Are You Crazy? He’s only an Intern Lawyer?
Chapter 254 - 252: Are You Really a Pair of Despicable Lovers? Worse Than Animals! (Extra for 5000 monthly votes)

Chapter 254: Chapter 252: Are You Really a Pair of Despicable Lovers? Worse Than Animals! (Extra for 5000 monthly votes)

(Author Germ can’t type anymore, really not a single drop left, the rest will be repaid tomorrow, slowly repaid... right?)

PS: How to deal with tomorrow’s regular update, Author Germ is confused...

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"I admit, I confess, it was all Wang Li who told me to do it. She said after the matter was done she would give me a sum of money, allowing me to live a carefree life abroad for the rest of my life..."

"But I was a bit scared to go abroad alone, so I thought of going back to my hometown to take my family with me. That way, even if we went abroad, we could look out for each other. I didn’t expect that my family didn’t want to go abroad. They felt it was good living in Dragon Country, so like that, I didn’t go abroad..."

The woman hesitated, revealing some family matters.

"Cough cough, please focus on the main point, we are not interested in your family matters." But the voice that had just asked the question suddenly became impatient.

"Oh, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I will be honest, I will confess!"

After thinking for a while, the woman confessed, "It was all Wang Li who made me do it. She and I were alumni at the Finance Academy; I was two years ahead of her. About a year ago, she suddenly found me, saying her superior wanted to open a fund account, so she came to our institution. She also mentioned..."

"...that the account was to be opened in the name of Lin Xiangwan and her husband Jia Shiqing, but she instructed me to conceal this from our client Lin Xiangwan and to tell her that the account was being opened in her own name."

"At that time, I was worried something would go wrong, but Wang Li gave me 20,000 as hush money and promised that I would get a share of the money the account earned in the future. She also said the funds moving through the account would never be less than ten million, and I could make millions from these transactions."

"I... out of greed... I agreed to her..."

In the video, the woman spoke while showing a regretful expression.

It is common for people who commit crimes to express regret when they are caught.

But their regret is not that they made a mistake but that they were caught by you.

But now that the person has been captured, these details don’t matter anymore. Now it’s only right to act pitiful.

"Tell us, what specific actions did you take? I believe you, as a client manager, must know everything, right?"

"Yes, I know it all!"

The woman nodded, then began to recount the details.

"The account was ostensibly under the name of our client, Ms. Lin Xiangwan, but secretly it was used by her husband and Wang Li to accept bribes and launder money."

"Every so often, the account would receive a remittance from some offshore account abroad. The anonymity of these accounts ensured that the origin of the money couldn’t be traced. Ultimately, Jia Shiqing would transfer the money out under the account holder’s name, and the money would end up in the pockets of both Jia Shiqing and Wang Li."

"What about you?"

"As for me, I would get paid between a hundred thousand to several hundred thousand ’labour fees’ for each transfer I helped them with. But dear investigators, I also was led astray by Wang Li’s schemes. Think about it, I was working myself to death every day, running around erratically. Clients often bailed, and every month, if I didn’t meet the performance targets, money was deducted, so I didn’t even receive my base salary. Before I helped Wang Li, I hadn’t received my basic salary for three or four months..."

The woman spoke, sobbing with snot and tears, "This is how it was, and still, I persisted every day with clients, being stood up by them every day, it was... it was just too hard. Then, Wang Li came to me and said I only needed to be busy a couple of days a month, and I could earn more than ten times my monthly salary. I, I just couldn’t resist for a moment and..."

"Do you regret it now?"

"Regret, truly very regretful!"

"Regret getting caught by us?"

"Isn’t that so? If I hadn’t been caught by you, I would be living the good life abroad now... ah, no, not that, what I mean is that my conscience is troubled, I regret what I did then, listening to Wang Li. Anyway, I am very remorseful now, and I am very sorry to everyone!"

"Apologizing to us is useless, you should apologize to your client Lin Xiangwan. She was the one who trusted your institution and entrusted the charity fund account to your operation. Instead, this account was used by you, an insider, in cahoots with two outsiders, as a tool to launder dirty money!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I apologize, I have wronged Madam Lin. I hereby earnestly apologize to her, and if she sees this, I hope she can forgive me, I apologize..."

The woman apologized, and the video finally showed a change.

With the camera shifting, the faces of two men appeared.

"Cough cough, the current time is 7:14 PM on the weekend. We are from Dongfang Capital Martial Association Investigation Serious Crime Department Team 7. I am the interrogator Old Xing; beside me is our Captain Wu. We were just conducting a lawful interrogation of the financial crime suspect, Ms. Lin, and this interrogation video file will be preserved as public evidence and will also be handed over to Lawyer Zhang Wei. Alright, our interrogation is over!"

The video ended there.

After the video had finished playing, the entire room fell silent.

"Ahem, since nobody is speaking, maybe I should start?"

Zhang Wei glanced around the room before walking up to the witness stand with a smile.

"Secretary Wang, do you have anything to say?"

"I... I have nothing to say!" Wang Li’s gaze hardened as she turned her face away.

This attitude made it clear to everyone—she was not going to cooperate!

"Oh, if you won’t talk, then I guess I will!"

Zhang Wei remained unbothered, cheerfully saying, "Ladies and gentlemen in the courtroom, the video you just saw was of a certain Ms. Lin, a client manager at the institution where my client’s charity foundation account was held. Her job was to maintain this fund account; in other words, she was wholly responsible for the entire account!"

"In the video, she has pretty much confessed everything. My client, who was totally unaware, had an account that was supposedly in her name, but it became a tool for illegal profit-making by Wang Li, Jia Shiqing, and Ms. Lin!"

Zhang Wei spoke and had already moved next to the prosecution’s bench.

"Prosecutor Wei, please open this file. It contains the deposit and withdrawal records of the account, including details of the operators and the withdrawers. Oh, and please open the file from the financial investigation department provided earlier by the prosecution as well, so we can do a comparison. Thank you so much!"

Prosecutor Wei felt like she was about to spit blood. Why another request; couldn’t she get a break?

I’m not your errand person!

Her heart was full of complaints, but with the entire courtroom watching, she could not refuse and had to follow Zhang Wei’s instructions.

Reluctantly, she opened the file indicated by Zhang Wei and then the prosecution’s evidence file for comparison.

"Please look at the comparison of the two documents on the projector screen. Previously, Prosecutor Lu Gao from the prosecution argued that my client had taken bribes; she used evidence provided by the financial investigation department to prove it. What she didn’t know was that, although she guessed correctly about the company offering bribes, the recipient of the bribe was not my client, who didn’t even know about it!"

Zhang Wei dissed Lu Wenwen and then pointed to the projector screen, saying, "Please look, in the expense records of the bribing company, there are several large sum transactions, and within 24 hours of every expenditure, the same amount of funds would be deposited into my client’s charity foundation account, matching precisely."

"Furthermore, within 72 hours after that, the money was withdrawn by Jia Shiqing in the name of the account holder, while employee Ms. Lin from the institution failed to fulfill her responsibilities as a client manager. She never once informed my client of any changes in the fund account. Therefore, with regard to taking bribes, my client had been kept in the dark from beginning to end!"

Having said this, Zhang Wei took a deep breath, then continued with an intensified tone, "Client manager Ms. Lin has confessed everything. My client was completely unaware of the bribery. In my view, the arguments provided by the prosecution are one-sided. The prosecution only proved that someone within my client’s company was illegally accepting business bribes. What the prosecution didn’t realize is that the person holding the account implicated in bribery, albeit nominally my client, was actually being used as a scapegoat by the real recipients of the bribes—my client’s secretary Wang Li and her husband Jia Shiqing!"

At these words, the courtroom erupted into murmurs.

A reversal!

A breathtaking reversal!

Nobody expected that Zhang Wei’s move would negate the prosecution’s motive for Lin Xiangwan’s murder.

Previously, the prosecution said Lin Xiangwan had a reason to kill Jia Shiqing because he knew the evidence of her taking bribes, and he acted as a runner for her.

However, unexpectedly, the original mastermind behind the bribery was completely uninformed, and the supposed errand person, the victim, turned out to be one of the masterminds behind the bribery, with the other being Lin Xiangwan’s secretary.

Lin Xiangwan’s background was clear, but her secretary had committed many evils.

"Objection!"

Suddenly, Lu Wenwen stood up.

"Objection, may I ask what the prosecution is objecting to?"

Zhang Wei looked at Prosecutor Lu Gao with a smile, unable to resist teasing her, "My uncovering the truth should be assisting the prosecution, shouldn’t it?"

"Defense attorney, your recent claims are all based on a video file’s speculation. The origin of this video file, whether it is genuine or not, has yet to be confirmed. Therefore, the conjecture based on this file cannot be completely verified as true either!"

"Prosecutor Lu Gao, are you afraid of losing, to the point where you even disregard the truth?"

"Lawyer Zhang, I am merely expressing my doubts. Who knows if the file you provided is actually from a formal investigation department interrogation of the suspect, or perhaps it’s actors you’ve temporarily hired..."

"Prosecutor Lu Gao, please be aware of what you’re saying. You are making a very serious accusation against me!"

Zhang Wei suddenly intensified his tone, shocking Lu Wenwen.

"Prosecutor Lu Gao, if you say I forged evidence, please present proof to substantiate this claim, instead of dismissing the entire weekend’s labor of the Dongfang Capital Investigation Department solely based on conjecture!"

"Do you know that, based on what you just said, I can reserve the right to countersue you? I believe the court’s clerk has recorded your accusations against me without missing a single word!"

As he spoke, Zhang Wei looked toward the clerk’s seat by the judge’s bench.

The clerk, sensing Zhang Wei’s gaze, glanced at Prosecutor Lu Gao sitting on the bench.

The clerk thought bitterly to himself, "I’m just a clerk whose job is to record everything. Of course, I have to note down your conversation."

"Both of you, stop arguing, give me..."

"Your Honor, I don’t think there’s a need for discussion!"

Judge Lu Zhengting was about to call Zhang Wei and Lu Wenwen forward, but Zhang Wei cut him off first.

"Since Prosecutor Lu Gao doubts the evidence I provided, let’s set aside this point of dispute for now!"

Zhang Wei said this and then scoffed derisively, "After all, this isn’t the first time. I have other evidence as well, so it doesn’t matter. It’s enough that Prosecutor Lu Gao is turning a blind eye, but I hope Your Honor won’t follow her lead!"

"You..."

Hearing Zhang Wei’s overt and covert mockery, even Lu Zhengting almost lost his composure.

However, seeing that many media people in the audience were already gearing up to record everything happening in the courtroom, he restrained himself.

There was no way around it. If he were to cause a scene, he and Lu Wenwen would definitely make the headlines of Nandao news tomorrow.

Moreover, by this point, Judge Lu Zhengting had come to realize that Wang Li might indeed have a problem and even the deceased Jia Shiqing was not clean.

Similarly, Lu Wenwen’s earlier objections were merely made out of a sense of expediency.

As a judge, how could Lu Zhengting not see that Zhang Wei had come prepared today!

"Since Prosecutor Lu Gao pointed out that the evidence I provided is insufficient, I have nothing to say. Let’s temporarily set aside this point. However, I believe that Secretary Wang, sitting in the witness stand, must be delighted, thanking you for helping her temporarily evade the accusations, ha!"

Zhang Wei dissed Lu Wenwen once again and then approached Wang Li.

"Secretary Wang, you must be thrilled inside, right? With the authenticity of the evidence I provided in question, you don’t have to face allegations of taking bribes, do you?"

Wang Li’s expression remained unchanged, and she did not intend to answer the question.

But indeed, she felt a sense of relief in her heart.

"Alright then, I won’t pursue the bribery issue further since the Financial Investigation Department will definitely interrogate you about it later!"

Zhang Wei paused for a moment and then proceeded to ask, "Secretary Wang, there’s one question I hope you will answer honestly."

"We all know that my client’s husband, Jia Shiqing, has had no involvement with any women outside since he broke off relations with the neighbor, Madam Qiu, three months ago,"

"So, it’s curious, Jia Shiqing is not a faithful man; otherwise, he wouldn’t have had an affair with his female neighbor. But what could have led him to sever ties with Madam Qiu?"

"I later thought of something. He must have become involved with another woman. He’d found a new love, and that’s why he abandoned the old one!"

"Secretary Wang, my question to you is, are you the woman who became involved with Jia Shiqing?"

As these words came out, all eyes in the courtroom turned to the witness stand.

Wang Li’s expression was startled, her pupils contracted slightly.

She had never expected Zhang Wei to ask such a question.

"This..."

On the prosecution’s side, Lu Wenwen was also taken aback but did not speak out in opposition.

Because this question was not beyond the scope.

"Secretary Wang, please answer me, after Jia Shiqing and Madam Qiu ’broke up’, did you become involved with him?"

"I... I didn’t..."

"Didn’t you?"

Zhang Wei sneered coldly, walked back to his seat, and took a plastic bag out of his briefcase.

"We all know the crime scene was on a yacht, and the victim’s body was found on the beach at Bright Moon Port, so the investigation department also knew there was no evidence needing investigation in my client’s villa, their search was relatively cursory."

"Even the housekeeper said that after my client led the staff of the investigation department into the house, they carried out a routine search of Jia Shiqing’s room and my client’s release, but they only glanced briefly at other places."

"Similarly, the place where Jia Shiqing and you had your affair was not his room, but the Meditation Room next door!"

Zhang Wei held up the plastic bag and placed it in front of Wang Li, "This hair was found by me in the Meditation Room, it’s yours, isn’t it, Secretary Wang?"

Inside the plastic bag, there was a strand of yellow, slightly curly long hair that was almost identical to Wang Li’s hairstyle.

"What does a hair prove anyway, as President Lin’s personal assistant, isn’t it normal for my hair to be found inside the villa?"

"Normal, is it? It’s no problem for your hair to appear in the villa, but appearing in that Meditation Room, that’s a big problem. Because you also said you’re the personal assistant to my client Lin Xiangwan, in other words, you serve my client only, and Jia Shiqing does not even have a nominal position in the company, you and he should have absolutely no work interactions, right?"

"So why would your hair appear inside the Meditation Room on the second floor, which requires passing through Jia Shiqing’s room to reach? This is very strange."

Wang Li’s eyes shifted slightly.

But Zhang Wei struck again, "Actually, I have more evidence to prove your affair!"

As he spoke, he gestured to Prosecutor Wei Min at the prosecution bench.

"Prosecutor Wei, please open the folder next to you, the one labeled ’Married Husband and Busty Secretary Private Photos’, thank you very much!"

Prosecutor Wei was almost losing it, what kind of file naming is this, each and every one so unprofessional.

But ultimately, she followed Zhang Wei’s instructions and opened the folder, immediately, a series of photos appeared on the projection screen.

The photos were taken with the villa at Moonwatch Bay as the background, featuring only two people, Jia Shiqing and Wang Li.

Their behavior was intimate, hugging and cuddling at the villa’s main entrance, inside the living room, and even on the second-floor balcony.

"Where did these photos come from..." Wang Li was naturally startled when she saw these photos.

"Secretary Wang, rest assured, these photos weren’t taken by me. You were having your affair, I hadn’t even arrived in Nandao!"

Zhang Wei, as if he had anticipated this, after explaining calmly, said, "These photos were taken by the prosecution’s witness Madam Qiu!"

"She knew Jia Shiqing had dumped her, but she also guessed something, that Jia Shiqing had hooked up with someone else, so she wanted to know who the new woman was."

"You haven’t forgotten, have you, Madam Qiu lives in Moonwatch Bay, you insisted on having your tryst in the villa, weren’t you giving her the opportunity?"

Wang Li’s complexion changed dramatically, but she still said, "How could it be, if she took photos, why would she come forward to testify?"

"Because she still loves Jia Shiqing. Although it’s ironic, Madam Qiu also hoped someone would pay for Jia Shiqing’s death, and my client became the scapegoat. Isn’t there a song that says it well, ’don’t guess a woman’s heart, your guess will never quite match up...’"

Zhang Wei hummed half a line of the song, then his expression suddenly turned stern.

"Wang Li, you and Jia Shiqing really are a pair of despicable lovers!" A roar later, someone had lost their temper.

"Your actions are simply disgusting, utterly repugnant, contemptible, and sickening!"

"Not only did you carry on behind my client’s back, but you also embezzled her money in secret, even plotting to take her life, utterly heartless and cold-blooded, worse than animals!"

"Disgusting, disgusting, just truly sickening!"

Zhang Wei’s scolding echoed through the courtroom.