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Ai Changhuan’s eyes were still narrowed. “What are you doing? Don’t you see the time?”
“Get up. Run with me.” Lu Zhanke took out a pair of long trousers for her from the closet. “I’ll give you five minutes to change. Be quick!”
Ai Changhuan was still confused. She rubbed her eyes and asked, “Run? Why?”
“You really need some exercise.” Lu Zhanke’s expression was very serious, and it didn’t seem to be a joke at all, but Ai Changhuan, who was half-awake, had yet to figure out this crisis.
“I refuse.” Ai Changhuan returned to the bed. “I am in good health and do not need to exercise.”
She couldn’t open her eyes. How could she exercise? Why not let her sleepwalk!
Lu Zhanke didn’t force her. He just looked at her with his hands behind his back. “You still have four minutes to change. If you don’t change, I will personally change it for you.”
“…What?” Ai Changhuan finally woke up a little, and she looked at Lu Zhanke suspiciously. “Are you telling the truth?”
Lu had already started pulling his sleeves, seeming to make an all-out effort. “There are two minutes left.”
“I… you’re serious.” Ai Changhuan hurriedly rose from the bed, grabbed the clothes, and ran to the bathroom, shouting, “Why? Why do I have to run and exercise?”
“One hundred seconds left.”
“…” Ai Changhuan changed her clothes at the last second. She never knew that she could put on clothes so fast.
“Why should I wear long trousers? It’s hot.” This fact suddenly occurred to her.
Lu Zhanke didn’t answer and said, “I’ll give you another three minutes to wash up. Similarly, if you can’t do it yourself, I will help you personally.”
“…” Ai Changhuan didn’t dare to ask anymore. Being pressured by Lu Zhanke, she hurriedly rushed to wash up, and she didn’t have enough time to wipe her skincare products off. Then, she went to the training ground with Lu Zhanke.
Seeing an extra woman suddenly appear, the soldiers all stretched their necks to have a look.
After recognizing Ai Changhuan, they began to whisper.
“Why is it so noisy? Is this a vegetable market? Is there any discipline?” Lu was ruthless, completely merciless. “Do you still think of yourselves as gossiping women?”
Ai Changhuan was dumbstruck for a while. Actually, she was confused at first, but then, she was suddenly stunned and completely awake.
“Loading fifty kilograms, going back and forth for five kilometers. Remember to come back here before seven o’clock! Start! Run!” Lu waved his hand, and everyone rushed out, quick as an arrow.
Ai Changhuan also subconsciously ran two steps, but she stopped again and turned to ask Lu Zhanke, “Do I have to run too?”
“Report before you speak.” Lu Zhanke’s expression was serious, and it didn’t look like he was joking at all.
Ai Changhuan had originally wanted to bluff it out, but she was immediately calmed down by his serious look and obediently reported, “Sir!”
“Speak!”
“Do I have to run five kilometers back and forth as well?” The farthest distance she had suffered was the 800 meters in physical education class in school. These five kilometers could kill her.
“Considering that this is the first time you’re training, you only need to run five kilometers without back and forth.”
Compared to the others’, her task was extremely simple. However…
“I don’t want to.” Ai Changhuan refused without hesitation.
“Oh.” Lu Zhanke took out his mobile phone and held it up in front of Ai Changhuan. “Do you still remember the photo you want? Do you want it? If you can catch up to me, I will return the photo to you.”
Ai Changhuan’s eyes lit up! She wanted to get that photo back even in her dreams. Finally, she was determined. “Are you telling the truth?”
“A gentleman’s words are always true.”
“Okay.” She was afraid of nothing! It was not a big deal! She would successfully catch up to Lu at any price!
Lu Zhanke agreed, “So, let’s get started.” After he finished, he turned to the off-road vehicle and sat on the passenger seat with his legs up.
“…Aren’t you running?” Ai Changhuan stared at him in disbelief.
Lu shook his legs and said, “I am a commanding officer, and my main task is to supervise you. Start!”
At his order, the driver immediately stepped on the accelerator and drove out.
“Hey!” Ai Changhuan immediately broke into a run and chased. “Lan Zhanke, you are so mean.”
She was right. Lu Zhanke was so mean. Whenever she was running to death, on the verge of giving up, Lu would stop and wait for her, holding the mobile phone and waving it at her. However, when she pulled her feet to catch up, he slammed on the accelerator again.
This happened every time.
Ai Changhuan exclaimed loudly, “Lan Zhanke, you bastard!”
As Ai Changhuan ran one kilometer, the soldiers who had started before had already started running back, and Lu also had wandered around in a car and returned.
Seeing this, Ai Changhuan knew that there was no hope of getting the picture back, so she started to scorn.
She twisted her body and pretended to fall to the ground, shouting at Lu, “Oh my! My foot hurts! I sprained my ankle!”
Lu Zhanke also suspected that she was pretending, but he was very worried. So he got off the car and walked to her to check the situation. “What’s going on?”
“My foot hurts.” Ai Changhuan blinked pitifully.
“Let me have a look.” Lu Zhanke held her ankle and examined it carefully, only to find nothing wrong. He could not help but start to blame her. “Ai Changhuan, you are deliberately avoiding training! You are a deserter on the battlefield.”
After being found out, Ai Changhuan did not defend herself. Instead, she just said, “Alright! If I am considered a deserter, just let me be! I ran for one kilometer without eating breakfast! If I was not a deserter, I would be exhausted. Don’t you know?”
“Then do you know that deserting is a shameful act?”
“I…” Ai Changhuan’s expression changed. After all, she still had the blood of a soldier in her bones, and she was stubborn by nature. When she heard those words, she immediately stood up from the ground and shouted at him with her hands on her hips.
“I can run! It’s just five kilometers! What’s the big deal?!”
She turned around and ran a few steps forward, then she ran back and shouted at Lu, “One more thing! I’m not your soldier! Don’t yell at me! Hmph!”
After finishing her cruel words, Ai Changhuan ran towards the target camp again. Because of her self-esteem, she didn’t complain anymore even though she was suffering and tired along the way.
She complained in her heart, cursing all the way, and she directly scolded Lu Zhanke for her half death.
After running another kilometer, Ai Changhuan’s speed was slow enough to take a walk, and her little body wobbled as if she might fall at any time.
Lu Zhanke still insisted on following Ai Changhuan, and it was very unbearable to see her like that. But he kept his pride, pretending not to care. After all, it was her that talked tough.
The driver Qiao Sheng took a peek at Ai Changhuan, looked at Lu Zhanke’s complexion, and said timidly, “Sir, it seems that the Madam’s foot is really injured. It is better to…”
When Ai Changhuan ran, she couldn’t put her weight on her right foot, so it must be injured.
There was a flash of struggle in Lu Zhanke’s eyes.
Upon seeing this, Qiao Sheng said again, “It is getting hotter and dryer. Madam hasn’t even drunk any water until now. I’m afraid she can’t keep going.”
At this time, Ai Changhuan fell to the ground, as if to verify Qiao Sheng’s words.
Lu Zhanke couldn’t sit anymore. He immediately jumped from the car and ran to Ai Changhuan, holding her body and asking with concern, “How are you? Where are you hurt?”
Ai Changhuan pushed him away. “Go away! I don’t need your concern.”
“Don’t make trouble.” Lu Zhanke grabbed Ai Changhuan’s hand with a sullen face. At first glance, the palm of her hand was worn, and she was bleeding. He guessed that when she fell, she unconsciously supported the ground with her hands, and there were small stones and rough sand on the ground which broke the palm of her hand.
Ai Changhuan pulled her hand back, staggered upright, and ran ahead without a word.
Lu hurriedly stopped her. “What are you doing?”
Ai Changhuan looked at him in disbelief. “This is what you said. I must finish running. Otherwise I am a deserter. Right?”
“I won’t die because of this injury. Go away.” Ai Changhuan was mad at him. When she wanted to rest just now, he refused. But now she was about to finish running, and he wanted her to rest. Did she have to do what he asked her to do? She would not agree!
Ai Changhuan gritted her teeth and ran away again.
Lu Zhanke stood on the spot, gazing at the sky, sighing helplessly. After three seconds, he took off his hat and threw it to Qiao Sheng, then said to him, “You go back first.”
Then he quickly ran to Ai Changhuan and squatted in front of her, grabbing her legs and carrying her on his back.
Ai Changhuan was frightened. She grabbed his shoulder subconsciously and asked, “What are you doing?”
Lu Zhanke said, “Aren’t you going to finish running? I’ll run with you.”
“…” Ai Changhuan was touched a little bit. “Why are you carrying me?”
“I am your husband. I should come and run with you when you are tired. Get ready.” After that, Lu Zhanke really started to run all the way with her on his back.
Well, Ai Changhuan had to admit that she had hated him seconds ago, but now she loved him very much, and her heart was filled with words that couldn’t be spoken. Her arm, which was holding Lu Zhanke’s neck, also couldn’t help but tighten. The two were so close together they could be one person.
Ai Changhuan asked Lu Zhanke, “Why did you insist on me coming here? I neither want to be a soldier nor a long-distance runner.”
“I told you. This is to exercise your body.” Lu Zhanke ran with her on his back, not breathing heavily, as if he were walking. “Since you are injured, take a good rest in the morning. Come and find me in the afternoon, I will teach you military boxing.”
“…Why?” Ai Changhuan almost growled.
“I told you. It is for exercising.”
“I reject.”
“Rejection is invalid.”
“…” Ai Changhuan, who was dissatisfied, shook her body vigorously, trying to disrupt him, but Lu Zhanke didn’t seem to notice. He was still running, and Ai Changhuan couldn’t help being depressed.
Qiao Sheng looked at them gradually running away, and he immediately turned around and drove back to have breakfast. On the way, he gossiped about the head of the regiment’s relationship with his wife.
So, after Lu Zhanke carried forty-five kilograms and ran for eight kilometers to return to the camp, he basked in everyone’s meaningful eyesight.