You Owe Me, My Love

You Owe Me, My Love Chapter 284

Chapter 284 I Trust No One But Bai Rong

“You shouldn’t trust strangers. I don’t know you well. You can ask your mommy to bring you there.” Bai Rong ruffled his hair and told him honestly.

“My mommy can’t find out where that place is. Otherwise, someone else will take me away from her. I need to retrieve something important. I trust you. Can you please help me? I don’t want to die,” he pleaded.

“Where is that? What do you need to retrieve?” Bai Rong asked warily.

The boy replied, “It’s a map which I hid a long time ago. I need to be there to know where the exact location is. I’ve made a mark.”

Furrowing her brows, Bai Rong studied the boy. “What map?” All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

“About the base. I need to give it to Daddy,” came the boy’s answer.

Bai Rong twitched her lips as she caught the mistake made by the little boy.

“Then you should ask for your daddy’s help. Tell him about the map. You shouldn’t be asking for my help,” Bai Rong rejected him politely.

The boy’s cheeks puffed up in anger. “Will you help me or not?”

“Why can’t you let your mommy know about the map of the base? Why will someone take you away if your mommy finds out about it? Why will you die if I refuse to help you?” Bai Rong asked a string of questions.

The boy was at a loss for words. He promptly took an ashtray on the table and hit his head forcefully. Immediately, blood trickled down his forehead.

Bai Rong stood rooted to the spot and narrowed her gaze.

The boy threw the ashtray at Bai Rong’s feet and ran out while yelling, “Mommy! She hit me! Mommy!”

Bai Rong watched as he escaped without a word.

It was obviously a trap, so she wouldn’t run after him or wait foolishly until Zhou Hailan returned to question her.

Gu Mingchen is going to marry another woman. The bride is neither me nor Zhou Hailan. She’s doing this in vain.

I don’t have the time or energy to deal with such nonsense.

Bai Rong left through the back door and returned to her hotel on foot.

Half an hour later, she had just entered her room when her phone began ringing.

Seeing it was Zhou Hailan, she answered the call. “Bai Rong, why are you not in the room?” Zhou Hailan demanded anxiously. “I came back, but no one is here.”

“Your son wanted me to bring him to a place. Do you know where that is?” Bai Rong asked.

Zhou Hailan seemed puzzled. “Huh? What place?”

“He said he can’t let you know. If you find out, someone will take him away and he’ll die. I told Gu Mingchen about this,” Bai Rong answered calmly.

Zhou Hailan pressed on, “What does that mean? Did Xin say that for real? Where is he now?”

“He hit himself with an ashtray and ran out of the room. I don’t know where he is now.” Right after Bai Rong explained everything, Zhou Hailan cut the line abruptly.

Her brows snapped together as she glared at Xin, who was standing beside her. “Great. You threw me under the bus. Why did you say I can’t find out about that? And that someone will take you away and kill you? Your daddy might think I’m a villain!”

Xin gazed at Zhou Hailan fearfully. “But she refused to leave with me.”

“Run away now. When your daddy finds you, you must deny saying those words. Tell him it was Bai Rong who hit you. Be persuasive. Act to gain his sympathy when needed. You’re doing this for the sake of our family, get it?” Zhou Hailan ordered.

“Got it, Mommy. I won’t allow that bad woman to take Daddy away from us.” Xin nodded vehemently before he ran out and escaped through the back door.

After a while, Zhou Hailan called Gu Mingchen anxiously. “Chen, something happened to Xin. I couldn’t find him anywhere.”

“What happened?” Gu Mingchen asked.

“I met with Bai Rong today so I could return your house deeds to her. I left them in the room for some time.”

She continued pitifully, “But when I returned to the room, both Bai Rong and Xin were gone. I called her, but she said Xin ran out suddenly. She didn’t know where he went. Xin’s an obedient boy. Why would he run out suddenly?”

Clearly, she was putting all the blame on Bai Rong.

“Got it,” Gu Mingchen replied. “I’ll find him now.”

After resting for thirty minutes, Bai Rong left her room and went to a nearby ramen restaurant.

She was halfway through her meal when her phone rang.

It was a call from an unknown number, but she answered it anyway. “If you want the child to live, come to Qingshan Park.”

Calmly, Bai Rong resumed eating her ramen. “You got the wrong number,” she responded.

“You’re Bai Rong, right? Xin is in our hands. If you don’t show up in two hours, he’ll die,” warned the person on the other end of the line.

“Well, you should call his parents or grandparents instead of me. He isn’t related to me.” She cautioned, “Stop harassing me. I’ll call the police if you call me again. That’s it.” With that, she cut the line.

The person was speechless.

After finishing her ramen, she paid for her meal. Hmm, I wonder what they are trying to do.

Hence, she drove to Qingshan Park.

From afar, she spotted Gu Mingchen.

“Daddy, it’s her. She hit me. I was afraid, so I ran away,” Xin complained immediately after seeing her.

“Bai Rong assaulted you? That’s impossible,” Zhou Hailan exclaimed. “Xin, don’t lie to me. Why would she hit you?”

“It’s true! She forced me to lie that my mommy is sick. I refused to listen to her, so she hit me.” Xin pouted miserably.

Zhou Hailan studied Gu Mingchen’s expression carefully. “It must be a misunderstanding. I trust Bai Rong.”

Gu Mingchen’s gaze turned icy as he knelt down. “You don’t want Bai Rong to be your mother?”

Zhou Hailan instantly caught the snare in his words and chimed in hurriedly, “Of course not. Bai Rong is an educated woman. I trust her.”

Gu Mingchen’s gaze landed on her. “You know Bai Rong well. Of course you’ll think that way. Xin is just a child. He can only make a judgment call. His thoughts are important to me.”

After hearing his reply, Zhou Hailan was at a loss for words.

Feeling motivated, Xin parted his lips and declared, “I don’t want her to be my mommy. I already have one. I don’t need another one!”

“So you framed her?” Gu Mingchen looked at the wound on his forehead. “Don’t you know I’m marrying another woman? Your efforts are in vain. Don’t hurt yourself from now on.”

Zhou Hailan was dumbfounded. “You’re not marrying Bai Rong? But why? She’s such a nice lady!”

Gu Mingchen rose to his feet. He gazed at her indifferently. “If you can’t take good care of Xin, I’ll terminate your parental rights.”