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♫ Because love is the most fragile line of defense ♫
♫ In the end, hate became the last outcome ♫
♫ I defenselessly melted into love ♫
♫ I became the amber of tears, hanging on your necklace ♫
♫ Selfish love is too sweet that 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 eyes ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
♫ A consensus is like positively and negatively charged electricity ♫
♫ If tightly connected, it can brighten the loneliness of night ♫
♫ The flames of a broken wire can momentarily be destroyed ♫
♫ 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 can produce the theme of love ♫
♫ How can parted strings perform the sound of joy and sorrow? ♫
Medalist Lawyer Heir
- Episode 25 -
Zheng Hao, bribing witnesses is illegal.
What are you saying?
I bribed a witness?
Tang Ning, I...I really don't know what is happening.
Why did I suddenly become someone like that to you?
You're not.
Zhong Ke Ming is. No matter what, he is your father. I hope you can remind him when you go back.
About you and him, I didn't tell Brother Dai Bo.
Whether you believe that or not.
Is there an issue?
I saw Chen Jin Bao when I came up.
Why was he here?
Chen Jin Bao is Tang Ye Corporation's ex-worker.
He came to visit his ex-coworkers, there is no problem with that.
Did you bribed the witness?
Bribed?
Bribing witnesses is illegal, we don't do that.
In our current country's evidence laws,
there are no laws stating witnesses can't be monopolised.
That witness was also found by Dai Bo.
If he is so great, he should stop his witness from changing sides.
Then is the witness on our side or not?
Don't mind which side the witness is on.
What's the most important thing of being a lawyer?
Legally protecting the client's greatest benefits.
Protecting the client's greatest benefits.
That's right.
Right now, Chen Jin Bao's testimony is beneficial to our litigant.
So you don't need to be so worked up over why he is here.
You need to put in all your effort in winning this lawsuit.
Then what you mean is, the most important thing about being a lawyer
is to win lawsuits, no matter what measures are used.
Yes.
Being lawyers are about winning lawsuits, doing everything possible,
using every single way. Since the old times,
the winners are kings, the losers are always at fault.
Alright, from now on,
I want to teach you everything I know.
I want you to succeed, I want you to become the best of the best.
Your successful future will be my biggest assurance.
What is it that you're really asking?
I want to know, between my father and Zhong Ke Ming,
what really happened back then in that year?
I really don't know, I'm not lying to you.
Your father has never mentioned half a word.
That year, when he sent you here to me,
there is one possibility. It is that your father already knew you are Zhong Ke Ming's son.
But he just didn't say.
To have Zhong Ke Min lose his own biological son,
that could be the price your father made Zhong Ke Ming pay.
What grudges were there between them?
About grudges, the one your father hates the most is me.
That year, because of that demolition case, your father's license was withdrawn.
All of the people in the lawyer field thought I betrayed your father.
Didn't Zhong Ke Ming tell you this?
Your Honour, my side is currently suspecting Miss Xia Yun
of violating the responsibilities of a guardian.
Proceeding according to her own benefits and not Tang Ning's benefits
to sell my litigant, Tang Ning's, shares from Tang Ye Corporations.
So, my side has requested court to issue an investigation order.
If I agree to issue an investigation order,
is there anything the two Defendants would like to say?
Your Honour, the Second Defendant, Xia Yun, is determined to disagree.
Bank account information belongs to a person's privacy
and it does not have any direct relations to this case.
Your Honour, the First Defendant doesn't agree either
because no matter what the results of the investigation are,
it can not change the case's fundamental truth.
Why?
Your Honour, because no matter how Miss Xia Yun used the money,
this is an issue between the mother and daughter.
Miss Tang Li Qun knows nothing about it.
Even if Miss Xia Yun used the money to pay off her debts,
Tang Ning can only only ask for compensations from her mother.
This has absolutely no relations to whether the shares transferal agreement is effective or not.
This was what I was worried about.
Your Honour, the First Defendant's Representative, Attorney Zheng Hao, is very right.
Whether Miss Tang Li Qun knew about how this money was used
is indeed a key question.
But, none of us know the answer to this question
so I believe the court can't use this reason
to reject issuing an investigation order.
Contrarily, I believe the court should first figure out what this money
was used for then to investigate
whether Miss Tang Li Qun knew or not.
What?
The court has already issued the investigation order for Dai Bo.
He and Tang Ning are on the way to the bank.
Exit-Entry Certification Centre of Shanghai Public Security BureauExit-Entry Administration of Shanghai Public Security Bureau
Hello, Xiao Ning? Is the investigation going well on your side?
Alright.
Help me persuade Tang Ning for me, tell her not to keep fighting anymore.
How can I persuade her? They've got to the murderous stage now.
If I had to say, you should persuade her yourself.
Do you think she would listen to me?
Then leave Zhong Ke Ming. Won't this solve the problem?
♫ If the nightfall isn't beautiful, there'll be someone... ♫
Didn't you see that day?
He's become like that now.
How could I leave him during this time?
That's not the only reason, right? There's also Tang Ning.
The reason I got involved in this lawsuit was so that I could help Tang Ning
investigate the truth of the issue, it's the only chance.
Then what you mean is?
To reconcile with Tang Ning.
Hello, Xiao Ning? I have already asked someone I know from the bank
to search the debt records for me.
Where are you? I'll go find you.
Okay, see you later.
I went to a couple of banks and found some information. What about you?
I only found the money sent to Hong Kong. I didn't find anything to Macau.
Yeah, I went to three banks,
I didn't find any records sent to Macau. Did we get this wrong?
Did your mother really not use the money to pay off gambling debts?
Did she do some other kind of investments?
I have any memory of it.
Brother Dai Bo, have I done it wrong?
I shouldn't have filed this lawsuit.
Xiao Ning, I think that you're not wrong.
Since we've filed the lawsuit and are in court, don't hesitate.
Haven't you always wanted to know what the truth is?
But I'm afraid that once we find out the truth, I would hurt my Mum.
Your Honour.
In the last session, Attorney Dai kept targeting Miss Xia Yun,
accusing her of using the money from the shares transferal to pay off the gambling debts in Macau.
But according to the evidence provided by the opponent,
there is no money on here that was sent to Macau.
Your Honour.
I have a few questions to ask my Mother,
who is also this case's Second Defendant, Miss Xia Yun.
Mum, please answer my questions as follows.
What are you going to ask?
Anyway, I didn't use the money in gambling.
My Aunt, who is also this case's First Defendant, Miss Tang Li Qun,
where did you use the twenty million from the shares transferal money from her?
You used it on home expenses.
Where did I use it? I used it on home expenses, of course.
Where's the evidence? Which expenses did you use it on at home?
It isn't my responsibility to provide evidence.
Your Honour, the Defendant's Representative Attorney, Lawyer Jiang Yang, keeps interfering with my questions.
Although Miss Xia Yun is this case's Second Defendant, she is also this case's main testifier.
Because she is knows about the sequences of events in this case the most.
So, I sincerely request the court to have her sit on the witness seat
to remove external influences.
Presiding Judge
Witness
Mum.
You're sitting on the witness seat right now, nobody will be able to answer questions for you.
So please answer my questions sincerely from your heart
because lies are not allowed in court.
I know.
According to this supplementary evidence that I'm holding, my Aunt, Tang Li Qun,
has, in two times, ten million in each time,
transferred the shares transferal money into your account at Jin Hai Bank, is that right?
Yes.
Also according to this supplementary evidence in my hand,
on the third day after you received the twenty million shares transferal money,
you've transferred the twenty million into the Tang Ye Corporation account, is that right?
Yes.
Didn't you say you spent the money on home expenses?
Why did you transfer it into Tang Ye Corporation's account?
Why should this be treated oddly?
Tang Ye Corporation is your father's, which means it is our family's.
My transferring the money into the company's account equals to giving it to our family.
At that time, you were too young,
you wouldn't have known what the Asia financial crisis was. It was too awful.
The shares price dropped, property prices dropped, everything dropped.
Tang Ye Corporation's cash flow almost completely ceased. If I don't save the company, what should we do?
I know.
You transferred the money to Tang Ye Corporation's company account,
but don't forget, from the moment you transferred my shares to my Aunt,
Tang Ye Corporation isn't ours anymore.
So your transferring the money to Tang Ye Corporation's company account isn't for home expenses,
it is for another reason, isn't that right?
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I admit,
the money was to be paid back to the company.
That also means,
you have indeed borrowed a colossal amount of money from Tang Ye Corporation.
Yes.
I did borrow a colossal amount from the company.
On your list, all of the
money sent to Hong Kong and Shen Zhen were borrowed by me.
But I can't say what they were used for.
That is my own privacy.
I respect your privacy.
Your daughter, Tang Ning, also doesn't hope to hurt you in any way,
so you don't need to tell me the general use of this borrowed money.
Whether this money was used to pay off gambling debts
or was used in other ways, in the end, this was for your own personal reasons,
they have no relations to Tang Ning, right?
That's right.
Thank you.
Your Honour, Miss Xia Yun has finally told the truth about this issue.
She has indeed borrowed a colossal amount from Tang Ye Corporation.
The uses were unclear. But there is one point that is certain,
that is, this money was not used for
my litigant, Tang Ning, or for home uses.
During the Asia financial crisis, Tang Ye Corporation presses Miss Xia Yun to pay off her debts.
In a helpless state, Miss Xia Yun could only sell her daughter, Tang Ning's,
shares from Tang Ye Corporation to pay off her debts.
From this, the conclusion I can make is,
Miss Xia Yun, as Miss Tang Ning's guardian,
for her own benefits, she was forced to
use Miss Tang Ning's shares from Tang Ye Corporation
for an unreasonable, illegal purpose.
Leading to great damage to my litigant,
seriously harming my litigant's benefits.
Therefore, the shares transferal agreement signed with Miss Tang Li Qun is ineffective.
Miss Xia Yun.
When you borrowed money from Tang Ye Corporation,
have you told Miss Tang Li Qun the use of this money?
No.
Then, when you and Miss Tang Li Qun
signed the shares transferal agreement, did you tell her
that you were going to use the shares transferal money
to pay off the debt from the company?
No, I－I didn't.
Your Honour, the Plaintiff's Attorney tried to prove
that Xia Yun, for her own benefits,
transferred the shares and using this as reason,
he tried to prove this shares transferal agreement ineffective.
But what I want to say it,
Miss Tang Li Qun, as the third party, she didn't know
the story behind the shares transferal. She has also never suspected
of Miss Xia Yun's intentions. So I believe,
this shares transferal agreement must be effective.
Your Honour, I believe Attorney Zheng Hao's conclusions were made too early.
Whether Miss Tang Li Qun was the third party, we do not know.
Because neither side has never cross-examined Miss Tang Li Qun.
Fine.
Wednesday nine o'clock in the morning, the court will continue session.
The court has now adjourned.
I think Tang Li Qun isn't the bona fide third party.
How can we prove that?
We can only find this breach from your mother.
Why did she borrow so much money?
For her to borrow so much money, she must get approval from both Director Zhong and Aunt Tang.
They must know the money's use.
The real use of the money must be what made my Mum look foolish.
I have promised her I won't look into it anymore. How should I ask?
The lights are on...why did you have to turn on the lights?
Didn't the doctor say?
My treatment has taken effect.
Right now, all of the opinions from consultation with professionals are hoping for you to undergo surgery quickly.
I still have to undergo surgery quickly?
Why? It's not as if you don't know, there are risks in surgeries.
This was how my Older Brother, with just a cut,
he has never woken again.
How could the current medical technologies be compared to 27 years ago?
Also, all the ones that I found are the best doctors in the country.
You will get better.
Zhong Ke Ming, don't be so fake.
Is it alright to fake feelings and intentions?
Have you made another trap for me to jump into?
Have you collaborated with all of the doctors to lie to me?
Why do I have to undergo surgery?
Don't you just want me to die quickly?
Who wants you to die quickly? I'm doing this for your own good.
Doing this for my own good?
Then why did you have a woman outside?
Why do you have an illegitimate son outside?
I'm telling you, even if Zheng Hao wins the lawsuit for me,
I still won't let him walk one step into Tang Ye Corporation.
Yes, I know.
Zheng Hao has already guaranteed.
After the lawsuit, he will immediately leave Hai Ming Office.
Then, Ke Ming, there is no use even if you keep your son.
I have already told a lawyer to change my will.
I won't leave any cent of my money to you.
I will give all of my property to Tang Jing.
Remember, the Tang family's money
will forever be in the Tang family's hands.
Oh, that's right, if I get sent to the hospital,
who will attend court in my place?
Don't worry, I have already organised it.
Actually, it's better for you not to participate.
Dai Bo wants to interrogate you but he can't get anything, he will leave empty-handed.
Is there an issue?
There's no issue. I came to visit you.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Actually, you don't need to leave. President Tang was just angry in that moment.
She will acknowledge you as her son sooner or later.
I don't need another mother.
I didn't mean that. Alright, alright, let's not talk about that.
Yesterday, you performed very well at court.
There's an improvement, you were very stable.
I am only fighting using your means.
If you had no sense of understanding, it would be useless for me to give you more instructions.
I suddenly thought of my Dad.
What is it?
I remember my Dad told me, as a lawyer,
don't be too mindful of winning or losing,
but you must fulfil your societal conscience.
Societal conscience can't give you meals.
Actually, Zheng Yi Jian's beliefs have been eliminated by time.
That's why, he lost his lawyer license.
The current society operated in a market-oriented economy.
The civilians only care about those that succeed and look down upon those that failed.
Heroes among lawyers are decided by their wins and loss.
As long as you win, what the process was and what you used are not important.
Is this the principle you go by as a lawyer?
Can you tell me, why my Dad's license was withdrawn that year?
Did Xue Han Zhi not tell you?
He didn't, my Dad didn't say anything either.
I only heard from the neighbours whom my father once represented in court.
This may be related to Tang Ji Ye.
This issue is quite long and quite complicated.
At the time, I still weren't married to Tang Li Qun.
So, I'm not too sure about what generally happened.
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The will that Dai Bo altered,
has he finished altering it yet?
Not yet. He said he's representing Tang Ning in fighting a lawsuit with you right now,
there is a conflict in interest.
What conflict in interest?
I...can disregard the conflict.
Tell him to alter it and give it to me soon.
Yes, I will call him now.
Dai Bo!
Director Zhong.
Why did you come here?
I came to visit Aunt Tang. I heard she is about to undergo surgery.
I think you shouldn't go in. I don't welcome you here.
I'll leave after I visit her. This isn't related to the case.
Who are you trying to lie to?
Not related to the case?
What are you holding in your hand?
This is another document that Aunt Tang asked for－
This is the new will that you drafted, right?
Director Zhong, this is Aunt Tang's confidential document. You can't look.
Confidential document?
She is my wife! Why is it confidential?!
What do you mean by this? You asked an unfaithful wolf to alter your will?!
Do you know what kind of person Dai Bo is right now?
He is Tang Ning's representative! He is yours and my biggest enemy!
Zhong Ke Ming, what rights do you have to take my will?
I asked Dai Bo to alter my will, why relations are there with you?
Who is my biggest enemy? You're my biggest enemy!
How did I become your biggest enemy?! Tell me!
Outside, you were feeding your woman and raised a son.
Wasn't it to fight for the Tang family's inheritance?
Whoever is fighting for the Tang family's inheritance is my biggest enemy.
I didn't! Zheng Hao doesn't want to either!
Tang Ning is the one who wants to get your inheritance!
Don't try to muddle right and wrong with me.
I'm telling you, I've finished considering,
I will leave all of my inheritance to Tang Jing!
At least Tang Jing's surname is Tang, she's my daughter!
Then I'll tell you, the shares you got from Xia Yun,
it's not yours alone! It's yours and mine!
In your inheritance, you can take your half.
You have no rights to take my half, you got that?!
Keep dreaming of your gold and wealth!
Hello, Brother Dai Bo?
What happened to Aunt?
Alright.
I will come later. Okay, bye bye.
Aunt Tang, don't be angry anymore.
Could I not be angry?
I am fighting in a lawsuit with Tang Ning. Not only did you not help me, you're helping her.
Now Zhong Ke Ming has come to anger me.
He had such an illegitimate son outside,
he still wants to secretly hide him in Hai Ming Office.
Isn't that obviously showing he wants to steal the Tang family's inheritance?
Surely not. At least Zheng Hao won't think that.
Dai Bo, Dai Bo. I am really a bit worried right now.
Was Zhong Ke Ming's words true or if they were just to scare me?
How could...in my shares,
how could half of it be his?
Aunt Tang, it's like this.
Tang Ye Corporation's shares were purchased by you from Xia Yun.
All wealth and property received during the marriage's existence
are usually seen as shared property.
It's too illogical.
Aunt, why are you alone? Where's Brother Dai Bo?
I told him to go. We'll be the only ones talking about this.
Older Sister-in-law, this way please.
You want to give me half of the shares for me to revoke my case?
Yes.
I want Zhong Ke Ming to take responsibility,
and not be able to take property from the Tang family.
I don't understand.
What I mean is, if I die,
Zhong Ke Ming won't leave all of the property to Tang Jing.
He will do anything to give everything to his son.
- Uncle wouldn't do that.- He will.
He definitely will do that.
So, I thought of a solution.
The two of us should work together.
I will give you half of the shares so he won't be able to get them.
He would still be able to take some. As long as you still possess shares,
he will still be able to get half.
Then I will give you everything.
This way Zhong Ke Ming won't get anything, he won't even get half a cent.
But, Xiao Ning,
your Aunt would then become someone with absolutely nothing.
Aunt, I've said it before. I filed this lawsuit not for your shares or money.
I just want the truth.
Truth? What truth?
Why did my Mum give her shares from Tang Ye Corporation to you?
Fine, I can tell you the truth.
That Gao Huai Yi, do you remember him? He's your mother's lover.
He was also Tang Ye Corporation's financial department's deputy director that year.
In 1998, he embezzled a whole lot of money from the company to speculate stocks in Hong Kong.
In the end, he lost it all.
So, my Mum sold the shares...
to pay the debts for him?
Yes, your Mum didn't want to tell you the real reason.
She also made us promise to keep it a secret.
Tang Li Qun is crazy now.
About you selling the shares and giving the money to Gao Huai Yi,
she told Xiao Ning.
What? Wouldn't she lose the case?
Tang Li Qun has really gone crazy.
She's not just crazy. I don't even want to talk about this anymore.
For her to cause chaos so rashly now, she mainly doesn't want
me to get Tang Ye Corporation's shares.
So what do we do in court tomorrow?
In tomorrow's session, try your best to keep Xiao Ning at home.
I'll think of something.
Aunt, I still have something I want to ask you.
Say it.
Auntie Wang told me,
when my Mum was pregnant, someone added abortion medicine to her soup.
Was it you or Uncle who did it?
Did you think I was Gao Huai Yi's child?
Or, even scarier, was it you guys didn't want me to be born because I would take my Father's shares?
No, no, Tang Ning, shut up. Shut up! Don't say anymore to me!
Also, why did Auntie Wang die in the car collision?
Was it you or Uncle who sent someone to do it?
If this was about abortion medicine from over twenty years ago, I could forget about it.
But for Auntie Wang's death, I can't.
This is an active crime, do you know? I can't tolerate something like this, do you know?!
Tang Ning!
I considered reconciling with you with good intentions.
I even told you your mother's secret.
What are you doing? Why are you so insatiable?
- I am not being insatiable!- You're not a person!
- I just believe that this issue is different, do you understand?!- You're too cunning!
This girl, I don't want to see you right now. Leave immediately. Leave immediately, get out of my sight!
I don't want to see you guys commit a crimes, you know that.
Do you want to send me to jail?!
Do you want to accuse me a murderer?!
You leave. Hurry up and leave!
Hurry and leave me. Get out!
Tang Ye Corporation's shares transferal dispute case
had a new progress recently.
The Plaintiff's Representative Attorney, Dai Bo, apart from in the previous session,
suddenly exposing Tang Ye Corporation's Vice President, Zhong Ke Ming's
scandal of having an illegitimate son,
recently, he has further revealed secrets within the case.
He has given evidence for the real reason for Tang Ning's mother of selling her shares that year.
It was to pay back the debt she owes to Tang Ye Corporation.
Xiao Ning. Here, drink it while it's hot.
You'll sleep better once you drink this.
How nice today.
Don't take things too hard.
Your aunt is in her metaphase stage,
don't bother yourself with her.
Actually, I think you really should reconcile with your aunt.
She's your family after all.
Mum, did you really sell the stocks to help pay back Gao Huai Yi's debts for him?
Seriously, your aunt...why did she bring up Gao Huai Yi again?
Hurry and finish. Once you're done, rest early.
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I don't care how to manage your property,
but my will has stated very clearly.
After I die, all of my property
will go to Tang Jing.
You don't need to worry.
♫ 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” ♫