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 for three

hovered over the button, getting

message pinged

Xuyan a long time ago

or not, she decided

was suddenly snatched

up to

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

provoke the other party but it undeniably carried a narcissistic

casual invasion of her privacy greatly

at

as she tried

frown deepened. “You still keep in contact with

was a woman’s name.

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

rolled her

such a flippant comment of hers

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

Mingchen held her chin and bent down to kiss

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

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

looked deep into

said nothing but his gaze was so dazzling that

figure out his

can’t do it again right after doing it once?”

to sit up, scooting to the

her every movement, letting

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

peered at her. “So what’s the right number of

seemed like

made her seem like a toy. The idea abhorred

she said twice, it made

isn’t a serious answer to such a question.” Bai Rong hoped

are aware of this too.” The

herself with no

was clearly referring to her

man was neither smooth nor silver-tongued, yet she had no

man of few words and spent most of

hence most people found him to be unfriendly and

heckle her was frustrating. “Do you have to beat me at

Won’t your heart ache?

statement appeared often

the words left her

rigid as Gu Mingchen would never recognize it as internet language