They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes

The cruise ship moored into the night, and the shadows melted into the water.

The last missing person was leaning quietly in a deck chair on the deck, covered with a thin blanket, and his hair was gently stroked by the sea breeze.

He slept soundly, and although his breathing was still weak, it was much more stable than before.

His right hand was wrapped in a warmer hand, and that hand was still writing in his palm, writing slowly, stroke by stroke.

This time, in addition to the usual bill payment, there are two more words than before.

"Wei, Ting." The owner of the hand introduced himself, "My name is Ming Wei Ting, and I'm your friend."

The owner of the hand paused at this relationship title.

Although he was just practicing and thinking about it, he still didn't know whether he could call himself such a relationship, so he changed his mouth again: "My name is Ming Weiting, I'm your fan, and I'm chasing your star."

The hand of the missing person was gently held, and the thick eyelashes were lowered to cover them.The short, soft hair was touched by the wind, which almost created the illusion that he was attracted by this strange self-introduction, and then turned his head slightly.

But he never woke up, maybe because he was too tired, or maybe because he couldn't find any need to wake up.

Since the day he was rescued, he has been sleeping quietly like this, never even moving a bit.

Ming Weiting raised his hand, stroked his hair lightly, put that pale hand back under the blanket, and covered the edges of the thin blanket completely.

He gestured to the people around him, stood up, and walked to the other side of the deck a little further away.

The visitor consciously lowered his voice: "Sir..."

"I already know." Ming Weiting recalled the name and read it out slowly, "Ren Chenbai."

Ming Weiting asked: "Uncle Lu, what else did he do?"

Ming Lu is the head of the Ming family, nearly seventy years old, and has followed three generations of the Ming family.

He came over and handed over the compiled materials respectfully: "We still need to find someone."

Ren Chenbai refused to accept the fact that Luo Zhi disappeared in the shipwreck.

Ren Chenbai called Luo Jun, but Luo Jun was kneeling in the confinement room and was being punished.Luo Cheng didn't know where to hide, so he couldn't find anyone at all.Jian Huaiyi simply told him that Luo Zhi was dead, and was beaten to death by Ren Chenbai uncontrollably, almost killing him...

A clumsy farce full of chicken feathers.

In the end, Ren Chenbai just saw the missing person's belongings sent by the cruise ship.

Much less than he imagined.

Surprisingly, there was only one windbreaker that had been soaked in the sea and then left to dry, wrinkled and clumped with salt.

Half of the windbreaker was scratched by the reef, and the fabric fragments were stained with an ominous dark red.

Because Luo Zhi's ID card was stored in the inner pocket of the windbreaker, and that pocket happened to be well sealed, so it was easy to confirm the owner of the item.

As for what happened after that, it is difficult for outsiders to find out the completeness.

The only thing that can be known is that Ren Chenbai must take the windbreaker away, and the Luo family naturally disagrees.The two parties quarreled, alarming Luo Chengxiu who had been shutting out in the study for the past two days. The entire Luo family was arguing upside down, and an ambulance came abruptly in the middle of the night...

Ming Lu said a few words, then stopped talking: "It's just a play for them, sir, it's nothing to watch."

Can people act for themselves?

Of course I would, especially when I was trying to trick myself into believing something.

The Luo family is used to being fickle, and they are best at pushing the blame onto others.The most suitable "other" is Luo Zhi, and now Luo Zhi is out, so it is replaced by Luo Jun.

Luo Jun had to wait until he was pushed into a situation similar to Luo Zhi's, before Luo Jun finally began to understand Luo Zhi's pain.As for the others, there may be some belated regrets, or a moment of guilt when one wakes up from a dream in the middle of the night... But if there is no special change, then it is probably the limit.

Those people would even be relieved by their own regret and sadness, and truly believe that they broke their hearts and shed tears for Luo Zhi, and then tacitly let these things pass quickly.

No one will take the initiative to touch any truth, and no one will ask for trouble or seek guilt.

No one would think of peeling off the layers of selfishness, standing in front of the truth that can burn people alive, waiting for the shame and guilt in that bit of human nature to recover, and then being dragged into the endless hell.

……

Ming Weiting walked to the deck.

The beach in the distance is shrouded in night fog.The night was very dark, and there was a cold and blurry darkness.

It was in that kind of place that Luo Zhi was found.

Luo Zhi took his boat ticket, but never boarded the boat.

Ming Weiting took people off the boat to look for him, and finally found him along the beach.

At that time, Luo Zhi was completely like a block of ice, and the high tide of sea water was about to overflow his mouth and nose, but he didn't seem to know it, and he was still lying motionless on the wet sand.

Ming Weiting picked him up and found that Luo Zhi was still awake.

Luo Zhi was awake, but she couldn't recognize him anymore, she just opened her eyes to see the silhouette of the cruise ship in the fog.

Ming Weiting hugged him and got up, Luo Zhi's hands and feet drooped limply.

Knowing that he couldn't hear, Ming Weiting took his hand and wrote "um" back and forth on his palm, but Luo Zhi didn't seem to remember what it meant.

Just one day.

Just one day before, Luo Zhi would have been overjoyed because of the sale of the painting, kept praising his taste in art and aesthetics, and generously bought him a copy of the script.

Luo Zhi couldn't hear, so Luo Zhi didn't know that he didn't speak out, but just kept talking happily to himself.He was not good at lip-synching, so he had to trouble the other person to repeat it many times.

Then he understood, Luo Zhi was saying thank him very much, very happy today.

He was also very happy, so he gave Luo Zhi a boat ticket, and wrote an invitation to Luo Zhi on a note in the hotel.

"The first mistake." Ming Weiting looked at the ripples in the sea for a while, "I thought he was just drunk and needed to rest, so I left him alone in the hotel for the time being."

The cruise ship is about to dock, and Ming Weiting wants to negotiate a business deal before leaving the port, so he leaves the hotel before nightfall.

He was actually planning to come back, so he didn't take anything else with him.Even that script was unconsciously stuffed into the briefcase under Luo Zhi's kind recommendation.

But when he returned to the hotel, Luo Zhi had disappeared.

"I saw the sketch he left behind, and thought he remembered what happened at that time." Ming Weiting left the side of the boat and slowly walked back to the deck chair, "I thought he just left in a hurry, the second mistake."

As the night got deeper, the sea breeze started to get colder, so it was not suitable to stay on the deck.

Ming Weiting wrapped the sleeping man in a thin blanket, picked him up lightly, and returned to the cabin.

His strength was very careful, and the person he put back on the bed was not disturbed at all, and his eyebrows were not even frowned.

"Mistake number three, I took him from the beach back to the cruise ship thinking I'd take care of him and didn't review the passenger list."

Ming Weiting removed the thin blanket and covered the person with the quilt again: "The fourth mistake, I failed to prevent the cruise ship from turning over."

Ming Lu followed in, and was finally dumbfounded when he heard this: "Sir, this is the captain's fault. It has been dealt with severely, and the evidence has been sorted out to file a public prosecution."

The accident stemmed from a serious misjudgment by the captain, who drove the ship into the shallow water near the shore in violation of regulations.As soon as Ming Weiting found something unusual, he immediately rushed to the captain's room to deal with it, which allowed the Luo family to take advantage of the loophole.

If it is not handled in a timely manner, the cruise ship will not be as simple as being stranded on the rocks. Once it explodes or capsizes, it will really cause irreparable consequences.

"The subsequent handling of this accident is close to perfection, only the last link is missing."

Ming Lu hesitated for a while before asking again: "Sir, is it true that the conclusion of zero deaths is not announced?"

"No need." Ming Weiting shook his head, "Strengthen internal supervision, re-evaluate qualifications, and strictly prohibit such low-level accidents from happening again in the future."

Of course, these must be done, Ming Lu said yes, wrote down one by one, and looked at the person sleeping on the bed.

"Sir." Ming Lu asked, "Is it because of this...Mr. Luo Zhi that we don't announce zero deaths?"

Ming Weiting frowned.

The Ming family has no tradition of gentleness.He looked amiable because he was beside the sleeping guest, and now that his breath had cooled down, there was a gloomy darkness in his eyes.

Knowing that he asked the wrong question, Ming Lu lowered his head to apologize, but Ming Weiting spoke again.

"Luo Zhi sank in the sea and couldn't be rescued."

Ming Weiting said: "It has been sent back to the Luo family."

Ming Lu was taken aback for a moment, subconsciously looked at the sleeping man with closed eyes, and immediately understood Ming Weiting's meaning: "Yes."

Ming Lu looked at the guest carefully again, as if he wanted to ask something more, but he hesitated.

"I'm his fan, and I'm following his star." Ming Weiting said, "I consider myself his friend."

He has practiced these few words in his mind many times, so he can speak them fluently now.On the contrary, Ming Lu was a little surprised by this statement: "Sir, do you know what chasing stars is?"

Ming Weiting lowered his gaze, looking at the guitar leaning against the bed.

He sat motionless until Ming Lu thought he would not get the answer to this question and was about to exit the door when he heard his voice again.

"The fifth mistake." Ming Weiting said.

Ming Lu was startled.

Ming Weiting stretched out his hand to cover the quilt again, and then got up to go out, he went all the way outside the cabin, and returned to the deck along the gangway.

Ming Weiting lit a cigarette.

He didn't have the habit of smoking, but just looked at the cigarette, watching the little flame flickering in his hand.

He doesn't understand what a fan is and what a star chaser is, so he missed one of the most important things.

The beach there should not have been so dark and cold. There used to be the brightest and warmest campfire and the best guitar solo in the world.He had never heard someone sitting on the beach by the sea playing a guitar like that. He followed that guitar and opened a route, and cruise ships have been calling here since then.

But the bonfire was gone.

"I jumped into the water and hugged him."

Ming Weiting said, "He's not far from me."

Not far away was the lifeboat where Luo Jun was. Luo Jun eagerly stretched out his hand towards Jian Huaiyi, that person didn't even see Luo Zhi at all.

Ming Weiting swam through the water, the sea was freezing cold, his arms were so cold that he couldn't use his strength, and he failed to catch Luo Zhi once.

Luo Zhi was awake, those turbulent icy cold salty liquid flooded his body and swallowed him.

Ming Weiting dives into the water to hug him, and carries him to the surface of the water.

They were very close, his arm was behind Luo Zhi's back, and Luo Zhi's face was pressed against his neck, large and large droplets of boiling hot liquid oozed out, and were quickly assimilated by the sea water to a temperature close to freezing point.

I don't know how long it took, the liquid gradually disappeared.

He lowered his head and saw the fire leaning against his chest coldly, his pale head and neck folded back feebly, and he was no longer breathing.

Luo Zhi was forever left in that sea, together with everything contained in the name.

When the person who took care of him passed away, during the years she lived as Luo Zhi, no one ever told him that she liked him.

How can there be fans who chase after stars, after seeing the real person, they don't know how to say that they like him.

"So no."

Ming Weiting's voice was very soft: "It's just acting, no."

He dusted off the cigarette ash, and the sea breeze immediately rolled up the gray debris and threw it into the bottom of the water, and the lights of the cruise ship reflected the ripples and shone brightly.

Luo Zhi handed him the painting, and wrote crookedly, I have done nothing wrong.

Luo Zhi lay on the cold and dark beach before dawn, opened her eyes in confusion, unable to understand his answer.

Luo Zhi sank into the icy water before his eyes, without calling for help from anyone.

"They will regret it."

Ming Weiting looked at the sea: "They will always regret it."

He will not let those people disturb that fire again, no one deserves to disturb that fire again.But those people must always regret it.

Those people can no longer be related to that fire, but they must be roasted on the truth, must be sober and torture themselves forever.

Ming Lu replied behind him: "Understood."

"The girl from the Luo family hid at school." Ming Lu said, "That Mr. Ren Chenbai happened to help her contact a documentary exemption contract. The director has some evidence in his hand, and he can already sue the Luo family for the intentional injury over the years." Behavior……"

Ming Weiting nodded, he put out the cigarette, let the smoke on his body completely dissipate, and then returned to the cabin.

Starting from his personal wishes, he didn't want that fire to have anything to do with the past.But after all, he didn't have any more positions, so he had no choice but to ask the other party if he wanted to be named Ming.

……

Or choose a different surname that sounds better, or don't have a surname at all.

These things have to be decided by the other party after he wakes up and has a completely clear ability to act.

So Ming Weiting had no choice but to pick out the name Luo Chi temporarily.

After Luo Chi was rescued, he underwent a comprehensive physical examination. The apnea caused by drowning did not leave more serious consequences because of the timely rescue.But doctors suspected that a mass in his brain was pressing on him, causing problems with his hearing and other bodily functions.

After all, the medical level on the cruise ship is not as good as that on land. Ming Weiting is going to take Luo Chi to the hospital for an examination tomorrow, so let him have a good rest tonight.

Ming Weiting sat on the edge of the bed, he stretched out his hand to touch Luo Chi's hair, and those hairs rubbed against his palm softly.

"Good night." Ming Weiting whispered, "My name is Ming Weiting, I'm your fan, I'm chasing your star. Sorry, I didn't tell you about this in the past, I like you very much."

As long as he has free time these two days, he will practice saying this passage to Luo Chi many times.In this way, when Luo Chi wakes up, he can speak fluently like every star chaser.

He withdrew his hand and was about to stand up when he suddenly stopped.

Luo Chi curled his fingers lightly, moved his eyelashes a few times with difficulty, and finally opened them little by little.

Ming Weiting stood where he was.

It's not surprising that Luo Chi doesn't seem to recognize him anymore.

According to the doctor's speculation, during the few times they met, Luo Chi's mental state was already very poor, and the oppression of the suspected tumor in his brain might also have affected him.

They didn't know each other very well at first, so it didn't matter, he could introduce himself one more time, he had practiced it many times.

"Good night." Ming Weiting sat back down again, "My name is Ming Weiting."

When he said this sentence, Luo Chi's eyes suddenly stopped.

Luo Chi's gaze was dazed, and the fundus of his eyes seemed to be covered with a thin layer of mist, which was a kind of void without a clear focus, making the pupils look cleaner and darker.

Ming Weiting lowered his gaze.

He spent a little more time suppressing the almost sinister and icy hostility towards that family and Ren, which seriously interrupted his star-chasing thoughts, and finally stopped halfway through practicing proficient words.

He actually thought about using more illegal ways to retaliate, but he couldn't, he was learning to be a fan of Luo Chi, and he heard that fans should not discredit idols casually.

So he handed this matter over to Uncle Lu, he would not tie up all these people and throw them on an uninhabited desert island.

"My name is Ming Weiting."

He shook Luo Chi's icy cold fingers, and repeated it again: "...I like you very much."