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

over the button,

message pinged in.

long time ago so

not, she decided

snatched out

to see who had

Mingchen scrolled through the chat; a frown deeply etched into his

meant to provoke the other party but it undeniably carried a narcissistic

casual invasion of

not even peeked at his computer despite having

Rong retorted as she

Mingchen frown deepened. “You still keep in

didn’t know it was him either. I actually thought it was a woman’s name. Frankly,

back to her. “Let’s talk about these

Rong rolled her

a flippant

Long, Zhao Hu.”

held her chin and bent

lip, but

hands against his chest, her

deep into

said nothing but his gaze was so dazzling that she could see the

could not figure

right after doing it once?” Gu Mingchen

chance to sit up,

Gu Mingchen marked her every

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

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

seemed

her seem like a

it made her seem greedy

to such a question.” Bai Rong hoped he

The corners of his

found herself with

was clearly referring to her

neither smooth nor silver-tongued, yet she had no

Mingchen was a man of few words and spent most of his time in

seriously and often sternly hence most people found him to

“Do you have to beat me at

Won’t your heart ache?

statement appeared often

it once the words left her

as Gu Mingchen would never recognize it as internet language