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♫ Because love is the most fragile line of defense ♫
♫ Hate will become the final outcome ♫
♫ I defenselessly melted into love ♫
♫ I became the amber of tears, hanging on your necklace ♫
♫ Selfish love is too sweet so it becomes salty ♫
♫ Uneasy hate is thrown out of my dictionary ♫
♫ I am helplessly frozen into love ♫
♫ I became a crystal of ice, piercing your eyes ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
♫ A consensus is just like positively and negatively charged electricity ♫
♫ If tightly connected, it can brighten the loneliness of the night ♫
♫ The flames of a broken wire can be destroyed in a flash ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
♫ Chasing after each other is like the black and white keys of a piano ♫
♫ If closely dependent on each other, it will produce the theme of love ♫
♫ How can severed strings produce the sound of joy and sorrow? ♫
Medalist Lawyer Heir
- Episode 22 -
Since Tang Ning has chosen you,
you need to protect her well, don't let her get hurt.
I certainly will.
I need to find out what really has happened.
If she really has decided to file the lawsuit, I will also try to
fight for her in the lawsuit.
♫ Selfish love is too sweet so it becomes salty ♫
♫ Uneasy hate is thrown out of my dictionary ♫
♫ I am helplessly frozen into love ♫
♫ I became the crystal of ice, piercing your...♫Tang Ning, it's me.
♫...eyes ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫Tang Ning?
Go, I don't want to see you.
Tang Ning, what has really happened?
Can you tell me so that I can go through this with you?
I can solve my own problems.
Don't get involved in my problems anymore.
What do you mean by your own problems? You're my girlfriend,
your problems are my problems.
♫ Chasing after each other is like the black and white keys of a piano ♫Tang Ning.
I really don't know what troubling thing you've encountered.
But no matter what, I will still be with you.
I'm begging you, can you please tell me? Let's solve it together, alright?
You've decided? You're going to resign?
Can you tell me the reason? Is it because of Tang Ning?
Yes.
At least over half of the reason is Tang Ning, I don't want to lie to you.
Then what about the other less than half of the reason?
Hm?
Director Zhong, last night, Tang Ning told me herself,
that family bonds are more important than everything else.
She doesn't want to investigate any kind of truth.
She wants to use her signature to end all of this.
But this morning,
why did something like that happen?
That's why, I think Tang Ning's decision have their own reasons.
Do you think what happened in the morning is related to me?
I am not only concerned about that one issue.
Many things needs to be sequenced together for clarity.
First issue, 27 years ago,
Tang Ye Corporation's founder, Tang Ji Ye,
before he was aware, he set up a will,
clearly regulating that only his biological child
could inherit all of his inheritance.
You and Aunt Tang did not get the right of inheritance.
I think this is the foremost reason for everything that happened next.
Second issue,
it's related to Mother Wang.
Someone wasn't satisfied with Tang Ji Ye's decision
so they made a plan.
They didn't hope for this child to appear.
They didn't hope for Tang Ning to come into this world.
Very unfortunately, this became known to Mother Wang unexpectedly.
Ridiculous!
Third issue, it was 16 years ago, you guys took advantage of the fact that Tang Ning was only 10 years old,
when she didn't have the capabilities for civil conduct,
you collaborated to take away Tang Ning's inherited shares from Xia Yun through lies!
Do you have evidence?
- I will help her with all of my abilities－!- There's no evidence!
You don't evidence, yet you still lead Tang Ning to file the lawsuit!
- Childish!- I'm not childish!
What are you if not childish? You don't need to resign!
I will tell you now,
you've been fired! Get out!
What has Zhong Ke Ming done
to make you suddenly change your mind?
And even break up with me?
I don't want to say it.
Zhong Ke Ming is your father,
that's why we can't be together.
I won't force you if you don't want to say it.
No matter what your decision will be,
I will still be standing on your side but I don't agree with breaking up.
I won't let you decide anything for me.
Destiny tricks people.
When I encountered Li Sheng Li, I thought through it,
I've let go of the hatred and doubts in my heart.
But I didn't think that,
destiny has sent another great wave.
I also can't change it.
What is the destiny tricks you're talking about?
What is the reason for you to
- make such a big decision in just one day?- I've said I won't say it!
Haven't you always wanted to find your biological father?
Now he's right in front of you.
I can't let you leave.
More than that, I can't let you leave him for me.
On this world, nobody is more important than you.
How do you want me to say it for you to believe me?!
Is there an issue for you to suddenly look for me?
I'm feeling a bit dejected. I wanted to chat with you to relax a bit.
Take a seat.
For so many years, I've never treated him cheaply.
I treated him as my student, like half of a son. But,
he's not my biological son in the end. There's no use in making him stay.
An orphan that we raised, we paid for his education and to go to school overseas.
In career, we nurtured him to become...
become our associate. But for Tang Ning...
he said he's going to leave me for Tang Ning's lawsuit.
For an outsider, he became my enemy.
Enough, Xiao Ning. Stop asking and stop trying to convince me.
I will not change what I've decided to do.
But Brother Dai Bo, do you know, this decision of yours...
I'm going to feel really bad.
What are you feeling bad about? For me to make this decision,
it must have gone through an all-rounded consideration.
This could be said is because of you,
it can also be said that it is not because of you.
I am only doing what I think is right.
For you to do this, I would feel...
that I owe you too much.
What do you owe me? Are you afraid that after I lose my job,
I wouldn't be able to be a lawyer and won't have meals to eat? Is that it?
Don't worry. Tang Ning, after we win this lawsuit,
I will still be able to be a good lawyer.
For these many years, perhaps too much has happened to me,
I feel kind of tired. In the past, I thought I was really strong,
but I also have a soft and weak side.
Maybe it's because I'm old. I'm truly old.
But the repertoire I've earned with adversity,
who is going to be able to take over it?
Sometimes, I feel so troubled.
Thinking back and forth.
There is only one person that I can trust.
I also believe that you've always wanted to find out the truth of this.
Xiao Ning, I'm telling you,
I also really want to know the truth.
Truly. I've always seen Aunt Tang and Director Zhong
as my own parents. I feel like I really understand them.
But now, I realised that's not the case.
I really want to know, they, who raised and educated me,
what kind of people they are.
Let's find out about this truth together, alright?
Dai Bo. As an elder,
as a person who benefactor's identity, I tried to keep him. But he still left.
You should understand how sad I feel.
Right now, I'm not asking you with the identity of Director Zhong,
I am asking you with the identity of a father, I hope that you could stay.
Don't leave me like Dai Bo, I have no one beside me anymore.
If Tang Ning really decided to continue the lawsuit with you,
I would...
I would stand on her side.
You've given up on being an associate, it's really too unfortunate.
Alright.
Let's decide it as it is, don't hesitate anymore.
Tomorrow, file the lawsuit tomorrow and set up the case. I will
go to find a lawyer, otherwise I won't be able to be in court.
The High Court has already set up the case. This case's litigation fee,
if it's calculated according to the current value of shares, it's especially expensive.
I'll see if I could ask,
to ask for a lowering on the litigation fee or a to postpone the pay.
Thank you.
It's my duty.
Tang Ning,
you really believe in Dai Bo, to let him lead your case?
I don't want to either but he has already resigned from Hai Ming Office.
For me, he really has sacrificed too much.
I feel sorry to him.
This is quite troublesome for you.
Dai Bo has ruined him future to help you.
But the Zheng Hao that you like is at Hai Ming Office.
Quite troublesome.
What I've been worrying at was that.
Zheng Hao is also arguing with Zhong Ke Ming right now.
If he follows Brother Dai Bo and leaves Hai Ming Office...
That would be right.
Zheng Hao is your boyfriend, he should resign.
He should be standing on your side, as your representing attorney.
On the other hand, I think Dai Bo should return to Hai Ming Office
because the Tang group is his benefactor.
Zhong Ke Ming is his teacher as well as boss,
how could he help you full-heartedly?
I believe in Brother Dai Bo's character.
He would definitely treat this case justifiably.
Zheng Hao is the one I'm more worried about.
I really don't hope for him to leave his father.
Say, for me to file this lawsuit,
not only would I hurt my Uncle and Aunt,
I would also hurt Zheng Hao in the same way.
But if you don't file, you would feel unjustified for Auntie Wang who died, right?
It is impolite to not reciprocate. Please, take a seat.
Zhong Ke Ming has pulled away a Zheng Hao from me here,
but he has sent a Dai Bo on the associate level.
You, Dai Bo, is a star among Shanghai's lawyers.
This transaction with Zhong Ke Ming has been quite a loss for him.
You're over-complimenting, over-complimenting.
Right now, I am amidst disaster, I sincerely hope Director Xue could take me in.
Taking you in is out of the question. With your skill and popularity,
all of the law firms in Shanghai would be fighting for you.
But only because you're representing Tang Ning now.
But that's fine! My Tian He Office and I are a small firm.
We're not that particular about things.
I know. Although about Zhong Ke Ming, a famous lawyer, leaving the lawyer field,
this has been known for many years.
But he's still an expert about inheritance laws.
Until now, nobody can overtake him still.
In addition to that, with his current position
I'm afraid nobody is willing to be against him.
But I...
am an exception.
Director Xue, I have a question that I'm unsure whether I should ask.
Ask away.
You doesn't seem to be scared to go against Zhong Ke Ming,
you also seem to really hope
that I could help Tang Ning fight her lawsuit against him. Is there a reason for this?
Somethings have their own reasons and consequences.
That's right, between Zhong Ke Ming and I,
we did have a past.
Honestly speaking, I am not too confident in Tang Ning's case.
I also don't mind whether you win or lose in the end.
Through this case,
I only want to see what kind of bad things are kept in Zhong Ke Ming's little box.
Sometimes, curiosity is also a kind of motivational force.
Right?
There are things about Zhong Ke Ming that Director Xue doesn't know?
He and I have been senior and junior fellow disciples for thirty odd years.
There are somethings...
...that can't be explained with a few words.
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Why are you resigning?
Is it just for Tang Ning?
Right now, Tang Ning really needs support.
I must stay by her side.
I didn't think you were so infatuated.
Do you really love her that much?
Yes.
Then, are you certain she loves you as much as you love her?
I believe so.
Sure.
I don't want to feel awkward about this issue between me and Tang Ning.
Fine, this resignation letter...
I will take it. But the resignation process will not be done so quickly.
Thank you.
Tang Ning.
I forgot get my bag, I'll go get it. I'll leave you two to talk.
Why weren't you picking up my calls?
Why are you ignoring me?
Because it's impossible for us to be together.
Why?
Just because my father is Zhong Ke Ming?
Although this is a truth that can't be changed,
this wasn't my fault.
I'm sorry.
On this morning, the biggest private corporation in the market,
Tang Ye Corporation's shares transferal dispute case
will be opened for sentencing in Shanghai's Top Civil Court.
Don't take photos. Thank you.
Interview, interview.
Director Zhong! Director Zhong! Director Zhong!
Cooperate, cooperate. Please don't take photos.
Director Zhong! Director Zhong, could I please interview you?
- Please don't take photos, please don't take photos.- Director Zhong!
Interview, interview.
Could we please interview you?
Interview please? President Tang! President Tang!
- President Tang! President Tang!- Please don't take photos.
President Tang!
Interview, please? President Tang!
Director Zhong, Director Zhong.
Cooperate please, cooperate.
The court is in session now.
Your Honour,
the Plaintiff's first piece of evidence,
signed by both the Plaintiff and Defendant,
a mutual shares transferal agreement.
But this shares transferal agreement wasn't signed by the Plaintiff herself,
it was signed by the second Defendant of this case,
who is also Tang Ning's mother,
Miss Xia Yun, who signed it in her place.
Is Second Defendant, Xia Yun, in court yet?
Your Honour, Miss Xia Yun is ill today,
so I will be representing her in court.
Do you agree with the proof mentioned by the Plaintiff's Representative Attorney?
I agree.
Because Tang Ning was only 10 years old at the time,
she was still incapable of civil obligations. As her lawful guardian,
Miss Xia Yun has the rights to sign the shares transferal agreement.
But,
about this, Miss Xia Yun
didn't ask Tang Ning.
After the issue, especially when Tang Ning
became 18 years old, also known as when she became an adult,
after she became capable of civil obligations,
Tang Ning still weren't told by her mother, Miss Xia Yun,
about this issue's truth.
Since young until now, Tang Ning
has always been told a false truth,
it was that Tang Ye Corporation's shares
were, by Tang Ning's father, Tang Ji Ye,
personally transferred to this case's First Defendant, Miss Tang Li Qun.
Also, this case's First Defendant, Miss Tang Li Qun, and Second Defendant, Miss Xia Yun,
have never told Tang Ning one truth,
it was that, Tang Ning's father,
Tang Ji Ye, had a will.
He hoped to give the shares
to his own daughter as inheritance.
Your Honour,
I am First Defendant's Representative Attorney,
as well as Tang Ji Ye's will's executor.
Just then, Attorney Dai has mentioned,
that the two Defendants didn't tell the Plaintiff
about the truth of the will.
I think that this is irrelevant to the case itself.
What is the case? The case was that Tang Ning brought up,
16 years ago, a copy of signed,
as well as an executed copy of
an ineffective shares transferal agreement dispute case,
and not an inheritance dispute case.
If Attorney Dai
is going to discuss the problem about the inheritance,
you will need to separately file
a case about inheritance dispute.
But this shares transferal dispute
is related to property inheritance.
They can't be separated.
What relations are there?
I am the will's executor.
I can tell the court,
that year, 16 years ago,
after Tang Ji Ye has died,
I immediately transferred his shares, according to the will,
to under Tang Ning's name.
The problem about the will has already finished at that time.
Your Honour, my Representative Attorney has just said very clearly,
that at the same time of my inheriting the will,
my Mother and Aunt has signed the shares transferal agreement.
They have also hid this truth from me the whole time.
According to what you're saying, that means you're no longer opposed to
the truth that can't be argued, which is in the will.
The shares has, according to the will,
been transferred under your name. Isn't that right?
Isn't that right?
So now, what we're arguing is
just the problem about the shares transferal agreement,
unrelated to the will.
Please could both Representative Attorneys
focus their evidences around the topic of the shares transferal agreement.
Everyone, please look at this agreement.
Just then, Xia Yin's representative,
Jiang Yang, has already said very clearly.
This agreement was, by your mother,
who is also your lawful guardian, signed in your place. Is there a problem?
The law allows mothers to have this kind of power.
Let's go back ten thousand steps and discuss further,
if Tang Ning is not satisfied,
or even isn't willing, your mother not telling you
or hiding it from you, the court still can't sentence
this signed agreement as ineffective.
Your Honour, this case's truth is already very apparent.
What the Plaintiff wants to challenge
was the effectiveness of the shares transferal.
But the Plaintiff's mother
and the First Defendant, Tang Li Qun,
when they signed this agreement,
they withheld the same idea, without any conflict.
So, Tang Ning's challenge
does not have any lawful basis or any truthful basis.
The court will be adjourned now.
Tang Ning!
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Why have you chased us out here?
How are you preparing to close this lawsuit?
Don't worry, I will try my best
to help Xiao Ning win this lawsuit.
Xiao Ning,
our current main attack is this shares transferal agreement's ineffectiveness.
But if your mother isn't willing to participate in court as a witness,
we will not be able to construct a basic foundation for an objection.
Zhong Ke Ming is taking advantage of my Mum's unwillingness to participate as witness in court,
for him to retaliate at you in court.
I'm afraid the main point of the problem isn't that.
Tang Ning, look,
if your mother participated in court, what could she say?
Would she say because her daughter doesn't agree,
so the shares transferal agreement from 16 years ago should be revoked?
That won't work. Or would she say,
that she was forced to sign the shares transferal agreement at the time?
That can't be proven either.
Then can we find another reason?
Zhou Tong has said, the price at which the shares were transferred is a breaking point.
That year, the shares transferal agreed price was twenty million, right?
Then what was Tang Ye Corporation's
net assets' market worth that year?
Hua Ye has found the financial manager from that year,
his name is Du Zhi Shui. He has already retired for two years.
He said, at that year, Tang Ye Corporation's net assets value was above three hundred million.
What? That means, your aunt
only paid for even less than one tenth of the price?
I'm also not very sure whether my Mum knew about this.
But, Zhong Ke Ming understands this point very well.
Your mother didn't knew about the company's value,
but Zhong Ke Ming
and your aunt has always been in control of the company. They are very aware of this.
Using an obviously low price, way below the allowed market value, to transfer the shares,
we could argue that your mother was lied to.
That's right, continue investigating following this point.
Thoroughly investigate that Tang Ye Corporations' account from that year.
But Du Zhi Shui is unwilling to participate as witness,
he also isn't personally in Shanghai. He has moved to Singapore a long time ago.
Then find someone else.
He definitely won't be the only one controlling Tang Ye Corporation's finances.
I'll see if Hua Ye is able to find other clues.
Qun.
How are you today? Do you feel better?
I'm fine. Sit down.
I want to talk to you a bit about our daughter's issues.
Sure.
Say, for these past few days, Xiao Jing
is draining me completely of ideas.
But seeing how our daughter
is so determined, I thought it through carefully.
So now, I want to...
declare my standpoint to you now.
The child is grown up now, I think we should give her a chance to choose.
I also think this time, daughter is
especially serious.
She really does like Zheng Hao.
So I think, as her father,
you should respect her decisions, comply with her.
It's not that I'm not complying with her. It's that Zheng Hao
didn't fall for our Xiao Jing.
The one he likes is Tang Ning.
Then if you really want to help your own daughter, I believe...
that you, Zhong Ke Ming, won't be out of ideas.
I am busy enough.
I don't want to interfere the issues of youngsters.
This is what I don't understand.
Look, Zheng Hao likes Tang Ning so much,
but Tang Ning and our family
are not fighting a lawsuit to our deaths like it's the end of the world.
But you're still keeping Zheng Hao by your side, do you think that's suitable?
From what I see, I think
that does nothing good to us.
What do you really think? Can you tell me?
I'm not thinking of anything special.
It is because Zheng Hao is a talented person, if our Hai Ming Office
wants to expand, we need more of talented people like Zheng Hao.
At this stage, I am observing him and nurturing him right now.
So in this lawsuit, I only let him sit by my side,
I didn't let him participate.
Alright, alright, no matter what reason it is. Zhong Ke Ming,
I am thinking for your own good. Don't let it be so that in the end,
you hurt yourself with your intentions in the end.
I'm annoyed enough with this lawsuit already.
Can you not add trouble with them?
Zhong Ke Ming,
how about this?
Since you think so highly of Zheng Hao,
why don't you just take him in then?
As our son-in-law. How good would that be?
Good idea.
If Xiao Jing could get Zheng Hao,
and Zheng Hao comes to propose to Xiao Jing,
I will definitely agree. Is that alright?
Do you really think that?
It's that I don't have any other solution.
There are three people who knows about Tang Ye Corporation's financial situation at that time.
One is Gao Huai Yi, he went to Hong Kong after he resigned.
The second one is Du Zhi Shui,
speaking about him, he was the first one who exposed Tang Ye's secret to me.
Unfortunately, he has emigrated to Singapore.
The third one is Chen Jin Bao.
He retired five years ago.
He knows about the situation, he's willing to meet with you.
I say,
where did you get these reports and charts?
Some were from the Commerce and Industry Bureau,
some were from found and pieced together from the company office's reports and charts.
It's information from ten odd years ago, it's not easy to find.
A lot of these reports were done by me.
Then could you tell me if these are truth?
I'm telling you, making financial reports
concerns artistic tastes.
I'll need to see what the boss wants.
What does that mean? Do you mean to make fake accounts?
What fake accounts are we making?
I'm telling you, about the financial department making accounts,
there are realistically a lot of room for operation.
For example, for just the profit,
it can be modified.
That's why, for the company's accounts
have different ways to evaluate.
Then can you tell me, when you were determining the company's value,
what kind of numbers are usually stable and unchanging?
Actually, it's quite easy. Think about it,
as long as you know the value of total assets
and the the value of total liabilities,
then the company's net book value
can basically be determined.
Alright.
Do you remember what the company accounts' net value is?
Approximately three hundred million.
Three hundred million?
Can you participate in court for me as a witness?
This doesn't seem to be quite convenient for me.
That...if I did that,
wouldn't I have wronged the Tang group?
It's fine, it's fine. I don't think I should participate.
Mr Chen, you need to think about it.
You came from the same village as Mr Tang Ji Ye,
you have also worked for so many years under President Tang.
You should at least stand out and say a few just words for his daughter, right?
Look, my body hasn't been well recently.
About participating in court at witness, I think I should pass.
I can write a few words of testimony for you.
Excuse me, are you lawyer Lu Jing Ming?
Who are you?
I am the one who called you just then.
Ah, you're from Hai Ming Office?
I want to talk to you about something.
This witness's testimony that the Plaintiff have newly provided,
what truth do you want to proof with this?
Your Honour,
I only have one goal in providing this witness's testimony.
That is, to prove Tang Ye's account net value from 16 years ago
was about three hundred million RMB. This is more than
the twenty million RMB as stated in the shares transferal agreement.
It's more than ten times that.
What you mean is,
the transferal price in the shares transferal agreement
is obviously unfair?
Yes.
Your Honour, I oppose to this witness's testimony.
There are two reasons. Number one,
what Chen Jin Bao said was
Tang Ye Corporation's assets' book net value.
And this book net value has always been inaccurate.
- Why?- Because, at the time,
it was when the financial crisis
first happened. Many stable assets,
especially property assets, within one year
could lose 50%. And Tang Ye Corporation
is a company with mainly property assets.
Its financial leverage could reach over 70%.
Once the bank constricts on credit
and makes companies pay up, then Tang Ye Corporation
will have to, in a very short time,
sell all of their land assets.
Think about it, at that time,
how should Tang Ye Corporation's net assets value
be calculated?
What Attorney Zhong said just then was,
if the bank forces companies to repay.
This isn't the truth, it is only an assumption.
The court can't identify assumptions as truths.
Attorney Dai, what I've said just then was only the first point.
My second point coincidentally answers your question.
Attorney Dai is right,
in court, assumptions can't be
the basis of truths. But could everyone please note,
Chen Jin Bao's testimony is exactly an assumption.
But what is it an assumption of? It assumes that,
if there were no shares transferal,
Tang Ye Corporation's net asset value is a book value.
But what if there was?
If a shares transferal transaction has happened,
then how should Tang Ye Corporation's asset value be calculated?
Chen Jin Bao did not mention that.
So I hope that the court could ask for this Chen Jin Bao person
to participate, to let's listen to this person's explanation.
Your Honour, Accountant Chen is old.
Because of his body, he is unable to participate in court as witness.
Your Honour, according to the court's
laws and regulations,
if the witness is unable to participate
and accept questioning from my side, I sincerely ask the court
not to accept this witness's testimony.
How could this be possible?
Although Accountant Chen can't participate in court as witness, his testimony
can still prove what the company's asset value was that year.
This is a truth.
Whether the witness could participate and accept questioning from both sides
is a important point for judicial reforms.
If the witness could rely on one piece of paper evidence
to not be needed to attend court as a witness,
then what should the court use to decide on what's true and false?
In the past, how many falsely judged cases
were all due to this fault in the process?
The annex in Chen Jin Bao's testimony could become an independent piece of evidence.
Your Honour, the annex of Chen Jin Bao's testimony,
which are Tang Ye Corporation's reports from that year,
should still be able to be accepted to be used.
These documentary evidences could become independent evidences.
♫ The difference between red and black is only one thin line ♫
♫ Blazing regret is better than freezing perfection ♫
♫ I take one step forward and stand on the periphery of blackness ♫
♫ A pile of gray stained the edges of my shoes ♫
♫ The difference between love and hate is only one thin line ♫
♫ A clear end is worse than false lies ♫
♫ I take one step backward and say my farewells to hate ♫
♫ The sound of the word “forever” stabbed my heart ♫
♫ Never tell me “forever” ♫
♫ It is just a notion to fool people ♫
♫ Who can promise that they’ve never used this word before? ♫
♫ In the end, they blame the long night for never seeing the next day ♫
♫ Never believe anybody when they say “forever” ♫
♫ It is just an alluring mask ♫
♫ Who can promise that they’ve never heard this word before? ♫
♫ That is only a story found in legends ♫
♫ The world is constantly changing, as are the winds and clouds ♫
♫ I clearly know the danger, yet I’ve fallen for it once again ♫
♫ Never say “forever” ♫