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.”

was silent

the button, getting ready to block

message pinged in. “Su

remembered blocking Su Xuyan a long time ago so how

it was Su Xuyan or not, she decided to go ahead and

phone was suddenly snatched

to

scrolled through the chat; a frown deeply etched into his

line was meant to provoke the other party but it

his casual invasion of her

had not even peeked at his

retorted as she tried to retrieve

“You still keep in contact with your

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

and handed the phone back to her. “Let’s talk about

rolled

flippant comment of hers

San, Li Si, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu.”

Mingchen held her chin and bent down to kiss

more accurate word would be bite instead. He nibbled at her lip, but with just as much fervor

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

deep into

gaze was so dazzling that

not figure out

again right after

sit up, scooting to the foot of the

Gu Mingchen marked her every

a week is passionate; but ten times

her. “So what’s the

seemed like

once, it made her seem like a toy. The idea abhorred

said twice, it made her seem

serious answer to such a question.” Bai Rong hoped he could drop

aware of this too.” The corners of his mouth curled into another

found herself with no

referring to her

nor silver-tongued, yet she

was a man of few words and spent most

and often sternly hence most people found him to be

frustrating. “Do you have to beat

Won’t your heart ache?

statement appeared often

the

rigid as Gu Mingchen would never recognize it as internet language which was meant