Ren Chenbai smoked two cigarettes on the rooftop.
He just left the phone there because Ren Chenbai knew this girl who was spoiled by the Luo family very well.
Luo Cheng wouldn't have the courage to admit it.
...What does it mean if you admit it?
This means that when Luo Cheng left, he knew that Luo Zhi's condition was not right, but he did not contact the doctors or nurses and did not tell anyone.
This shows that the well-behaved and sensible jewel in the Luo family is actually capable of doing such chilling things. Everyone has to get to know her in a new way and know that she has this side.
This shows that Miss Luo, who is about to debut as a big star, actually has such fatal dark material that can ruin her entire person once it is exposed.
The Luo family's selfish and cold-blooded nature, which was probably inherited or due to their upbringing, was of course fully displayed at this time.
On Luo Cheng's scale, there has never been even the smallest position belonging to Luo Zhi.
When Luo Cheng heard Ren Chenbai asking about this, he would be scared to death, nervous and terrified, and would have countless concerns.
Afraid of having one's shameful thoughts exposed, afraid of being pointed at, afraid of having one's image completely ruined...
The only thing she didn't think about was whether Luo Zhi's physical condition would worsen and whether Luo Zhi would be in danger if time went on any longer.
If Ren Chenbai really believed her as she said on the phone, he would come back later.
Will Luo Zhi die?
…
This is really ridiculous.
Ren Chenbai returned to the ward from the rooftop, and his cell phone was still lying quietly beside Luo Zhi's pillow.
No missed calls, no messages.
However, the doctor on duty who came to check on the ward mentioned it in a somewhat puzzled tone, saying that a phone call from a hidden number had come into the reception desk two minutes ago. The caller hurriedly asked about the situation in Ward 1503, but hung up without saying anything clearly.
Ren Chenbai glanced at Luo Zhi’s ward number.
He suddenly became interested and turned on the recording function on his phone: "If we come to check now, can the person still be saved?"
The doctor on duty had just finished the examination and was stunned for a moment, then looked at Luo Zhi hesitantly.
He didn't know why Mr. Ren suddenly asked this, and he struggled to choose his words: "That's hard to say..."
Ren Chenbai said for him: "It's probably too late."
The doctor on duty had never been so straightforward before. He choked for a long time before he could only admit the truth: "Yes."
Ren Chenbai nodded and put away his phone with satisfaction.
After the doctor left, the ward became quiet again, with only the beeping sounds of the instruments running as usual.
Luo Zhijing was lying on the hospital bed.
It seemed like he hadn't moved since Ren Chenbai left the house, or maybe he had been lying there quietly since Ren Chenbai and Luo Cheng had been talking on the phone.
Ren Chenbai was not in a hurry to speak. He lowered his head and operated on his mobile phone, saving the recording, changing the file name to "387", and then saving it in a special folder.
The more than 300 materials saved in the folder were all materials agreed to be provided to Director Gong Hanrou.
Luo Cheng's understanding was not comprehensive enough. The reason why this documentary became popular before it was aired was that it not only reproduced the experiences of the victims of trafficking during that period.
For victims who are willing to face the camera, the producers will delve into every detail, continue to track their lives after being rescued, and unearth those buried truths.
The planning for the documentary started very early, and the source of inspiration was a story that Ren Chenbai's mother once told Director Gong.
The protagonist of the story is a boy named "Little Flame". After being missing for three years, he returns and finds that there is no place for him in his home anymore.
"Flame" was originally supposed to be the first unit of the documentary. Because Ren's mother passed away unexpectedly, Director Gong was unable to get over the sadness brought about by his friend's untimely death, which is why the project has been shelved until now.
Now Luo Cheng actually wants to fight for the role in the scene reproduction part of "Flame".
Ren Chenbai found it very interesting just thinking about it.
If this unit was really filmed in its entirety, it would be more than just a matter of shame for the Luo family.
How would the head of the Luo family react?
Luo Zhi would probably be skinned alive.
After all, not everyone has the ability to face guilt. There are always people who distort it with resistance, indifference, self-deception, or even hatred.
Who can bear to face the truth that hurts people?
...Just like Luo Zhi clearly killed his mother, but always acted as if nothing had happened and even dared to make snacks for him.
Ren Chenbai put down his phone and his eyes fell on Luo Zhi.
Before he could hide the coldness in his eyes, Luo Zhi seemed to have noticed something and suddenly opened his eyes.
Because he had really no strength, his thick eyelashes fluttered slightly twice before finally opening slowly.
There seemed to be a layer of fog in those eyes, the pupils were a little scattered, without a focus, and a pure black as clean as if washed with water.
Ren Chenbai frowned unconsciously.
Luo Zhi identified it for a while before speaking softly, "Brother Chen Bai?"
He didn't speak for a long time. Maybe his throat was injured when the breathing tube was inserted, and his voice was a little hoarse when he spoke.
It reminds people of sea water that has been boiled for too long and no longer has its original clarity and transparency. After the misty water vapor dissipates, only salty, rough, dark crystals remain.
"Why do you hate me so much?" Luo Zhi seemed to be asking him, but also seemed to be asking herself, "Did I do anything particularly excessive?"
Ren Chenbai laughed sarcastically.
He laughed in a low, cold voice: "You ask me? Luo Zhi, you ask me?"
Luo Zhi was not too surprised by this answer.
After a few people left, he was alone in the ward, watching the vision gradually darken.
The sound of heartbeat gradually engulfs everything, and finally even those rapid and irregular heartbeats weaken. When everything returns to silence, the experience of time will be stretched to infinity.
In those few seconds that seemed infinitely long, Luo Zhi was thinking about two things.
The first question is what kind of feelings Xiaocheng still has for him.
The second question is why Ren Chenbai hates him.
Ren Chenbai helped him answer the first question very clearly and thoroughly, perhaps with the intention of making him feel sad, desperate, or in agony because of the truth.
Luo Zhi had to admit that during the time when Ren Chenbai put down his phone and left the ward, the phone, which had been silent all the time, was indeed like a cold iron hammer.
He hit his bones slowly and steadily, one after another. After that, he changed to using a freezing cold icicle to pierce into his bone marrow.
It doesn’t hurt, or maybe he can no longer remember the feeling of “pain”.
It was more of a bone-numbing coldness that was so extreme that the dense white frost could cut through human skin and flesh.
...As for the second question, this is how Ren Chenbai in the hallucination answered the moment his vision completely darkened.
The reason why she could guess so accurately was probably because Luo Zhi knew Ren Chenbai too well.
He grew up with Ren Chenbai and spent a considerable portion of that rare and warm experience watching Ren Chenbai. He used his memories of the Ren family to build a solid armor for himself bit by bit.
It’s not the first day that the Luo family didn’t want him.
Luo Zhi had beaten Jian Huaiyi because of this matter, and had contradicted his elder brother, father and even Mrs. Luo because of this matter, but he had never been so scared or desperate because of this matter.
Because he has always been confident.
He always knew that it didn't matter even if the Luo family didn't want him.
Because he also has -
"By the way." Ren Chenbai suddenly said, "What were you looking at when we came here last time?"
Luo Zhi stopped thinking and raised his eyes.
Ren Chenbai has returned to his usual self. The coldness is gone, but he seems to be lurking under his gentle appearance, ready to prey on anyone at any time.
Ren Chenbai seemed to be very interested in torturing him in this way... Just like the summer when he was a child, Luo Zhi sat under a big locust tree, holding a bowl of brown sugar jelly that was so cold that steam was coming out of the bowl wall, watching Ren Chenbai play chess with the opponent who came to challenge him.
Although he could win in just a few moves, Ren Chenbai always liked to go around in circles, letting his opponent seize a glimmer of hope, and then he would destroy that hope with his own hands.
Little Luozhi always forgets to eat ice jelly.
He looked at Ren Chenbai, who was still a teenager, in front of the chessboard with fascination, his eyes calm and confident of victory, tapping the chess pieces gently one after another.
The chess piece was dropped by Ren Chenbai onto the chessboard, making a crisp sound.
The power of life and death.
"…A photo of your car?"
Ren Chenbai said: "No need to look at it."
Ren Chenbai said: "It was too badly damaged and was directly taken away for destruction."
Luo Zhi seemed not to understand what he said and frowned slightly.
Ren Chenbai took the shirt that was hanging beside him, searched in his pocket, pulled out a crumpled certificate of destruction, and placed it in front of Luo Zhi.
In fact, Ren Chenbai has been investigating why Luo Zhi treasures his car so much.
He loves his car so much that he won't allow anyone to touch it even a little. He even modified the interior of the car. If he doesn't want to go home and is not working overtime, he will sleep in the car alone.
Luo Zhi kept this matter a secret, and neither Ren Chenbai nor Jian Huaiyi found out any information about it. Jian Huaiyi was just planning to tamper with Luo Zhi's car, but before he could even carry out the plan, Luo Zhi somehow found out about it, and on the night of the birthday party, she blocked him in the car and beat him to death.
Luo Zhi slowly sat up and reached out to take the vehicle destruction certificate.
He went in the wrong direction the first time, and his fingertips moved before he reached the receipt. He picked it up and read it carefully word by word.
"...Brother Chen Bai." Luo Zhi said, "You called the police not to save me, but to destroy my car."
Ren Chenbai originally wanted to let him know about this, so he didn't hide it. He nodded and said, "I really didn't expect that you would play critical illness with me so easily."
In fact, Ren Chenbai was just like everyone else, thinking that Luo Zhi just had a fever and fainted in the car, so he didn't take it too seriously.
It was not until Luo Zhi was dragged out and put into the ambulance that we realized how dangerous the situation was.
Luo Zhi didn't know whether she was listening or not. She said "hmm" softly and looked at the receipt again.
The exploding tinnitus penetrated his mind, just like the particularly loud sound that startled him when he excitedly climbed into the car for the first time and honked the horn.
Everything in front of my eyes became distorted, spinning fast and slow, turning into blurred blocks of color.
“…Don’t be afraid.”
"Don't be afraid, little flame."
"Luo doesn't like you, but we don't like him even more!"
"Auntie will give you a car. When you grow up, you can drive it around the world and go wherever you want."
"We'll live in the car from now on. This time, no one will be able to drive our little flame out."
"If you're scared, sad, or homesick, just hide in your car."
"Good, the sturdiest car, it won't break down in a hundred years."
…
Luo Zhi has always known that it doesn’t matter even if the Luo family doesn’t want him.
Because he also has a home.
His home is that car. If there is no place for him in this world, that is the last place he can escape to.
"Why?" Luo Zhi asked softly, "To make me more desperate?"
Ren Chenbai did not deny it, so this is the correct answer.
Luo Zhi nodded.
He said something that he himself could not hear, and the block of color representing Ren Chenbai suddenly stood up and grabbed his collar tightly.
He had severe tinnitus and couldn't hear what Ren Chenbai was saying. He could only sense that Ren Chenbai was probably crazy.
The hands trembled violently and shook him hard.
But it didn’t matter, everything in front of his eyes was already spinning, and he wouldn’t get any more dizzy anyway.
Luo Zhi's face was so pale that it looked like he would disappear at any time. He narrowed his eyes, smiled obediently, and repeated what he had just said.
"Brother Chen Bai, that's Aunt Ren's relic."
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