When Xu Xu woke up the next day, the five bright red fingerprints on her chest had yet to fade. Her skin was already fair, so when she looked at herself in the mirror, she felt that it looked quite hideous.
Therefore, she applied some safflower oil and smelled good. When she was at work, Yao Meng came over to sniff and asked, "Where else did you get hurt yesterday?"
Xu Xu answered, "Just a small injury."
After a while, she saw Ji Bai leisurely walk into the office with his hands in his pockets. He nodded and greeted everyone before entering his room.
If it was any other girl, she would definitely be a little embarrassed when she saw Ji Bai. However, Xu Xu was too crude in this regard, so she did not feel anything at all and only greeted him politely.
Ji Bai was not crude, but he knew himself very well and was good at controlling himself. He knew that his obsession with the soft touch was just a normal physiological reaction after suppressing his desires for too long. Therefore, when he returned home last night, he took a cold shower and all his desires disappeared. When he saw Xu Xu today, he did not have any other thoughts.
"Hey, do you feel that the atmosphere in the office is different after the captain came back?" Yao Meng glanced at Ji Bai's office and whispered.
Xu Xu nodded. It was different, it was more tense. Everyone's voices were lower and faster than usual.
She was quite used to it.
***
Because there was a lot of follow-up work for Yang Yu's case, Xu Xu and Yao Meng were very busy helping everyone. By the afternoon, they had basically finished sorting out the case information. Before Xu Xu could even catch her breath, the phone on the table rang. It was Ji Bai. "Come in."
Xu Xu walked in and saw Ji Bai leaning against the back of his chair with a few pages of documents in one hand. He did not even look up. "Close the door."
Xu Xu closed the door and stood there obediently. He looked up at her. "Sit."
Xu Xu sat down.
When she felt his sharp gaze on her, Xu Xu looked straight at him. His face was handsome and clean, and his dark eyes were slightly squinted, as if he was scrutinizing her.
Xu Xu liked to observe other people's eyes because they would more or less reveal their emotions. However, Ji Bai's eyes seemed to have a kind of lazy and indifferent look, which was unpredictable.
"In ten years, you're the first police officer in Lin City to be held hostage by a criminal." Ji Bai said, "How do you plan to explain this?" His voice was low and stern, and his eyes were cold. In the past, he had scolded several other policewomen in the station until they cried.
However, Xu Xu did not feel embarrassed at all. She replied, "There's nothing to explain."
It was not that Xu Xu did not have a sense of honor or disgrace, it was just that she was too calm. She knew that stamina had always been her weakness, but she believed that everyone had things that they were not good at. Since she had already tried her best, why should she feel ashamed of her shortcomings?
Ji Bai stopped talking and only stared at her with his dark eyes. Xu Xu looked at him calmly. After a while, an indifferent smile suddenly appeared in his eyes.
However, this smile made Xu Xu feel some kind of invisible pressure, as if something bad was about to happen.
Sure enough, Ji Bai threw the document that he had been holding onto the table. Xu Xu glanced at it and realized that it was her resume. Ji Bai had circled her physical fitness score with a red pen.
"I passed." Xu Xu emphasized.
"In the entire Criminal Police Unit, you're the only one who 'passed' in terms of physical fitness." Ji Bai said calmly, "Everyone else is excellent. Also, I've checked just now. Although you passed, you're the last in the entire faculty. "
At this moment, Xu Xu's face was a little hot. After all, "last place" was too extreme of a title, and it was still a little painful for a top student like her.
Ji Bai stared at her. "In three months, your physical fitness must be improved from 'pass' to 'good'. During these three months, you're not allowed to go out to the police station and only work as a clerk. I don't need a subordinate who can be kidnapped at any time and drag the whole team down. "
***
When she left Ji Bai's office, Xu Xu was still a little depressed. This was because she was not sure if she could complete the goal that Ji Bai had set.
Therefore, from this moment on, Xu Xu was shrouded in the pressure of "possibly not being able to complete the goal". When she got home after work, she immediately turned on her computer and searched for some information before coming up with a physical fitness improvement plan. The plan was undoubtedly harsh, she had to do a lot of training and eat more.
That night, Xu Juan called her and asked if she was done with the case. He wanted to introduce her to a male IT technician. Xu Xu said yes.
Xu Juan could tell that his sister was not in a good mood, so after asking what was going on, he smiled and said, "Your superior is right. With your small physique, I'm also worried about catching criminals."
***
Since "training" was very difficult for Xu Xu, she felt that it was necessary to reward herself. The next day, she went out at six in the morning and specially bought some exquisite breakfast before driving to the police station.
There was a sports field next to the police station that belonged to the police academy. At this moment, the sky was just beginning to brighten, and a light mist shrouded the track like a veil. Xu Xu put on earplugs as usual and began to run slowly.
There were strong young men and middle-aged men who passed by her. Most of them were wearing sports vests issued by the police station. Xu Xu had just run two laps when she suddenly heard a cold voice next to her. "Are you a snail?" She turned her head and saw Ji Bai standing next to her in a grayish-white T-shirt and dark black sports pants.
He had obviously been running for a long time. His back and chest were drenched in sweat, and his hair was also wet. His face was a little red, and his eyebrows looked darker and cleaner in the morning light. He looked like a handsome young man. However, his expression was stern as he stared at her with a frown.
Because he was standing close to her, the man's sweat and heat assaulted her nostrils. Before Xu Xu answered, she reflexively took a small step back. In Ji Bai's eyes, this action made the girl shrink back like a frightened little animal. There was a difference between a man and a woman, so he did not want to force her anymore, so he only said coldly, "Faster!"
Xu Xu ran with all the strength in her body. It was not that she was afraid of him, but she had heard that Ji Bai had kicked people out of the Criminal Police Unit several times. He had never been lenient. Xu Xu wanted to be a criminal police officer, so she could not let herself be kicked out. Moreover, she also understood that Ji Bai's physical requirements were actually for her own good.
Because she was afraid that he was following her, Xu Xu did not dare to relax. After running half a lap, she noticed that there were no footsteps behind her. When she turned her head to look, the fog was everywhere, so he did not follow her at all.
Xu Xu breathed a sigh of relief and slowed down a little. Her stamina had to be improved step by step.
Unexpectedly, after running another half a lap, she saw a familiar figure standing in the training area in front of her.
At this time, the fog had dissipated a lot, and the morning light shone on the lawn. Ji Bai's back was facing her, and he was lifting a rather heavy looking machine. His back looked very tall, and every inch of his muscles under his T-shirt slowly revealed his firm contours. When he put the machine down, the bulging muscles retracted, and the lines of his back became slender and well-proportioned again, casting a smooth silhouette under the sun.
Xu Xu had always felt that although he was tall, he did not seem strong, so she did not expect him to be so muscular. Although Xu Xu had never been in a relationship, she knew how to appreciate a person's appearance. She had never liked strong and powerful men. Instead, she admired delicate and slender men. According to her aesthetic standards, Ji Bai was good-looking, but his muscles did not seem swollen, and were even well-proportioned, but it still made him look bad.
While she was in a daze, Ji Bai seemed to have sensed someone looking at him from behind, so he suddenly turned around. Under the sun, a drop of sweat rolled down his well-defined face, and his dark eyes stared at her as if he was asking her silently, 'What kind of speed is this?'
Xu Xu sped up as if she had been electrocuted, and she quietly ran away from him.
***
It was half past seven when she finished running, but there was still no one in the office. Xu Xu did not like the smell of smoke in the canteen on the top floor, so she placed her breakfast in the small meeting room, took a newspaper, and left.
There was a special bathroom in the courtyard of the police station, so when Xu Xu finished showering and returned to the office, it was already twenty minutes later. As soon as she opened the door of the small meeting room, she was stunned.
Ji Bai was sitting in the seat that she had chosen. He was holding a newspaper in his left hand, and he was putting a crystal shrimp dumpling into his mouth with his right hand. The lunch box in front of him was already empty.
Xu Xu was stunned, and he only glanced at her. "Sit."
'Why did he eat my breakfast?'
Ji Bai's eyes were still on the newspaper, and his deep voice was unhurried. "I ate your breakfast because I wanted to tell you that as a criminal police officer, it's necessary to understand the ways of the world. Criminal investigation work needs to rely on the public to provide clues. How can a police officer who only knows his profession and not the ways of the world get the support of the public? "
Xu Xu continued to be stunned.
Ji Bai said, "You know to prepare breakfast for me, so you're not hopeless. But you don't have to prepare breakfast in the future, my team doesn't need this. "
Xu Xu finally understood that Ji Bai had misunderstood.
In fact, she could not blame Ji Bai for thinking too highly of himself. He did not like the smell of smoke in the canteen, so every morning after training, he would go to the small meeting room to eat something and read the newspaper. After so many years, everyone in the team knew this. Moreover, he would always sit in this position, where the sunlight would shine in, but not too dazzling.
Today, when he entered the small meeting room, he saw that his seat was neatly placed with breakfast and newspapers. Xu Xu was the only one in the office, so she must have prepared it.
In the past, there were a few times when a policewoman knocked on the door of the office and asked Ji Bai if he wanted breakfast, but of course, he refused. But now, his target was Xu Xu, so he did not think that she had other thoughts. He just thought that it was commendable for this bookworm to think of pleasing her superior. Since he could not discourage her from trying hard to change, he simply accepted it and taught her the ways of the world.
Moreover, she bought his favorite crystal shrimp dumplings.
However, after he finished lecturing her, he saw Xu Xu's dark and clean eyes staring at him. Her delicate eyebrows were already knitted together. "You're mistaken, this is my breakfast, not yours."
The room instantly fell into silence.
Ji Bai put down the newspaper and stared at her without saying a word.
Xu Xu faintly felt that she might have been too direct and made him lose face. After thinking for a moment, she decided to compromise. "If you like it, I can bring you one tomorrow."
"No need!" Ji Bai stood up and his tall figure shrouded her like a tree. He smiled faintly. "If that's the case, I can't eat this breakfast for free. Tomorrow, you will arrive an hour earlier, I will personally supervise. "
An hour earlier meant that she had to leave at five o 'clock … Xu Xu was still in a daze, but Ji Bai had already walked past her and out of the small meeting room.
When Xu Xu ran back to the cafeteria, breakfast was already sold out. She could only return to the office with a hungry stomach.
After a while, her colleagues came in groups of twos and threes. Yao Meng walked in with two bags of soup dumplings and said with a smile, "These are freshly made dumplings, they're very famous in my area. I bought an extra bag, who wants it? "
Everyone said that they had eaten, so Yao Meng walked to Ji Bai's door with a bag of soup dumplings. "Captain, have you eaten?"
Ji Bai was still reading the newspaper and his face was hidden behind it. He said faintly, "I have."
Yao Meng stuck out her tongue and returned to her seat with the breakfast. However, she saw Xu Xu's dark and cold eyes staring at the dumplings in her hands. She said in a muffled voice, "Can you share some with me?"
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