Are You Crazy? He’s only an Intern Lawyer?
Chapter 282 - 280 Yang Chuannan’s Explanations, the Sky Falls!

Chapter 282: Chapter 280 Yang Chuannan’s Explanations, the Sky Falls!

The courtroom finally exploded.

With Zhang Wei’s last words, it was like a several hundred-pound boulder had been thrown onto an already restless lake surface.

The resulting splash was staggeringly huge, shockingly high!

In the spectator seats, many people even stood up, gazing towards the center.

They wanted to see why Zhang Wei dared to say such a thing, whether he held some evidence in his hand.

And as Zhang Wei uttered these words, the mindsets of everyone in the entire courtroom underwent a change.

On the bench, Old Wang’s wrinkled face creased into a chrysanthemum.

No way, no way, had this kid truly uncovered the truth?

Was this what you call a miraculous comeback?

On the plaintiff’s side, Xiao Baihe and Tan Yingying exchanged glances, a strong apprehension flashing in both of their eyes.

Was Zhang Wei about to turn the tables again?

Why say ’again’?

Because when he battled against the Procuratorate Headquarters, he always managed a comeback!

In the front row of the spectator seats, Hu Yaode and Cheng Lisha felt a simultaneous ’thump’ in their hearts.

In their minds, both harbored a slight fear of the unknown.

Hu Yaode feared that if Zhang Wei survived this round, what he would do in the upcoming trials.

Cheng Lisha was apprehensive that if Yang Chuanfang really wasn’t the murderer, then wouldn’t all the things she did become false, mere slander?

In contrast, other people at the scene of the courtroom, who were not related to the incident, were less afraid.

Tie Ruyun, Li Yueqin, and Lin Yumeng, none of them were scared or worried anymore.

They all exchanged a smile, adopting the mindset of idle onlookers as they began to watch the trial.

If only they had popcorn and soda at their disposal, it would be even better.

Watching Zhang Wei articulate eloquently in court, triumphing left and right, what a delight it would be~

Aside from what others in the scene were thinking, in the courtroom, Zhang Wei had already finished telling the story.

He had revealed a secret buried for ten years, a story that happened within the Changqing Hotel a decade ago.

"Zhang San murdered that girl, that is an indisputable fact."

"Because he knew that the child in the girl’s belly could not be born; otherwise, Zhang San would no longer have the face to mingle in his circles, similarly—how would his son view him?"

"As for what exactly Zhang San and the girl discussed, we do not know, but the ultimate outcome is clear—they did not come to an agreement, hence Zhang San harbored the intention of silencing her."

"In the end, the girl was gone, and Zhang San was able to keep this secret buried forever, even until after his death, no one knew of this matter!"

Having said this, Zhang Wei looked around.

Everyone in the courtroom was digesting the story.

"Objection!"

The expected objection arose, coming from the plaintiff’s side.

"These are merely unfounded speculations by the defense attorney, with no evidence to substantiate the authenticity of this story!"

Xiao Baihe spoke righteously, and while saying this, she even gave Zhang Wei a glance, then challenged him, "Furthermore, may I ask the defense attorney, whom are you referring to as Zhang San?"

"Zhang San could be anyone; at a pivotal moment, you could be Zhang San, I could be Zhang San, everyone harbors a Zhang San in their heart!"

"But if you’re asking about this case, then I can clearly tell you, this Zhang San is none other than Yang Changqing, the former owner of the Changqing Hotel!"

This response was something everyone had already surmised.

"But you have no evidence..."

"Who says I don’t have any?"

In the face of Xiao Baihe’s interrogation, Zhang Wei merely smiled slightly, his expression filled with mockery.

Xiao Baihe’s breath hitched, but she still tried to appear composed, "Then where is the evidence? The court needs concrete evidence!"

"The evidence has always been right here in the courtroom, hasn’t it?"

As he spoke, Zhang Wei pointed towards the witness stand.

Following Zhang Wei’s cue, Xiao Baihe and everyone else’s gaze converged on the witness stand, or rather, on Yang Chuannan.

"Me?" The latter pointed at himself, his face filled with utter astonishment, and equally spectacular.

"Yes, Second Young Master Yang, you are the evidence, a living, breathing piece of evidence!"

Zhang Wei said, looking towards the bench, "Your Honor, the defense requests a recall of Mr. Lin to the stand, as I wish to conduct a small experiment!"

"What kind of experiment?" Old Wang instantly became interested.

"This experiment still lacks a leading lady!"

Zhang Wei, however, did not engage with Old Wang’s curiosity but instead swept his gaze over the plaintiff’s side.

Throughout the courtroom, there weren’t many women; while there were some in the spectator seats, the plaintiff’s side was much closer.

"Xiao Tan, are you busy?"

"Ah?"

Tan Yingying, who had been sitting at the prosecutor’s bench, was startled by Zhang Wei’s sudden question.

"I... I actually... am quite busy..."

Tan Yingying wanted to say that she needed to focus on the laptop in front of her and couldn’t afford to be distracted.

But Zhang Wei had already walked up to her. "Come on, stand up and take off your clothes!"

"Ah?"

Tan Yingying was horrified. This was a courtroom, and he was asking her to undress?

"What are you thinking? Just take off your jacket. You’re wearing a shirt underneath, right? It’ll do. You be that girl!"

"I..."

"Hurry up, it’s you, come here!"

Tan Yingying wanted to refuse, but Zhang Wei directly pulled her up.

Tan Yingying indicated that she was coerced, it was all Zhang Wei forcing her.

"Young Master Yang, Second Young Master Yang, please come over here as well; I need you to put on a piece of clothing."

"And Judge Wang, could you please send a court guard to move the screen from the prep room over here? We need that screen for the experiment."

Old Wang thought for a moment and finally gave the guards a meaningful look.

The two court guards immediately obeyed and went next door to move things.

minutes later.

Old Lin once again appeared in the courtroom, looking around with a puzzled expression on his face.

His complexion was not good, as he was supported by the court guards to get to the courtroom.

"Old Lin, we meet again!" Zhang Wei approached the witness stand, greeted him with a cheery smile.

"Hello..." Old Lin looked at Zhang Wei, completely bewildered.

He didn’t understand why he still had to appear in court, and he also heard that something about his family had been found out.

"Old Lin, don’t worry, we won’t settle your issues first. I asked you here to clear someone’s name!"

"Who?"

"That person is right in front of you!"

Zhang Wei said, pointing at a screen in the courtroom.

"Come on, show Old Lin!"

As Zhang Wei’s voice fell, a man and a woman emerged from behind the screen.

They turned their backs to the witness stand. The woman wore a white shirt, and the man wore a floral shirt, bright and colorful, the clothing quite conspicuous.

"Isn’t that the Young Master Yang?"

Seeing the man and woman, or more specifically, the man in the floral shirt, Old Lin spoke out in astonishment.

"You say this is the Young Master Yang. Is this how you saw him back then, right?"

"Yes, I still remember that shirt. It’s the very same one, especially conspicuous in color!"

"Alright, let’s switch!"

Zhang Wei nodded and then gave the order.

The man and woman, with their backs to the witness stand, went back behind the screen, then came out again.

"Old Lin, take another look, will you?"

"This... Isn’t that still the Young Master Yang?"

After a careful look, Old Lin didn’t notice anything amiss—they seemed to be the same pair as before.

But his words caused a stir throughout the spectator seats.

Because the man and woman in the courtroom were facing away from the witness stand, but directly facing the spectator seats.

And everyone in the spectator seats saw the truth—that after entering behind the screen, the woman was still the same woman, but the man had been switched.

"Old Lin, are you sure you didn’t see wrong, that it’s still the original Young Master Yang?"

"Yes, I have good eyesight. Besides, there was only one such shirt at the time, I couldn’t possibly be mistaken!"

"Oh, you couldn’t possibly be mistaken, could you?"

Zhang Wei smiled slightly. "Gentlemen, please take the screen away!"

The two court guards complied, carrying the screen away.

And as the screen left, the person hidden behind it was exposed to the witness.

"Eh, why are there two Young Master Yangs, two floral shirts?"

"Of course, your Old Master Yang always had two sons, didn’t he?"

Facing Old Lin’s cry of astonishment, Zhang Wei just laughed, "Gentlemen, the two Young Masters Yang, please turn around!"

As his words fell, Yang Chuanfang and Yang Chuannan turned around simultaneously.

After all, the two were blood brothers; while one had a slightly gloomier complexion and a thinner frame, the loose floral shirt he wore concealed his figure well.

To onlookers, the stature and build of the two men were almost identical.

Especially from behind, even Zhang Wei could hardly notice any difference.

"Old Lin, now I will ask you again: the silhouette you saw ten years ago, was it Young Master Yang or the Second Young Master Yang? Can you tell them apart?"

"This..."

At these words, Old Lin was suddenly at a loss for an answer.

"Witness, please answer this question!"

Old Wang also spoke up timely to remind the witness to respond.

After hesitating for a moment, Old Lin finally sighed and admitted honestly, "I... I can’t tell them apart..."

As soon as he spoke, the entire court was in an uproar.

In the spectator’s gallery, many were whispering to each other.

In the jury box, several members appeared pensive.

Clearly, the prosecution’s once ’ironclad’ evidence had issues.

"But... the floral shirt from ten years ago was owned only by Young Master Yang..."

"Wrong, there were actually two of these floral shirts all along, but the Second Young Master Yang never wore it in public. It was on a whim that he took the shirt with him in the car that day!"

Zhang Wei said and looked towards Yang Chuannan, "I’m right, aren’t I, Second Young Master Yang?"

"Yes... yes..." At this moment, Yang Chuannan found it somewhat difficult to speak.

"Old Lin, please leave your seat; you have fulfilled your duty!"

After excusing Old Lin from the witness stand, Zhang Wei asked Yang Chuannan to take his place.

Everyone took their seats.

Yang Chuanfang took his place back at the defense table, Tan Yingying sat down at the prosecution’s table, and the courtroom was restored to its previous order.

"Second Young Master Yang, I remember you said that you were the host of the birthday party, and also in charge of the planning, right?"

"Yes..."

"At the party that day, I recall Young Master Yang and Wen Xiaoyun had another fight, correct?"

"Yes..."

"After the fight, the two almost came to blows, and you went to break it up, right?"

"Yes..."

"While breaking up the fight, you got splashed with a drink, right?"

"Yes, that’s why I..."

Yang Chuannan paused mid-sentence.

"So you went back to your car to change into the floral shirt you had never worn before and were about to return to the mansion to continue with the party, but on your way back you happened to run into Wen Xiaoyun, didn’t you?"

"This..."

Feeling the gazes from all directions, Yang Chuannan hesitated for a moment and glanced at his older brother at the defense table.

"Yes, I ran into her just then."

"So, it was you who drove Wen Xiaoyun away from the hotel, wasn’t it?"

"Yes... it was indeed me..."

As Yang Chuannan answered the question, his face slowly dropped.

And upon hearing this answer, the entire court was again in an uproar.

So it turned out...

So it turned out someone really did take Wen Xiaoyun away.

"Second Young Master Yang, you took Wen Xiaoyun to the Yang Family Mansion, didn’t you?"

"How did you know?"

"So, you’re admitting it?"

"I..."

Yang Chuannan, with a look of surprise and shock, couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

This was an incident from ten years ago; how could Zhang Wei possibly know about it.

"Do you know that Wen Xiaoyun died within the mansion, died in the house where you grew up from childhood?"

"I don’t know, I only did as she asked and took her to see my father, she said she wanted to make a clean break with him, and after that, I never saw her again!"

"Did you later ask your father about it?"

"I asked him, and he said that the matter had been taken care of, but he never explained how it was done, never!"

"You said just now, it was at her request that you took her to see Yang Changqing, right?"

"Yes, I only knew she seemed very sad. Throughout the drive, all I saw was her crying, but I didn’t want to ask because I thought she was crying because of my brother again."

"But the truth is, at that time, it was because of the pregnancy. Wen Xiaoyun wanted to settle things with your father once and for all. Instead, you took her right into the Yang Family Mansion, right into the hands of your father who then killed her!"

"I didn’t know. If I had known, I wouldn’t have taken her there, I wish I had never run into her then, she would surely be alive, really..."

As Yang Chuannan spoke, his voice became hoarse, his face tinged with a cry.

"Really, I had no idea it would be like this. I went to ask my father at the time, and he truly told me nothing, I also didn’t expect that his solution meant killing her, I really had no idea..."

"So you carried this secret, hiding it for ten years, a whole ten years watching your own big brother being wrongfully accused, and never had even the slightest impulse to help?"

"At the time, my father said that Wen Xiaoyun was in a place where no one could find her. As long as I kept silent, no one would be able to find her, and no one would be able to slander my big brother!"

"But you didn’t expect, there would be such a heartless and cruel woman, who found the enormous traffic hidden within this case. For her own gain, she didn’t hesitate to frame an innocent man!"

At this point, Zhang Wei looked toward Cheng Lisha in the front row of the observer seats.

Cheng Lisha, now ashen-faced, her eyes flickering with endless resentment but also a hint of fear.

Because at this very moment, she finally understood something: Yang Chuanfang didn’t seem like the murderer!

This meant that all the things she had said and done over the years had been aimed at the wrong target.

The real murderer wasn’t Yang Chuanfang, but his father, Yang Changqing!

"No, this can’t be true, this can’t be true!"

Thinking of the consequences, she immediately stood up, howling in court.

"Ms. Cheng, you are wrong, this is the actual truth of the matter!"

Facing a woman who seemed to have lost her sanity, Zhang Wei just scoffed back at her with a sneer.

"You have no evidence, this is just a farce you directed yourselves. You just want to exonerate Yang Chuanfang, so his little brother blames everything on a dead person. It must be like this, it’s all a trap you set up!"

Although Cheng Lisha was somewhat hysterical, what she said did have some merit.

"I knew you would say that, so I’d already prepared the evidence!"

Zhang Wei sneered. He had taken all possibilities into account.

He quickly walked back to the defense bench and pulled out a document from his briefcase.

"This is a consultation record from an underground clinic in Dongfang Capital from ten years ago. It contains a female patient’s report; the check-up was for a pregnancy test. That woman is none other than Wen Xiaoyun!"

"I’ve already spoken with the clinic’s doctor, who also provided an affidavit. I’ll submit it to the court right now!"

After handing the document to the bench, Zhang Wei’s gaze shifted to Yang Chuanfang’s location: "Young Master Yang, do you remember the first time you met Wen Xiaoyun?"

"Of course, I remember. It was the beginning of August, I saw her in the hotel lobby..."

"According to the pregnancy test record, Wen Xiaoyun was pregnant in July, and she didn’t even know Young Master Yang at the time!"

Zhang Wei declared in court: "So the person who impregnated Wen Xiaoyun is none other than the Changqing Hotel’s own boss, Yang Changqing!"

"With the testimonies from Old Lin and Second Young Master Yang, the latter indeed took Wen Xiaoyun away that night from the hotel to the Yang Family Mansion!"

"There, pregnant Wen Xiaoyun confronted Yang Changqing, and ultimately it was the latter’s displeasure that led to her murder, and her body was hidden underground!"

"This is the truth from ten years ago, the truth of the entire matter. The person who could and had reason and motive to kill Wen Xiaoyun isn’t my client Yang Chuanfang, but his father Yang Changqing. The final hiding place for the body is within the Yang Family Mansion, and only Yang Changqing could have possibly hidden it there!"

"My client, innocent from the beginning to the end, he didn’t even know why Wen Xiaoyun was upset, nor did he understand why he could never make her happy."

"Why Young Master Yang was angry, because he didn’t know, why he was confused, because he didn’t know, and Wen Xiaoyun couldn’t possibly tell him the truth. She wouldn’t tell Young Master Yang, ’I was involved with your father,’ right?"

"Precisely because Wen Xiaoyun kept all these matters to herself, such a tragedy brewed, and my client is actually also a victim of the tragedy!"

Zhang Wei pointed around the room and enunciated each word as if hammering them into the ground.

At his words, everyone in the room couldn’t help but nod along.

Unfortunately, there would always be those who could not accept the outcome.

"No, it’s not true, Yang Chuanfang is the murderer, he is the murderer!"

Cheng Lisha stood at the observer seat, screaming hoarsely, her eyes reddened as she pointed at Yang Chuanfang.

She would not allow, could not allow this to be true, for it would be her downfall.

"Court Guard, escort her out!"

Old Wang finally lost his patience, having had enough of the woman’s outburst.

The Court Guards busied themselves once more, each grabbing one of Cheng Lisha’s arms and "escorting" her out.

It could only be said that the Court Guard was the star of the day.

The courtroom finally quieted down.

But everyone knew that the storm was still brewing.

Hu Yaode also dejectedly walked out of the courtroom.

But his heart was likewise heavy; he couldn’t help looking up at the sky.

In this moment, he felt as if the sky had collapsed!