Li Weiming sat in the driver's seat, feeling as if someone was strangling him.
He suspected this was a nightmare that was too real.
He relied on shady means to step on Luo Zhi to get to this point, and he was often frightened and woke up screaming from the nightmare when the truth came out.
That Weibo post was sent according to President Jian's arrangement. When Li Weiming received the video from Luo Zhi's private email that evening, he was completely panicked.
Li Weiming got up trembling, and desperately emailed Luo Zhi to apologize and reflect on his actions. He even rushed to tell everything about Jian Huaiyi and Ren Chenbai - all the ideas were from those two people, and he was just a puppet. He kept begging Luo Zhi to spare him.
He didn't dare to sleep, and waited anxiously with his phone in hand, but the whole night passed and the email address didn't reply to any of his emails.
He opened Weibo with trepidation, but what he saw was another hot search.
It was a news story, and the content was fairly objective, just saying that the police broke into a vehicle in a shopping mall parking lot to rescue someone...but in the photos attached below, the person who was rescued was actually Luo Zhi.
The car has been torn up beyond recognition. Even if we insist on returning it to the factory for repair, there is probably no hope.
In the photo, Luo Zhi was being taken to an ambulance. She looked in very poor health and seemed to have fainted, with her face pale and her eyes closed.
As for the comment section below the news, it had already been completely taken over by his useful fans.
Because he just happened to post that Weibo, his fans were very excited and needed to vent. There was almost no need for discussion before it was concluded that Luo Zhi was playing the victim, pretending to be deeply traumatized and unable to get over it, but in fact she had already called the police.
He couldn't believe that he had such good luck and read dozens of pages of comments.
Those comments were indeed all scolding Luo Zhi. He is just playing the victim for show and taking up public resources. Why should we waste time saving this scum? It would be better to let him end his life so as to avoid hurting more people.
He also saw many comments promoting Ren Chenbai, and following the instructions in the replies below, he watched the video from a passerby's perspective, only to find out that it was Ren Chenbai who carried Luo Zhi out of the car and sent her to the hospital.
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Seeing this, Li Weiming's heart finally settled down.
No wonder things went so smoothly, it turned out that Ren Chenbai helped.
Then it's not a big problem.
Because of Mr. Ren’s wife, Luo Zhi has always been tolerant of Ren family affairs.
Li Weiming even sent people to the hospital to investigate secretly. There must be something very serious wrong with Luo Zhi's body. He had to undergo two consecutive rescue operations to be saved. I guess he will have to stay in the hospital after the examination.
Li Weiming heaved a guilty sigh of relief. He returned home and prepared to have a good sleep this time. Then, at the same time, he received an email from Luo Zhi's private email address.
Exactly the same as the previous email.
No title, no content, nothing to say, just a video.
The video shows him at his most embarrassing and shameful, and it is the truth of that night.
The truth is that he brought it upon himself, and nothing happened that day. Luo Zhi gave him two years' basic salary and bought him a dry happy birthday.
Only Li Weiming himself knew that those two years were not "difficult" at all.
Luo Zhi did what she said and no longer provided him with any resources, but she also never mentioned what happened that night on any occasion.
Huaisheng Entertainment's artist contracts are quite lenient, so Li Weiming could secretly go out to take private jobs without committing a serious breach of contract. Luo Zhi didn't seem to notice Li Weiming's little action, as if she had completely forgotten about his existence.
Later, Li Weiming took on private jobs more and more blatantly, and luckily he became famous with the resources provided by Jian Huaiyi. In addition, he struck while the iron was hot and posted that Weibo, and finally he became famous.
But even if everything went well, he would still feel like he was walking on a tightrope, waiting for this day in fear at any time.
...Luo Zhi had no intention of letting him go.
Luo Zhi actually skipped Jian Huaiyi and got the video.
Li Weiming suffered from insomnia for whole nights. He was very successful during the day, but at night he was tortured by the emails that came every night and couldn't fall asleep.
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Even though he knew that the man was seriously ill and lying in the hospital, he was still scared to death of Luo Zhi.
He felt so guilty that he became suspicious of everything. Only when I saw Luo Zhi’s reputation on the Internet getting worse and worse did I feel a little relieved.
Now that Luo Zhi's reputation is ruined, no one will believe what she says anymore.
As long as he keeps asking people to suppress Luo Zhi and keeps trying to guide his fans to target Luo Zhi, even if Luo Zhi wants to explain, not many people will have the patience to listen to what a person with such a bad reputation says.
...But why is Luo Zhi so difficult to deal with!
Li Weiming actually started to feel uneasy a few days ago. A passerby took a video of Luo Zhi playing guitar in the rain and uploaded it to the Internet. The scene of everyone running out in the rain resonated with a lot of people and became a minor hit.
His fans still curse this evil man viciously, saying that he deserves the punishment he deserves for trying to put on a show at a time like this. It would be best if he ends up wandering the streets for the rest of his life... But there are always people who are not involved in this inexplicable hatred.
No matter how hard his fans try to spread the word, or how they copy and paste all the dirty deeds Luo Zhi has done, there will still be comments popping up every now and then, sighing at the shadow that is about to collapse under the rain.
There will always be comments with sighs, saying what happened and why he is so sad, someone come and take him home.
The situation was already looking bad, but then President Jian's clueless sister actually interfered again, privately contacted those radical fans to find Luo Zhi, and even staged a live broadcast in front of the hotel.
It was her own fans who reached out and pushed Luo Zhi - of course, given the current public opinion, this little splash is nothing, it just pushed someone down and made them unable to stand up. But what if Luo Zhi's reputation starts to improve?
If Luo Zhi died, suddenly some marketing account would start to join in the fun and express nostalgia and regret. Can you please post a collection of Luo Zhi's works when she debuted as a singer, as if you had no hand in the initial internet outrage about Luo Zhi, and then hypocritically sigh a few times about how talent is envied by God?
The deeper he got into this matter, the more there was no turning back, so he had no choice but to pick up the best method.
Li Weiming planned to have his men contact those big fans and conduct a large-scale science popularization on the day of the funeral about what Luo Zhi had done in the past.
This kind of thing requires collaboration between the marketing account and the studio, so he went to find Jian Huaiyi.
But Jian Huaiyi couldn't get in touch with Ren Chenbai no matter what, so he came to find Ren Chenbai alone.
Ren Chenbai...
Li Weiming shuddered violently and suddenly woke up from his trance.
Only then did he realize that Ren Chenbai had already left.
Li Weiming looked at the mobile phone he had thrown on the passenger seat. He reached out to take it with trembling hands, then turned on the screen, but threw it away as if he was afraid of being bitten by something.
He opened the car door and chased in the direction of Ren's villa. Ren Chenbai didn't walk fast, but he was in a daze for quite a while. Li Weiming ran so hard that his lungs were about to explode. His legs were weak and he was gasping for breath. Finally, he caught up with him on the road.
Ren Chenbai was pulled to a stop by him, and he stopped to look at him: "You don't look scared now."
Of course Li Weiming was afraid, he was scared to death, but he had already seen the situation where life was worse than death, and he would be treated like garbage and trampled into the mud by everyone.
"Mr. Ren... please." Li Weiming's throat felt like he had swallowed a mouthful of charcoal. He didn't even have time to breathe and just kept pulling Ren Chenbai.
"I have done so many things for you and President Jane, even if - even if you pity me."
He had no idea why Ren Chenbai would do such a thing, and racked his brains to think of the right words: "Did I do something wrong? Is this a lesson for me? I know I was wrong, and I will definitely reflect on it. Can you help me say something..."
Ren Chenbai looked at him, neither saying yes nor no: "What about Huaisheng Entertainment? Can't those people help you?"
"They all prefer to follow Luo Zhi, you know that!" Li Weiming gritted his teeth, "Once Luo Zhi leaves, they will be lucky not to set traps for me!"
His team was arranged by Jian Huaiyi. They are very familiar with picking up smears, slandering and spreading rumors. It is even easier for them to secretly guide fans' emotions. However, this kind of crisis public relations is completely useless.
Ren Chenbai really didn't know. He had never paid attention to this matter: "You all prefer to follow Luo Zhi?"
…It seems to be true.
After Jian Huaiyi took over Huaisheng Entertainment, the entire company suddenly became lifeless. There was no longer the momentum that everyone had when Luo Zhi was there, rushing forward with all their might.
When Luo Zhi was in the hospital, Luo Cheng did complain to him, saying that he didn't know what was going on. Everyone at Huaisheng Entertainment, from the manager to the department employees to the agent team, and even the errand assistant, didn't treat her well.
When they heard that Luo Zhi would not come back, the Artist Department was extremely cold to her. Without President Jian's instructions, they did not arrange a team or resources for her, nor did they find an agent to manage her.
If it weren't for this, Luo Cheng wouldn't have been so angry as to go to director Gong Hanrou and ask to participate in the documentary.
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Documentary.
Thinking of Luo Cheng, Ren Chenbai's eyes suddenly darkened, and slowly a hint of coldness as if poisoned seeped out.
Li Weiming couldn't guess what Ren Chenbai was thinking. He just held on to his sleeve tightly and refused to let go. "Yes... those people hate me to death."
"They might be adding fuel to the fire right now... They must be doing this, they can't help me."
Li Weiming collapsed in despair and stammered about the true situation of Huaisheng Entertainment.
That Weibo post might have fooled outsiders, but no one inside believed it. He had already become very popular recently because of that big IP, and because of this incident, he completely soared to fame. He received a lot of very good resources in one go and became a cash cow for Huaisheng Entertainment... But those people looked at him with more and more disdain.
The reason why Huaisheng Entertainment suddenly became so chaotic in Jian Huaiyi's hands was not only because of Jian Huaiyi's own lack of ability. It is also because of the managers' slackness and hypocrisy that many people have even considered changing jobs.
Li Weiming even vaguely knew that there were several department managers within Huaisheng Entertainment who were promoted by Luo Zhi and who had been working together to secretly investigate his past scandals.
"Then why didn't anyone come to the hospital to see Luo Zhi?" Ren Chenbai asked, not knowing if he was listening to what he said, and suddenly answered himself, "It's because of me."
Ren Chenbai said to himself: "I was the one who told the doctor that Luo Zhi was very ill and couldn't be disturbed or visited casually."
He remembered the phone that kept calling him when Luo Zhi was rescued from the car and sent to the hospital for the first time.
He stared at the endlessly ringing phone with disgust, unable to understand why so many people were calling and messaging Luo Zhi. So he threw the phone to his assistant and asked him to block all those numbers.
Luo Zhi’s cell phone password? Is there any need to guess something like this? Luo Zhi has never changed her passwords since she was a child, and they are all her mother's birthday.
This was just a trivial matter, and Ren Chenbai no longer thought about it. He had done too many trivial matters like this.
Didn't those doctors and nurses not dare to show any good face to Luo Zhi from beginning to end because of his orders?
"As for Jian Huaiyi, he doesn't have this ability either...so you can only come to me for help."
Ren Chenbai cut off those endless thoughts, looked at Li Weiming who was clinging to his feet and couldn't get rid of him, took out his phone and opened it: "What do you want me to say for you?"
Li Weiming saw his movements and felt a glimmer of hope. He quickly stood up and said, "Just say the video is fake! Just say it was acted and dubbed...yes, dubbed!"
"Luo Zhi wanted to clear her name, so she found a voice that sounds very much like mine. It's not the truth." Li Weiming felt more and more hopeful as he spoke. "The picture alone can't explain anything."
"Because - because I've been too popular recently, and I got in someone's way, so I deliberately teamed up with Luo Zhi to do this to me."
"Actually, I can find an outsourced team to run this myself...but the results will definitely not be as good as what you said in person."
Li Weiming seemed to come back to life, smiling awkwardly and speaking respectfully: "Even if you can recover, you will definitely be seriously injured this time. You can only hide for a few years and wait for the storm to pass before making a comeback."
Ren Chenbai looked at his phone and asked, "If I tell them, will they believe me?"
Li Weiming nodded vigorously and said, "Please help me to say it. My fans will definitely believe it if I say it."
"They are easy to deceive. Just give them a reason and they will brainwash themselves and make up stories." Li Weiming sneered, "And then they still think they are righteous and acting on behalf of heaven..."
Ren Chenbai tapped the screen: "Okay."
Li Weiming was stunned.
He couldn't figure out why Ren Chenbai could speak so quickly, and stood there in a daze for a few seconds. Then he suddenly realized something, rushed over like crazy, and snatched Ren Chenbai's cell phone.
Li Weiming seemed to be nailed to the spot by countless wooden wedges.
Perhaps there were more wooden wedges being driven into his body, prying open the bones, drilling through his flesh, and finding out what kind of shameful and filthy things were inside him.
...Ren Chenbai recorded his words.
Ren Chenbai posted the recording online intactly.
He stared at the screen motionlessly, not knowing how long he had been nailed like this, until his phone was taken away by Ren Chenbai.
Li Weiming laughed dryly: "Ren, President Ren."
"I'm serious." Even though his phone was gone, Li Weiming still maintained that ridiculous posture, staring at Ren Chenbai. "I don't know what you're going to do."
Li Weiming asked him: "Don't you have a role in this matter?"
Ren Chenbai ignored him and put away his phone.
"If I die, everyone will suffer!"
Li Weiming finally shouted out, all his previous respect vanishing into thin air, like a fish struggling desperately before dying on the shore: "I can email Luo Zhi about you and Jian Huaiyi, and then post it online as it is! Your deeds..."
"Have you sent this kind of email to Luo Zhi?" Ren Chenbai suddenly spoke.
Li Weiming thought he had found his weak spot and laughed hoarsely: "Yes, you——"
"That makes sense. The first time he sent you the video, you must have been so scared that you told him everything."
Ren Chenbai nodded: "That's great, I don't need to write it myself, your perspective is more detailed."
Li Weiming paused at this sentence for a long while, looking at Ren Chenbai in surprise.
...He felt that Ren Chenbai must be crazy.
As for him being an idiot.
He should have realized that Ren Chenbai was crazy long ago, but he actually dared to come close to him.
Why did Ren Chenbai go crazy? Just because Luo Zhi died?
Doesn’t Ren Chenbai hate Luo Zhi the most?
"Do you regret it? Do you regret treating Luo Zhi like this?" Li Weiming suddenly connected the cause and effect, "Are you compensating him?"
When he was looking at Ren Chenbai's phone just now, he had already glanced at the content on the Internet. Even if he didn't read much, there were plenty of examples happening around him every day, and he knew what would happen next without thinking.
His popularity with the public is almost gone, but his fans are still resisting, insisting that the video is fake.
Of course, such outrageous words are just to deceive fans.
But as long as the fans believe, there is still hope for a turnaround.
Then he told all this to Ren Chenbai in person, and Ren Chenbai sent it all out.
A bad artist.
Those sky-high liquidated damages would crush him.
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I don’t know how long I was in a daze, but Li Weiming’s expression gradually changed from gray to pale. He sat in a daze for a long time, but suddenly he laughed.
"You used me to destroy Luo Zhi, and now that Luo Zhi is destroyed, you feel regretful."
Li Weiming said: "Then you come and strangle me to death and burn incense for him."
"Mr. Ren, Mr. Ren, Ren Chenbai." Li Weiming couldn't stop laughing, "Aren't you afraid that Luo Zhi will feel disgusted?"
Ren Chenbai suddenly stared at him, his expression gloomy and cold, and his eyes were almost filled with a cold blood color.
Li Weiming was kicked to the ground by him, rolling on the side of the road in embarrassment, laughing so hard that his stomach hurt: "You tortured Luo Zhi when he was alive, and you regretted it now that Luo Zhi is dead? Do you think you still have deep feelings for him? Mr. Ren, do you want this deep love?"
"I told you, Luo Zhi is not dead yet." Ren Chenbai stared at him and spoke word by word, "I'm looking for him."
"Why did you look for him? Tell him that you like him so much, that you want to watch him being harmed and bullied, watched him being plotted against, watched him being taken to bed by a little celebrity?"
Li Weiming laughed hysterically, as if he was going to die in the next second: "Does Luo Zhi's life or death have anything to do with you? Who are you to him?"
Ren Chenbai was almost irritated by him and went crazy again. He strode over and grabbed his collar. The gloomy and cold look in his eyes was almost murderous, as if blood would drip out at the next moment.
"You can talk now, Mr. Ren."
Li Weiming would rather let Ren Chenbai beat him to death or cripple him on the spot. He was already completely useless anyway. If Ren Chenbai broke his legs, maybe he could even get some liquidated damages.
So Li Weiming's words became more and more unscrupulous. He looked at Ren Chenbai and did not even hide the obvious sarcasm in his tone: "I can't cover your mouth. As long as you can refute it, you can say whatever you want."
Ren Chenbai's chest heaved rapidly, and he looked like he wanted to strangle Li Weiming to death, but then his eyes fixed behind Li Weiming.
Li Weiming turned his head and saw only the air soaked in the night.
Ren Chenbai suddenly threw Li Weiming away.
"He's hiding from me." Ren Chenbai said, "He's hiding in the villa."
Ren Chenbai's voice was so low that Li Weiming even felt that he was trembling.
"He hid there when he was scared. He must have hidden himself." Ren Chenbai whispered, "That's his home..."
Ren Chenbai suddenly heard Luo Zhi sneer.
He heard a voice laughing and saying "How disgusting", then he remembered that Luo Zhi would not speak like that, and he saw Li Weiming's mocking face.
"Xiao Zhi." Ren Chenbai couldn't be sure who the sneer came from, so he could only explain in a hoarse voice, "I'll change it bit by bit."
"I took revenge on him." Ren Chenbai said to Luo Zhi, "I'll help you--"
His cell phone was taken away by Li Weiming again.
Ren Chenbai came back to his senses and looked at Li Weiming.
It was meaningless to delete the things he had sent out now. He was not in a hurry to get his phone back. He just wanted to see what this 18th-tier star who had broken off relations and was no longer pretending would do.
"Mr. Ren, what did you do?" Li Weiming flipped through his phone. "Oh, I sent a video. Luo Zhi managed to get this video herself."
Ren Chenbai suddenly realized what he was doing, and his expression suddenly turned cold: "Give it to me! Li Weiming——"
Li Weiming was just waiting to be crushed to death by public opinion and debt. He had nothing to fear anymore. He even expected Ren Chenbai to beat him up so badly that he had to pay for his medical expenses. He even released a recording.
"What is the reason for this recording? Because I can't ask Huaisheng Entertainment for help, so I have to ask you."
Li Weiming shook his phone: "Why can't I find someone from Huaisheng Entertainment? Because they all hate me to death, and they like Luo Zhi."
Li Weiming kept talking. He looked at Ren Chenbai's figure frozen in the shadow, unable to move, with a malicious and enjoyable look. He seemed to be talking about something that had nothing to do with him.
He didn't know whether he regretted it or not. If he had listened to Luo Zhi at that time and cherished the opportunity Luo Zhi gave him, perhaps everything would be different - even if Luo Zhi let him go just because of the Ren family, he still wasted Luo Zhi's kindness. He couldn't resist the temptation and took another path, a path that could not be turned back.
But Luo Zhi definitely didn't need his cheap hindsight regret that was only caused by bad luck and ruined future.
Just like Luo Zhi couldn't possibly need compensation from these people.
Li Weiming knew that he was a piece of trash, but he found out that Ren Chenbai didn't know it yet.
Ren Chenbai actually didn't know yet and refused to accept the fact that Luo Zhi was dead. He was still thinking about finding Luo Zhi to compensate him.
"It was Mr. Luo who let me go in the first place, and it is Mr. Luo who is causing me to suffer retribution now."
"Stop being disgusting, Ren Chenbai, what did you do?"
Li Weiming put the phone back into his shirt pocket and patted it: "Keep going crazy, you can't find him."
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