They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes

Luo Jun thought that he would forget about it soon.

He doesn't remember many things, mostly because it's unnecessary.Especially regarding Luo Zhi's impression, he really doesn't know Luo Zhi very well - one of his partners was quite surprised when he heard him mention this matter.

But in fact, no matter what other people think, Luo Jun and Luo Zhi just don't know each other very well.

There is a big difference in age between them. When Luo Zhi was born, he was studying abroad, and when he came back from summer vacation, he went to a company for an internship, so he spent very little time at home.

What was Luo Zhi like at that time?

The impression is really not deep, he only remembers that he should be quite lively and likes to laugh. He likes to run around behind him the most. When he sees him reading a book, he also reads the book decently.

Two years later, he had another younger sister, and he turned into two little ones chasing him around. The noise caused him a headache, so he had to go to the study to hide for quietness.

Then one day, when he was reminded by Ren Chenbai, he suddenly realized that as long as he was at home, Luo Zhi would not be noisy at all.

Not only is it not noisy, as soon as Luo Zhi finds out that his elder brother wants to read, Luo Zhi will quietly lead his younger sister to the toy room.

I am not as high as the table, holding a toy and tiptoeing to tease my sister, hugging my sister and patiently rocking her, coaxing my sister until she falls asleep.

... When was the last time Luo Zhi messed around in front of him?

Luo Jun thought that he would not come up with the answer, but human memory always does not do what is appropriate.

The more irritable he was, the more he wanted to clear out the endless thoughts in his mind, the more those memories kept going back and forth in his mind.

It's Luo Zhi's sixth birthday, he knows, he knows, so don't jump out and annoy him endlessly.

He knew it was Luo Zhi's sixth birthday.

He didn't go back to the study to read that day, and watched Luo Zhi running back and forth in a hurry because his parents hid the gift from him, and because he was there, he didn't dare to search around casually.

He felt that this kind of game was really boring, so he put down the book and went over, grabbed Luo Zhi and carried it on his shoulder, so that Luo Zhi found the gift on the top of the bookcase.

Luo Zhi was really so happy that time that he couldn't find the north. He sat on his shoulder triumphantly, holding the gift and shaking it back and forth endlessly, and singing loudly happily.

When she finally vented and calmed down, Luo Zhi remembered that her elder brother didn't like to make noise, so she slipped to the ground with the gift box in her arms, and carefully glanced at him.

Luo Jun did not expect that he could recall so many details.

He even remembered that he was not angry, and opened the presents with Luo Zhi, and said happy birthday to Luo Zhi.

He seemed to have casually agreed to Luo Zhi, and would wish him happiness on every birthday in the future.

Little Luo Zhi wore a golden birthday crown, closed her eyes devoutly to the candles on the cake, and made a wish that every birthday in the future would be happy.

Every birthday in the future will be happy, and I want to spend it with my elder brother and my parents and younger sister.

……

That was Luo Zhi's last birthday.

Luo Zhi got lost on the day of her seventh birthday.That day, his mother took him and his younger sister to the aquarium. When they came back, they were so distraught that they could not stand still, holding their father and crying.

It took them a long time to finally calm their mother down, and learned the whole story of the accident that day from Mrs. Luo's intermittent narrative.

Both children are gone.Coming out of the aquarium, Luo Zhi insisted on buying snacks on the side of the road, but her mother disagreed because she thought it was unclean, so Luo Zhi got angry.He had already traveled a long way, and he took the little sister back to buy it secretly while his mother was not paying attention.

The mother was scared out of her wits, and hurriedly chased back, but just turned a street corner, and the two children disappeared.

Then there are reports to the police, rewards, and investigations... The firms that specialize in tracing people have changed one after another, and they finally find a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, the little girl was sent back by the police after more than a month.

Luo Cheng was not injured, and his body was fine, but he was so frightened that he couldn't tell what happened.

The father invited a preschool teacher who is good at psychological counseling for young children to come back and took her with her for a long time.

But even just a little over a month has already created an exceptionally severe irritation for the mother.

Mrs. Luo began to have hallucinations and hallucinations from time to time, and had nightmares all night long, and occasionally cried out suddenly, no matter how much she tried to persuade her, she couldn't persuade her.

After Luo Cheng came back, although the situation improved slightly, Mrs. Luo's condition was too unstable, and no one dared to hand Luo Cheng over to her.Luo Cheng was also not very close to Mrs. Luo, but it didn't take long for her to cry for her second brother, and she even murmured for her to accompany her when she fell asleep.

Perhaps inspired by what happened to Luo Cheng, Luo Chengxiu coaxed his sick wife to pick up his son from school, and then took Mrs. Luo to the orphanage.

Those children who were specially selected and who were about the same age as Luo Zhi were led to the reception room. Mrs. Luo hugged Jian Huaiyi from inside in a daze.

Then Jian Huaiyi was taken back to the Luo family, and obtained the identity of the young master of the Luo family, and everything attached to this identity.

The young master of the Luo family was not originally named Luo Zhi, let alone Jian Huaiyi.The name was given by Ren Chenbai's mother with the help of it, and beside it is the word "fire", which is scorching hot, bright and clean.

Three years later, the lost child returned to the Luo family.Amidst the mother's collapse and hysterical terrified cries, the younger sister was also frightened and burst into tears.Luo Chengxiu hastily added a stroke to the position of the name on the re-applied identity registration form, and the side of the fire word became the side of the crooked wooden word.

The boy who was brought back was no longer what he remembered. He was a punch lower than his adopted son, thin and silent, standing not far away out of place in the farce of the chaos.

The boy's chest rose and fell slowly, looked at every family member, and finally cast his gaze quietly on Luo Jun.

This time, Luo Jun's memory didn't bother him anymore.

Because he didn't do anything at all.

Why did he do nothing then?

Maybe just like Jian Huaiyi said, he was eager to find someone to admit the responsibility of not taking good care of his mother and protecting his sister.

...Perhaps even Jian Huaiyi thinks highly of him.

He just felt that this matter had nothing to do with him.

Luo Zhi grew up to be seven years old, and the time he and Luo Zhi had met together was less than half a year.After Jian Huaiyi was adopted and returned, he also returned to China to accompany his mother and sister, and gradually learned how to be an elder brother.

At that time, he even couldn't help feeling that Luo Zhi was headstrong.Why would the whole family be disturbed just because of one name? Why do you care so much about these insignificant things.

As he thought this way, there was probably impatience and condemnation in his eyes.

Ten-year-old Luo Zhi stood under his gaze, the blood on his face faded little by little, and finally became completely pale.He lowered his eyes slowly, and the corner of his lip was bitten by the tip of the tiger's teeth to create an inconspicuous wound, and blood beads quietly ooze out.

Then Luo Zhi walked to the counter, grabbed a pen, and described the name that his father changed over and over again.

That sudden and innocent disaster completely changed the fate and life trajectory of everyone in the family.

After that, Luo Zhi never had another birthday.

...And here he is sitting here, doing something that seems ridiculously boring to him.

Luo Jun bit by bit the cigarette between his fingers.

On the boat, he still spoke coldly to Luo Zhi, thinking that Luo Zhi was playing tricks with him, and asked why Luo Zhi secretly followed the boat.

He didn't see that Luo Zhi's state was wrong at all, is it hard to see?Now when recalling, he can find too many abnormal details, but he just thinks that Luo Zhi's abnormality is due to being drunk.

Jian Huaiyi was right, even now he was still selfish.

Because of the possibility that Luo Zhi had already died, he began to retrace his memories endlessly.

He kept searching for Luo Zhi in his memory, trying to prove that he was not the worst one to Luo Zhi.

At this time, he still just wanted to prove that he was not the culprit.

……

The time for the ferry to dock is actually shorter than expected.

As soon as he got off the boat, Luo Jun realized why Jian Huaiyi didn't bother to act in such a play again.

Because of that "pushing and shoving", Jian Huaiyi fell into the water - although the boat was approaching the shore soon, the water was not deep, and the person was rescued quickly, but just to be on the safe side, the owner of the boat called the police.

He had suspected intentional injury on the boat, so he had to be taken away for questioning before seeing his family.

The official questioning was just to investigate the situation at that time.Luo Jun was not embarrassed, he knew that Jian Huaiyi didn't want to embarrass him, but wanted the time difference.

With this time difference, Jian Huaiyi will see his family before him, his parents and Luo Cheng before him.

Luo Jun did not doubt Jian Huaiyi's ability to make up stories.

Therefore, when he walked out of the interrogation room, he looked at the empty waiting area outside, and after confirming that there were no new messages or calls in his phone, he almost guessed what happened within two hours of being interrogated.

Now Luo Jun is sitting on the bench, continuing to rummage through his memories, and racking his brains to find someone who is worse for Luo Zhi than himself, as evidence that he is not the culprit.

Not long after they landed, a heavy rain suddenly fell outside.When the police were interrogating, the torrential rain almost toppled the trees outside the window, making people wonder if a typhoon had landed by accident.

After the rain stopped, the weather that had been overcast for many days suddenly improved.

The sun was so bright that it was scalding, the sky seemed to have been completely washed, and the gloomy clouds seemed to have turned into rain, and the blue was extremely dazzling.

Then he suddenly remembered that he actually remembered what Luo Zhi was like when he was drunk.

Luo Zhi was very obedient when she was drunk, she was very talkative but her voice was very low, her eyes were foggy, and she kept smiling with her eyes bent.

At that time, the team led by Luo Jun had just signed an important deal, and held a celebration party at a wine estate, and happened to meet someone from Huaisheng Entertainment who was also working on the team.

Luo Jun's team has a department head, an elite female manager in her early thirties.Usually all-powerful and decisive in killing and attacking, Luo Zhi was so obedient on the spot that his heart melted, and he dragged all his departments to sit over and listen to his stories.

The weather that day was also so blue that it was dazzling, Luo Zhi was sitting under a tree, talking about a nightmare he had.

The nightmare was about him playing hide and seek with a group of people.

The rules of hide-and-seek here are different from other places. Everyone walks in a circle while singing nursery rhymes. When the last line is sung, everyone raises their hand and points at a random person.

The person who was pointed the most was completely immobile for ten seconds,

During these ten seconds, everyone will disperse and disappear, leaving only the pointed out person standing in place.

"This is not a nightmare." A newcomer girl was curious, "Isn't hide-and-seek fun?"

……

Luo Zhi didn't answer her question, but still smiled with her eyes bent, but the fog in her eyes was getting deeper and deeper.

Those hazy water vapor did not accumulate in the end.

It wasn't until this time that Luo Jun finally realized why this was a nightmare.

Luo Zhi was pointed out by everyone as the culprit who lost her sister and made her mother sad.

Then they were able to hide themselves smoothly, without having to be approached by guilt and self-blame, and continued to live their lives with peace of mind, leaving Luo Zhi standing in place.

Then Luo Zhi was left in place by them.

Luo Jun stopped the ridiculous act of rummaging through his memory. He had read all the lists of rescued people ten times, word by word, but he couldn't find the name he was looking for.

Luo Zhi is not good at playing this game, now Luo Zhi is out.

This excessively long nightmare finally came to an end with Luo Zhi.

Luo Jun flipped through the phone over and over again, he didn't know what he wanted to find, to find a lawyer to sue Jian Huaiyi?It doesn't make sense, Jian Huaiyi is too aware of his temperament and what he will do.

He was on that rescue ship, listening to Jian Huaiyi uttering his thoughts without missing a word, and suddenly realized that he was such a person.

He turned out to be such a person.Because he refused to face the fact that "he didn't protect his younger brother", he didn't want to see Luo Zhi at all. He hated Luo Zhi more than anyone else, and wished that Luo Zhi would disappear. He used all the evidence to prove that Luo Zhi was not someone who deserved to be killed Treat well brother.

Because he refused to face the fact that "I didn't protect my younger brother well", I just stood aside coldly, watching the child whose name was taken away by someone and thrown into a corner where no one cares about him.

……

Luo Jun flicked his phone and saw a phone number stored in his contacts.

He suddenly sat up straight, as if grasping at the last straw, the hand holding the phone even had faint veins popping up, he had to take a few deep breaths before slowly pressing the call button.

The other side didn't answer the phone.

Luo Jun was not surprised. He plugged in the earphone and dialed it several times.

Finally, a notification sound came from the headset.

Luo Jun's heart beat violently.

He squeezed the phone hard to make the voice stable enough: "Mr. Ming."

He introduced himself as concisely as possible, and then directly stated: "I don't intend to disturb...my brother is on the cruise ship where your company suffered a shipwreck."

Luo Jun struggled to choose his words. He didn't know the other party, and the Ming family's circle didn't allow him to squeeze in easily. This was just a small reward from a certain business negotiation.

If this is still a business negotiation, Luo Jun can calmly choose the most suitable attitude of neither humble nor overbearing.

But he is still a murderer who keeps escaping, and he still holds such ridiculous selfish thoughts, trying to clear himself of the crime.

"He is not on the rescued list." Luo Jun continued in a low voice, "I want to ask you to check..."

The other party paused, as if they picked up something: "What's it called?"

"Luo Zhi." Luo Jun unconsciously held his breath, the breath was almost stagnated in his chest, he could almost hear his own heartbeat, and the hand holding the earphone was cold, "Beside the wooden words, there is only..."

There was a rattle of paper on the other end of the phone.

The other said: "Sorry."

Luo Jun's throat moved slightly.

He wanted to say something more, opened his mouth, and tried his best to smile calmly: "What?"

Why are you sorry?

sorry for what?

He can be sure that Luo Zhi is not on the rescued list, he almost memorized that list... The other party answered so quickly, where did he see Luo Zhi's name?

Besides the rescued list, what list is there?

"The family members should have been notified." The other party asked, "Didn't they inform you?"

Luo Jun couldn't speak, he sat motionless, the chill moved up his palm inch by inch, clamping his entire arm.

He didn't speak, so the other party apologized again, and hung up the phone.

……

The sky was blue as if it had been washed, and the sun was scalding.

It was as if sunlight had been stirred and dissolved by the wind, and the sea water had also turned into a clear and transparent blue-green color, hitting the hull of the boat and blowing away the snow-white foam.

The "Mr. Ming" who was too young hung up the phone.

He handed the mobile phone to the crew beside him, left the deck, and returned to his exclusive suite.

The sea breeze pushed aside the curtains, and a ray of sunlight slipped in quietly and settled beside the pillow.

The person on the bed was trapped in the soft quilt, pale and quiet, if not for the faint rise and fall of the chest when breathing, there could hardly be any signs of life.

Probably because he was too tired, he was completely unaware of the few paper scores that were put back next to his pillow, and fell asleep unconsciously.

Guitars and drawing boards are crowded beside the bed, and the cheap but good-quality travel bag is hanging on the solid wood hanger, perhaps bragging to the new neighbors about the storms and waves they have experienced.

The expensive work "I Haven't Done a Bad Thing" by a certain Mr. Huo Miao, who did not want to be named, was back on the drawing board.

It was wrinkled to the point that it had been soaked in water several times, and even though it was treated by a professional painter resident on the cruise ship again, the handwriting on it was already blurred.

So "Mr. Ming", who has not yet successfully paid the bill, had to sit by the bed.

Mr. Ming moved lightly, took his hanging hand, and slowly wrote No.40 seven "hmm" on his palm.