Xiang Yuan smiled, he understood her aning. He suppressed a sigh and said, "Don’t worry, I’m not punishing myself, I’m actually just doing what I want to do."
"You understand, in the legal profession, sotis it’s not always up to you. No one dares to guarantee that what they defend is always justice. Even during courtroom debates, the first principle isn’t so-called fairness, but to protect the client’s rights. And the client themselves might be utterly immoral..."
"So sotis I would rather lose. In the past, I was always eager to win, but now, perhaps after growing a bit older and experiencing more, I find more peace of mind in balancing gains and losses."
After Xiang Yuan spoke, he smiled and gently pressed Shi Nian’s shoulder: "In the past, it was for you, to show you my feelings. But now, it’s for myself."
Shi Nian finally could smile with relief.
"A Yuan, you’ve finally ’moved on’."
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Despite Xiang Yuan’s subtle efforts, he couldn’t go too far in court, so the trial situation remained sowhat unclear due to the lack of strong witnesses and direct testimony.
At that mont, Tang Yanxi suddenly turned her head to look back, and Shi Nian followed her gaze.
The door opened, and Tang Yanqing walked in first, sitting at a distance and then winking with a mischievous smile.
Shi Nian didn’t know what he was so pleased about, but then the door opened again, and the person who ca in next made Shi Nian widen her eyes.
Jamie.
Shi Nian’s heart couldn’t help but beat fiercely.
Objectively speaking, today was George’s trial, and as a brother and representative of the Ford family, Jamie should naturally co to observe.
But if he was only here to observe for that reason, then his appearance was aningless.
Shi Nian couldn’t help but feel that since Jamie and Tang Yanqing ca in one after the other, and with Tang Yanqing’s sly look, it ant Jamie’s appearance might have sothing to do with Tang Yanqing!
The situation could beco completely different.
Sure enough, after Tang Yanqing sat down, he buried his head in texting. Imdiately, An Cheng on the prosecutor’s side grabbed his phone, glanced at it, and stood up: "Your Honor, we request to add a witness."
Shi Nian’s heart suddenly brightened.
She couldn’t help but look back, staring hard at Tang Yanqing, wanting to smile, but her eyes filled with tears.
This was the man she loved. Cunning and ticulous during conflicts, yet open-hearted when it was ti to bring clarity to an opponent, and doing everything possible to bring the true criminal to justice, sparing no effort and holding no grudges.
He received her expression completely and steadily.
Through the crowd, he looked at her with a smile and mouthed, "Do you love ?"
Shi Nian blushed deeply. This bastard, when he was smug, he didn’t care about the occasion, nor did he take anyone else seriously.
She lowered her gaze, her eyelashes trembling, but eventually, she still raised her eyes toward his direction with a blushing face, nodding briefly.
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In the courtroom, seeing Jamie walk in and sit on the witness stand for the prosecution, George beca uncontrollably agitated.
He kept urging Xiang Yuan below: "Object, you should object imdiately!"
Xiang Yuan sneered: "What should I object to? At least we should hear what he has to say. If it’s really wrong, it’s not too late to object then."
George flared up in anger: "Xiang Yuan, you’re fired!"
Xiang Yuan shrugged indifferently: "I’m fired? George, it’s not you who hired , nor is it you who pays my salary."
George crazily stood up and shouted at the judge: "I do not agree with him testifying! Your Honor, surely you’ve heard about the discord between brothers. So now, as a prosecution witness, his testimony is to hurt !"
Jamie smiled: "As a witness, I will swear in court. If I break my oath and provide false testimony, there will naturally be legal punishnt. Brother, don’t be so agitated, or the jurors might see you as guilty."
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The judge allowed Jamie to speak.
An Cheng first asked, "In the collaboration between George and the Marina family, what role did you play?"
Jamie’s gaze swept over Tang Yanqing, then he shrugged: "The focus of your debate just now is that there was no direct actor. Now I’m here; I’m the direct actor. At that ti, George was tightly controlled by Huangfu Hua. Thus, I was his agent, conducting all etings and interactions with the Marina family myself."
Jamie revealed how the two brothers conspired to seize back the Fude Group through market fluctuations, and that the massive funds ca from collaboration with the Marina family...
Jamie sighed: "But I must explain, I was just helping my brother out of goodwill. I didn’t know what the business they spoke of involved. Your Honor and jury should understand, mafias have their own codes, and they used code words for drugs and girls. I just said the code words as they were and didn’t know their true anings until the police explained them later."
"I personally do not agree with my brother’s thod, so I ca forward to testify when I learned of it."
An Cheng quickly added, "Before Jamie agreed to testify, we had already granted him immunity."
Jamie smiled, his gaze resting on George’s ashen face, and slowly said: "My dearest brother, we are siblings. It’s fine to make do things for you, but you can’t use like that. How can you make do criminal things for you and then brazenly claim innocence in court? You want to take the fall for you while you reap the benefits, is that it?"
Saying this, he took out all the audio-visual materials secretly recorded during etings with the Marina family with an almost innocent expression.
The jury eventually announced George’s guilt.
George lost his composure and shouted in court: "Jamie, you’re taking revenge on ! How cruel you are, how can you face Mom?"
Jamie gave a sorrowful smile: "For Mom or for you, I have no guilt in my heart. If you ask, I should ask: did Mom and you treat fairly?"
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After the court ruling, Jamie walked away decisively.
He ignored all dia interview requests, the cold hardness in his eyes made Shi Nian’s heart clench.
Today, he was dressed in the sa black, with the sa decisive gaze, so similar to Huangfu Hua.
It turned out that fundantally, he and Huangfu Hua were indeed more alike: both were lonely children hurt by their closest family mbers.
Shi Nian chased after him, catching up on the courthouse steps. Yet she was blocked by Jamie’s n.
Through the arms of those n, Shi Nian said softly: "Jamie! I don’t know if it’s appropriate to say this, but I still want to say—I thank you for him."
Jamie stopped, looking back.
Shi Nian nodded, "But I also want to say: you are not him; you are yourself. He didn’t make it back in ti, but you still can! Please don’t beco him, I beg you."
Jamie squinted his eyes.
What was she saying? What did she an about becoming Huangfu Hua?
He wanted to laugh, but couldn’t. He suddenly thought of the day he cut his hair short, the reflection he saw in the mirror.
It was himself, yet strangely unfamiliar.
He frowned: "I don’t know what you’re talking about. I have things to do at the company, I’ll leave first."
Shi Nian couldn’t push past the arms blocking her, so she blurted out: "Think of Yan Jian! She would surely not want you to beco the next Huangfu Hua!"
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