You Owe Me, My Love

Bai Rong had been rendered speechless.

Gu Mingchen had one of his men bring a large basin as well as five bottles filled with hot water.

Bai Rong could not stand it anymore and desperately needed to take a shower.

She stepped out of the bathroom, feeling clean and refreshed

Gu Mingchen went in and took his turn.

His laptop had been left open and Bai Rong scanned the screen.

There must be a lot of top-secret files on this laptop.

Yet, he left it unguarded and went into the bathroom. If anyone were to come in, the secrets would be stolen as easily as taking a candy from a baby.

She did not peek.

The more secrets one knew, the more likely they were to meet with a quick end.

She lay on the bed and opened social media on her phone,

Someone named Manman had sent over a wave of information.

Bai Rong had not used this account in some time besides the occasional correspondence with Liu Yan.

Also, she did not give her username away easily.

She had no recollection of this Manman. Could it be an old colleague who changed their username?

Some people like Liu Yan liked to change their username often.

It used to take her forever to find Liu Yan’s new usernames so eventually she made a remark on her friend’s name.

Bai Rong opened the messages.

“Are you here?” This message had been sent almost daily and it was all the person said.

“Hi, you are?” Bai Rong typed out in reply.

“Bai Rong, you’re finally here! I’ve missed you so much. Where are you now?” Manman immediately responded.

Bai Rong was even more bewildered at seeing her own name mentioned.

“Who are you?” Bai Rong asked.

“A man who loves you.” Manman cryptically responded.

Bai Rong could tell that he was determined to keep his identity a secret. He spoke almost childishly, trying to provoke her. This irked her and she could not contain her irritation. “I have many suitors. If you don’t tell me your name, then I’ll have no choice but to block you.”

silent for three

hovered over the button, getting ready to block

message pinged

Rong clearly remembered blocking Su Xuyan a long time ago so how was he still able

Su Xuyan or not, she decided to

was suddenly snatched out of her

snapped up to see who had

Mingchen scrolled through the chat; a frown deeply etched into

to provoke the other party but it undeniably carried

of

not even peeked at

retorted as

deepened. “You still keep

know it was him either. I actually thought it was a woman’s name. Frankly, I blocked him ages

Mingchen blocked Manman and handed the phone back

rolled

had taken such a flippant comment of

Zhang San, Li Si, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu.” Bai Rong rattled off a string

chin and bent down to kiss

but with just as

pressed her hands against his chest, her face flushed. “Didn’t we just

Mingchen looked deep

nothing but his gaze was so dazzling that she could see the tiny her in both his

not figure out

after doing it once?” Gu

took the chance to sit up,

marked her every movement,

week is passionate; but ten times a

at her. “So what’s the right number of times a

seemed

once, it made her seem like a toy. The

said twice, it made her seem

such a question.”

you are aware of this too.” The

herself with no

referring

was neither smooth nor silver-tongued, yet she had

a man of few words and spent most of his

spoke seriously and often sternly hence most people found him to

have to beat me at everything? Won’t your heart ache?” She hissed back

Won’t your heart ache?

statement appeared

regretted it once the words

as Gu Mingchen would never recognize it