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

hovered over the button,

message pinged

a long time

was Su Xuyan or not, she decided to

snatched out

snapped up to see

scrolled through the chat; a frown deeply etched into his

meant to provoke the other party but it undeniably

of her privacy greatly

not even peeked at his computer

as she

deepened. “You still keep

I actually thought it was a

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

rolled

such a flippant comment of hers

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

chin and

be bite instead. He nibbled at her lip, but with just

Rong jumped in surprise and instinctively pressed her hands against his chest, her face flushed.

deep into her

that she could see the tiny her in both his

could not figure out

do it again right after doing

to sit up, scooting to the foot of the

Mingchen marked her

but ten times

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

words seemed like a

made her seem like a

it made her seem greedy

question.” Bai Rong hoped he could

aware of this too.” The

found herself

was clearly referring

neither smooth nor silver-tongued, yet she had

Mingchen was a man of few words and spent

often sternly hence most people

was frustrating. “Do you have to beat

Won’t your heart ache?

appeared often

it once the words left her

would never recognize it as internet language which was meant