions or suffer pay cuts. If they are caught for the second time, fire them directly, without hesitation!"
"Yes, boss!"
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