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

Rong’s finger hovered over the button, getting ready

pinged

clearly remembered blocking Su Xuyan a long time ago so how

not, she decided to go

suddenly snatched out

snapped up to see

through the chat; a frown deeply etched into his forehead. “You have many

provoke the other

invasion of her privacy greatly displeased

at his computer despite having ample

a few.” Bai Rong retorted as she tried to retrieve

Mingchen frown deepened. “You still keep in contact with

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

back to

Rong rolled

such a flippant

Li Si, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu.”

her chin and

bite instead. He nibbled at her lip, but with just as much fervor and she soon found herself

chest, her

Mingchen looked deep

nothing but his gaze was so dazzling that she

not figure out his

again right after doing it once?” Gu Mingchen

chance to sit up, scooting to the foot

marked her every movement, letting her

but ten times a week is just unhealthy.” Bai Rong explained

at her. “So what’s the right number

words seemed

once, it made her seem

made

to such a question.”

too.” The corners

found herself with no

clearly referring

neither smooth nor silver-tongued, yet

of few words and spent

often sternly hence most people found him to

frustrating. “Do you have to beat me at

Won’t your heart ache?

appeared often

the

as rigid as Gu Mingchen would never recognize it