You Owe Me, My Love

You Owe Me, My Love Chapter 157

“Yan, he may ask you about our past. Just say you don’t know anything and remember not to divulge any information, OK?” Bai Rong emphasized.

“I don’t think he will be asking that. Will he?” Liu Yan wasn’t very convinced.

“It’s best that he doesn’t. But just in case he does, remember to say you don’t know anything.” Bai Rong reminded her friend.

“OK. I understand. I need to surrender my phone now. Talk to you later.” After Liu Yan hung up, she handed over her phone to Gu Mingchen’s orderly.

She was brought to wait outside the chief’s office.

The man was sitting at his desk and stared into space, appearing to be deep in thought.

“Chief, Dr. Liu is here.” Lieutenant Song reported.

He snapped out of his daze and said, “Come in.”

Lieutenant Song pushed open the door and Liu Yan walked in, still baffled, and looked at Gu Mingchen in surprise.

However, Gu Mingchen remained expressionless. His unreadable eyes made it harder for Liu Yan to guess his intentions.

“Sit.” Although it was just one word, it made her all tensed up.

She sat opposite him with her eyes slightly downcast and kept fidgeting with her hands.

“You don’t have to be so nervous. I only want to ask you a few questions. How much do you know about Bai Rong and I?” Gu Mingchen went straight to the point.

The woman’s eyes widened in shock.

She couldn’t believe Bai Rong had correctly predicted his intentions.

Indeed, what he wanted to know was his relationship with her friend.

Liu Yan raised her eyebrows and said, “I only know a little.”

“What was the reason we broke up?” Gu Mingchen asked.

“Bai Rong was very tight-lipped. She never told me much because she did not want her friends to be implicated. I only know that you were very close last time and you loved her very much. There was once when Bai Rong disappeared for a week, and it was within that one week that you got engaged to Su Wanning. She was released the next day after your engagement ceremony and had lost her pinkie finger. Because of that, you chopped off your own finger too. From then on, Bai Rong started becoming more aloof. She even gave up on the job she loved to become a prosecutor instead. I am not sure what happened after she left A City.”

Liu Yan did not want to bring up the part where Bai Rong tried to end her life. It was still heart- wrenching even when she thought about it now.

“I loved her very much?” Gu Mingchen emphasized each word and narrowed his eyes.

“Of course. When you first knew Bai Rong, she was still married to Su Xuyan, but you insisted on being with her even then. Your love was strong enough to cross moral boundaries.” Liu Yan sighed.

“When we got together, she was still Su Xuyan’s wife?” Even Gu Mingchen himself was shocked at this piece of information.

He did not believe that he could be so irrational. How could he fall in love with someone else’s wife?

There must be some hidden secret behind it.

“Yes, I can confirm this. I am sure that when you first slept together, she was still married. Come to think of it, I should be blamed for that. Su Xuyan had the goods on me and used it to threaten Bai Rong not to divorce him. Otherwise, you two would have already been married long ago. There was one more thing that you might not be aware of, Bai Rong and Su Xuyan only had an empty shell marriage.” Liu Yan was very open to Gu Mingchen.

However, she was feeling frustrated as she did not know much about them. Otherwise, she could have given him more examples to prove to him how much he did indeed love Bai Rong.

“Empty shell marriage?” Gu Mingchen looked downwards to hide the sudden surge of emotions that reflected in his eyes.

“Yeah. Bai Rong used to stay at my place and you were always coming over. I had to find excuses every time to leave the space to the two of you. You always stayed the night. There is not much that you can do at night, if you know what I mean.” Liu Yan hinted.

The man cleared his throat.

He did not need it to be said out loud to know what a man and a woman could be doing in the middle of the night.

“What else do you know?” Gu Mingchen continued asking.

“Initially, this position at the military base was specially created for Bai Rong. But in the end, Su Wanning and I came here instead and Bai Rong became a prosecutor. That’s about all I know. Bai Rong always kept things to herself. Chief, why are you asking all these?” Liu Yan did not understand his objective.

“I just want to understand some things that I can’t figure out.” Gu Mingchen said in a deep voice.

“By the way, Chief, you can’t tell Bai Rong that you heard any of these from me. Before I came here, she specially reminded me to pretend that I don’t know anything and not to tell you about it.” The woman pleaded.

“Pretend that you don’t know anything?” A sharp glint flashed across his eyes.

Liu Yan could sense Gu Mingchen’s displeasure and was worried that she had gotten Bai Rong into trouble. “I think Bai Rong still loves you. She is just too proud to admit. It was the same last time. She loved you so much but told me not to tell you. If you think about it, if she doesn’t have any more feelings for you, why would she need to hide all these from you? There has to be a reason why she’s doing this.” The woman quickly added.

Gu Mingchen did not say anything and looked like he was in a daze.

Liu Yan tested waters and asked, “Does Chief still like Rong? After all, you used to be so much in love.”

“You seem to be quite nosy.” Gu Mingchen said indifferently in an authoritative tone. This is property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Seeing his attitude, Liu Yan instantly regretted telling him so much.

She thought that the reason he was asking was because he had feelings for Bai Rong.

But it didn’t seem like it.

Liu Yan looked at Gu Mingchen worriedly, wondering if he was planning to get rid of Bai Rong as to not leave any traces of his past.

She would have really sinned if that was the case.

“Chief, you don’t have to worry. Rong knows her place. I think she really wants to leave the past behind her.” Liu Yan suddenly changed her position.

Gu Mingchen sized her up and pointed his chin towards the door. “You may leave now.”

“Yes, Chief.” Liu Yan scurried away. Speaking to the chief had put her under immense pressure.

Gu Mingchen touched the stub of his pinkie finger.

So Bai Rong was the reason why his finger was gone.

It seemed like he had indeed loved her a lot in the past.

After Liu Yan went back to her office, she received news that those who were attending the singles party tonight got to knock off two hours earlier.

So she went to pick Bai Rong up immediately.

“What did Gu Mingchen ask you about?” Bai Rong asked worriedly when they were in the car.

“Errr, he asked about his past. But how would I know about his past.” Liu Yan said with a guilty conscience and tried to avoid Bai Rong’s gaze.

“You must have told him everything, right?” Bai Rong could tell from her friend’s reaction.

Knowing that she was unable to hide anything from Bai Rong, Liu Yan said, “I didn’t tell him everything. I told him I don’t know when he asked for the reason the two of you broke up. I only said that you used to be very much in love with each other.”

Bai Rong frowned. “Yan, you shouldn’t have said that. It’s best that he and I don’t have any more interactions in the future.”

“I know I was wrong. I would definitely not say a single word if he asks me anything again. I promise, I swear. If I fail to keep my promise, I will end up marrying the person I hate the most. How about that? Savage enough right?” Liu Yan pleaded for her friend’s forgiveness.

“You have to promise, you can’t divulge any further information to him.” There was nothing Bai Rong could do about it.

Just then, she received a text.

It was from Gu Mingchen. He texted: I am staying at Sky Resort tonight. Let’s have dinner together.

It was a declarative statement in a commanding tone. It seemed like Bai Rong did not have the option to reject.

She was speechless at the text.