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

finger hovered over the

message pinged in. “Su

a long time ago

or not, she decided to go

phone was suddenly snatched out

head snapped up to see who had

through the chat; a frown deeply etched

line was meant to provoke the other party but

invasion of her privacy

peeked at his computer despite having

Bai Rong retorted as she tried to retrieve

frown deepened. “You still keep in contact

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

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

Rong rolled

such a flippant comment of hers so

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

held her chin and bent

He nibbled at her lip, but

instinctively pressed her hands against his chest, her face

looked deep into

nothing but his gaze was so dazzling that she could see

could not figure out his

it again right after doing it once?” Gu Mingchen

took the chance to sit up, scooting to the foot of

marked her every movement, letting

the minimum; twice a week is passionate; but ten times a week

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

seemed like a

she replied once, it made her seem like a

said twice, it made her seem greedy

a serious answer to such a question.”

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

found herself with no

referring

neither smooth nor silver-tongued, yet she had no

a man of few words and spent most of his time in brooding

and often sternly hence most

beat me at everything?

Won’t your heart ache?

statement appeared often

regretted it once the words

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