They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes

Luo Zhi's good mood remained until the moment she left the room and went down the elevator to the hotel lobby.

Seeing the figure sitting in the distance clearly, Luo Zhi stopped her steps.

Luo Zhi didn't pause, turned around and wanted to go back to the elevator.

It's a pity that the people in the lobby have been paying attention to the movement here, and when they saw him appear, they immediately got up and walked over quickly.

When the elevator door closed and opened again, the girl stopped in front of him: "Second brother!"

Luo Zhi pressed the up button of the elevator with one hand, and frowned slightly.

There is already a large gap in his memory, but his body still responds to this too strange and long-standing name.Even if he couldn't hear Luo Cheng's voice, but just saw that mouth shape, there was still a hidden stinging pain rushing up his back before consciousness.

The elevator door slowly opened behind Luo Cheng.

Luo Zhi lowered her gaze, raised her hand and lowered the brim of her hat.

He said sorry in a low voice, and planned to take a few steps to walk into the elevator, but suddenly Luo Cheng hugged his arm.

"Second brother." Luo Cheng looked up at him, pursed his lips, "Are you still angry with me?"

Luo Zhi's physical strength was not strong enough to pull out the dragged arm.He tried a few times, but he could only stop and quietly watch the girl's mouth shape.

Some blurred and fragmented chaotic pictures vaguely emerged in his mind, but they could not be assembled into continuous fragments after all.

So Luo Zhi had no choice but to ask her: "Why am I angry with you?"

After he asked this sentence, Luo Cheng's expression obviously panicked and froze for a moment.

There was hardly a smile on that bright face, Luo Cheng twisted the corner of his clothes vigorously, lowered his head to hide his guilt.

She took this as Luo Zhi's ridicule and questioning of her, her instinctive panic lingered for a moment, and the suppressed resentment and conflict soaked in, and soon turned into unreasonable embarrassment.

... She knew that Luo Zhi must have hated her.

Because he hated what she did before, he deliberately forced her with this kind of question, embarrassing her in public.

She really shouldn't have left without saying anything after discovering that something was wrong with Luo Zhi's situation, and then lied when Brother Chenbai asked about it.

But if Luo Zhi didn't direct and act on his own, and threatened their family members with a death-seeking farce, how could such a thing happen?

Of course she was wrong, but could it be that Luo Zhi would never learn to reflect on herself and know her shame?Why do you have the nerve to pose like a victim and question her here...

Luo Cheng buried her head very low to hide those thoughts, her fingertips twisting the clothes were faintly white.

She disliked Luo Zhi so much, and when she learned something from her elder brother that she had forgotten because she was too young, this resistance was further deepened.

——It wasn't until yesterday that she found out that her father and elder brother's cold treatment of Luo Zhi was actually because when they were young, Luo Zhi had taken her away from her mother once because of her willful playfulness.

Fortunately, Luo Cheng was lucky, he escaped from those bad guys within a few days, and happened to be discovered by the police not far away, and then returned home safely.

It was because of the stimulation of this incident that my mother's mind began to become unclear.

Luo Cheng was really too young at that time, a child with a big heart and no memory, she had no impression of this experience at all... But for Director Gong's documentary these days, Luo Cheng has watched a lot of real cases, closed her eyes Thinking about it makes my back chill.

What if she really lost it?

If it is really lost, what kind of life will be lived and what kind of hardship will be suffered?

She was only a few years old at that time, and Luo Zhi almost ruined her whole life, how could she never feel guilty at all?

These thoughts were too vividly entrenched, and they completely overwhelmed her instinctive jitters at the tragic past in the records after she learned that the prototype of "Little Flame" was actually Luo Zhi.

Luo Cheng even felt that she was so naive as to be ridiculous—she still cared about Luo Zhi.

Obviously it was Luo Zhi's brother who caused her to almost get lost, but Luo Zhi never admitted it, and never even felt even the slightest bit of uneasiness in her conscience just because she almost caused her own sister to suffer such a fate.

……

If it wasn't for not being able to turn against Luo Zhi now, Luo Cheng would almost be unable to hold back his temper, and would walk away like every time before.

But after all, she still needs Luo Zhi's help.Thinking about the agreement with director Gong Hanrou, Luo Cheng took a deep breath, readjusted her state and raised her head with a sweet smile: "Second brother..."

She just yelled again against her will, then suddenly stopped talking, dazed for a while, and met Luo Zhi's gaze with some hesitation.

Luo Zhi didn't know how long she had been looking at her.

The expression in those eyes was very serious and gentle, as if looking at someone unfamiliar with whom he had no impression.

Although I still know who the other party is, but because we have been separated for too long or have experienced too many facts, we have begun to feel strange.

Since I have become unfamiliar, I don't know how to respond to the other party's enthusiasm, so I apologize politely with a little kindness and alienation.

Luo Cheng stayed in place.

... For some reason, she suddenly felt flustered.

It shouldn't be like this.

Obviously, every time Luo Zhi looked at her, no matter whether he used a casual smile or a soft and conniving attitude to cover up, under the cover, there would still be a slight sense of disappointment.

Luo Cheng couldn't help clenching her palms lightly, and it was the first time she realized that she had always seen that look so clearly.

Every time she sees the sadness in Luo Zhi's eyes, in Luo Cheng's heart, there is actually an extremely hidden and unspeakable joy.

She knew that Luo Zhi was too tolerant and conceded to her, so she often used this to punish Luo Zhi who destroyed their family - Luo Cheng regarded this as justice in her heart.

She was protecting Brother Jian and her mother, venting her anger for her father and brother who were utterly annoyed, and protecting her own home.

As for people like Luo Zhi, of course they deserve what they deserve.

Luo Cheng never thought that one day, these emotions would disappear in those eyes without warning.

So, even after such a commotion, when director Gong Hanrou asked her if she could bring the client, Luo Cheng subconsciously agreed without even thinking about it.

...Will Luo Zhi still agree to her request now?

What if Luo Zhi doesn't agree to come forward?

The last time I went to see Director Gong Hanrou, her performance was not very good.

If Luo Zhi cannot be brought there, will this opportunity be completely lost?

Luo Cheng couldn't help being a little nervous. She tried her best to calm down, clasped her palms with her fingertips, and said the backup plan she had made: "Second brother, come with me, I want to make up for your birthday..."

While talking, she stretched out her hand to pull Luo Zhi, but Luo Zhi still stood there.

"My birthday has passed, and I have important things to do right now."

Luo Zhi shook her head lightly: "Sorry, Xiao Cheng."

Luo Cheng didn't expect that he couldn't say anything, and he became annoyed for no reason, and blurted out: "What if our family wants to give you a make-up birthday?"

Saying these words finally caused slight changes in those always calm and gentle eyes.

Luo Zhi slowly frowned.

He didn't seem to understand Luo Cheng's words. After thinking for a while, he repeated slowly: "Your family?"

"Yes." Luo Cheng bit her lower lip. Actually, she didn't discuss this matter with her parents and elder brother, but Luo Zhi didn't want to enter, so she had to take it one step at a time, "Mom and Dad, brother, two... pregnant Brother Yi, we are all looking at the sea and want to have a meal with you..."

Luo Zhi saw the key words in her words: "Looking at the sea?"

"It's the villa at Brother Chenbai's house." In order to hide his guilty conscience, Luo Cheng continued, "Don't you remember? Aunt Ren lived there when she was recuperating, and didn't you yourself live there all the time? It's very quiet and the scenery is beautiful. Brother Chenbai lent it to us, brother Huaiyi accompanied his mother to recuperate there, father and elder brother also came today..."

She spoke so fast that Luo Zhi couldn't make out the mouth shape, but the context of the matter was not difficult to guess after all, the cause and effect had already been vaguely connected in his mind.

It turned out that this was the trap waiting for him at Wanghai.

……

If he really couldn't resist going to Ren's villa according to the text message Ren Chenbai sent him, he would bump into a happy family.

Luo Zhi is very familiar with the development that will follow.

Ren Chenbai likes to do this very much.

Push Luo Zhi into their house without warning, and then don't worry about anything, just wait for Luo Zhi to be punished by the family law, or to be kicked out in disgust.

Then he took Luo Zhi back to Ren's house and told Luo Zhi that the only one he could rely on was himself.

When Luo Zhi was still young, because she trusted Ren Chenbai too much, she was fooled more than once.

It's a pity that this time there is an extra Luo Cheng who can't hold back. Although it is not clear how Luo Cheng found him, the two groups of people made mistakes, which made him prepare in advance.

Luo Zhi still looked at Luo Cheng apologetically: "Xiao Cheng, I really have something very important, so I won't bother you."

His state began to slip slightly. Seeing Luo Cheng's disappointed and cold face in an instant, he was suddenly stunned by a headache, and countless faces of Luo Cheng who were similar or even colder and ironic jumped out of his memory.

Luo Zhi's body shook slightly.

He reached out to support the wall, closed his eyes, turned around and walked out of the hotel quickly.

It was cloudy outside the hotel, but not correspondingly cool.The air pressure was so low that one felt chest tightness, the air was hot and sticky and became an inseparable lump, and even the wind was lazy to flow under the thick clouds.

Luo Zhi walked out of the revolving door of the hotel. He took out his mobile phone and was about to confirm the direction to the beach when a bright white flash suddenly pierced into his field of vision unobstructed.

The strong light briefly deprived him of his vision, which in turn caused a wave of more overwhelming dizziness.

Luo Zhi's consciousness was completely blank for those few seconds, and he felt that someone was pulling him, as if shouting something for him to answer, or as if it was live broadcasting.More hands stretched out, as if they wanted to rush him to face the camera. In the chaos, someone pushed hard and hard, and suddenly his right leg couldn't bear it any longer...

……

When did he hurt his right leg?

In the exceptionally quiet darkness, Luo Zhi thought quietly, and then found the answer in a certain memory fragment.

... 12-year-old Luo Zhi stepped back to the edge of the balcony.

This was also one of the times when he was deceived by Ren Chenbai to go home.

He forgot that he didn't eat pineapples when he was a child, which made Mrs. Luo fall ill, and the hand pierced by the fork was hanging down, dripping blood dripping down.

"I lost my sister?" 12-year-old Luo Zhi's eyebrows were pale, she fixedly looked at the hysterical Mrs. Luo in front of her, "Mom, tell them that I lost my sister?"

Mrs. Luo looked terrified and dazed.

Her hair was all messed up by himself, crying and laughing at other times, but she didn't answer Luo Zhi's words.

Not only did she not answer, Madam Luo seemed to be looking at some terrifying monster, staring at him with bloodshot eyes.

Hearing that something happened to Luo Zhi again, and Mrs. Luo was even involved, Luo Chengxiu had to put down his work and hurried over with Luo Jun.

Luo Jun supported his sick mother, skillfully comforted her in a soft voice, and looked at Luo Zhi with a serious face: "Luo Zhi, apologize to mother."

Luo Zhi shook his head.

"Apologize!" Luo Chengxiu scolded in a deep voice. He didn't want to startle his wife, so he tried his best to restrain his voice, but his anger was intensified because of this forced suppression.

Luo Chengxiu looked at this incompetent second son, and the repeated troubles exhausted his last patience, and his rage finally turned into cold disgust and disdain: "Will you never be like Huai Yi, and let me relax a little bit? "

12-year-old Luo Zhi still hasn't been able to get rid of the problem of asking for trouble. His eyes are white with pain and his ears are ringing, but he still insists on saying clearly: "Father, brother, it's not me..."

At that time, Luo Zhi still couldn't figure out many things.

He saw his eldest brother using the tie clip and cufflinks he gave him, and saw his father put the No.1 trophy he won from the competition in the office bookcase, so he thought he was at least qualified and necessary to explain.

But the words of that day were not finished after all.

Mrs. Luo suddenly screamed hysterically and interrupted him.

She struggled to push away the eldest son, and pointed at Luo Zhi with trembling and skinny fingers: "You are not my son! You are a devil, a liar, and you are here for revenge. You cannot be my son..."

Then Mrs. Luo rushed over and pushed hard on him with both hands.

Luo Zhi lost her balance and fell from the balcony on the second floor.

He fell into the lotus pond used for landscaping downstairs and saved his life, but still broke his right leg.

Later, Aunt Ren picked him up, took him to Wanghai Villa, and took care of him for three months.

Later, Aunt Ren gave him the car.

He lost the car.

……

The boundless pitch-black karmic flames rose up suddenly, roasting a certain place under his ribs, slowly tormenting the cremation and turning it into ashes, leaving pale and cold embers.

Luo Zhi's heart seemed to be grasped by a hand, and it was squeezed suddenly without warning.His chest rose and fell rapidly, he opened his eyes suddenly, and sat up from the bed.

He was lying in a room that was all too familiar.

Even without turning on the lights or checking anything, Luo Zhi can still recognize this room.

This is his residence in Wanghai Villa, where he suffered from a leg injury for three months, and those three months were the most relaxing and pleasant for him.

There is no Luo family, no nightmares, not even Ren Chenbai.

Aunt Ren came to see him every day, practiced walking with him, and listened to him play the guitar.He happily decorated his new car with Aunt Ren, waiting for his adulthood with great anticipation.

Aunt Ren didn't know that his leg injury had healed in more than a month, but he still couldn't help but pretended to be lame for three months.

He was like a greedy thief, unreasonably indulging in the happiness that should not belong to him, enjoying it for three full months before he was finally willing to give everything back.

Why is he here?

It was Luo Cheng who secretly brought him back, because he was afraid that his father and elder brother would be angry if they found out, so he hid him in this room.

Why did Luo Cheng bring him back?

Because he was blocked by Li Weiming's fans at the hotel entrance, he accidentally fell down and lost consciousness while pushing and shoving.

Why can Li Weiming's fans block him so accurately?

Because that's how Luo Cheng looked for him, she found those who posted live broadcasts of Luo Zhi's location on the Internet, and paid them to continue to confirm Luo Zhi's exact location...and this exact location was not only provided to Luo Cheng.

... Jian Huaiyi really took good care of Luo Cheng.

Luo Zhi let go of her arms and leaned back against the head of the bed.

He coughed a few times due to the rising dust, closed his eyes and waited for the palpitation and dizziness to pass, and fumbled to turn on the ambient light under the bed.

In the dim and soft light, the whole picture of the room also emerged.

Since the day it lost its owner, it seems that no one has come in here, and no one has even tidied up and cleaned it.

Luo Cheng never thought that he would be exposed in the live broadcast.She was completely terrified, and hurriedly brought the unconscious Luo Zhi back, and was afraid of being scolded by her father and elder brother, so she could only hide him in the only old room that was left unattended, of course, she didn't care about it at all. Please clean up.

A thick layer of dust has accumulated everywhere, as if the time at a certain moment was frozen, and then thrown into an invisible corner without paying attention.

When it was dug out many years later, only those scenes that were familiar and forgotten by time remained, while all other people and things were completely different from the original ones.

Luo Zhi didn't want to come to Ren's house the most.

He was choked by the dust into his throat, and he couldn't stop coughing.Luo Zhi turned away his eyes, trying not to pay attention to more details, but those pictures surrounded by dim lights seemed to automatically drill into his mind.

The memory had already been irresistibly blurred because it was too long ago, until this time, it was finally slowly eroded by the new images.

The vibrant window sills filled with flowers and plants became empty, with large patches of gray mottled white, and circles of mold crawled out of the corners, gathering into absurd shapes of different shades.

Bookshelves full of books became empty, and the solid wooden shelves took in termites or other new residents.The meandering lines climbed strangely along the edge, and one of the planks on one floor was almost hollow, with sawdust and powder scattered underneath.

Those thick clouds that had been brewing all day did not fade away, the dark sky was crowded with big clumps of leaden gray, and poured downpours of rain on the ground, and the wind that was silent during the day also had life, whizzing through and shaking uncontrollably from the rain branches and leaves.

The guardrail outside the window has been completely corroded, and the dark red rust poked in the bright lightning flashes, it looks like a wet bloodstain.

……

Luo Zhi withdrew her hand, looking at the bloodstains on her palm.

His two legs seemed to have turned into stone, and so did his body. It would be great if he could really turn into stone, so that he would not have to resist the violent attack of memory in vain.

But he is not a stone after all, so he can only look like a ridiculous knight who has been beaten to the ground by a windmill, watching his last armor crumble with rust.

He was finally covered with cobweb-like patterns along with the armor.

There was no blood oozing, just specks of grayish embers that blew away.

"Luo Zhi?" Luo Chengxiu's voice came from outside the window, "What are you doing here?"

He had just handed over his work and was about to go to a family dinner.The assistant held an umbrella, and when passing the garden, he accidentally saw someone who shouldn't be here.

Luo Chengxiu frowned, looking at Luo Zhi who was standing in front of the window.

Over the years, he had gone from disappointment to disheartened for this naughty second son, to undisguised disgust, and finally nothing but disgust.

Only this time, Luo Zhi's appearance was inexplicably strange.

Luo Chengxiu knew that he was ill, but a young man in his twenties would recover after a few illnesses, so what can he say?

Luo Chengxiu frowned tightly, he didn't know what was wrong with Luo Zhi's behavior, but for some reason, it was an eyesore that disturbed people.

...as if the whole world owed him.

Luo Chengxiu couldn't figure it out, he was obviously his own son, but why Luo Zhi was so hypocritical.

"I'm asking you something." Luo Chengxiu's tone was cold, "What are you doing here? What are your plans? Do you want to make a fuss here?"

It was only this time that Luo Zhi seemed to have been woken up, her eyes moved and stopped on the person outside the window.

Luo Zhi recognized his mouth shape, then turned her head slightly, and thought for a while: "What am I doing here?"

He speaks very slowly, almost as if he is learning to speak word by word, his voice is more sandy than usual, and his tone has a special gentleness

Luo Chengxiu's expression turned cold: "Are you asking me?"

Luo Zhi didn't answer him this time, but lowered her eyelashes, figured out the answer to the question just now, and said slowly: "I don't know."

Luo Zhi said softly, "I don't want to come here."

The way he talks still looks very strange, and the person is also strange.I don't know if it's because of the light outside, but his pupils seem to be dilated, very dark and quiet, empty and unfocused.

Seeing him like this, Luo Chengxiu's anger, which had already risen to his chest, suddenly lost its focus for no reason, and scattered into the pouring rain in a daze.

"Then don't be an eyesore here." Luo Chengxiu said in a deep voice, "Where you should go, no one cares about you."

In his memory, Luo Zhi has always been unbearable, with a stubborn, rebellious and perverse nature, making everyone uneasy, and this is the last shame he is unwilling to bring up.

Looking at the pale and quiet Luo Zhi in front of him... For some unknown reason, Luo Chengxiu suddenly became agitated.

He ended up chalking it up to the damn weather.

Luo Chengxiu couldn't help cursing silently. He patted off the rainwater that rolled onto his clothes, signaled his assistant not to waste any more time here, turned around and left quickly.

From the corner of his eyes, Luo Chengxiu seemed to see Luo Zhi slightly tilted his head, his pale eyebrows curved gently.

……

Until sitting in front of the warm and bright dining table, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief in the lively atmosphere of the family and the aroma of delicious food.Luo Chengxiu suddenly realized that Luo Zhi hadn't been looking at him from the beginning.

Luo Zhi's gaze stopped at the sea level shrouded in night.

Then even the eyes were dyed bit by bit with the color and temperature of the sea.