They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes

Back to the main house of the villa with his elder brother, Luo Cheng lay down in his room, tossing and turning for half the night.

It wasn't necessarily because of that terrifying night rain—she was indeed afraid of dark places, and she had been terrified since she was a child.If it was pitch black all around, the whole person would freeze in place with fright, unable to move his legs at all.

It's just that this happened when she was three or four years old. The adults said so, but she didn't have a deep impression on her.

As I grow older, although this fear is still there, it is still much better than the completely bewildered situation when I was a child.

Luo Cheng has almost recovered from the frightening scene he saw when delivering the meal just now, but he still has a little lingering fear.

……

Compared to these, Luo Cheng couldn't sleep, but he was actually more worried about what happened during the day.

She was anxious to find Luo Zhi, but because of the events of these days, she insisted on proving her own ability, so she didn't go to her elder brother and Jian Huaiyi for help.

The idea of ​​contacting Li Weiming's fans came from a sudden inspiration when he saw someone posted a post about encountering Luo Zhi while browsing Weibo.

She just wanted to use those people to find Luo Zhi, and hurried over after asking the location.I didn't know that there were so many people outside the hotel, and there were even a lot of people holding mobile phones to live broadcast in such a fair way...

The more Luo Cheng thought about it, the more bored she became, hugging the pillow, she sighed gloomily.

In so many shots, she was caught calling "Second Brother" while chasing her out of the hotel.

Luo Cheng's mind went blank, for fear that these people would despise and loathe her if they knew she was Luo Zhi's younger sister.I had no choice but to follow those people and draw a clear line with Luo Zhi, and apologized to Li Weiming in public for Luo Zhi.

She was so surrounded that she couldn't get out of her body, embarrassed and embarrassed, saying those words was actually a last resort.

But Luo Zhi probably hated her because of this.

The situation at that time was very chaotic, but Luo Cheng still remembered the glance he looked over in a panic.

Luo Zhi's body didn't know what was wrong, and she leaned motionless on the side of the road.

Those people also knew the seriousness, they were afraid that they would be responsible for hurting him, no one dared to touch him casually, instead they seemed to avoid them and hid in a small circle.

Luo Zhi looked at her, as if he was looking at many things through her.

No one dared to take care of him, so his body tilted down from exhaustion little by little, and before his quiet black eyes completely slackened, there was a brief flash of clarity.

At that moment, when Luo Cheng saw him lower his eyes, he smiled weakly.

Luo Zhi was neither painful nor sad, or maybe these emotions were too extravagant for him.

He just felt a little sad, and this kind of sadness just overflowed uncontrollably for a moment along a certain slowly breaking crack, and almost drowned the defenseless Luo Cheng on the spot.

……

After waking up from that state, Luo Cheng realized that there was moonlight falling in from the window.

The raging torrential rain stopped at some point, the clouds cleared and the mist cleared, and the weather was calm.

The moonlight shone on the well-trimmed plants in the garden, and reflected in the ponded water on the ground. It was bright and quiet that I didn't have in the past few nights.

It was like the light that finally faded in Luo Zhi's eyes.

Luo Cheng's chest was suddenly filled with inexplicable guilt.

She didn't know the impact of being caught by those live broadcast cameras, but at least she knew that there must be a lot of gossip about the Luo family on the Internet.

When she got into trouble, she didn't dare to tell her father and elder brother at all, and she didn't want to tell Jian Huaiyi for some reason.She had no choice but to hurriedly take Luo Zhi back to Wanghai Villa and hide it, wanting to discuss it with him when he wakes up and let him make up his mind.

...Luo Cheng actually didn't know why he instinctively wanted to ask Luo Zhi at such a time.

Obviously Luo Zhi was more involved in this matter, obviously Luo Zhi didn't want to talk to her at all... Obviously in the car, when Luo Zhi still had the last bit of consciousness, she kept saying repeatedly in a low voice not to go to Ren's house.

Luo Cheng hesitated in front of the window for a while, then put on his clothes, picked up the flashlight and went out quietly.

She just wanted to ask Luo Zhi to give her an idea.

Even if Luo Zhi was really angry with her, the agreement with director Gong Hanrou would probably be hard to hope for... She just stopped pushing.

Just use your brain and mouth to help her think about what to do, Luo Zhi will always agree, right?

After Luo Zhi finished his idea, he arranged for a car to take him away from Ren's house.In this way, Luo Zhi will not have to be sad because of meeting their family tomorrow, nor will he be reprimanded by his father and elder brother.

Look, she can still handle things well.

Luo Cheng typed the manuscript while walking, thinking about how to speak along the way.She has never apologized to Luo Zhi, and now she has finally done enough mental preparation, and she has already walked to the window of that small room.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Luo Cheng leaned in and called out, but suddenly froze.

Luo Zhi was no longer in the room.

The room was empty, not as dusty as when she had brought him back.Every place has been tidied up carefully, all molds have been removed, and the furniture that has long been decayed and dilapidated has been tidied up to the maximum extent.

Looking in like this, the hut is empty and clean, even showing a bit of weird tidiness.

The only thing that didn't fit in with the whole room was the meal that she brought over.

The rainy night was dark and eerie, and Luo Cheng didn't know that the bag she brought was so dirty.

The outside of the insulation bag was covered with muddy water, and some seeped in along the unsealed mouth of the bag, and a little bit of the soup inside also spilled out.

It hadn't been opened before, and it was placed in the pale white moonlight that fell in from the window, and it was slowly cooling through with the last rain, and there was no trace of warmth.

……

Luo Cheng froze in place and stood there in a daze for a few seconds.

Luo Zhi really went to live in another room?

It's not impossible.

After all, this dilapidated house that I don't know what it is used for, no matter how clean it is, it is not suitable for people to live in.

...Why didn't she find out about this earlier?

Luo Cheng subconsciously looked around, trying to find out which room Luo Zhi went to, but found some traces on the ground under her feet.

It has just rained, and the soil in the garden is soaked in water and becomes soft, leaving footprints easily.

The footprints in front of her were from the hut, the traces on the left were normal, but there were some inconspicuous drags on the right.

The traces do not lead to the main house of the villa, but go deep along the garden, and finally do not enter the depths of the tree shadows.

Luo Cheng suddenly felt some inexplicable panic.

She chased after her footprints, pushed aside the lush branches and leaves against the crackling rain, and finally saw the shadow resting against a tree tens of meters away: "Luo Zhi!"

"Luo Zhi!" Luo Cheng raised her voice out of breath, "Where are you going?!"

The figure didn't respond to her, just rested quietly for a while with its head down, then slowly stood up straight again, and continued to walk deep into the woods step by step.

The accumulated water between the branches and leaves kept falling on him, but he didn't seem to feel any sense, and he didn't know the cold.

Luo Cheng's face was hot with embarrassment, and he couldn't help gritting his teeth.

... She knew that Luo Zhi must have hated her because of things outside the hotel.

Over the years, she has never lowered her head to Luo Zhi once.Now being treated with such clear indifference by the other party, while feeling guilty, the resentment can't be suppressed.

If Luo Zhi gets angry with her, he can tell her face to face, so what?

Why do you have to treat her with this attitude?

There are shadows in the woods, the deeper the light, the dimmer, and the fear that was dispelled by the moonlight quietly catches up again.

Luo Cheng was both aggrieved and unhappy, and stopped at the edge of the moonlight, looking at the shadow that was getting further and further away.

"Luo Zhi! Come back with me, Dad has ordered someone to clean up your room!"

She stared at the unmoved stubborn figure, and said cruel words like venting her anger: "If you don't go back with me, you will never come to us again in the future!"

These words were almost yelled at the top of my throat, and my throat was sore from shouting, Luo Cheng didn't believe that Luo Zhi couldn't hear his own voice.

But the figure still didn't stop.

Not only did he not intend to stop, but he also lacked even the slightest reaction.

Deep in the woods, the ground is uneven and the light is dim.He walked with difficulty, stumbled and staggered, but kept walking slowly.

Luo Cheng was so angry with him.She was certain that Luo Zhi must have punished her in such a cold and violent way, and when she thought about the embarrassment she had chased all the way, she was ridiculously stupid.

……

But no matter how she said it, she had done something to offend Luo Zhi after all.

The two emotions superimposed and tugged, Luo Cheng stood there for a while, pinching the corner of his clothes vigorously to vent his anger.

Forget it.

If Luo Zhi wants to leave, let him go.

Anyway, Luo Zhi didn't answer anyone's calls these days, and hid and hid, because he didn't want to be found by the Luo family and Brother Chenbai.

She pretended not to see it, helped hide what she saw that night, and let Luo Zhi leave, as an apology for what happened at that time.

Luo Cheng thought so discouragedly, turned around with the flashlight in his hand, and left the woods along the way he came.

……

……

The air is fresh after the rain.

Successive torrential rains knocked off the excess fallen leaves, which were soaked and piled up under the trees, waiting to be buried in the soil to rot and decompose, waiting for the day of disappearing.

Luo Zhi closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

It seemed like he hadn't really breathed in a long time.It seemed that someone set up a pot on his chest to light a fire, boiled a pot full of seawater, and evaporated the last drop of water, leaving only a thick, rough, hard salt crust.

His lungs were full of rust.

These blood-red rusts spread and grew, rusting his limbs and back, making his body start to lose control.

Suddenly pouring in such cold and fresh air, his body reacted immediately, his chest throbbed and convulsed, and immediately aroused a cough.

Luo Zhi waited for the cough to pass.

He supported his right leg to regain his footing, and after the white spots in his vision disappeared, he continued to walk forward along the memory.

Through the garden, you will see a small door. From the small door, you can take a shortcut to the sea, which is very close to the port.

When is the cruise ship coming?

Luo Zhi raised her hand, fumbled around her neck with her fingertips, found the broken glass pendant, and held it in her palm.

He sometimes thinks that maybe there is nothing wrong with his right leg at all.

The reason why she suddenly loses strength and is too soft to move is because she misses Aunt Ren too much.

When practicing walking again, every time he exhausted his strength and his right leg weakened and fell, Aunt Ren would reach out and hug him firmly in time.

Without his consent, his body made its own decisions, simulating the state in memory.

In fact, if you ask him in advance, you should know that it is useless.

How can it be useful?

Aunt Ren will not come to hug him again.

When is the cruise ship coming?

Luo Zhi pushed open the small door in his memory.

The soil outside the door had begun to transform into gravel, Luo Zhi couldn't lift his right leg, tripped on the threshold, lost his balance and fell down.

He was clutching the broken glass pendant, but before he could let go, the thin string broke with every effort, leaving a hot bloodstain on his neck.

Luo Zhi knelt on the ground, looking at the broken thin red rope.

During the period of cleaning up the hut, he found another memory, which happened the day he escaped from the hospital.

His pendant fell off, he bent down to pick it up, and then the glass suddenly turned into Ren Chenbai's eyes.

He should have fallen into an absurd and suffocating hallucination.In the hallucination, Ren Chenbai looked at him with a sneer, and said something word by word, his precious glass was embedded in Ren Chenbai's eyes, which were also stained with sarcasm.

Luo Zhi's gaze seemed to be fixed by that piece of glass.

Holding the freshly washed rag, he forgot where he had packed it and what he was going to do.

He sat motionless in the corner of the room brightly illuminated by lightning, and the shadow was only a small piece left by the dazzling light.

"Luo Zhi, how could you forget?"

In the ward, Ren Chenbai narrowed his eyes to look at him, his dark pupils were so cold that they seemed to be able to penetrate his brain: "You were the one who killed my mother."

……

Those were the last words he heard.

Accompanied by these words, there was a burst of extremely sharp tinnitus that Luo Zhi had never heard before.It was like the noise before the TV completely broke down, and then all the sounds disappeared, leaving only an extremely quiet blank space.

He finally got the answer to the question "why does Ren Chenbai hate himself?", but the answer was even more confusing to him than the question itself.

How could he have killed Aunt Ren?

He had no recollection at all, nor did he remember that he had done such a thing.

How did Aunt Ren die?What happened?What are the facts?

He doesn't remember at all.

...Then how can he guarantee that he did not do this?

Since he doesn't remember, how can he be completely sure that he didn't make some serious mistake, and then deceive himself and forget everything?

What's more, this is very reasonable in any way.

Based on the results, if he really did a lot of heinous things, it would be the most reasonable footnote to his current situation.

When is the cruise ship coming?

Luo Zhi knelt on the gray-black gravel, he found that some of them were stained a little red, he silently apologized, and stretched out his hand to wipe it off slowly and carefully.

He tried to turn off the sound in his head, too.

His memory has only been left blank and blank, and he can't remember anything, but if he doesn't believe in himself, then no one will believe him.

The sound cannot be turned off.

Because the outside world is absolutely quiet, the voice in my head is getting clearer and louder.

The rusty armor finally began to disintegrate, and the knife and dagger pierced in without hindrance, slowly cutting off his flesh and blood, picking out the white bones, to pay everyone's hatred for him.

Luo Zhi supported the ground and slowly got up.

He put the pendant into the rusted letterbox outside the small door, loosened his unconscious fingers little by little, and the broken glass dragged the broken red thread and fell into an invisible corner.

The moon slowly came to an end.

It was almost dawn, and because the morning light hadn't come out yet, the night sky dotted with sparse stars became colder and darker.

Luo Zhi walked along the sea breeze.

This section of the road is very close to the beach. When Luo Zhi was a child, even with her newly broken leg, she could jump to the beach in 10 minutes on crutches.

But today it is far away.

It was so far away that it seemed like a long, unwoke continuous nightmare.

Luo Zhi slowly searched through the gaps in the nightmare, he had plenty of time, and finally found a fragment.

I don't know the cause and effect, and the image is very blurred. The person opposite is even just a shadow that can't see clearly.

Shadow reached out and handed him the written note.

At that time, his thinking was very sluggish, and he couldn't connect the meaning of those words at all, but at this moment, he suddenly recognized them all again.

"...waiting for you at sea."

Luo Zhi looked at the note and read it softly.

He decided to take a look, there was nothing he had to do anyway.

Luo Zhi handed over to the shadow who was waiting for him.

He knew he was hallucinating, but this hallucination was better than the constant questioning, so he followed the shadow to the sea.

The touch under the feet changes from gravel to soft sandy beach, slowly getting wet, and then turning into surging waves.

Shadow stopped suddenly.

Luo Zhi also stopped.

The hallucinated shadow turned to look at him.

Still holding his hand, Shadow shook his head slightly, as if correcting what he had misunderstood.

Shadow raised his hand and pointed towards the sky.

Luo Zhi then raised his eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, he saw the huge silhouette of the cruise ship in the faint mist.

It turned out that it was not this "sea".

Luo Zhi's hand held by the illusion suddenly let go.

As if being pushed by a shadow on his chest, he staggered back a certain distance, and fell wet on the beach.

The chest and abdomen that had come into contact with the air again convulsed and tightened. Luo Zhi lay on his back on the beach, turned his head sideways, and choked out a few mouthfuls of salty sea water.

The cruise ship entered the port facing the morning fog.

The newborn sun followed it, neither bright nor hot, just an orange ball of light.