Ren Chenbai is crazy.
When he realized this, Luo Cheng was hiding in the dormitory with a blanket over his head, staring at his phone and feeling cold all over.
The video clip released by Ren Chenbai became a hot search within ten minutes. Coupled with Li Weiming's current top traffic, it caused an overwhelming uproar.
Luo Cheng didn't even dare to click on the video.
You can tell from the comments that Li Weiming must have lied and thrown dirty water on Luo Zhi.
Now that the video has been released and the evidence is irrefutable, everything that happened back then has naturally become a joke.
Luo Cheng's palms also broke out in cold sweat. She kept clicking on the new posts and looking at the crazy increase in comments and reposts.
Except for some of Li Weiming's fans who still refused to believe it and kept asking for confirmation whether the video had been modified or re-processed, the public opinion had become completely one-sided.
Suppress and hide? Serious psychological problems? Have you only recently mustered up the courage to step out of the shadows?
Is it a suppression and hiding that requires solid basic skills while retaining basic salary, or is it a serious psychological problem left by saying four words "Happy Birthday"?
What shadow did you have the courage to step out of? You were sent to your door with ulterior motives but failed, and you were escorted out of the hotel intact and had to call a taxi?
The sarcasm and ridicule under the video became more and more unpleasant. The more real Li Weiming's pain and confusion in the past period were, the more shameful and absurd it became now.
The characters he played were repeatedly mocked, his non-existent basic skills were criticized, and his Weibo posts were screenshotted and paraded around. As for the "punishing evil and promoting good" that the fans proudly boasted about in the fan forum, they were repeatedly criticized and flogged. Several people have already cancelled their accounts...
Even though things had come to this, Ren Chenbai seemed to feel that it was still not enough, and he didn't even intend to leave this small group of fans who were fighting hard for their lives to stay with Li Weiming. Just a few minutes later, another recording was sent.
Those words that Li Weiming said in person, his image-disregarding plea to Ren Chenbai, and his indifferent ridicule of fans, finally came like a slap in the face to those fans who were still deceiving themselves and resisting stubbornly.
In the recent period of time, several major brands have officially announced the termination of their endorsement contracts with Li Weiming, and the crew of a drama that Li Weiming is currently filming also made an emergency public relations announcement to replace him. According to the comments, the matter is not that simple. Li Weiming's Weibo post is suspected of serious defamation and he may be sued and sentenced...
It’s because of these things of Ren Chen’s white hair.
Why on earth would Ren Chenbai suddenly do such a thing?
Luo Cheng stared at the screen of his mobile phone, feeling extremely nervous.
Li Weiming was looking for Jian Huaiyi everywhere, and even asked someone to find out her phone number and asked her where Jian Huaiyi had gone.
...Where did Jian Huaiyi go?
Luo Cheng unconsciously clenched his phone.
She was not at home that night, but she knew what Ren Chenbai did when he went to Luo's house.
Someone almost died that day. Jian Huaiyi was beaten half to death by Ren Chenbai and is still in the hospital.
Is Ren Chenbai going to take revenge on everyone? I want to take revenge on all those who have treated Luo Zhi badly, because Luo Zhi...
She was startled by her cell phone's sudden vibration. When she saw "Ren Chenbai" on the caller ID, she was instantly overwhelmed by intense fear. She immediately reached out and hung up the call, then threw the phone away.
The dull sound of the phone hitting the bed also attracted the attention of several other people in the dormitory.
"Xiao Cheng?" The girl in the lower bunk poked her head out and gently patted her bed. "What's wrong? Is everything ok?"
Luo Cheng huddled tightly in the quilt, and spoke after a long while: "It's okay..."
"Are you scared by the trending searches? I just saw that this Li Weiming is too outrageous."
The guy in the lower bunk suddenly remembered: "Xiao Cheng, do you still have his contact information? We were almost going to cooperate with each other?"
"I didn't!" Luo Cheng denied hastily, then realized that his tone was too strange, and managed to calm down, "I just - I just work in the same company with him, Jane, Jane always wanted him to guide me..."
"By the way, you've also signed a contract with a company. You two are both from Huaisheng Entertainment." The lower bunk didn't think much about it, but just advised her, "Don't associate with people like this in the future, so as to avoid trouble."
Luo Cheng was still panicking because of the phone call, so he nodded randomly a few times and said "hmm".
...Her roommates were not aware of her true relationship with Luo Zhi and Huaisheng Entertainment, nor did they know her specific family situation.
Luo Zhi never sent her to school and never appeared in front of any of her classmates because she didn't allow it.
When Luo Cheng entered school, Luo Zhi had just made his debut as a singer. News broke that he used his family background to bully others on a variety show, which caused a sensation on the entire Internet.
Luo Cheng didn't want anyone to point fingers at her or say that she was Luo Zhi's sister, so she repeatedly emphasized that Luo Zhi was not allowed to appear in front of her classmates.
"The general manager before Huaisheng was also unlucky. How did he end up with something like this?"
The girl opposite was also reading Weibo and sighed: "I remember he seemed to have made his debut. He was handsome and sang very well. His future was ruined by such a scumbag."
The lower bunk doesn’t watch variety shows, so he didn’t know about Luo Zhi’s past. It wasn’t until this trending search that he learned a lesson in the square: “In the video, he looks good. Maybe the negative information about him using his power to bully others in the past was also a frame-up.”
"What a coincidence, he also has a sister named Xiaocheng, the same name as you."
The girl opposite was watching the video. She glanced at Luo Cheng on the upper bunk and dragged the progress bar back and forth a few times: "But she is much more ignorant than you... Even if her brother didn't agree with her entering the entertainment industry, he shouldn't have quarreled on her birthday and even smashed the cake."
"She didn't wish her brother a happy birthday either, did she?" Another roommate joined in the discussion, "Otherwise, there would be no need for Li Weiming to say it again."
"It seems that she was the one who said she wanted to celebrate her brother's birthday and tricked her brother into going to the hotel." The person in the lower bunk also thought so and took over the conversation, "Even if she didn't know, she would probably blame herself a lot..."
Luo Cheng hid on the upper bunk, becoming more and more flustered the more he listened.
She was secretly thankful that these roommates didn't have the habit of watching live broadcasts, nor did they usually chase stars, so they didn't see her and Luo Zhi being blocked at the hotel entrance...but this is not a long-term solution after all.
Luo Cheng subconsciously picked up his phone, opened WeChat and wanted to send a message, but he stared at the dialog box he opened for a long time.
...Why did she click on Luo Zhi’s dialog box?
Why was her first reaction to ask Luo Zhi for help and ask Luo Zhi to help her deal with those live broadcast videos?
Luo Cheng looked at the last message in WeChat. She almost forgot when it was sent... No, she remembered. That day, the whole dormitory couldn't sleep because of the final group assignment. She was so worried that she posted a message on WeChat Moments, and Luo Zhi, who passed by, liked it.
Luo Cheng was already worried and angry, and when he saw Luo Zhi liked the post, he couldn't help it, so he ran to Luo Zhi and had a big tantrum.
He vented and complained for a long time. When his roommate went to get some water, he accidentally saw it and laughed, saying who made the gentle and elegant college student so angry? He must have done something particularly excessive.
Luo Cheng made up an excuse to get away with it, but he also felt a little regretful and apologized to Luo Zhi.
Luo Zhi was so happy about the news that she even thanked her solemnly.
Luo Zhi finally sent it to her, it doesn’t matter, she has a brother.
…
The message stops at this point.
Luo Cheng looked at the message.
She seemed to have suddenly remembered something.
It was something she had deliberately put aside for several days, and she even left home and lived in the school dormitory in order not to think about it.
...On the day the cruise ship crashed, Jian Huaiyi got off the rescue boat, but did not see Luo Jun.
Jian Huaiyi hid in the room and refused to speak no matter how much he was asked. It was not until the end, under his father's questioning, that he was forced to admit that some conflicts had occurred on the ship.
They met Luo Zhi and had a big argument over something. Luo Jun lost control of his temper and pushed him and Luo Zhi.
Luo Jun pushed him and Luo Zhi into the water. He has now been taken away by the police and is being interrogated.
Luo Zhi disappeared in the sea.
"Xiao Cheng saw it too." Jian Huaiyi looked pale and raised his head to look at her, "Didn't he?"
…
Luo Cheng's face turned paler and paler.
She did see it.
She was standing by at the time, watching her elder brother getting angry at Luo Zhi. He pinched Luo Zhi's jaw to force him to look up, but was stopped by Jian Huaiyi.
Her mind was so confused that she didn't dare say anything, so she returned to school from home that night.
Luo Cheng looked at Luo Zhi’s WeChat avatar. She subconsciously wanted to click on it, but then withdrew her hand.
Luo Zhi disappeared in the sea, but she didn't believe anything would happen to her.
Luo Zhi is a good swimmer and stays calm when faced with difficulties. She must have found a way to save herself in that situation.
She actually had the same idea as Ren Chenbai. She didn't think Luo Zhi would be like what her elder brother and the others said... Luo Zhi was always fine and always managed to turn danger into safety, and this time would definitely be the same.
...But why did Ren Chenbai suddenly go crazy and start to take revenge on Li Weiming crazily?
Luo Cheng didn't dare to think about that possibility. She opened the dialog box with Luo Zhi, quickly typed "Where are you", and sent it without thinking.
She waited for a few minutes and found no reply, so she sent a few more messages, briefly talking about things at home.
She told Luo Zhi on WeChat that the family was in chaos. Her father was sick, her eldest brother was punished, Jian Huaiyi was injured in a fight, and she heard that the family business was in serious trouble.
Luo Cheng looked at the messages she had sent that filled up the screen. She bit her lower lip hard and was about to send another message when Ren Chenbai suddenly called again.
Luo Cheng screamed in fright and was about to press the power button in a panic, but the message from Ren Chenbai popped up on the top of the screen at the same time.
Luo Cheng just took a glance and his hands and feet instantly felt cold.
Ren Chenbai reminded her that she had low blood sugar.
Hypoglycemia, coma, Luo Zhi.
Luo Cheng trembled and slowly moved his fingers away.
She didn't dare hang up or turn off the phone. She answered the call, climbed out of bed, and wanted to leave the dormitory to answer it.
"Xiao Cheng." Ren Chenbai's gentle voice came from the phone, "Stay in the dormitory, you can't go out."
Luo Cheng hid his cell phone and walked to the door under the surprised gaze of his roommates, and was frozen by the voice.
"Have you seen the video? I have something to ask you."
Ren Chenbai asked: "Who is your second brother?"
His tone was clearly the same as usual, but it was as if some invisible chill was quietly seeping out, slowly entangling the new prey.
Luo Cheng didn't have the courage to not answer, she timidly said a name, but Ren Chenbai was not satisfied.
"Tell me the whole story. Is this something shameful?" Ren Chenbai said, "Speak louder and tell your roommate."
Ren Chenbai asked patiently: "Who is your second brother? What does he do?"
Luo Cheng's face turned even paler. She turned around stiffly, leaned against the door, and looked at her roommate who was looking at her in surprise.
Ren Chenbai didn't have the patience to give her the question to repeat for the third time.
"My second brother is," Luo Cheng heard himself stuttering, "He is the general manager of Huaisheng Entertainment."
Her roommates didn't understand what was going on and stared at her in amazement. One of them couldn't help but ask, "Luo Zhi? The one in the video?"
"Someone is asking a question." Ren Chenbai heard the voice from the other side and taught her gently, "Answer it."
Luo Cheng opened her mouth, and her voice was tearful: "...Yes."
"I'm at Wanghai Villa, watching the surveillance here, and I saw you brought Luo Zhi to the villa."
Ren Chenbai continued to ask kindly: "Where did you lock him up?"
Luo Cheng's tears welled up in an instant: "Brother Chen Bai, I know I was wrong, please don't do this, I'm scared, Brother Chen Bai..."
"Except Luo Zhi, no one will care whether you are scared or not." Ren Chenbai said, "Luo Cheng, where did you lock Luo Zhi up?"
He said, "Same answer as before. Answer in full."
Luo Cheng didn't dare to say anything this time. He kept his mouth shut and his body trembled continuously.
"Do you want me to post this surveillance video online?" Ren Chenbai's voice came out slowly from the phone, strangling her neck, "Xiao Zhi is not in a good condition in this video. I don't want to post it. He cares a lot about his image."
“No!” Luo Cheng screamed. She couldn’t hold on any longer and sat down exhausted. “I, I locked my second brother in a storage room. I don’t know what it is for. It looks like a storage room…”
"Then you went to have dinner with your family." Ren Chenbai said, "and forgot about him here."
Ren Chenbai said: "I forgot about it for one night."
Luo Cheng was shaking. She fell down in front of her roommates’ incredulous gazes and repeated dully, “Then, I had dinner with my family and forgot about my second brother. I forgot about him for the whole night.”
"Then you showed some kindness and brought him food." Ren Chenbai asked, "Why was the food you brought him all mud?"
Luo Cheng whispered, "It was raining, and I accidentally dropped my rice into the mud."
"Then you let him eat." Ren Chenbai said.
Luo Cheng opened her mouth. She wanted to beg for mercy and wanted to escape from the dormitory at a volume that Ren Chenbai couldn't hear, but she didn't have the courage to do so.
"Tell me." Ren Chenbai said, "Then you left him in that room again until dawn."
Luo Cheng's body was numb, and tears kept falling: "Then I let my second brother eat... Brother Chen Bai, I didn't mean it! It was raining that day, and I was so scared. I didn't dare to move when it got dark..."
"As soon as it gets dark, you don't dare to move."
Ren Chenbai suddenly laughed softly: "Xiao Cheng, do you know whether you escaped during the day or at night after being kidnapped?"
Luo Cheng cried so hard that she couldn't breathe. She wanted to shake her head, but suddenly realized that she actually knew the answer - she was too young at the time, so young that she didn't remember much. But when her family showed her the records of the time and told her how she escaped, they did mention the time.
She ran out in the middle of the night when those people weren't paying attention, and was spotted by the police not far away, so she was sent back home...
"Do you believe it?" Ren Chenbai slowly made up a story, "A four-year-old girl who was afraid to walk after dark was smart, brave, and lucky. She escaped from a group of vicious criminals in the middle of the night and happened to run to the police."
Luo Cheng's body completely froze.
She seemed to be resisting instinctively and didn't want to listen to Chen Bai's words anymore, but she was completely unable to move, so she could only listen to the voice becoming colder and colder as it continued to speak in her ear.
"It's okay to forget. There just happened to be a documentary." Ren Chenbai said, "Don't you really want to go?"
Luo Cheng was gripped by fear. She said in a trembling voice, "I don't want to go anymore, Brother Chen Bai, I don't want to go anymore. I don't want to go at all..."
She suddenly remembered something, and it made her whole body feel as if it was frozen by water colder than the icy sea that day.
…She handed the waiver agreement signed with her name to Ren Chenbai.
As long as you sign the waiver agreement, you must follow the group in isolation throughout the entire process, semi-immersedly witnessing or even personally experiencing all the facts that have happened in the past.
Although he already knew that the chances of being selected were very low, Luo Cheng still held on to a glimmer of hope, fearing that he would miss some opportunity from Director Gong Hanrou and be delayed on the cruise ship and not be able to catch up.
So she signed the agreement in advance and gave it to Ren Chenbai for safekeeping.
She felt confident that she was ready.
"Brother Chen Bai, I don't want to go anymore. I won't go... I'm not strong enough and will be a burden to the crew."
Luo Cheng frantically tried to find an excuse: "The crew will definitely dislike me, I——"
"There's an A-list player, and you'll just be a substitute. We've already negotiated with them." Ren Chenbai said, "The contract has also been sent over..."
"Ren Chenbai! What do you want?" Luo Cheng couldn't sit still and swayed. She curled up her body tightly, avoiding the gazes cast at her in a desperate manner, and cried out in collapse, "I didn't mean to do that! I didn't know that my second brother's condition was so bad. When I saw him in the middle of the night that day, he was still fine-"
Luo Cheng had never faced this problem directly before. It was not until this moment that she was suddenly hit hard by her own words.
…
That night.
Midnight that day, Luo Zhi dragged his right leg and walked slowly into the woods.
Luo Zhi couldn't walk. He had to rest for a long time after taking a few steps. He would not avoid the obstacles in front of him, as if he had lost some of his consciousness.
...are you okay?
How could Luo Zhi, who was like this, survive a shipwreck?
Ren Chenbai didn't ask her this question, but just whispered in her ear through the phone: "We are all going to hell."
There was no sound from Luo Cheng's side.
…
Ren Chenbai hung up the phone.
He was now sitting in what Luo Cheng called the "utility room". Before coming here, he had personally searched every corner of the villa.
He looked for every place where Luo Zhi might be hiding. When going down the stairs, he accidentally stepped on empty air and seemed to have broken his leg. Only then did he realize how painful it was to break a leg.
When he knew that Luo Zhi had broken her leg, he was still satisfied with his plan to lead Luo Zhi back to the Luo family and let Luo Zhi see Mrs. Luo's true face. He was so absorbed in his thoughts that when he looked up from the desk, he saw his mother with a frown on her face and a complicated expression.
That day was the first time his mother punished him. She made him swear that no matter what happened in the future, he would never hurt Little Flame.
Luo Zhi was taken home from the hospital to recuperate. Ren Chenbai hid outside the door and saw his mother sitting in front of Luo Zhi's bed, hugging her and sobbing and saying sorry over and over again.
Ren Chenbai had never seen his mother cry. He didn't know what he had done wrong and stood at the door in panic.
"When you feel sad in the future, run quickly and run far away." The mother held Luo Zhi and said to her over and over again, "Don't worry about your brother, don't take care of him, don't take care of him, remember to run."
Ren Chenbai never asked his mother why she said those words to Luo Zhi.
He was just thinking that Luo Zhi seemed to be really bad at escaping.
Ren Chenbai took the phone and clicked on the sample film sent by Gong Hanrou's crew.
Through interviews with many parties involved and piecing together a large number of clues, we have actually been able to restore part of the scene at that time.
The young actors performed well, but after all, they were children who were brought up with great care, so in the final analysis, there was still a little lack of feeling.
Ren Chenbai looked at the sample film, and he slowly saw seven-year-old Luo Chi, a boy covered in wounds, carrying his sister on his back and stumbling out.
The footsteps behind me were getting closer and closer, and I could already see vague figures, but it was still two minutes before the auxiliary police arrived here for their routine patrol. If this goes on, no one will come and both of them will be caught and beaten to death.
Luo Chi gritted his teeth and put his sister down.
"Don't cry." Luo Chi whispered, "Hide and seek. Xiaocheng, hide and seek."
The deserted, remote alley was so dark that it was frightening. His sister was so frightened that she dared not move. Her face was full of tears, and her soft little hands tightly grasped his fingers.
Luo Chi pulled his hand out little by little.
He no longer looked up, but just tore off his sister's coat, picked up some fallen leaves from the side of the road, wrapped them in the coat, held them in his arms, turned around and ran into another alley illuminated by street lights.
Those people caught up with him and found that he was holding a bunch of fallen leaves in his arms. They were furious and slapped him hard to the ground.
Amid the falling fists and kicks, Luo Chi curled up his body to protect his head and neck, and the clothes.
"It doesn't matter." Luo Chi said, "It doesn't matter."
He was swallowed by the sharp ringing in his ears, and drowsily protected the fallen leaves: "I have a brother."
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