They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes - Chapter 23

Because of Luo Jun’s inexplicable words, Ren Chenbai was unable to concentrate completely in the entire meeting that followed.

No matter what, he couldn’t figure out what Luo Jun meant.

Luo Zhi is gone again?

This is not uncommon.

Luo Zhi didn’t stay in the Luo family at all – even if Luo Zhi wanted to, the Luo family couldn’t tolerate him. That Mrs. Luo would definitely make trouble within twelve hours, unless Luo Zhi was stuffed into a remote guest room in the farthest corner.

If it weren’t for this, there would be no need to foster Luo Zhi at their home in the first place.

Ren Chenbai was leaning back in his seat, listening to the department’s report, still playing with the bluetooth headset he had already hung up on.

He was still wearing that suave mask, listening to a department manager talking about something incomprehensible, but his strong impatience climbed up the back of his spine little by little.

…a bunch of rubbish.

Even he himself didn’t know whether this sneering thought that suddenly appeared was aimed at the subordinates of the corpse vegetarian meal, or to anger the Luo family who couldn’t even look down on Luo Zhi.

Of course, it was impossible for the Luo family to look down on Luo Zhi, and even he himself contributed to this incident.

Ren Chenbai has been doing this from a very early age, since they were very young, since he didn’t even hate Luo Zhi.

Relying on calmly indulging, and even guiding Luo Zhi back to Luo’s house, Ren Chenbai let Luo Zhi thoroughly see the face of the family again and again.

He confidently and calmly waited for Luo Zhi to give up completely, and then he would stay in the Ren family and be a family with them forever.

Ren Chenbai couldn’t figure out why his mother punished him for this.

At the age of twelve, Luo Zhi was pushed down from the second floor by Mrs. Luo and broke his leg, and was taken by his mother to Wanghai Villa for three months.

Ren Chenbai was very happy and wanted to find Luo Zhi, but was told by his mother that he was not allowed to go, and he was not allowed to show up before Luo Zhi was healed.

So Ren Chenbai didn’t know at all that his mother even gave Luo Zhi a car.

Why give Luo Zhi a car?

In order to let Luo Zhi run? Running where no one can find it?

Ren Chenbai lowered his gaze, his fingers exerted force unconsciously, almost crushing the Bluetooth headset, only to be reminded by the applause of the department manager at the end of his speech.

…everything has changed since those three months.

During those three months, Luo Zhi found a new hobby and began to paint on a wall-sized canvas specially made for him by his mother, and began to learn guitar and singing by himself.

Every night, Luo Zhi happily chatted with Ren Chenbai about his guitar.

Ren Chenbai watched his progress by leaps and bounds, and watched the tune that was still stumbling a week ago being played quickly and smoothly. Looking at the boy who only dared to follow behind him and was wary of outsiders, he took the initiative to go to the bonfire party by the sea to play with the tourists.

Ren Chenbai looked at Luo Zhi who was sitting on the sand and playing flamenco.

There were many people listening to his guitar by the bonfire that day. The light of the fire made the boy’s face flush red, and his eyes lit up as if a star had fallen into it.

Luo Zhi sat on the beach, her short hair being stroked by the sea breeze. He held the guitar in his hand, and improvised lively and enthusiastic tunes flowed out of his arms, like wildfire burning freely in the prairie.

The boy who was silent and gloomy, always hiding alone in a corner of Ren’s house where no one could see it, was like a blazing bright fire that suddenly came into contact with a little spark. .

Many times Ren Chenbai couldn’t help but wonder if Luo Zhi would never have the day when his heart was ashes.

Could it be that just by giving him a little spark, even a little bit of hope, he could find out for himself a reason to live happily ever after.

Is it possible that as long as one person is still nice to him, he can still stumble to the last ounce of strength and climb out of the mud that dragged him into it.

…

Ren Chenbai finally crushed the bluetooth headset, the broken plastic shell was extremely sharp, and stabbed into his finger, blood poured out instantly.

The department manager who was speaking was startled: “Quick! How is this-“

The department manager caught a glimpse of the gloomy and cold eyes in Ren Chenbai’s eyes, and shuddered, and instinctively stopped talking.

“You are the subsidiary companies that mother supported in the past.”

Ren Chenbai said: “I have given you many opportunities for this reason.”

His tone was flat, but all the people present were still in a cold sweat, and the entire conference room was silent.

Ren Chenbai fell silent again.

He looked at the blood gurgling from his fingertips, but in his mind came the silent Luo Zhi in the ward who seemed to have died.

At that time, he didn’t know that Luo Zhi was in a coma. Luo Zhi was thrown away by him, his forehead was knocked on the foot of the bed, but there was no blood coming out of the wound.

It was as if the blood in the body had actually been drained almost completely, because there was really nothing to bleed out, so the whole person began to slowly cool down.

It was in the two years that Luo Zhi had just returned, and he had never been pale and quiet.

Ren Chenbai personally pushed Luo Zhi into the mud. He watched Luo Zhi struggling, watching Luo Zhi unable to hold any of his hands, he called Luo Cheng and let Luo Zhi hear with his own ears how the sister he cared about most ignored his life and death.

Luo Zhi really sank little by little as he wished, and was swallowed by the icy black water a little bit, but he still never got angry at him.

Luo Zhi was soft-hearted towards him, and was far more forgiving towards him than towards the Luo family.

Luo Zhi gave him many opportunities.

I don’t know where this idea came from, and it was immediately overturned by a sneer that was ridiculed to the extreme – Luo Zhi gave him a chance?

Just kidding, he is punishing Luo Zhi, and Luo Zhi’s sin will be atonement for a lifetime.

From the day Luo Zhi killed his mother, they had no chance at all.

Even the thought of being a little nicer to Luo Zhi, Ren Chenbai didn’t know whether he was worthy of his mother who was let down by Luo Zhi.

“Last time, let’s see what you can do.”

Ren Chenbai said: “Think about what you have done before.”

The managers in the conference room were holding their breaths and looking at each other, everyone was silent.

In the past, the Ren family was Ren Shuangmei, who had always been resolute and determined to cut. After Mr. Ren passed away unexpectedly due to illness, they did neglect and confuse a lot of Mr. Ren, who was always gentle and kind.

“Yes, is there any misunderstanding?” One of the older managers took a chance and spoke boldly, “Mr. Ren, we…”

“Waste this opportunity, just pack up and leave.”

Ren Chenbai interrupted him: “There is no next time.”

The manager closed his mouth for a moment.

No one dared to say another word, and everyone was afraid and trembling, buried their heads in trembling, and slipped out of the conference room.

Ren Chenbai did not leave immediately.

He watched the assistant help him heal the wound, and then asked someone to bring the computer. He packed the promised items and sent them to Luo Jun’s mailbox.

Then he asked for another pair of headphones and connected it to the computer.

Last night, Ren Chenbai did go to Huaisheng Entertainment alone.

After Luo Zhi left, Huaisheng Entertainment was in a lot of confusion as a whole, and many departments began to slack off. In addition, Jian Huaiyi’s management ability is far inferior to Luo Zhi’s, and the entire company is actually going downhill rapidly.

It’s just that Li Weiming’s popularity is high, and the fire is cooking oil and flowers are covered with brocade, temporarily covering those ominous signs.

Luo Chengxiu was old and confused. He could pull up a company that was almost delisted and bankrupt within three years. Luo Zhi’s talent was quite strong. If there were no accidents, his ability would not be weaker than Luo Jun.

Of course Ren Chenbai wasn’t because of this soft-hearted – no matter how well the company did, it was the Luo family’s business. Luo Zhi didn’t listen to his advice and insisted on doing the company well, and now it really belongs to Jian Huaiyi.

Luo Zhi would never learn to listen to his advice.

Ren Chenbai suppressed the coldness in his eyes and clicked on the video on the computer.

His cooperation with Jian Huaiyi was not on the bright side, but he didn’t want to hide it.

Therefore, Jian Huaiyi’s assistant was completely unprepared for him. After hearing him say that there were important documents left in President Jian’s office, he took him there.

On Jian Huaiyi’s desktop, there happened to be a USB flash drive newly sent by the person below.

There are a lot of videos already organized in the U disk.

These videos are all related to Luo Zhi, collected by Li Weiming’s pervasive fans.

Li Weiming’s own people are managing several big Vs who are stirring up the wind and rain, sifting out the parts that are really unusable, and then posting these malicious clips and distorted descriptions of these videos to the Internet.

Ren Chenbai copied a copy and brought it back. He sent the distorted parts of the malicious editing to Luo Jun as evidence, and dragged the rest into the player one by one.

Ren Chenbai put on his headphones and stared at the screen.

The unusable material is screened out, that is, the material that is completely incapable of changing the nature of the picture itself, even if it is edited to reverse right and wrong.

The blurry picture shook a few times before it stabilized. The distance was not too close, but it was still barely recognizable as Luo Zhi.

Luo Zhi sat in the rain and played his guitar.

The guitar sound was no longer comparable to the one by the bonfire, probably because Luo Zhi couldn’t hear it himself, or maybe because Luo Zhi’s mood finally changed.

Luo Zhi didn’t notice it himself, he actually almost lost consciousness several times in that rain, and even his head and hands were hanging down.

Luo Zhi was pushed and swayed by the wind, and the guitar almost fell out of his hand, and was hugged by Luo Zhi as if he was awakened.

Luo Zhi looked around, no one knew what he was looking for, maybe even himself.

Luo Zhi couldn’t find anything.

…

Ren Chenbai looked at the final result of his revenge.

He had already watched this video last night, and he thought he was reviewing and appreciating it, but unexpectedly he couldn’t produce any pleasure.

On the contrary, what Director Gong Hanrou said came out for no reason and lingered in his mind all night.

Do you regret it? Not to mention.

He didn’t think he was wrong, this was what Luo Zhi owed his mother.

He just suddenly felt that maybe it was almost the same here. He thought about letting Luo Zhi live and suffer for a lifetime, but Luo Zhi’s current appearance seems to have only half of his life left.

Ren Chenbai thought that he would probably find someone to fix Luo Zhi’s ears.

When they were no longer teenagers, he was tired too. Maybe it’s not that he can’t pretend to let go of hatred, pretend that all the twists and turns have not happened, and pretend that everything is the same as before.

Maybe it wasn’t that he couldn’t be nice to Luo Zhi.

Maybe he could pretend that he didn’t hate Luo Zhi.

Ren Chenbai will deal with Li Weiming sooner or later, and make the little star pay for these things – but so far, Ren Chenbai still needs to use Li Weiming and Jian Huaiyi to get Luo Zhi back.

Luo Zhi had nowhere to go, and he had to come back sooner or later.

When Luo Zhi comes back, let him kneel for his mother for a night, and let them pretend that this matter has been forgotten by them.

If Luo Zhi doesn’t want to go back to Ren’s house, he can arrange a more secluded apartment for Luo Zhi, or send Luo Zhi to a sanatorium and let Luo Zhi rest there…

…

So where did Luo Zhi go?

Ren Chenbai frowned slowly.

He watched the blurry video, watched Luo Zhi play his guitar in the rain, watched the progress bar below finish bit by bit.

It was not until this time that he suddenly realized that not only did he not answer Luo Jun directly, but Luo Jun also hadn’t answered his question.

What did Luo Jun see that made such a change in his attitude?

What did Jian Huaiyi do to Luo Zhi that cannot be forgiven?

He seemed to be haunted by some strange state, and it was only now that he vaguely noticed something was wrong. And when he discovered this, the uneasiness that bred wildly filled his entire body in an instant.

For no reason, Ren Chenbai suddenly remembered Luo Zhi who was rescued that day.

Luo Zhi lay quietly on the bed, his body rose silently with the electric shock and then fell back. How could the body that seemed to have lost any breath of life was lighter than he thought, so light that it seemed to have emptied the last bit of life. strength to go down.

So where did Luo Zhi go, why didn’t Luo Jun take care of him?

In the current state of Luo Zhi, what will happen if he gets lost?

Where will Luo Zhi run to? Can you get it back? So why on earth is he wasting time unhurriedly here?

What had he been trapped by? !

Ren Chenbai suddenly panicked like never before, he stood up and walked back and forth a few steps, pulling open the door of the conference room.

The assistant standing outside the conference room was startled and ran over quickly: “President Ren…”

“Look.” Ren Chenbai clenched the door frame hard. He took a deep breath and let out a trembling breath, “Continue to find the person I asked you to find before.”

The assistant was startled and hesitated for a moment before asking, “…bring it back?”

“Nonsense!” Ren Chenbai snapped, “Bring it back! If he refuses to—”

The assistant was indeed in charge of Luo Zhi, who had been looking for a while, and actually found some clues, but there was no more after that.

But at that time, Ren Chenbai was just casually giving orders, and he didn’t urge or ask for the result. They thought he was someone who didn’t matter.

The assistant didn’t dare to ask any more questions, and kept silent, waiting for new arrangements.

Ren Chenbai also realized his gaffe. He pressed his forehead hard and controlled the volume: “If you don’t want to… let me know.”

“I’ll pick him up.” Ren Chenbai said, “don’t hurt him.”

“Don’t hurt him, don’t scare him.”

Ren Chenbai closed his eyes: “Don’t be in a hurry to bring him back, first take him to the best hospital nearby, and then notify me.”

The assistant heard that something seemed wrong, nodded quickly, and hurried to do it.

Ren Chenbai stood at the door of the conference room.

He was suddenly terrified of some possibility.

Maybe it’s because it’s too scary, so it’s hard to even imagine the possible specific content, and there’s only a large chilling blank space left.

He couldn’t think any longer.

Ren Chenbai was not in the mood to watch those videos again, so he called someone to shut down the computer and sent it back to the office, then went downstairs and left the company.

…

When the person came to clean up the computer, the player automatically jumped, and the next video just jumped out.

Luo Zhi sat on a street corner, holding a drawing board and drawing.

This time the picture is not so blurry, it seems to be taken in a cafe on a street corner, only separated by a floor-to-ceiling window and a rain.

In front of Luo Zhi stood a man in a trench coat.

The man’s face could not be seen from the angle of the video, and Luo Zhi’s figure was also mostly blocked by the other party.

In the picture, Luo Zhi can only be seen leaning against the street corner, raising his head and talking to the other party. After speaking, he handed the drawing board to the other party, and took off the guitar and pushed it over.

The man didn’t want a guitar, he just wanted to paint.

But Luo Zhi was stubborn.

The two people didn’t know which step they didn’t agree on, they pushed back and forth in the rain that could drown the sky, and finally the man finally compromised before Luo Zhi, gathered up the hem of his clothes and squatted down.

He bent his shoulders and threw the whole umbrella over Luo Zhi’s head, looking very serious, and said something to Luo Zhi.

Luo Zhi tried his best to open his eyes to see, but the light in his eyes still flickered little by little. He even kept his original posture and passed out so silently.

The man did not wait for a response, and repeated it several times.

Luo Zhi leaned against the wall, closed his eyes slightly, and did not move.

The man raised his hand to touch Luo Zhi’s forehead, but before he touched it, Luo Zhi’s body suddenly twitched, and the conditioned reflex curled up his arms to protect his throat.

The man stayed where he was.

Luo Zhi slowed down for a few seconds, shook his head to wake up, and shoved his paintings, guitars and a lot of belongings into his head.

The other party is well-dressed, and it is quite funny to carry such a pile of odds and ends. But he still thanked him, stuffed the umbrella into Luo Zhi’s hand, and got up and left with all of Luo Zhi’s belongings as agreed.

The story seems to end here.

The person who recorded the video seemed to think so too. The screen was flipped upside down with the phone, but suddenly it seemed to have discovered something. In the background of the whispered discussion, it quickly returned to the original fixed point.

The man just now is back. This time he didn’t hold anything in his hand. According to the faint outline in the corner of the video, he probably just went and put those things on the car not far away.

He seemed to have guessed that Luo Zhi would not be able to hold an umbrella properly, so he squatted down and held Luo Zhi’s hand, helping him straighten the umbrella to block the freezing rain on his head.

Then he raised his right hand, his palm lit up, proving that he didn’t take anything, so he just stopped by his ear.

He looked at Luo Zhi, as if waiting for some permission.

What is he waiting for permission?

The person who took the video discussed in a low voice, and the person cleaning up the computer was also curious, so he didn’t turn off the screen immediately, holding his breath and waiting for the final answer.

Luo Zhi was covered under an umbrella.

He opened his eyes and stared at the figure in front of him without moving.

After an unknown amount of time, Luo Zhi’s arm on his chest finally slowly lowered.

So the other party got this permission, thanked him politely, and put his hand on Luo Zhi’s head.

He put his hand on top of Luo Zhi’s head and rubbed it very lightly and slowly.