rebirth retreat

When Gu Jie found Zeng Kai, it was already dark in City A.He sat alone in the temporarily rented hut, drinking wine leisurely and contentedly, while sending fried peanuts to his mouth.On the seat opposite him, an empty cup was upside down, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

Looking at the wine bottle at Zeng Kai's feet, Gu Jie snorted coldly: "You are quite leisurely."

Zeng Kai threw a peanut into his mouth, and said with a smile, "It's not me who had the accident, of course I'm taking it easy."

Gu Jie leaned against the door, took out a cigarette, lit it, put it to her mouth and took a deep breath, squinted her eyes and asked, "You know?"

Zeng Kai pointed to the opposite side and said, "Sit down and chat."

Gu Jie sat down opposite him, and said coldly: "I said before, if something happens to me, you don't want to be alone."

Zeng Kai turned over the upside-down glass in front of her, picked up the wine at his feet, filled it up, and said, "If you had listened to me and killed them both, today's situation would not have happened. thing."

"So, you're blaming me now instead?" Gu Jie laughed, shook the cigarette ash, and said, "Killing people will pay for their lives, and I don't want to be imprisoned for the rest of my life because of you, Director Zeng. "

"Oh? This time, do you think you can only be locked up for two or three years like before?" Zeng Kai raised his finger and said, "It seems that you still don't know Yan Dongting well enough."

After hearing this, Gu Jie smiled instead of anger, and said, "If I tell him you are here, do you think he will let me go?"

Zeng Kai asked: "Why, are you afraid?"

Gu Jie asked back: "Aren't you afraid?"

Zeng Kai laughed and said, "I'm afraid, I'm not afraid, I won't be here waiting for you to drink with me."

The brief confrontation, the temptation to hide the words in the words, shows that the two people don't trust each other.

Gu Jie looked down at the liquid that was still bubbling in front of her, "You knew I would come?"

As if to reassure her, Zeng Kai filled his own glass, touched her spontaneously, took two sips, and said, "Of course, you don't seem like the kind of person who would easily catch you without a fight."

Gu Jie hooked her lips, picked up the wine in front of her, and said, "Director Zeng really knows me very well."

"How to put it, we are also comrades in arms who share weal and woe." Although Zeng Kai was smiling, there was no trace of a smile in his eyes.

Sharing weal and woe?These four words sounded extremely ironic from his mouth.Gu Jie looked at her with a half-smile, not intending to answer.

Zeng Kai asked again: "In this situation, what are you going to do?"

Gu Jie took a sip of the wine in her glass and said, "You will prepare the wine here and wait for me, which means you have a countermeasure in mind, doesn't it? Why don't you tell me your countermeasure and let me see if it works? .”

"It's very simple." Zeng Kai's eyes turned cold again, "As long as you can call Gu Liuguang out, I can turn everything around."

"Oh?" Gu Jie asked, "You still want to kill them both?"

"At this moment, are you still thinking about your so-called 'mother-child relationship'?" Zeng Kai laughed softly, shook his head and sighed: "Women, you can't make big things because you are too soft-hearted. "

"Your method is chosen by people who have nowhere to go." Gu Jie said, pressing the burnt cigarette on the table casually.

"Desperate? Who is the desperate person now?" Zeng Kai laughed out loud as if he had heard some funny joke. "I believe that within a day, the police will find you there. By then, it will be too late for you to regret it."

Gu Jie was silent for a while, then suddenly raised her head and drank the wine in the glass, slapped the glass on the table forcefully, gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, what is the specific plan, tell me."

Seeing that her wine glass was empty, Zeng Kai filled it up for her again, and said, "Don't worry, before I tell you the plan, I want to ask you a question."

It's really long-winded.Gu Jie secretly thought, lit another cigarette, frowned and asked impatiently, "What's the problem?"

"Is there something you're hiding from me?" Zeng Kai looked up at her and asked, that cold gaze was like a ray of light piercing through her chest, as if he had seen everything in her heart.

Gu Jie felt extremely uncomfortable being watched by him, she pretended not to understand and asked, "What can I hide from you?"

"No?" Zeng Kai laughed, "So where did you go yesterday morning?"

Gu Jie's heart suddenly trembled, her hand unconsciously clenched the cigarette tightly, she narrowed her eyes and said, "You follow me."

"Who is that student? Why did you go to him and give him money?" Zeng Kai asked bluntly.

Gu Jie leaned on the back of the chair, crossed her legs, and said with a smile: "He is a 'chess piece' I arranged beside Liu Guang. It is because of him that I can easily get close to my precious son. All of this." When she spoke, she deliberately emphasized the word "chess piece".

"Chess piece?" Zeng Kai raised his eyebrows, "But I saw with my own eyes yesterday that your 'chess piece' is inseparable from Yan Dongting. Kiss me. Tell me, is he arranged by you next to Gu Liuguang? Your 'chess piece', or the 'chess piece' arranged by Yan Dongting by your side?"

Gu Jie's heart beat hard.She didn't expect that Zeng Kai would even discover this.So what about the secret?Did he know it too?Or……

Taking a deep breath, Gu Jie pretended to be calm and said: "I asked him to seduce Yan Dongting. Don't forget that my plan is to make them betray each other."

"Oh? Really?" Zeng Kai laughed, "Then Yan Dongting gave up on Gu Liuguang and found a new love?"

Gu Jie said: "Who knows how long the freshness of that surnamed Yan will last?" Suddenly, she felt the things in front of her shake and become blurred.Aware of this change, the ash in her hand flicked and fell onto her fingers, and the scalding temperature immediately brought her back to her senses.

She stood up abruptly and said, "I'm going back!" However, just as she took a step, she felt dizzy in her head, became unstable, and collapsed on the ground.

The ground was extremely cold, and she tried to stand up with support several times, but to no avail.

"You, you put something in the wine!" Trying to stay awake, she looked in Zeng Kai's direction and asked, "You drank too, why, why did you..."

Zeng Kai took another sip of the wine in the glass, admiring her continuous struggle, and smiled happily: "Because, the problem is not the wine, but the glass."

"You—" Gu Jie was startled and angry, regretting that she had accidentally caught this man's words, "What did you do to the cup?!"

Zeng Kai put down the cup, stood up and walked in front of her, squatted down, pinched her neck firmly, and said, "Do you really want to know?"

Gu Jie really wanted to answer his words, but her throat was tightly held by him, and the strength in her body disappeared more quickly. She only felt that her eyelids were getting heavier and her consciousness was getting more and more blurred.The remaining consciousness in her mind kept telling her—get up quickly!Quickly break free from the restraints and escape from this person who is more terrifying than her!

"But I think you want to know another thing more than this." Zeng Kai said with a smile, and suddenly let go of his hand.

Gu Jie collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.

Taking the cushion from the chair, Zeng Kai leaned close to her ear and whispered, "You know, after you said that to that little thing, she had a heart attack, but she didn't die. Yes I sent her off for the last time. It was also me who put the photo in her hand."

Gu Jie's pupils shrank suddenly, and then slowly spread out.

"You—you—" She was trembling all over.

Zeng Kai grabbed her hair and forced her to look up.Appreciating her old-fashioned but still pretty face, Zeng Kai asked with a smile, "Do you know what I did back then?" Suddenly, he suppressed his smile, and moved his hands: " like this--"

The rental house was filled with a faint smell of alcohol, a faint aftertaste of cigarettes, and a deathly silence.

Throwing the cushion in his hand aside, Zeng Kai checked the heartbeat of the person on the ground, and after confirming that she was completely unconscious, he began to search her body.When he touched the pocket of his coat, he paused, and found something from inside.

It was a small recorder.

"Bitch." He guessed that this woman wouldn't come empty-handed, but he didn't expect that she actually hid something!

Zeng Kai stood up, pressed the stop button, and then deleted all the conversations she recorded just now, and threw them into the wine glass.After confirming that the recorder was completely soaked in liquid, he picked up the wine bottle on the ground and poured all the wine on her.

The strong smell of alcohol instantly filled the whole room, so heavy that it made people feel a little sick.

Throwing the empty wine bottle aside, Zeng Kai snorted coldly, turned around and opened the door, and left his rented house.

In the dark basement, Li Yiran curled up in a corner, her body was constantly shivering from hunger and cold.She didn't know how long she had been in this place, nor how many days she hadn't eaten, she only knew that she hated, hated, and... wanted to die.

Locked in this dark place, her hands were tied, her feet were chained, and there wasn't even a single sharp object in the house, so she couldn't escape at all.Every day, every minute, every second, she hoped that someone would find her disappearance, find this place, and rescue her.

But how is this possible?How many people in this world still remember the name "Li Yiran"?

Suddenly, there was a soft sound next to his ear, and Li Yiran trembled all over, trembling even harder.She recognized the voice!This is the sound of the woman opening the door!Is she here again!Has she come to humiliate her again!

In the darkness, Li Yiran's expression suddenly became extremely ferocious.

The dazzling light suddenly came on, and Li Yiran couldn't stand the sudden light, so she immediately turned her head aside and closed her eyes tightly.

The sound of footsteps came towards her from the door. For some reason, every time the footsteps got closer, she became more frightened.Suddenly, the footsteps stopped, and she felt a shadow cast on her body with a slight chill.

It seems that it is a little different from before?

Li Yiran turned her head cautiously, opened her eyes, and looked at the person squatting in front of her.

It was a man with disheveled hair, a beard, rough skin and a cold face.She widened her eyes suddenly, and said something to the man.

The man laughed, and while removing the thing stuffed in her mouth for her, he said meaningfully: "I can't believe it, so you are the watchdog she said, Miss Li Yiran."

With his mouth free, Li Yiran said in shock, "How could it be you!"

This man is none other than Zeng Kai.

"It's me." Zeng Kai raised his eyebrows and said, "What, is it an accident?"

Li Yiran was terrified: "You, you are also with Gu Liuguang and that woman?!"

"Oh? That woman told you, did she and Gu Liuguang belong together?" Zeng Kai raised his head, looked at the posters plastered all over the wall, and asked meaningfully.

"She's a female cousin!" Speaking of Gu Jie, Li Yiran became a little hysterical, "She locked me here just to avenge me for Gu Liuguang! And Yan Dongting! They all deserve to die!"

A plan suddenly flashed in his mind, Zeng Kai took out the pocket knife he carried with him, waved it in front of her, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to take revenge on them? I can let you go, or I can help you again."

Li Yiran shrank back, looked at him suspiciously, and said, "You... how do I know if you will lie to me this time?"

"Then you want to stay here?" Zeng Kai said, making a gesture to put away the knife.Li Yiran hurriedly said: "No! Don't! I believe in you, please save me!"

"If I save you, how are you going to repay me?" Zeng Kai asked.

Li Yiran said resolutely: "You saved me and you are my benefactor. From now on, I will do whatever you ask me to do. There will be absolutely no hesitation!"

Zeng Kai stroked her face lightly with a knife, and said, "If you dare to betray me, I will let you know the consequences."

Li Yiran's face turned pale, and she hurriedly expressed her position: "I will never betray you! Really! I didn't reveal a single word you taught me in Cuipingshan Film and Television Base back then! I didn't tell anyone either. You appeared there! Please believe me!"

"Very good." Zeng Kai nodded with satisfaction, "Your loyalty gave you a chance to survive."

After finishing speaking, he cut the rope on Li Yiran's body forcefully, and loosened the chains on her feet.Both hands and feet were liberated, and Li Yiran was so excited that she was about to cry.God!Someone really came to save her, and she could finally leave this ghostly place!

"Can you walk by yourself?" Zeng Kai asked.

Li Yiran tried to move her hands and feet, wanting to stand up from the ground, but found that her hands and feet had already been numb to the point of losing consciousness, and she couldn't move at all.

Zeng Kai helped her up from the ground.With Zeng Kai's strength, Li Yiran moved out bit by bit.But when she was about to approach the basement exit, she stopped suddenly.

"Wait!" she said.

"What? Are you reluctant to leave?" Zeng Kai asked.

Li Yiran stretched out her hand towards him, and said, "Lend me your knife."

Zeng Kai raised his eyebrows, took out the knife, and handed it to her.Li Yiran got the knife, immediately broke free from Zeng Kai's hand, threw herself in front of the poster on the wall, raised her hand and frantically scratched at the face of the handsome man in the poster.

"Actor? Bitch son of a bitch! You don't deserve it at all!!"

Zeng Kai looked at this scene, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

After scratching all the posters on the wall beyond recognition, Li Yiran staggered back to Zeng Kai's side.

She said, "Let's go."

Zeng Kai took out something, wiped it on the light switch, supported Li Yiran again, and walked outside with her without closing the door.

After leaving that room completely, Li Yiran let out a long breath and asked, "Where are we going now?"

"Didn't you say you want to take revenge on those three people?" Zeng Kai said, "Look forward to it, I have prepared a very good gift for you, and you will be very happy to see her."

The night is indeed very long, and - full of all kinds of unknowns.