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

message pinged

a long time ago so how was he still

not, she decided

phone was suddenly snatched

up to

the chat; a frown deeply etched into his

other party but it undeniably carried a

invasion of

even peeked at

as she tried to

Mingchen frown deepened. “You still keep in contact

thought it was a woman’s name. Frankly, I blocked him ages ago.” Bai Rong said

and handed the phone back to

Rong rolled her

had taken such a flippant comment

Zhang San, Li Si, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu.” Bai Rong

Mingchen held her chin and bent

He nibbled at her lip, but with just as much fervor and

pressed her hands against his chest, her face flushed.

looked deep into her

that she could see the tiny her in both his

not figure out

right after

Rong took the chance to sit up,

marked her every

a week is passionate; but ten times a

the right number

seemed like

it made her seem like a toy. The idea

twice, it made her

answer to such a question.” Bai Rong hoped

you are aware of this too.” The corners of

herself with

was clearly referring to

neither smooth nor silver-tongued, yet she

was a man of few words and

most people

to beat

Won’t your heart ache?

appeared

the words

never recognize it as internet language which was meant as