They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes

Luo Jun received a call from Ren Chenbai.

……

Before the caller ID suddenly popped up on the phone screen, a video was playing.

It is a short section of content taken by a mobile phone. The angle is not very good, and the picture is not clear. It should not be taken by normal methods.

Indeed not, Gong Hanrou's production team quickly dealt with it accordingly and held them accountable.

The publisher quickly deleted the video, but the copy version had already been completely circulated on the Internet, and the popularity was so high that it was impossible to delete it cleanly.

Ren Chenbai in the video is clearly insane.

It is impossible for a person with normal thinking ability, basic logic and rationality to do those things.

Ren Chenbai sat slumped in the filming room used by the crew for interviews.

Ren Chenbai kept talking to everyone.

Those words were completely illogical, confusing and confusing, but they were said quickly and urgently, as if they were afraid of any rebuttal.

... He said he had a younger brother.

Ren Chenbai told everyone that he had a younger brother who was very smart and outstanding, and was brought home from the seaside by his mother.

Ren Chenbai actually knew Luo Zhi better than they did.

Because of that completely distorted and paranoid gaze, which can be considered neurotic, Ren Chenbai indeed understands Luo Zhi better than most people.

Ren Chenbai knows that Luo Zhi likes to draw in a sunny room, and that Luo Zhi no longer sings because of severe tinnitus and hearing loss that interfere with his judgment and grasp of musical sounds—this deterioration is largely due to Because of emotional and physical influences.

Ren Chenbai knew that Luo Zhi had taken the initiative to see a doctor, but many problems were difficult to be cured by drugs alone.

Ren Chenbai kept talking.Luo Zhi's grasp of the use of color has been praised in the professional field. Later, the painting failed because of a bad mood.In fact, Luo Zhi still has three songs that have not been released. Just the lyrics and music plus demos have caused several music companies to scramble for high prices.

As Ren Chenbai was talking, he saw Luo Cheng.

He looked at Luo Cheng, as if he had woken up for a brief moment.The strong fear of reality made him look particularly hideous and terrifying, but suddenly there was a trance of evil pleasure.

He suddenly said to Luo Cheng that Luo Zhi also had a good eye for picking scripts.In the final analysis, the film and television company relied on the ratings, and Huaisheng Entertainment relied on Luo Zhi's script to make a comeback against the wind.

Luo Zhi's talents are all in these things, Luo Zhi has a natural and keen perception of emotions.Those paintings are beautiful because of the passion contained in the colors, and those songs are beautiful because the tunes seem to flow out of long-lost dreams, even the intuition of choosing the script depends on this.

But Luo Cheng no longer had the opportunity and qualifications, and Luo Zhi didn't even leave the script to her—after Luo Cheng helped Jian Huaiyi take away the company, Luo Zhi put the script up and sold it online.

"Do you take this as revenge? This is not revenge, and he is not worthy of revenge."

Ren Chenbai stared at Luo Cheng, as if he had seen through her thoughts, and slowly twisted a sneer on his face that he didn't know whether to mock others or himself: "He just doesn't care about you anymore."

……

When the call came in, Luo Jun was looking at this sentence.

Probably because the state in the video was too abnormal, Luo Jun subconsciously froze when he heard Ren Chenbai's voice on the phone.

"Where are you?" Ren Chenbai's tone was normal compared to the video, but his voice was strangely hoarse, "Where are you, are you looking for him?"

Luo Jun slowly put down the phone.

He looked around where he was.

He was sitting on the mottled floor in a small room in an extremely shabby cheap black hotel. The windows were so small that he couldn't see the sky outside clearly.

……

He knows what he's doing, and through this hypocritical self-torture, he self-righteously atones for his sins, trying in vain to alleviate his guilt. In fact, he envies Ren Chenbai, and he would rather go crazy.

"I'm not looking for it." Luo Jun sat blankly for a long time, and finally said, "I can't find it."

This was obviously not the answer the other end of the phone was waiting for, and the other end suddenly fell silent, and the panting sound slowly oozes a coldness.

Ren Chenbai took a few breaths and said hoarsely: "Since."

He seemed to be having a hard time even uttering a complete sentence. After uttering a few words, he was interrupted by panting again: "In this case..."

Luo Jun pressed the screen of the phone that was turned off.

Ren Chenbai was not awake, and after talking too much, he could still hear the same sleepwalking in the video—but now it may be another most terrifying and chilling nightmare that cannot be escaped no matter what.

"Ren Chenbai." Luo Jun interrupted him in a low voice, "What do you see now?"

There was a dead silence on the other side of the phone, and even the panting stopped for a few seconds before resuming: "What?"

Luo Jun looked at the mottled patterns on the floor.He was also a little frightened by his own thoughts, he was probably crazy in a certain sense, he even wanted to replicate the nightmare that Ren Chenbai was having.

But sinking into a nightmare is better than waking up.

He couldn't fall asleep at all, and even if he took the medicine, he only played for a few hours. He kept playing Luo Zhi's favorite game, and even managed to appeal back to Luo Zhi's game account—a decision he regretted for a long time.

On Luo Zhi's game account, the only unread message that hasn't been clicked is the official birthday greeting.

The status of the envelope icon was still closed, Luo Zhi did not click on it.

He once thought that the duration of this period of pain and suffering was limited, and that time would smooth out the past.

One day, when he thought of his younger brother, he would still feel tight in his chest until he couldn't breathe, but he would be able to live with this pair of shackles, under the pretense of calmness.

……

But he was not eligible for probation, and he was not even as good as Ren Chenbai.

"I'm not as good as you." Luo Jun looked at the phone, "I know so many things about him."

Luo Jun said, "I don't know anything."

Luo Zhi lived for 23 years, which is actually not a short period of time.

And because of too long neglect, indifference and deliberate alienation, Luo Jun hardly has any direct concept of what happened to Luo Zhi in the past 23 years.

Time will smooth out the past, but what if there are always new punishments and tortures that keep falling?

He didn't know anything, what happened to Luo Zhi was completely new to him.

He couldn't help looking for those jigsaw puzzles that he had broken and discarded with his own hands. Every time he found a piece, a Ling Chi knife cut him.

"I'm so ridiculous." Luo Jun said, "You call him brother, I hope it's true."

If it was really Ren Chenbai's hallucination and Luo Zhi became a child of the Ren family, everything would not be what it is now.

How can there be such a cowardly elder brother who imagines that his younger brother can be taken home and protected by others.

The younger brother slept in the sea, and the older brother regretted that others did not take the younger brother home.

Look, the new Lingchi.

deserve it.

He was jealous of the chaotic nightmare that Ren Chenbai fell into, cut off from reality.

Luo Jun suddenly said, "I sent someone to search for it in the sea."

He could hear the sudden rush of breath on the other side of the phone, Luo Jun looked at the floor in front of him, and continued in a low voice: "I can't find it, I have been looking for it for a long time. It is a sea, and there is no way to drain it."

"I'm outside, here." Luo Jun's voice seemed to swallow a large piece of wet sand suddenly.

He swallowed with great difficulty before continuing: "I'm going to get him a certificate."

"Get a certificate." Luo Jun said, "If you succeed, you can get what he left behind."

Ren Chenbai fell into the trap as he thought.

The panting sound on the other side of the phone became chaotic, and even the voice became anxious and trembling: "Where are you?"

Luo Jun reported a place.

The other side hung up the phone without saying a word.

Luo Jun sat in a daze for a while, and after watching the video, he struggled to stand up.

How could he not fall into the trap.

Even if that life-saving straw is actually just a cold phantom in a mirage, how could he not resist rushing towards it and grabbing it tightly.

Facing the endless prison term in reality, even insanely drowning in a nightmare made of mirages, living a life in a chaotic trance, seems extravagant and lucky.

... After obtaining Luo Zhi's death certificate and the distribution of the estate.

Will Ren Chenbai share that nightmare with him and drag him down too?

……

Two days later, Luo Jun got the answer.

He woke up in the hospital, gradually recalling what happened after that phone call.

As a direct relative, he processed Luo Zhi's death certificate and obtained the notarization of Luo Zhi's estate before his death.

Then he met Ren Chenbai.

Ren Chenbai is already completely like a half-dead wandering soul, but what he did seems to have touched the other party's bottom line.

Ren Chenbai rushed over frantically, almost breaking his neck.Someone called the police, Ren Chenbai was brought under control, and he was sent to the hospital...

Luo Jun touched his throat.

He couldn't remember any more feelings, only the horrible feeling of suffocation.

No matter how much the chest expands, it can't fill in any air, can't move, and watch the vision go dark.

... What if it is drowning in sea water?

If it is not just suffocation, but drowning in the cold sea water, how much more tormented than this feeling?

Luo Jun put on his shirt and covered the bruise with the collar.

He managed to find Xun Zhen and asked for a chance to visit him. He was led by the nurse into a special ward with a fence, and saw that Ren Chenbai was tightly bound with a restraint belt.

……

Meeting Ren Chenbai's gaze, the other's gaze made his heart sink slightly.

Ren Chenbai stared at him, his bloodshot eyes seemed to grow poisonous vines.

Those vines twisted and stretched, slowly entangled his hands and feet, and he seemed to be pulled to grow on the ground.

...Ren Chenbai seemed to wake up.

Luo Jun stood outside the inspection window.

On the table in front of Ren Chenbai, he saw Luo Zhi's death certificate and the notarial certificate of inheritance.

Luo Zhi has done notarization of inheritance, which is nothing special in itself, Luo Jun has done it himself.

In their circle, many people will do this as soon as they grow up, and it doesn't mean any more special meaning.It is just because the large interests involved are usually relatively complicated, and the notarization of inheritance in advance can save a lot of trouble.

What's special is that the distribution of Luo Zhi's inheritance is very trivial.

It was so trivial that when Luo Jun provided the relevant proof and got Luo Zhi's estate distribution agreement, he even thought that Luo Zhi wrote it down as a diary.

"The notary office is very convenient now. You can send them the video directly. Whatever you say, they will pick out the key points and convert it into a formal contract for you."

Ren Chenbai still stared at Luo Jun, his speech became more fluent, and a smile slowly appeared on his face, but the gloom in his eyes made people feel chills behind: "Have you seen his video?"

Luo Jun was silent.Of course he knew who "he" Ren Chenbai was talking about, and of course he had watched the video.

Even if he knew that it was another scene that could kill someone alive...that was Luo Zhi who could move and talk, and was still alive.

Those early footage looked pretty ordinary.

Luo Zhi was mostly busy with the things in hand while recording videos casually.The tone is very flat, the eyes are not in the camera, they should be looking at the computer screen or a document.

It's just that since then, that kind of over-detailed triviality has begun to emerge—even the department managers of Huaisheng Entertainment who followed him, Luo Zhi, have left things.

In the video, Luo Zhi is sitting at his desk, biting a lollipop, and rubbing his forehead against a table full of documents.

He really doesn't like to do this kind of thing, and he's not good at it.

Bringing her own team to revitalize Huaisheng Entertainment, Luo Zhi is responsible for setting the general direction, selecting people, buying scripts, and selecting resources. As for the contract documents in these standard procedures, they have always been left to the managers of various departments.

Luo Zhi sorted out those documents, and explained to the video while classifying them.

It is best to leave suitable resources to the marketing and business department. These resource parties are all long-term intention contracts signed for him personally. If he intends to withdraw one day, he has the right to recommend suitable candidates to take over.

There are also a few very good scripts, but the current size of the company cannot produce the best results, so he bought them with his own money and can leave them to the film and television production department.

Artists can only be signed by the company, but the team of manager assistants are all developed little by little. With a little adjustment of the contract, the manager of the artist department can take it away at any time...

It's not that Luo Zhi has never tried to give it directly, but unfortunately none of the managers would let him finish.

No matter how he looked at the occasion, looked for opportunities, and hinted subtly, as long as he said "in case I'm not here in the future", those people would put his words back in their mouths more anxiously than one by one.

As soon as Luo Zhi finished sorting out all the documents, someone knocked on the door happily and vigorously. It seemed that the first episode of some drama had exploded, and those people asked him to go out to hold a celebration party.

Luo Zhi happily followed suit, and hurriedly ended the video while opening the door.

……

Most of the video recordings during that time were of these contents.

The company's momentum is getting better and better, and Luo Zhi has more and more things to distribute.

He divides all these things up, and he is ready to let every manager take away with him any achievements that are aimed at him personally and made by his team.

"Master Luo." Ren Chenbai still had that chilling smile on his face, which was as stiff as a somewhat weird mask, "You know, what does this mean?"

Luo Jun didn't speak, but silently flipped through the videos provided by the notary office.

...What does this mean?

It shows that Luo Zhi never intended to leave things in the Luo family's company.

It shows that Jian Huaiyi's current predicament is not because of his elder brother's self-righteous revenge.

How could he have forgotten that Luo Zhi has never been wronged since she was a child.No matter how many tricks Jian Huaiyi used, Luo Zhi asked him to pay the price.

If it's just about the confrontation between the two of them, Luo Zhi has never suffered a disadvantage - if not, Luo Zhi would not have been dubbed "tough" and "causing trouble" by them.

But how can we only talk about the confrontation between the two?

If Jian Huaiyi used these shady tricks to steal away Luo Zhi's parents' trust and family closeness, and to take away Luo Zhi's entire position and identity in the Luo family...then he, his father, mother and Luo Cheng are the judges. .

Is there any need to confront such a referee?

Since when did Luo Zhi stop explaining anything to them?

Even if he got Huaisheng Entertainment, it was only natural for Jian Huaiyi to be ostracized.As long as you get rid of the coercion of the board of directors, the real power in the hands of those managers can put Mr. Jian in the office as a mascot in minutes.

The collapse of the board of directors and the dissolution of the board of directors are certainly due to the changes in the Luo family... But even if there were no changes in the Luo family, these people would naturally be contacted by the notary office after the death of Luo Zhi.

At that time, as long as department managers like Huaisheng Entertainment change jobs with a lot of high-quality resources, scripts, and elite teams, the next family can't wait to pick them up with drums and drums.

Luo Zhi has a way to protect her own people, and has a way to make Jian Huaiyi pay the price.

This shows that he is not even qualified to avenge Luo Zhi.

……

Luo Jun raised his head, he was about to speak, but found that Ren Chenbai's gaze was fixed somewhere behind him.

There was nothing there, and this kind of fixed gaze suddenly gave birth to strangeness.But Ren Chenbai's face has changed slightly.

The poisoned gloom suddenly disappeared and turned into a kind of high-tension panic.

Ren Chenbai's vision began to slacken again, but the body restrained on the chair struggled, staring anxiously behind him.

"That's not what I mean... No, no, I'm not going to get sick again."

Ren Chenbai stared behind him, and stammered to explain: "I hate him, no—— no, I know I'm not qualified, I just vent my anger on him, I hate me, don't be angry..."

He was so nervous that he almost collapsed, Luo Jun almost really suspected that there was someone behind him, and couldn't help but look back.

……

Nothing but quiet air.

Luo Zhi in the video is making other arrangements.

The timeline began to extend backwards, the closer they were to the time point, the more attentive Luo Zhi's video was recorded.

Luo Zhi became more attentive, and was in a better state in the video, and even thought about a particularly relaxed chat.

The founder who lives abroad, Luo Zhi can't draw any paintings that satisfy him.

The last few satisfactory paintings were put away by Luo Zhi and handed over to the trustee for safekeeping.Luo Zhi explained in the video that if Grandpa suddenly thought of asking him, he would ask someone to send a painting in order.

It must be in order, and when the last painting was sent, it happened that Jiang Lang was so angry that he closed his pen... Then it could be logically changed to sending photos.

I don't know when sister Zhao Lan will come out of the shadows. If he is still alive at that time, he must go over and celebrate with champagne.

If he's gone, help him deliver the gift.

He actually wanted to give it away before, if seeing his name, he wouldn't have nightmares, and wouldn't be caught by previous fears, then he must have come out completely, she would be the bravest sister in the world.

I saw several people speaking for him on the Internet today, so happy. Isn’t it a little strange to chase after the red envelopes? Maybe I will release a song when I have a chance.

He tried his best to record the song better, and the lyrics thanked everyone who believed in him-he knew that someone must have spoken for him.It's just that there are too many abuses and curses, so many that they drown everything.

……Or leave a special card for Fang Hang, and ask him to find a few people to help and chase after him to give out red envelopes.

In the later videos, Luo Zhi talked more and more, so much that it seemed that there was no place to speak other than talking in it.

Later, the sound gradually disappeared in those videos.

Luo Zhi herself didn't know about this matter, but she still said it very seriously.His body obviously started to go wrong. Sometimes he would fall down without warning in the middle of the recording, and sometimes he would suddenly forget what he was talking about, and he couldn't even remember what he was doing.

"The doctors in my hospital suspect that he has a lump in his brain." Ren Chenbai said suddenly.

Luo Jun came back to his senses.

Ren Chenbai entered that delirium state for a very short time, only a few minutes before regaining consciousness.

He seemed to be really trying to change, even though he hated Luo Jun so much that he wanted to tear Luo Jun apart, he didn't dare to do what he did just now, just slumped against the chair with his head down.

Ren Chenbai's voice was hoarse like a whine: "If it wasn't for—"

Only halfway through the words, he swallowed them back.

Luo Jun knew what he was talking about.

If it wasn't for sudden illness.

If it wasn't for being sick... Luo Zhi wanted to live.

Luo Zhi was distributing his inheritance, but when he said these words, Luo Zhi's expression clearly wanted to do these things himself very much.

Luo Zhi wanted to leave everyone far away and start a new life in a place where no one was around. Later, in those videos, he would start talking about it when he was confused while talking.

Luo Zhi was able to leave originally, he already got the boat ticket.

It was because his plan was disrupted, he failed to see a doctor in time, and failed to detect abnormalities in his body in time.

It was because Ren Chenbai destroyed his car, so he couldn't go far.

It was because Li Weiming's fans exposed his whereabouts, it was because Luo Cheng blocked him in a hotel, and it was because Patriarch Luo let him be thrown in that kind of place.It was because each of them met Luo Zhi once that night, each of them made Luo Zhi's condition worse...

It was because during that shipwreck, Luo Jun forgot that he had a younger brother.

"You want to know about my nightmares?"

Ren Chenbai moved his eyes slowly, and he looked at Luo Jun: "My nightmare is that if I didn't exist in the beginning, what would he be like now."

After Xun Zhen brought him back to the hospital from Wanghai Villa, Ren Chenbai was trapped in countless such nightmares.He watched over and over again every night that he threw away the conch with his own hands, and every day, these nightmares came to him from all directions.

He finally had to find out about it.No matter how he fled or where he fled, these nightmares would find a way to find him, forcing him to see them incessantly.

...If he didn't exist at all, what kind of life would Luo Chi be living.

Luo Chi turned on the concert lights on the high stage where everyone was watching, forming a sea of ​​light.Luo Chi drove his favorite car to chase the wind on the wide grassland, and Luo Chi put his easel on the sea of ​​clouds among the mountains.

Luo Chi held his mother's arm, and when his mother pinched his ear and shook it, his face turned red, but his eyes were brighter than anything else.

He finally knew what he had destroyed.

He was wandering in those nightmares, groaning, wishing he could die from the pain, but he was obsessed with looking at Luo Chi in the hallucination, to forget the more cruel truth.

"Luo Jun." Ren Chenbai stared at the figure in front of him, "You woke me up."

Ren Chenbai asked: "How can I thank you?"

He saw the death certificate in Luo Jun's hand, and even the cruelest nightmares for him were shattered into pieces.

His bones were pulled out by reality and crushed into powder bit by bit.

In the end, he could only be locked up in this mental hospital, awake to see all the nightmares and the reality destroyed by him.

Luo Zhi will never come back again.

Luo Jun was wrapped in a thick chill, he wanted to shake his head, wanted to run away immediately, but he still couldn't move.

"Wake up and dream together?" Ren Chenbai was already in despair, but there was a cold smile on his face, "If it wasn't for you, if it wasn't for you to be his brother..."

Luo Jun's throat moved, and an invisible force climbed up again and slowly entangled him.

He thought Ling Chi was the most painful, but it wasn't, he wanted to steal Ren Chenbai's nightmare, but now they both have to wake up to face all this.

Luo Jun didn't even know how he suddenly fell down.Surrounded by nurses and doctors running over, he lay on the ground with cold hands and feet, opened his mouth and tried his best to inhale, but no air flowed into his chest.

The surrounding air seemed to be sucked out in an instant.

None of the punishments, tortures and pains he had suffered all the time seemed to make him despair more than this simple cognition.

Luo Chi once wanted to live very much.

Luo Chi alone arranges the affairs after his death, he carefully and solemnly deliberates in those videos, any little bit of kindness will be well remembered by Luo Chi.

Luo Chi wanted to live, and Luo Chi clearly wanted to do those things himself—when did everything finally get pushed to a completely different place?

From which video did it start? When Luo Chi came to explain what happened after his death, there was only relief and anticipation left behind?

Luo Jun couldn't swallow the air.

... If it wasn't for him to be Luo Chi's elder brother.

He was waking up to this nightmare.