Ming Weiting pushed open the door and strode over.
He walked into Luo Chi's sight, held the edge of the bed with one hand, half squatted down, and met Luo Chi's eyes.
This time Ming Weiting finally made it in time for the first time.
Before Luo Chi could figure out that there was nothing in front of him, shadows overlapped and suddenly became within reach. He was so frightened that his eyelashes trembled slightly, and he sat there in a daze for a long while.
…
There was a warm temperature covering his hand, and after he had adjusted for a while, she held his fingers little by little.
Luo Chi opened his eyes blankly.
He was not familiar with this kind of touch, and his body instinctively trembled at this unpredictable unfamiliarity, but he really didn't have the strength to move.
He was in a thick fog that he couldn't get out of. The fog was nothing but slowly enveloped him, turning him into a part of it.
Mr. Shadow, in his fog, held his hand.
Ming Weiting held Luo Chi's hand.
He watched Luo Chi's expression gradually relax from his trance. Although he still felt confused as to where he was, the slight tremor lurking in his body had slowly calmed down, and his cold fingers finally felt a little warm.
Luo Chi curled his fingers in his palm and stopped struggling or looking for anything to defend himself.
Although it was just a one-night stand of relaxation and trust, and there was no guarantee that Luo Chi would still remember these things tomorrow, but as long as changes began to occur, there would be something we could do.
Ming Weiting felt relieved, stood up and sat on the bed, reaching out to embrace Luo Chi's body that was leaning against the wall.
That half of the body was as cold as the wall, or even colder.
Ming Weiting helped him lie down and made the bed again.
This time he tried touching Luo Chi's hair again, and after confirming that Luo Chi did not feel uncomfortable, he slowly pressed the strength of his palm onto the soft short hair.
Luo Chi curled up in the quilt, half-closed his eyes, and had his hair rubbed by him.
Luo Chi's eyelashes trembled several times, as if he was trying to open them a little bit more, but he was dragged by sleepiness and slowly sank.
Perhaps such scenes are too common, so common that people can't help but wonder, if those things hadn't happened, if the person met at any fork in the road was not so bad... Luo Chi would probably be like this.
I stayed up late to write a super nice song and draw a super beautiful picture.
We had so much fun at the bonfire party that we fell down on the warm beach, not wanting to talk or move.
I accidentally walked too long and too far outside, and didn't get home until the moon came out. I took a hot shower, stretched out my arms, and lay down comfortably without caring about anything...
"Go to sleep, you'll be fine."
Ming Weiting said softly: "It will be fine, don't worry."
He stretched out his hand to cover Luo Chi's eyes, and when he took his hand away, the person next to him was breathing lightly and was sleeping soundly.
…
Ren Chenbai was once again turned down by the Ming family's cruise company.
The Ming family’s new cruise ship is docked at the port on the seaside. This generation of Mr. Ming is on the ship and will not leave until all follow-up actions after the cruise ship accident are completed.
...In that case, why not tell him where Luo Zhi was taken?
He's been missing for such a long time, he should have been found by now, right?
He just wanted to go on board to meet Mr. Ming and clarify things, but he was ruthlessly and harshly driven away. The steward was very rude to the man and even ordered someone to throw him off the dock.
The water under the pier was not deep, but there were many ships coming and going, and the sea water was stained with a lot of oil, so dark that even the light could not be reflected.
Ren Chenbai still had to rely on them to find Luo Zhi, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and swallow this bad luck. He stumbled onto the beach, saw Li Weiming's car, frowned and stopped.
Li Weiming didn't bring an assistant with him. He drove here by himself. As soon as he saw him, he went to greet him.
"Mr. Ren." Li Weiming was startled by how dirty and messy he looked. He hesitated for a moment before reaching out to help him. "Are you in any trouble?"
Ren Chenbai slapped his hand away in disgust: "What are you doing here?"
Li Weiming was humiliated by him, but he did not show any displeasure. He just took his hand back, and his attitude remained respectful.
"I couldn't contact Mr. Jian all day today about the arrangements for the next few days," Li Weiming said, "so I can only come to you to ask."
He noticed that the atmosphere was a little awkward, and was worried that his hesitation had upset Ren Chenbai, so he lowered his posture even more: "After all, I am your man..."
Ren Chenbai stared at him inexplicably: "Are you mine?"
"When Luo Zhi was the general manager, you recommended me to Huaisheng Entertainment."
Li Weiming laughed. He was no longer the 18th-tier star that no one cared about. Although he became famous too quickly and was totally unprepared, he now had some confidence.
Li Weiming calmed himself down, looked at Ren Chenbai's expression, and tried to make a joke that would please him: "You don't want me anymore just after getting rid of Luo Zhi, do you?"
Ren Chenbai looked at him for a while, and his expression gradually returned to his usual gentle and amiable self. He lowered his head and straightened his sleeves.
In fact, there was nothing to clean up at all - he had just been thrown into a large, dirty and pungent puddle of oil, and was caught off guard and choked several times. It took him a long time to struggle and crawl out. Now you can imagine how miserable he was.
But Ren Chenbai seemed to be unaware of it. He just stood by the road and thought for a while before nodding slowly: "Yes, I recommended you to Huaisheng Entertainment."
What they had done in secret back then was pretty much known to each other.
Jian Huaiyi wanted to gain a foothold with Huaisheng Entertainment, so he planned a big show and finally achieved two goals at one stroke. Not only did he drive Luo Zhi away, but he also allowed Li Weiming to step on Luo Zhi to move up to the next level and become the leading actor of Huaisheng Entertainment.
When planning the situation, Jian Huaiyi chose the then inconspicuous Li Weiming because it was the person who was recommended to Luo Zhi by Ren Chenbai.
Since he was recommended by Ren Chenbai, Luo Zhi will definitely take care of him.
Because he was recommended by Ren Chenbai, it was possible for him to stab Luo Zhi in the back when she was off guard in such a situation.
Does Ren Chenbai know about this?
...Of course he knows.
He knew it from the beginning.
Ren Chenbai watched with his own eyes as Jian Huaiyi put all his efforts into the plan. He watched as Jian Huaiyi managed to lure Luo Zhi to the hotel, set up the cameras, and send Li Weiming over as well.
That night, Ren Chenbai was actually sitting in a car opposite the hotel. He watched Li Weiming enter the hotel coldly, then watched Luo Zhi send Li Weiming out and personally called a car for him.
Ren Chenbai sneered in his heart. He even thought about asking Jian Huaiyi for a copy of the video and going to his mother's grave to show her what the true face of the monster who was best at disguise looked like.
Ren Chenbai also sneered at himself - look, this is the person you once wanted to live with for the rest of your life.
It turns out that everything is fake. Gratitude is fake, being obedient is fake, and cleanliness is also fake.
Ren Chenbai allowed this poisonous weed to take root and sprout in his heart. He even mentioned Li Weiming to Luo Zhi on purpose. He watched Luo Zhi's face change because of the name, and watched Luo Zhi's body stiffen as he expected while sitting at the desk.
…Thinking about this, my body, which had almost lost weight due to the inexplicable shipwreck, seemed to be barely standing back on the ground.
Ren Chenbai took off his oily coat, rolled it up into a ball, and threw it into the trash can: "Tell me, what are the arrangements."
Li Weiming is now the pillar of Huaisheng Entertainment. The general work arrangements have already been planned by the team, so there is no need to come to him.
Since he came here specifically to find Ren Chenbai, it means he is doing something shady again.
"That's right." Li Weiming breathed a sigh of relief. "Luo Zhi's funeral will be next week. I heard it will be a grand affair."
Although he had confirmed that there were no outsiders nearby and it was too dark to see anything, Li Weiming still lowered his voice and said, "Now that he is gone, his reputation seems to be on the rise. I have a few fans who want to work with marketing accounts to do some popular science on the day of the funeral..."
They had planned a lot of these things before, and although most of them were discussed by him and Mr. Jian with Ren Chenbai listening absent-mindedly on the side, Ren Chenbai was aware of these things after all.
Li Weiming tacitly agreed that these matters could be discussed with Mr. Ren. He was halfway through his speech when he felt the atmosphere was a little strange. He stopped talking and was suddenly startled by Ren Chenbai's gaze.
"Funeral?" Ren Chenbai asked, "Who said we're going to hold a funeral for Luo Zhi?"
Li Weiming didn't expect that what he was going to ask was this. He was stunned for a moment and answered instinctively: "When a person dies, there must be a ..."
Before he could finish his words, Ren Chenbai raised his hand and slapped him hard in the face.
Li Weiming was caught off guard and staggered a few steps with a muffled groan. Before he could stand up straight, Ren Chenbai walked over and kicked him to the ground.
Ren Chenbai squatted down and stared at him: "Who did you say died?"
Li Weiming had never seen him like this before. Looking at the faint bloodshot in Ren Chenbai's eyes, he opened his mouth but didn't dare to say anything for a moment.
"Luo Zhi is not dead, he just disappeared. I came here today to look for him, but unfortunately things didn't go smoothly and I didn't find him."
Ren Chenbai's voice was very low, and his tone was gentle and almost eerie: "Who wants to hold a funeral for him?"
Li Weiming was really scared this time and swallowed his saliva unconsciously.
Everything had been going smoothly for him recently, and he had never been in such a mess before. He froze in place, and even broke out in a cold sweat without noticing.
"I'm asking you a question." Ren Chenbai said, "Luo family? Luo Jun or Luo Chengxiu? Luo Cheng?"
How could Li Weiming understand this? He just instinctively realized that if he didn't answer, something even more terrible would be waiting for him, so he said something random and took advantage of Ren Chenbai's distraction to turn over and run.
Unfortunately, Ren Chenbai was faster than him. He rushed to the car door, but Ren Chenbai had already held down the armrest: "Speak up."
Li Weiming stared at him in horror.
"Speaking of which, I've always been curious."
Ren Chenbai did not continue the previous topic, but changed the subject: "You climbed into his bed at that time, you should have recorded it, right?"
Ren Chenbai grabbed Li Weiming's wrist and bent it downward with force, and Li Weiming couldn't control his screams.
"You've tried so hard to discredit him that you even went to his funeral, and you still won't let him go." Ren Chenbai chewed on these two words slowly until his mouth was filled with the smell of blood. "Such good material, why don't you use it?"
Li Weiming's face was pale. He felt that his wrist was almost broken and he was sweating all over from the pain. "Ren, President Ren..."
"Useless? There can't be nothing useful at all. Did he take a fancy to you as soon as you walked in? His taste shouldn't be that bad that he would accept someone like you."
Ren Chenbai continued to talk to himself: "How did you impress him? I really don't know what he likes..."
Li Weiming listened to his words. Although he was still in so much pain that he saw stars in front of his eyes, he gradually sensed that something was wrong.
He suddenly remembered some groundless and unfounded gossip.
There are always all kinds of gossip in the business circle. Most of them are just heard and forgotten. Most of them are just rumors or exaggerations, so there is no need to take them too seriously.
Li Weiming had been following Jian Huaiyi during that period, and had managed to get into that circle for a while, and had heard some outrageous gossip.
For example...Ren Chenbai actually has some special feelings for Luo Zhi.
Admittedly, that kind of feeling was far from being enough to express love - otherwise Ren Chenbai would not have allowed them to do that kind of thing to Luo Zhi.
A more appropriate description would be that it is an extremely obsessive and weird possessiveness that is almost pathological.
This is also the reason why Ren Chenbai was unwilling to let Luo Zhi take over Huaisheng Entertainment.
That's why Ren Chenbai would cooperate with Jian Huaiyi. Because he wanted Luo Zhi to give up and take Luo Zhi back to the Ren family. He wanted Luo Zhi to be his alone and didn't want Luo Zhi to have to deal with anyone else.
Li Weiming didn't know whether these things were true or not, but driven by fear, he blurted out those words: "Mr. Ren, there is no such thing at all..."
Ren Chenbai's voice, which seemed to be talking to himself, suddenly stopped.
He seemed unable to understand this sentence. He paused for a few seconds before his eyes fell on Li Weiming: "What did you say?"
"There is no such thing at all." Li Weiming trembled, "I was sent there for that very reason. But as soon as Mr. Luo saw me, he told me to shut up and swallow what I wanted to say forever. He, he even gave me money..."
Out of lingering fear of Luo Zhi, Li Weiming unconsciously brought up the name he used at that time.
He was actually terribly afraid of Luo Zhi.
He stood in the hotel room that day, feeling so embarrassed that he wished he had died on the spot. He looked at Luo Zhi sitting alone on the sofa with her back to him, with a half-broken birthday cake in front of her.
The birthday cake was given to Luo Zhi by Luo Cheng.
That day, Luo Cheng suddenly said that he wanted to celebrate Luo Zhi's birthday and give her a surprise, so Luo Zhi went to the hotel.
He didn't expect that Luo Zhi knew their plan. He was almost frightened and quickly chewed up his words and swallowed them back.
Luo Zhi asked him again if Luo Cheng knew about this.
Luo Cheng just agreed to help Jian Huaiyi, and of course had no idea about the specific details. After all, Jian Huaiyi still had to be a good brother, and it was impossible for him to tell Luo Cheng such a dirty thing.
...He answered truthfully, and then saw Luo Zhi quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
He thought he had passed the test, but Luo Zhi suddenly turned around and walked in front of him.
Luo Zhi walked up to him and threw his resume and information on the pile of messy things that were said to be used to liven up the atmosphere.
…
After admitting the incident, Li Weiming seemed to be briefly pardoned.
As Ren Chenbai requested, he found the video of that night and sent it to Ren Chenbai, then got into the car obediently and drove Ren Chenbai to the sea view villa.
Ren Chenbai leaned in the back seat of the car and watched the video with the sound turned on.
Li Weiming listened to his own voice, his face flushed with embarrassment, but he didn't dare to say another word. He had to turn his gaze back to the red light at the intersection in front of him.
There seemed to be red lights all along the way, but Ren Chenbai was not in a hurry.
He sat in the car that was moving at regular intervals, the blinding red light coming in through the window, as if staining the edge of his vision with a faint layer of blood.
He watched the video.
Luo Zhi walked up to Li Weiming and threw Li Weiming's resume.
"You are a student sponsored by the Ren family." Luo Zhi asked him, "Why do you do this?"
Li Weiming stood there motionless, feeling ashamed and embarrassed.
"I will not give you any more resources within two years."
Luo Zhi said: "Clear your mind and throw away the dirty things you have learned."
Li Weiming's face instantly turned gray after hearing this sentence. He stared at Luo Zhi in despair and pleaded hesitantly: "Boss Luo..."
"It's only two years. You don't have solid basic skills now, so it's a good time to go back and learn again." Luo Zhi returned to the sofa and cut a piece of cake for himself. "If I'm still here two years later, I will continue to give you resources as usual."
Li Weiming's voice of begging for mercy was already filled with tears: "Boss Luo, I know I was wrong, please give me another chance..."
Luo Zhi turned her back to him and slowly finished the small piece of cake.
Li Weiming's pleas gradually ran out of words. He probably guessed that Luo Zhi would not change her mind, so he gradually stopped talking, and his expression became increasingly gloomy and dejected.
In the hotel's luxurious suite, the air was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
"This matter." Luo Zhi suddenly said, "and——"
He looked like he wanted to ask a question, but stopped abruptly when the words were about to come out.
Li Weiming looked up blankly.
Luo Zhi still didn't ask this question in the end. He just walked out of the video screen, probably next to the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel.
Luo Zhi stood there, staring at something across the street.
After a while, Luo Zhi suddenly smiled and said, "I'll give you two years' basic salary and say happy birthday to you."
Li Weiming was a little stunned: "What?"
"Happy birthday to me." Luo Zhi looked up at the wall clock. The day was almost over. The second hand had only two big squares left, and the day would officially end.
"Xiao Cheng originally wanted to celebrate my birthday, but I didn't agree with her entering the entertainment industry so early."
Luo Zhi seemed to smile. He didn't know if he was talking to Li Weiming or just making a simple summary of the day: "I screwed up."
…
Playing this kind of video to myself is extremely painful, even if I can't see the images.
Li Weiming drove the car and turned the last intersection with a red face.
At that time, his mind was completely focused on the basic salary for two years. He had already started thinking about what private work he could take on, and did not listen carefully to Luo Zhi's words.
But the words were still said.
Li Weiming heard himself saying "Happy Birthday" in a dull voice, but the word "Happy" was completely drowned out by the clock that signaled midnight. The camera was not far from the wall clock, causing a loud noise.
"If you leave on your own like this, the person who sent you here probably won't let you go."
Luo Zhi's voice sounded calmly in the video: "Let's go, I'll take you downstairs."
"Mr. Ren... Mr. Ren." Li Weiming swallowed hard and said in a hoarse voice, "Please do not spread this video to anyone else..."
To be on the safe side, he should have found a way to delete this thing a long time ago - especially after that Weibo post that stabbed Luo Zhi in the back was posted.
This video is like a sword hanging over his head, which may fall down at any time and directly destroy everything he has worked so hard to gain.
But since he posted that Weibo, Luo Zhi’s private email address would send him this deadly thing once a day.
No matter how hard you try to delete, you can never delete them all. Even if you delete them, they will still be there the next day.
Even after Luo Zhi died... there will still be one.
Li Weiming was frightened and secretly asked someone knowledgeable about the subject to take a look. It seemed to be a script he wrote himself that automatically monitors and captures keywords, and then links them to emails to send them on a scheduled basis. There is no way to solve the problem unless we get Luo Zhi’s personal computer.
The video forwarded to Ren Chenbai was the one he had just received in his email.
Ren Chenbai's condition just now was so strange that Li Weiming was frightened and instinctively forwarded the video to him. Only now did he vaguely feel the fear of being caught.
"No wonder." Ren Chenbai couldn't help laughing, "It's really something he can do."
Luo Zhi would let Li Weiming go this time for the sake of the Ren family. If the matter was not further exposed, Ren Chenbai and the students sponsored by the Ren family would be brought disgrace to the Ren family.
But Luo Zhi is not the kind of person who pushes the envelope. She was able to get this video by getting past Jian Huaiyi's layers of defense. Luo Zhi was trying to protect herself.
Luo Zhi has always been trying to find ways to protect herself.
It was just because they completely ruined Luo Zhi that many of the things that were arranged could not be used.
Ren Chenbai nodded: "You are lucky. Luo Zhi was tortured by me and the Luo family and became ill. His mind is not very clear and he can't remember many things... Otherwise, he would punish you in his own way."
Li Weiming was relieved when he heard the first few words, but the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong. He stammered, "...Mr. Ren, are you kidding? What, what torture..."
Ren Chenbai suddenly asked: "If there is a grudge that cannot be resolved, will you come back for revenge after you die and become a ghost?"
Li Weiming had been suspicious of the emails these days. He was afraid of this and shuddered unnaturally: "No way..."
Before he finished speaking, he was frightened by Ren Chenbai's sudden cold eyes and his heart trembled. He hurriedly changed his words: "Yes, I will!"
The car had arrived at Wanghai Villa. Li Weiming stopped the car cautiously and looked at the figure in the rearview mirror.
He didn't dare to say another word. He just regretted why he had to encounter this bad luck today, and hoped that this King of Hell would get off the car and leave as soon as possible.
"Then he will probably be very busy." Ren Chenbai was in no hurry to leave. He leaned back in the back seat and fiddled with his phone. "Help him save some energy."
An extremely outrageous thought suddenly popped up in Li Weiming's mind for no reason, and a chill instantly spread throughout his body.
"Mr. Ren, you...you can ask me to do anything you want."
Li Weiming stammered, "Please, please delete that video..."
"Oh." Ren Chenbai put away his phone, "I can't delete it."
Li Weiming was engulfed by the chill: "Why can't I delete it?"
"It's been forwarded too much." Ren Chenbai stood up and opened the car door. "Just delete it slowly. It's all over the Internet."
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