They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes - Chapter 42

Luo Jun received a call from Ren Chenbai.

…

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

It’s a small piece of content shot by a mobile phone. The angle is not very good, and the picture is very unclear. It should not be shot in a normal way.

Indeed not, Gong Hanrou’s crew quickly dealt with it and held accountable.

The publisher quickly deleted the video, but the copy version has already been thoroughly circulated on the Internet, and the popularity is very high, and it is impossible to delete it cleanly.

Ren Chenbai in the video is obviously crazy.

A person with normal thinking ability and basic logic and reason would not be able to do those things.

Ren Chen was paralyzed and sat in the filming room used by the crew for interviews.

Ren Chenbai kept talking to everyone.

Those words were completely illogical, chaotic and vague, but they were spoken quickly and hastily, as if for fear of any refutation.

… He said he had a younger brother.

Ren Chen and Baiyu everyone said that he had a younger brother, who was very smart and excellent, and was brought home from the sea by his mother.

Ren Chenbai actually knew Luo Zhi better than them.

Because of that completely distorted and paranoid gaze that could be regarded as neurotic, Ren Chenbai really knew Luo Zhi better than most people.

Ren Chenbai knew that Luo Zhi liked to paint in a sunny room, and knew that Luo Zhi no longer sang because severe tinnitus and hearing loss interfered with the judgment and grasp of music sound—this deterioration was largely due to Influence of emotional and physical condition.

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

Ren Chenbai kept talking. Luo Zhiyu’s use of color has been admired in the professional field, but he failed to paint well, just because he was in a bad mood. In fact, Luo Zhi still has three songs that have not been released. Just the lyrics and the demos have made several music companies compete for high prices.

Ren Chenbai said and saw Luo Cheng.

He looked at Luo Cheng, as if he had regained consciousness for a moment. The intense fear of reality made him look particularly ferocious, but suddenly there was a trance of evil pleasure.

He suddenly said to Luo Cheng that Luo Zhi’s eyesight in picking scripts was also outstanding. In the final analysis, the film and television company relies on the ratings, and Huaisheng Entertainment relies on the script picked by Luo Zhi to turn the tables against the wind.

Luo Zhi’s talents are all in these things, and Luo Zhiyu’s emotions have a natural and keen perception. Those paintings are beautiful because of the warm passion contained in the colors, and those songs are beautiful because the tune seems to have come out of a long-lost dream. Even the intuition of picking a 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 get rid of the company, Luo Zhi put the script on the Internet and sold it.

“Do you take this as revenge? It’s not revenge, it’s not worthy of his revenge.”

Ren Chenbai stared at Luo Cheng, as if he had seen through her thoughts, and his face slowly twisted into a sneer 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 watching this sentence.

Probably because the state in the video was too abnormal, Luo Jun was stunned subconsciously 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 at where he was.

He was sitting on the mottled floor in a small room in an extremely shabby cheap black hotel, and the window was so narrow that he could not see the sky outside clearly.

…

He knew what he was doing, and through this kind of false self-torture, he thought it was right to atone for his sins, trying to alleviate his guilt. In fact, he envied Ren Chenbai, and he would rather go crazy.

“I’m not looking.” 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 his face suddenly fell into silence, his gasping voice slowly oozing coldness.

Ren Chenbai took a few breaths and said hoarsely, “Since that.”

He seemed to have a hard time uttering complete words, spit out a few words, and was interrupted by gasping again: “Since this is…”

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

Ren Chenbai was not awake, and he talked a lot, but he could still hear the same dreaming in the video – but now it may be another, the most terrifying and cold nightmare that can’t be escaped no matter what.

“Ren Chenbai.” Luo Jun interrupted him in a low voice, “What are you seeing now?”

The phone was dead silent, and even the breathing stopped for a few seconds before it resumed: “What?”

Luo Jun looked at the mottled texture of the ground. He was also a little frightened by his own thoughts, and he was probably crazy in a sense, and he even wanted to replicate the nightmare Ren Chenbai was having.

But sinking into a nightmare is better than waking up.

He couldn’t fall asleep at all, even after taking the medicine, he would only play for a few hours. He kept playing the game Luo Zhi liked, and even managed to appeal back to Luo Zhi’s game account – a decision that he regretted for a long time.

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

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

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

One day, when he thinks of his younger brother, he will still be so tight in his chest that he can’t breathe, but he can also live in these shackles, living in the pretense of pretending to be calm.

…

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

“I’m not as good as you.” Luo Jun looked at the phone, “I know so much about him.”

Luo Jun said, “I don’t know anything.”

Luo Zhi lived for twenty-three years, which was actually not a short period of time.

And because of too long neglect, indifference and deliberate alienation, Luo Jun had almost no direct concept of what had happened to Luo Zhi in the past 23 years.

Time will smooth out the past, but what if there are 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 the puzzle pieces that he broke and discarded with his own hands. Every time he found a piece, a Ling Chi knife slashed him.

“How ridiculous I am.” Luo Jun said, “You call him brother, I hope it’s true.”

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

How could such a cowardly elder brother imagine that his younger brother could be brought home by others and protected by others.

The younger brother slept in the sea, and the elder brother regretted that others did not bring his younger brother home.

Look, the new Lingchi.

deserve it.

He was jealous of the chaotic nightmare that Ren Chenbai had fallen into that was separated from reality.

Luo Jun suddenly said, “I sent someone to look for it in the sea.”

He heard the sudden rapidity of the breath on the phone, Luo Jun looked at the floor in front of him, and continued in a low voice: “I can’t find it, I’ve been looking for it for a long time. It’s a sea, and there’s no way to drain it.”

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

He swallowed hard with great difficulty before continuing: “I’m going to get him a certificate.”

“Get a certificate.” Luo Jun said, “If it is successful, you can get what he left behind.”

Ren Chenbai fell into the trap as he thought.

The gasping sounds on the phone began to chaotic, and even the voice turned into a nervous trembling: “Where are you?”

Luo Jun reported a place.

He hung up the phone without saying a word.

Luo Jun sat for a while, and after watching the video, he stood up with difficulty.

How can you not get into the trap.

Even if that life-saving straw was actually just an icy illusion in a mirage, how could he not be able to hold on to it and hold it tightly.

In the face of a prison term that will never end in reality, even the madness is drowned in a nightmare composed of mirages, and it seems extravagant and lucky to live a chaotic life.

…after obtaining Luo Zhi’s death certificate and estate distribution.

Will Ren Chenbai give him that nightmare 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 an immediate family member, he applied for Luo Zhi’s death certificate and obtained the notarization of Luo Zhi’s estate before his death.

Then he saw Ren Chenbai.

Ren Chenbai is already completely like a half-dead wandering soul, but what he did seems to have touched Yu Fang’s bottom line.

Ren Chenbai rushed over like a madman, almost twisting his neck. Someone called the police, Ren Chenbai was brought under control, and he was taken to the hospital…

Luo Jun touched his throat.

He couldn’t remember any more feelings, only the horrible suffocation.

No matter how open his chest was, he couldn’t get any air in, he couldn’t move, and his vision went dark.

…what if it was drowning in sea water?

If not just suffocating, but drowning in icy sea water, how much more suffering than this feeling?

Luo Jun put on his shirt and covered the purple purple with his neckline.

He managed to find Xun Zhen, begged for a visit from Yu Fang, was led into a special fenced ward by a nurse, and saw Ren Chenbai tightly bound by a restraint belt.

…

Meeting Ren Chenbai’s gaze, Yu Fang’s eyes made his heart faint.

Ren Chenbai stared at him, bloodshot eyes like poisonous vines growing.

Those vines twisted and twisted, slowly entangling his hands and feet, and he grew on the ground as if being pulled.

… Ren Chenbai seemed to wake up.

Luo Jun stood outside the visiting 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 notarized the inheritance, which is nothing special in itself. Luo Jun has also done it himself.

In their circle, many people will do this as soon as they become adults, and it does not mean any more special meaning. It’s just because the large interests involved are usually complicated, and doing the inheritance notarization in advance can save a lot of trouble.

What’s special is that Luo Zhi’s inheritance is very trivial.

It was so trivial that when Luo Jun provided relevant certificates and got Luo Zhi’s inheritance distribution agreement, he even thought that Luo Zhi had written this thing as a diary.

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

Ren Chenbai was still staring at Luo Jun, his speech speed was much more fluent, a smile slowly appeared on his face, but the gloomy eyes behind his back made people chill: “Have you seen his video?”

Luo Jun was silent. Of course he knew who Ren Chenbai was referring to as “he”, and of course he had seen the video.

Even if I knew that it was another Ling Chi scene that could cut people alive… it was Luo Zhi who could move and talk, and was still alive.

The early footage looked quite ordinary.

Luo Zhi is mostly busy recording videos while he is busy with his work. The tone is very flat, the line of sight is not in the camera, it should be looking at the computer screen or some document.

It’s just that since then, the kind of overly detailed trivialities have begun to emerge—even the department managers who followed him in Huaisheng Entertainment, Luo Zhi, left things behind.

In the video, Luo Zhi is sitting at his desk, biting a lollipop and rubbing his forehead while the documents spread across the table.

He really doesn’t like doing this kind of thing, and he’s not good at this kind of work.

With his 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 on these standard procedures, they have always been left to the managers of various departments.

Luo Zhi sorted out the documents and explained them in the video while classifying them.

Appropriate resources are best left to the marketing business department. These resource parties are for long-term intention contracts signed by him personally. If he intends to quit one day, he has the right to recommend suitable candidates to take over.

There are also several very good scripts. The current company scale cannot produce the best results, so he bought it at his own expense and can leave it to the film and television production department.

Artists can only sign with the company, but the manager assistant team is all polished a little bit, and the contract can be adjusted a little, and the artist department manager can take it away at any time…

It’s not that Luo Zhi didn’t try to give it directly, but unfortunately none of the managers refused to let him finish.

No matter how he looked at the occasion, looked for opportunities, or hinted subtly, as long as he said “in case I’m gone in the future”, those people hurriedly put his words back into their mouths and pressed them into their stomachs.

As soon as Luo Zhi had sorted out all the documents, someone outside the door happily knocked on the door, as if the first episode of some drama had exploded, and those people told him to go out for a celebration party.

Luo Zhi also happily responded, and hurriedly ended the video while opening the door.

…

Most of the videos during that time were of this kind.

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

He divides all these things down, and he is ready to make every manager run with him as soon as he changes his job.

“Master Luo.” Ren Chenbai still had that chilling smile on his face, stiff like a somewhat weird mask, “You know, what does this mean?”

Luo Jun didn’t speak, and just silently flipped through the videos provided by the notary office.

…what does this mean?

It shows that Luo Zhi never intended to keep things in the Luo family’s company.

It shows that Jian Huaiyi’s current predicament is not because of the self-righteous revenge of his eldest brother.

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

If it was just about the confrontation between the two of them, Luo Zhi had never suffered—if it wasn’t for this, Luo Zhi would not have been dubbed “stubborn” and “caused by trouble” by them.

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

If Jian Huaiyi used these insidious tricks to steal the trust of his parents and the closeness of his family from Luo Zhi, and to take away Luo Zhi’s entire position and identity in the Luo family… then he, his father, mother and Luo Cheng would be the referees.

Is such a referee still necessary?

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 put on hold. As long as they are freed from the yoke of the board of directors, the real power in the hands of those managers can put that President Jane in the office as a mascot in minutes.

The tree of the board of directors collapsed and scattered, it is true that the Luo family’s change… But even if there is no Luo family’s change, after Luo Zhi’s death, the inheritance distribution agreement will take effect, and these people will naturally receive contact from the notary office.

At that time, as long as the department managers of Huaisheng Entertainment bring a lot of high-quality resources, scripts, and elite teams to change jobs, the next family can’t wait to beat the gongs and drums and carry the sedan chair to pick them up.

Luo Zhi has a way to protect his own people, and 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 eyes were fixed somewhere behind him.

There was nothing there, and this kind of fixed stare suddenly gave birth to strangeness. But Ren Chenbai’s expression changed slightly.

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

Ren Chenbai’s eyes began to wander again, but the body restrained on the chair struggled, staring anxiously behind him.

“That’s not what I meant… 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’m taking his anger out, 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 stretch backwards, and the closer they were to their time, the more attentive Luo Zhi’s video was recorded.

Luo Zhi became more attentive and in better condition in the video, and even had an extraordinarily relaxed chit-chat.

The founder who was far abroad, Luo Zhi couldn’t paint a painting that would satisfy him.

The last few paintings that were quite satisfactory were collected by Luo Zhi and handed over to the trustee for safekeeping. Luo Zhi explained in the video that if Grandpa suddenly remembered to ask him, he would have someone send a painting in order.

It must be in order, and when the last painting is sent, it is Jiang Lang who is furious and seals the pen… Then it can be logically changed to send photography photos.

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

If he’s gone, help him with the gift.

In fact, he wanted to give it away before. If he saw his name and would not have nightmares or be caught by his previous fears, then he must have come out completely, the bravest sister in the world.

Today, I saw several people speaking for him on the Internet. I’m so happy. Isn’t it a bit strange to chase after sending red envelopes. I’ll have a chance to release a song in the future.

He tried to record the song as well, and the lyrics thanked everyone who believed in him—he knew someone must have spoken for him. It’s just that there are too many abuses and curses that cover the sky, so much that they drown everything.

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

In the videos that followed, Luo Zhi said more and more words, so much that it seemed that there was no place for him to open his mouth other than to speak in it.

Then the video gradually disappeared.

Luo Zhi himself didn’t know about this, and was still talking very seriously. His body obviously began to have problems, sometimes he would fall down without warning in the middle of the recording, and sometimes he would suddenly forget what he was saying or even what he was doing.

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

Luo Jun regained his senses.

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

He seemed to be really struggling to change, even if he hated Luo Jun enough to tear him apart, he didn’t dare to do it again, just lowered his head and leaned back in the chair.

Ren Chenbai’s voice was hoarse like a chirping: “If not—”

Halfway through the words, he swallowed them back.

Luo Jun knew what he was talking about.

If not suddenly fell ill.

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 was clearly that he really wanted to do these things himself.

Luo Zhi wanted to stay far away from everyone and start a new life in a place where no one was there. Later, in those videos, when he talked about confusion, he would start talking about it.

Luo Zhi could have left, and he had already obtained the ticket.

It was because his plan was disrupted, he failed to see a doctor in time, and failed to detect any abnormality 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, because Luo Cheng blocked him in the hotel, and because the Luo family head let him be thrown in that kind of place. It’s because each of them saw Luo Zhi once that night, and each of them made Luo Zhi’s condition worse…

It was because during the 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.”

Being brought back to the hospital by Xun Zhen from Wanghai Villa, Ren Chenbai was trapped in countless such nightmares. He watched himself throw away the conch over and over again every night, and every day, these nightmares came to him from all directions.

He finally had to find out about it. No matter how he escaped or where he escaped, these nightmares would find a way to find him and force them to show him constantly.

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

Luo Chi opened the concert lights on the high platform that attracted the attention of thousands of people. Luo Chi drove his favorite car to chase the wind on the broad grassland, and Luo Chi put his easel on the sea of ​​clouds in the mountains.

Luo Chi embraced his mother’s arm, and his mother shook his ears, his face flushed, but his eyes were brighter than anything else.

He finally knew what he had destroyed.

He wandered in those nightmares, in a daze, so painful that he could not wait to die, but he indulged in looking at Luo Chi in the hallucination to forget the crueler 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 those worst nightmares for him were shattered inch by inch.

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

Finally, he could only be locked in this mental hospital, watching all the nightmares awake, and the reality that was destroyed by his own hands.

Luo Zhi will never come back.

Luo Jun was wrapped in a thick chill. He wanted to shake his head and escape immediately, but he was still frozen in place.

“Wake up and dream together?” Ren Chenbai was already a stagnant water of despair, but a cold smile appeared 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 was once again climbed up by an invisible force, slowly entangled.

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

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

The air around him seemed to be sucked out in an instant.

The punishments, the tortures and pains that have always been there, seem to have made him more desperate than this simple understanding.

Luo Chi used to want to live very much.

Luo Chi arranges the events after his death alone. He carefully and solemnly reconsidered in those videos, and any 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?

Which video did it start from? When Luo Chi came to explain what happened after his death, there was only a sense of relief and anticipation left?

Luo Jun couldn’t swallow the air.

…If it wasn’t for him to be Luo Chi’s brother.

He’s about to wake up and have this nightmare.