Ms.CEO Falls in Love with Aloof Professor
Chapter 99 - 99 97 This Man is Incredibly Ruthless

Chapter 99: Chapter 97 This Man is Incredibly Ruthless Chapter 99: Chapter 97 This Man is Incredibly Ruthless …

Lu Jingyan didn’t initially understand the four baffling words Sheng Xian had sent. He mumbled to himself for a while before freezing up as if someone had struck an acupoint on him.

Thief shouting catch the thief, thief shouting catch the thief, thief shouting catch the thief…

He had known her before, but even now, she hadn’t figured out how exactly he knew her.

He even set her birthday as his mobile hotspot Wi-Fi password.

He couldn’t be indirectly confessing to her, could he?

Perhaps since knowing him, she had gone out less and met fewer people of the opposite sex. It had been a while since anyone had confessed to her, and her heart was racing, even her fingers were numb.

Didn’t she always want to charm him into her arms? She had been openly and secretly flirting with him for so long without much response, but now, finally, there was a reaction. She should be happy, right?

Now, why was she nervous?

Lu Jingyan swallowed hard twice, trying to calm himself down a bit.

She, who always had tons of slick words, was utterly slain by those four words from Sheng Xian for a whole ten minutes, unable to come up with a reply.

With a whimper, she grabbed her phone to complain to Song Xian and Chen Kai, “Ugh, I feel like I’ve regressed.”

It was just the lunch break, and neither Chen Kai nor Song Xian was busy, so their replies came back fast.

Song Xian, “What happened?”

Chen Kai, “What’s up? Devolved into a monkey?”

Song Xian @Chen Kai, “Get lost.”

Lu Jingyan @Chen Kai, “Get lost.”

Chen Kai, “…”

Lu Jingyan, “Is it just me, or do I feel like all my skills in flirting have gone to waste? You guys understand, right? It’s like in martial arts novels when someone’s unrivaled martial arts are completely destroyed!”

Song Xian, “How is that possible? My sister Yan is so gorgeous, just standing there can kill people without compensation.”

Chen Kai sent a string of vomiting emojis.

Song Xian @Chen Kai, “Get lost.”

Lu Jingyan @Chen Kai, “Get lost.”

A second later, Chen Kai was kicked out of the group by the group owner Lu Jingyan.

She spoke into the voice recorder describing the situation with Sheng Xian briefly. “Sister Xian, I can’t even continue the conversation, I wasn’t like this before, I could keep up.”

Song Xian was silent for three seconds, “…Normal, I also got charmed.”

Lu Jingyan, “??”

Song Xian, “Ahhh, Professor Sheng is too good, thief shouting catch the thief, wow, I can’t even!”

Lu Jingyan, “…”

Song Xian, “I feel like I’m poisoned too, this man is too awesome!!!”

Lu Jingyan, stone-faced, clicked twice on the screen, then kicked Song Xian out of the group too.

Holding onto a group that now consisted only of himself, Lu Jingyan digested for a while and, pretending like he didn’t understand what those four words from Sheng Xian meant, clicked on Sheng Xian’s name and changed the topic.

Lu Jingyan, “What are you doing?”

Sheng Xian, “On my way to the courthouse.”

Lu Jingyan, “Courthouse?”

Sheng Xian, “Yeah, I have a hearing this afternoon.”

Lu Jingyan, “A hearing?”

Sheng Xian, “Yeah.”

Lu Jingyan pressed the screen, typing.

…Oh, then keep up the hard work.

Before she could send it, a new message popped up on the screen.

Sheng Xian, probably busy, sent a voice message: “Want to see it?”

Lu Jingyan paused then realized Sheng Xian was asking her if she wanted to go to the court to watch him at a trial.

She deleted the message she had just typed and re-entered: “Is that possible?”

Again, through a voice message, Lu Jingyan wasn’t sure if she heard it wrong, but she always felt that Sheng Xian’s words carried a touch of amusement: “Really want to see your brother in court, huh?”

Lu Jingyan: “…”

Lu Jingyan’s heart was thumping, pounding even more fiercely than just a moment ago.

Just as she was considering whether to ask her secretary to call for a family doctor, another message came into her phone.

Still a voice message, Sheng Xian’s voice was quite soft, making her heart tremble slightly: “Should I pick you up?”

Lu Jingyan held her phone for a long time before typing a single character and sending it: “Hmm.”

Sheng Xian today was too out of the ordinary.

Had he been scared into a mental confusion last night?

It seemed like Sheng Xian’s odd behavior didn’t start today.

Last night when she was tricked by that mentally challenged Zhuang Chen, Sheng Xian’s act of leaving her behind was quite unusual.

Lu Jingyan lay on the table and carefully recalled her recent interactions with Sheng Xian.

It seems if traced back, Professor Sheng had already started acting unusually on the night she was slapped by Lu Hongcheng.

Suddenly, her phone buzzed. Lu Jingyan looked up; Sheng Xian sent a message that he had arrived downstairs.

She hurriedly got up, ran to the restroom to check herself in the mirror to ensure she looked all right, then took her bag and coat and went downstairs.

…

On the way to the court, Lu Jingyan roughly understood from Sheng Xian’s assistant about the case they were handling today.

The defendant was Zhang, a 73-year-old man.

The plaintiff was Li, a 43-year-old man.

Zhang and Li were from the same village. A flood swept away Li’s parents, and from then onward he lived only with his elderly grandmother. Zhang’s wife was in poor health and never had children. The year Li’s grandmother died, because of neighborly relations, Zhang and his wife started caring for Li.

At that time Li was only thirteen years old. Zhang did not go to the court to officially adopt him, nor did he feel it was appropriate for Li, the only son of the Li family, to take his surname Zhang. From the year Li turned thirteen, over the next twenty years, Zhang covered all his expenses, including school, graduation, job hunting, and marriage.

Zhang’s wife passed away due to illness five years ago, and Zhang sold their family home, with Li receiving some of the money.

Four years after his wife’s death, Zhang was diagnosed with an illness too. Initially, Li took care of Zhang’s medical needs, but as the disease became uncontrollable and costs soared, Li became reluctant. After consulting a lawyer and realizing that there was no legal father-son relationship, he wasn’t obligated to support Zhang. Li then drove Zhang out. Sick and elderly, without a pension or any financial resources, Zhang sought help from Li in desperation but was repeatedly chased away by Li’s wife. Eventually, Zhang stole a computer during one of his visits, and Li used this opportunity to sue him in court.

…

As Sheng Xian was about to start the hearing, Lu Jingyan and his assistant took their seats in the spectator area.

The assistant, cheerful and talkative, said: “These family dispute cases are the ones lawyers like least.”

Lu Jingyan glanced at him curiously: “Why?”

“After all, being a family case, they’ve lived together for so many years and have emotions involved. Now they end up tearing apart and fighting in court, but they might suddenly reconcile the next second. As a lawyer, you’re thrust into battles front and center, and in the end, you might even be teamed up against by them demanding your fees back.”

“Then Sheng Xian, he…”

The assistant realized what Lu Jingyan was about to ask: “Oh, Professor Sheng didn’t charge for this.”

“Didn’t charge?”

“Yeah, you didn’t know?” seeing Lu Jingyan’s puzzled face, he continued: “Professor Sheng often does things like this. Previously, a blind person was hit by a car, and the other party, taking advantage of her blindness, accused her of fraud. The situation was even hyped up online, and many people said it wasn’t elder people going bad, but bad people growing old, questioning how a blind person could be involved in such deceit.”

“To take that case, Professor Sheng turned down a major corporate economic case, you know, those corporate economic disputes are the most lucrative for us, usually involving commissions. It made the other two partners at the law firm furious, but there was nothing they could do, that’s just Professor Sheng. In his words, he became a lawyer to make the world as fair as possible.”

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