LIGHTNOVELONLINE 215. Socially Dead Yang Ming
“Silence!”
Accompanied by these words from the presiding judge, the people in the auditorium seats slowly stopped whispering to each other and silently turned their gazes towards Su Qi in the plaintiff’s seat.
At this moment, seeing the arrival of the judges, Su Qi lifted her green hood.
Lawyer Lin Zi looked on with interest. Su Qi’s shoulder-length hair made her entire person look a bit playful.
Perhaps due to nervousness, she subconsciously bit her lower lip with her front teeth. Lawyer Lin Zi beside her saw that red lip, because of this action, become crystal-like and rosy.
Even a rational lawyer like herself was attracted for a moment.
Looking at the oblivious Su Qi, Lin Zi silently said, no wonder An Ning always says she is a charming little enchantress.
Imperceptibly moving two steps in her direction, slightly leaning over, she said in Su Qi’s ear, “Don’t be afraid, I’ll take care of everything.”
Hearing these words, Su Qi calmed down quite a bit.
At this time, the back door of the courtroom was also opened. The defendant Yang Ming father and son, wearing white prison uniforms, were respectively suppressed to the defendant’s seat by two police officers.
When Yang Daming saw Wang Dahua, he froze. Why did this woman come? Isn’t this sending herself?
Then he saw Wang Dahua give him a calming look, so Yang Daming became even more panicked.
He knew his wife’s temperament very well. To be honest, it had a bit of an arrogant and domineering flavor, but lacked a few points of consideration. Yang Daming didn’t believe that the opponent he couldn’t beat wouldn’t be a match for his wife.
But now that it had already reached the court, the evidence had been submitted a few days ago, it was a situation where the arrow was on the string and had to be released. Yang Daming glanced at the gold-rimmed glasses wearing lawyer beside her. It seemed he could only pin his hopes on him.
“All rise!”
Accompanied by these words from the presiding judge, everyone in the room stood up. Because of standing up, Su Qi could feel more staring gazes, making the socially anxious Su Qi not have the courage to raise her head at all.
Although Lawyer Lin Zi had experienced many storms and was used to everyone’s gazes, today the gazes of this group of spectators were indeed a bit scorching.
At this time, the judge briefly stated the cause of the case. Only after the presiding judge said “be seated” did everyone sit down one after another.
After being seated, Lawyer Lin Zi beside Su Qi turned on the microphone and read out the prepared indictment:
“On May 14, 2021, at 3 PM, on the 8th floor of the Su University teaching building, Yang Ming attempted to force himself on my client. Although unsuccessful, it caused multiple abrasions on my client’s body. According to the provisions of Article 236 of the law, due to Yang Ming’s actions, it can be defined as a serious circumstance…”
Hearing this, the spectators looked at Yang Ming with some anger. After all, forcing oneself on a woman has always made people feel despicable.
Not to mention the target was a girl who looked soft, cute and lovely at a glance. How much psychological trauma would this cause her? People’s gazes towards Su Qi became even gentler.
At this time, Lawyer Lin Zi continued, “On May 20, 2021, according to the confession of the evil force ‘Wang Biao’ caught by the police, Yang Daming spent 1 million to hire his team to threaten the client and her relatives and friends, with an extremely bad attitude. Afterward, he bribed Su City personnel xxxxx, a total of 12 people, to eliminate the impact and surveillance video at that time. The total amount of bribes exceeded 5 million. According to the provisions of Article 391 of the Criminal Law, it is a serious circumstance.”
Lawyer Lin Zi’s voice was extremely clear and solemn. Every word made everyone in the entire courtroom hear very clearly.
When they heard that Yang Daming bribed officials several million, everyone was stunned.
“In view of the serious circumstances of Yang Ming father and son, they should be sentenced to ten years in prison.” Lawyer Lin Zi finally summarized and issued a conclusion.
When Su Qi heard Lin Zi say ten years, she was a bit surprised. Was it this serious?
Little did she know, this was a negotiation tactic. Were Yang Ming father and son’s circumstances serious? Serious, but not serious enough to directly receive the highest level of punishment.
Here, first raise the price to the highest. It’s not good to haggle later, right? Moreover, shouldn’t she do what she should to add benefits for the plaintiff?
The judge, seeing that the plaintiff had finished stating, said to the row of people in the defendant’s seat,
“The defense may present evidence!”
The gold-rimmed glasses man pushed his glasses. To be honest, he was under a lot of pressure now. He also knew he wasn’t in the right, but Wang Dahua gave too much.
Sensing the angry gazes of the people in the auditorium seats behind him, he lightly coughed twice and said, “Our side has found out through investigation that the plaintiff is a manga artist and independently produced the game ‘Flowers Bloom in the Demon Seed’. In order to collect material, she cross-dressed and attended Su University for two years. And according to my client’s description, at that time it was to collect material for the plaintiff that he took such actions. It was the result of discussion between the two parties. So this is a false accusation directed and acted by the plaintiff.”
Hearing the gold-rimmed glasses lawyer’s statement, the people in the auditorium seats all glanced at Yang Ming in prison uniform. Isn’t this blatantly lying? If acting, why not find roommates who live together day and night.
However, although everyone knew it was a lie, it was precisely this kind of muddling that could make the circumstances lighter when both sides held their own opinions. Then they heard that lawyer continue, “According to our investigation, we found that the game produced by the plaintiff is sold on an overseas website called stmmm, and has now sold over 30,000 copies. Does the plaintiff admit it?” After the gold-rimmed glasses man finished speaking, he pushed his glasses and looked at Lin Zi in the plaintiff’s seat.
Of course Lin Zi knew about Su Qi’s dark history and had done research on it. She replied, “Our side believes the argument should closely revolve around the dispute focus of the case. As for the topic raised by the defendant, it is a minor detail irrelevant to the main theme of the case. Our side refuses to answer.”
Of course, the gold-rimmed glasses man couldn’t let go of this opportunity. He tried his best to link game production with the attempted incident. Because only in this way could Yang Ming’s sentencing punishment be reduced.
The two conversed meticulously for ten minutes. Listening to the two’s serious and well-founded dialogue going in circles,
Su Qi had a feeling of ominous premonition. Going around and around, it was about to make her dizzy.
She just felt that perhaps this was the charm of language!
In the end, the judge still ruled that these two matters were related. The reason was that Su Qi cross-dressing as a man in school could indeed be considered a “criminal record” of collecting material. What the defendant said indeed had the possibility of occurring.
“The plaintiff may refute.” The judge looked at Lawyer Lin Zi and said.
Lin Zi met the gold-rimmed glasses man’s gaze and unhurriedly took out a USB drive, saying, “I have the school’s video of that day here.”
The gold-rimmed glasses man looked at Wang Dahua in shock, because she had repeatedly assured him that the school video had been destroyed.
In fact, the video that day was indeed destroyed by Wang Dahua. But before that, Su University Principal Lin Sidong already had a backup in his phone. It was secretly handed to her two days ago.
So, the projection screen quickly showed the image of that day.
Seeing the staggering Su Qi slowly supporting herself on the stairs, anyone could see that this was not some “collecting material”, but complete and utter violence. As the footage progressed bit by bit,
The originally quiet Yang Ming suddenly started struggling. The two police officers beside him hurried to subdue him. Because he knew what was coming in the footage.
But as soon as he wanted to shout, the police officer behind him stuffed a towel in his mouth.
Just at this moment, the footage switched to the infirmary. The defendant was seen taking off his only cover. Although a mosaic was blocking it, the outline of that little earthworm could still be vaguely seen.
Yang Ming powerlessly knelt on the ground at this time, feeling the contemptuous gazes and “tsk-tsk” looks coming from all around.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that being sentenced for a few years didn’t matter anymore.
Because in a sense, he was already dead.