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Chapter 85: What a Beautiful Jasmine Flower

Chapter 85: Chapter 85: What a Beautiful Jasmine Flower

"Are you Ye Li’s lawyer?"

Scratching his balding head, Vice Principal Liu said with an unexpected expression, "The students nowadays are utterly lawless! How could such a trivial matter escalate to the point of hiring a lawyer? It’s outrageous!"

Tang Yanhui was taken aback.

He had thought that Liu was referring to the students who had slandered Ye Li on the forum.

To his surprise, it was about Ye Li?

Tang Yanhui said solemnly, "Vice Principal Liu, Ye Li is the one being slandered. It seems inappropriate for you to say that."

"How should I say it then?"

Vice Principal Liu sneered, "There’s no smoke without fire. Imperial University has twenty thousand undergraduate students, not to mention the masters and doctoral students and all the staff, amounting to forty thousand people in total. Over ten thousand of them are females. With over ten thousand people, why would they all conspire to spread rumors about her and no one else?"

Ever since he had taken on Ye Li’s case, he knew it wouldn’t progress smoothly.

After all, it involved Imperial University, a prestigious institution, and it concerned students’ banter on the school forum.

He had already retrieved the IDs and real names of those responsible for the seriously offensive comments in the forum from the school personnel in charge of the internet and forums.

Vice Principal Liu was in charge of student affairs. With his cooperation, talking to those students, getting a public apology from them for Ye Li, and then deleting the posts would have resolved the matter.

As for how the school wanted to handle it, that was Imperial University’s concern.

But Tang Yanhui hadn’t expected that even taking the first step would be so difficult.

With Vice Principal Liu uncooperative, how long would it take him alone to find the students?

What’s more, the police officer who had accompanied him couldn’t possibly follow him around every day to talk to each student individually.

Seeing the work reach a deadlock, while the forum posts continued to pile up relentlessly, Tang Yanhui decided to head back to his office and plan his next course of action.

"Take care, I won’t see you out..."

Vice Principal Liu said nonchalantly.

Just as he was opening the door to leave the office, Tang Yanhui suddenly stopped, turned around, and said to Vice Principal Liu, "The student who uses the ID ’Jasmine flower’ is named Liu Zimo. Currently, it’s just at the level of spreading rumors; a public apology and deleting the posts would solve it. But if the issue escalates and Ye Li refuses to settle, do you know how many years defamation can carry, Vice Principal Liu?"

His eyelids fluttered, and Vice Principal Liu was stunned.

On one hand, he thought Tang Yanhui was bluffing him, thinking he couldn’t possibly know that Zimo was his son, and was just hoping he would consider the school’s stance.

After all, even if it were a minor criminal case, it would still damage Imperial University’s reputation.

On the other hand, he felt Tang did know.

The office fell silent, and Vice Principal Liu rapidly typed on his keyboard to look up the penalties for defamation.

Reading the content, sweat suddenly appeared on Vice Principal Liu’s forehead.

The page displayed: Defamation is a crime that involves deliberately fabricating and spreading false facts about someone, which are sufficient to harm that person’s dignity and reputation. If the case is severe, it can result in up to three years in prison, detention, control, or deprivation of political rights.

Forget the years, just the terms for detention and control were enough to send a shiver down Vice Principal Liu’s spine.

With a criminal record, what kind of decent job could Zimo hope to find after graduation in June?

Not to mention a large corporation like Fu Group, even medium-sized companies with some reputation in the industry might hesitate to hire him.

Anxiety tightening in his chest, Vice Principal Liu could not even spare a moment to wipe his sweat as he stood up and rushed out, "Lawyer Tang, please wait..."