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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 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 -
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.
Then you don't have to worry. You can feel at ease,
I will not lie to him, Zheng Hao.
But,
both of our wills could become annulled.
What do you mean?
If we lose in the lawsuit,
all of Tang Ye Corporation's shares will belong to Tang Ning.
Why would we lose?
Yesterday, you told Tang Ning about Gao Huai Yi.
If Tang Ning talks about this in court,
then we will lose this lawsuit.
All the things I've said to Tang Ning last night, how did you know?
Don't mind how I know. Right now, we are on the same side,
our biggest common enemy is Tang Ning.
Take good care of your mum.
Your Honour, Collegial Panel, this evidence,
which is also witness Tang Li Qun's testimony.
In the testimony, it's stated clearly.
It said, for the family's need of money,
Xia Yun sold her shares.
She didn't explain to Tang Li Qun,
how these funds were to be used.
Plaintiff Attorney,
do you have anything you want to say?
Attorney Dai,
if you don't have anything further to add on,
- this court will－- Your Honour,
my litigant should be on the way. She has something to say today.
Your Honour, I'm not sure what happened to my litigant,
but yesterday, she has told me something.
What?
She said, she has evidence to prove
Miss Tang Li Qun, isn't a bona fide 3rd party.
Miss Tang Li Qun understood very clearly about how the money from selling the shares was to be used.
I don't know.
I don't know anything about it.
If Tang Ning said I know, where is she?
Why didn't she come to court?
Your Honour, it is currently 10:40am,
It's already been forty minutes since we have started.
Tang Ning still hasn't arrived.
I sincerely ask the court to accept the Defendant,
Miss Tang Li Qun's testimony,
identify her as bona fide third party who knew nothing,
withdrawing all of the Plaintiff's accusations and claims.
Attorney Dai, if you know something about this, please say it.
Are you going to saying or not? Just for waiting for the Plaintiff,
the court can't waste other people's time.
Your Honour,
I have a few questions
to ask the Defendant, Miss Tang Li Qun.
Miss Tang,
towards Miss Xia Yun's real use for the money from selling stocks,
you know it, right?
No.
I don't know anything about it.
According to the examined evidence from last time,
the shares that you transferred to Miss Xia Yun separately in two times,
on the third day, from Xia Yun's bank account,
the money was transferred to Tang Ye Corporation's bank account, right?
Yes.
So,
that money wasn't used on Tang Ning but was to pay Tang Ye Corporation back.
In the last court session, it was said very clearly.
Even if the money was paid back to Tang Ye Corporation,
the money that Miss Xia Yun borrowed
was supposed to be used in the household and for Tang Ning.
Not true.
The money from Tang Ye Corporation wasn't borrowed, it was embezzled.
It was all because of a person named Gao Huai Yi.
You're blathering!
You're making an unfounded claim!
Your Honour, he's not telling nonsense.
All that he said is the truth.
Tang Ning.
You've lied to me.
You have lied to me.
I didn't.
Aunt Tang, I was the first to say it. If you're going to blame someone, blame me.
Tang Ning,
you want to fight for your father's shares, you can. You want to fight in a lawsuit with me, you can.
But you can't use my trust in you
to publicise the secrets I told you.
As a lawyer, do you have profession ethics?!
Hmm?
Aunt Tang, I've said it. If you want to scold, scold me.
Scold you? I should have scolded you a long time ago.
You're an orphan. You've lived in our house since you were 10 years old.
We've let you live a life without worries,
we've let you receive the best education, but you? How have you treated me?
How did you treat me in court today?
As a person, do you still have a sense of humanity?
Did you have the intention to repay, to be grateful?
I'm sorry, Aunt Tang.
You still have enough shame to say sorry?
Director Zhong, I know I'm sorry to both of you
but this is all what you've taught me.You've told me, the court is a war zone,
there is only win and lose, there's no right or wrong. There are only laws and not feelings.
These were all taught to me by you.
What I've taught you? You've learned everything,
but you just didn't learn to be grateful.
Can we interview? Can we interview?
President Tang, President Tang!
Director Zhong, Director Zhong.
Director Zhong, could we please interview you?
President Tang! President Tang!
Are we really going to lose this lawsuit?
If we really lose, Tang Ning will become Tang Ye Corporation's major shareholder.
Then all of us
will be working for Tang Ning.
Why? Will Tang Ye Corporation really be given to Tang Ning?
Then...isn't that too much to her advantage?
This was all your mum's fault.
She didn't trust me, she trusted Tang Ning. It's great now,
all of Tang Ye Corporation's shares are gone.
Zhong Ke Ming, are you joking?
If you didn't have an illegitimate son, would I have tried to collaborate with Tang Ning?
Mum, don't say that.
Let Dad think of a solution,
about how we can take Tang Ye Corporation's shares back.
I won't let Tang Ning win so easily.
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Sit down.
Xiao Jing.
You dad's words can't be trusted.
Mum wants you to remember, right now,
you're the Tang family's only heir.
You must be stand your ground.
Mum's remaining days aren't long.
If, say, I've really left,
what will you do?
Your father will definitely try to give all of the property to Zheng Hao.
Mum, don't say this. You will definitely get better.
Moreover, will Dad...really give all of the inheritance to Zheng Hao?
Why wouldn't he?
That's why, Xiao Jing, you need to become mature. Don't be so playful anymore.
Do this, hurry and go to Tang Ye Corporation, to my office,
take over my place.
Me?
Tang Ye Corporation is so big, how could I manage it?
You don't need to worry about that.
As long as you walk into my office and sit on my chair,
then that's a power in itself.
Who would dare not listen to you?
Child,
listen to mum, quickly go to the company.
Be the replacement president.
Okay.
Mum.
Xiao Jing, every word mum is telling you right now
are serious. You must listen well.
Hurry and go learn.
Go learn the company's operations and management.
If you still don't learn,
once mother leaves, Tang Ye Corporation
will really not be under the Tang family name.
You want me to repay?
Where will I go to find this twenty million?
16 years ago, it was twenty million.
With today's price, calculate how much it is.
I don't need to calculate. Even if it's twenty million, I still won't be able to get it.
I am not forcing you to repay this time.
It's your daughter, forcing me and Tang Li Qun,
to give her the shares. If she wins...
Will she really win?
I am saying IF she wins
and the court sentences it...
Then what will happen?
Tang Yi Je's shares takes up 90% of the original stocks.
Tang Li Qun only takes up 10% of the original stocks.
She reported you and Gao Huai Yi using her identity as shareholder,
for embezzling the company's money,
with charges such as arbitrage.
That way, not only are you shamed in front of your daughter,
you and Gao Huai Yi will also be put into jail. The time served will be long.
Then what should I do? I know,
you must be blaming me for not persuading Xiao Ning.
But she really didn't listen to me.
I didn't have a choice either.
I was only saying "if" just then.
If Xiao Ning wants to win over me, it's not that easy.
I can also write her will for her, if you promise me two things.
Say it.
One, sign a document for me.
Two, come to my office tomorrow,
bring your child sex determination report from the hospital to me.
Alright, alright. I will do that.
Sing your name on the contract.
Why is it shares transferal again?
Where do I have shares?
Also, who is it transferring to?
It's not important whether you have shares.
What's most important is if you have shares, you need to transfer it over.
Transfer to who? Transfer it to Tang Li Qun?
But on this, there is no transferee, it's blank.
Stop worrying about it.
Anyway, when the time comes, put her name there.
Are you going to sign it or not? Don't waste my time.
I'll sign it, I'll definitely sign it.
Why does this not have a signature date?
You have so many questions.
Then...if I sign this contract,
will the issue be gone about me and Gao Huai Yi?
I don't want you and Tang Li Qun to mention this issue again.
Was there such an issue?
I have already forgotten.
Alright.
I think we should still reconcile.
How should we reconcile now?
Tang Li Qun really wanted to reconcile, she told her the truth. What happened?
Tang Ning's intentions aren't for money.
It's for truth.
She knows the truth now,
she knows this twenty million was to save her mum's boyfriend.
Why does she still have to continue?
For us to make the will now, saying she's not the legal inheritor.
This isn't faire for her.
Whether it's fair or not depends on whose perspective you're looking from.
The plaintiff will think it's fair, the defendant will think it's not.
It is the same if the situation has been swapped. Moreover, if Tang Ye Corporation's
shares have always been with Tang Ning,
as a little girl, with what ability
does she have to lead Tang Ye into the market?
Who was it that, in the last twenty years,
made Tang Ye Corporation from a small estate company worth a few hundred millions
to a big business worth over hundreds of millions? It was me, Zhong Ke Ming.
If the court sentence me as the loser, is that fair to me?
To you, is money really that important?
Money can't buy health, it can't buy happiness. More so, it can't buy familial bonds.
Why can't you try to let it go?
To enjoy the warmth from your family
and freely live some comfortable days?
Comfortable days?
To have me hand over hundreds of millions,
how could be in the mood to live comfortable days?
Moreover, the world outside is a world filled with war.
Only those that succeed can stand higher, to be respected by other people.
If the value your wealth and property loses a zero, you'll go down one level.
Then you will be overtaken by other people so you can't lose.
You must always be standing at the very top.
Lady.
Secretary Shen, my Mum has told you already, right?
In the time she's living in hospital, I will be the replacement president.
Yes, President Tang has told me over the phone.
Later, help me arrange an appointment with President Li,
marketing department and finance department's directors.
At half past ten, I want to have a meeting with them.
Yes, I will do that right away.
Wait!
Call my Dad over for me.
I am currently the Replacement President, he's the Vice President, he should come report to me.
This...Director Zhong can't come.
Why?
He's attending court today for your mum and Tang Ning's lawsuit, about the will being ineffective.
Lawyer Zhou.
On December 8th in 1987,
you help drafted Tang Ji Ye's will.
Yes. At the time, I was a lawyer at Hai Ming Office.
I was Tang Ji Ye's drafter.
Please look at the number one evidence,
which is also Tang Ji Ye's will. Can you tell the court,
who the inheritor of this will is?
At the time, Tang Ji Ye was determined to put in one sentence,
"Whoever is in possession of Tang Ye Corporation, all of its shares and legal rights
"will be inherited by that person's child." To explain it from the words,
"that person's child" is Tang Ji Ye's son.
Son. That means, Tang Ji Ye knew at the time,
that he knew whether the child his wife was carrying was a male or female?
He should have known, because I remember he once told me,
he asked someone he knew in the hospital
to do a sex determination test for his wife. The result showed a male.
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Silence! Could everyone please follow the court's rules.
Attorney Zhong, what is that you're trying to prove?
Your Honour, I am the executor of Tang Ji Ye's will.
I have also looked over the will many times, I didn't think anything was wrong with it.
Until after the last session in court, Lawyer Zhou, who wrote Tang Ji Ye's will,
he told me, strictly speaking, Tang Ning
is not the will's inheritor.
How could she possibly not be?
Tang Ji Ye only has one child, it's Tang Ning. She is the legal inheritor of the will.
Attorney Dai, you don't need to be so agitated. What you said,
according to common sense, was right.
Also, this was also the reason why, 16 years ago, I gave the inheritance
to Tang Ning to inherit.
But in this lawsuit,
I became suspicious after hearing what Zhou Kai Yuan told me.
At the same time, Xia Yun has also found the determination report from that year.
Everyone can take a look at this,
child sex determination report.
It is written clearly on this determination report,
the child that Xia Yun was carrying,
was a male.
Your Honour, my party is against this evidence.
As we all know, in our country,
whether it's the eighties during which Xia Yun was carrying Tang Ning
or twenty years later today,
it is illegal to determine the child's sex.
An illegal report from an illegal act,
shouldn't be used by the court.
Let's take a step back, this report is only a sex
test report and not a determination report.
Whether it's a test report or a determination report,
whether the court uses this report is not the focal point.
The main point for me to provide this evidence is to
let the court better know
and understand the real intention of Tang Ji Ye's will.
Your Honour, I believe judging my Father's will real intention
should be done according to the will itself
and not with a sex determination report.
Not only because sex determination is illegal,
it can also be false.
The best evidence is my person.
I am a female, just this point
is enough to falsify this so-called sex determination report.
The report may perhaps be false,
but your father's intentions can not be false.
Why would he write,
"Whoever is in possession of Tang Ye Corporation, all of its shares
"and legal rights will he inherited by that person's child."
Please mind his use of words.
What does this prove?
This proves that he knew the child was male.
His, Tang Ji Ye's, shares will be inherited by his son.
That's right. In the end, what was born was Tang Ning, a daughter.
If that year, my Older Brother
didn't become a vegetative person, he would never approve of this.
Aunt, what do you mean by that?
What did I mean?
Do you, a top graduate from Harvard, not know what I meant by what I said?
Your father's will is ineffective.
The son my Older Brother indicated does not exist.
That's why, you're not the heir of the Tang family.
How could it be ineffective? Tang Ji Ye's will shows,
that he wants his child to inherit his wealth and property.
This is unrelated to whether it is male or female.
It is very related whether it is a son or daughter.
Since Tang Ji Ye indicated to have his son inherit his shares,
his inheritor must be a son.
Could the Representative Attorney of both parties please note,
the point of debate for this current case seems to be all focused on
the word "child".
On the subject, the witness and Attorney Zhong believes that,
"child" meant a son.
Attorney Dai, what does your party think?
Your Honour, our Plaintiff believes that,
the "child" that is mentioned in Tang Ji Ye's will,
didn't so narrowly only meant a son.
Its explanation should be even broader,
"child" should mean
"my child".
Your Honour,
- I don't agree.- Sure.
Even if we go according to Attorney Zhong's explanation,
this inheritance will be inherited by a son.
Then, we must find a child,
a son. Let me ask the opposing side,
could you find such a son?
No.
So, the current situation is, Mr Tang Ji Ye
does not have a son, he only has one daughter and that is Tang Ning.
Then, how should we explain what Mr Tang Ji Ye meant in his will?
"Child" is not son,
it can only be child.
"Child" is irrespective of sex.
Whether the child born by Xia Yun is a male or female,
it is still Tang Ji Ye's child,
it still conforms to the identity of an inheritor.
I want to ask Attorney Zhong,
16 years ago, when the will first began to develop,
the witness, Zhou Kai Yuan, didn't mention any opposing views.
You, as the executor of the will, explained it that way too.
Why, today after 16 years,
would you want to explain it differently?
No! My Older Brother is a very seriously traditional person.
What he wanted was a son,
he would never leave the Tang family's inheritance to a daughter!
I'm sorry, Miss Tang Li Qun,
your words have violated the country's inheritance law number nine.
The country's ninth inheritance law clearly states,
"The right of inheritance is equal between men and women."
The rights of inheritance can't be stripped from Tang Ning just because she is a daughter.
Yours was the residue of the feudal way of thinking.
Attorney Dai, the court is still currently in the investigation stage.
Please do not use the tone of debate to pin labels on people.
Your Honour, I don't believe Attorney Dai is pinning labels.
On the subject of inheritance, my country
has always kept the trends of discriminating the rights of women.
But we can't forget, the country's constitution and inheritance laws
have already established the principle of equality between men and women.
Although my Father has the traditional thinking of feudalism, passing on to son not daughter,
in front of the truth of a lack of a son,
the rights I have as a daughter shouldn't be ignored and even more so, should not stripped from me.
The court's adjudication should be built upon
the principle of equality between men and women.
♫...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 ♫Get out.
♫ If closely dependent on each other, it can produce the theme of love ♫I asked you to get out.
♫ How can parted strings perform the sound of joy and sorrow? ♫
You...why did you come?
Aunt Tang, I just knew that you are going to be undergoing surgery.
It's fine. I'll be undergoing surgery in two days.
If it succeeds, I'll live a few years more. If it fails,
I will go see my Older Brother.
Aunt Tang...we really didn't know.
If Tang Ning and I knew you were going to be undergoing surgery, we would not be fighting in this lawsuit.
You won't?
Xiao Ning won't?
Do you know how much these shares are worth?
Aunt Tang, what Xiao Ning wants isn't shares.
Moreover, even if she wins the lawsuit,
she still won't get all of the shares.
For so many years, Tang Ye Corporation was able to increase so much value
was all because of you and Director Zhong.
Then...is it truth that she wants?
What is the truth that she wants?
Isn't it just to send me into prison?
No. Aunt Tang, neither of us have thought that.
I swear, Xiao Ning have never thought that way.
Really? Then is she willing to revoke her case?
Is she willing?
I will go persuade her. I'll persuade her to reconcile with you.
Sure.
You go persuade Tang Ning to revoke her case.
If you can persuade her
and we can reconcile, only then will I be able to forgive you.
Go. Go.
This project at Xi Shan was discussed for two years, who cancelled it?
Also, Deputy Director Li was our old courtier,
who fired him?
It was decided by Tang Jing.
She said, Xi Shan project's land value was too low,
she was afraid it wouldn't work. Deputy Director Li didn't agree,
so they started arguing.
What rights down Tang Jing have to fire him?
She said she has the rights to.
It was President Tang who named her the Replacement President.
Even President Tang doesn't understand the company's business,
what does she know?!
Notify the directors,
we'll have a meeting tomorrow afternoon.
Call Tang Jing over.
Yes.
Tang Ning, be happy.
You're about to win over your aunt and uncle.
Do you know what this means? This means,
you're about to become Tang Ye Corporation's controlling shareholder
and sit on Shanghai city's
top most seat for the richest person in private enterprise.
What use is that? Do I care about that?
That's right.
What's right?
Can't you say something good? So useless.
Xiao Ning, I think you should reconcile with your aunt.
Why reconcile? The lawsuit is about to be won.
Why reconcile? Wouldn't all of the hard work be wasted then?
Don't speak.
Why?
Dai Bo, I'm telling you, do you not know
that you're trying to get Tang Ning's favour here and then get Tang Li Qun's favour there?
You're trying to be a good person on both sides, trying to be two-faced.
I know how many times you've gone to the Tang family's house.
- What do you mean?- What do I mean?
I've been following you!
You stalked me? What rights do you have to stalk me?
What rights? I did it for Tang Ning.
Stop speaking.
I knew Brother Dai Bo went to see my Aunt.
I am prepared to reconcile with my Uncle and Aunt.
You've agreed to reconcile? You're sure?
Brother Dai Bo and I have already made the draft for the reconciliation agreement.
I've thought about it, since I am not someone to manage business,
only Uncle and Aunt can manage Tang Ye well.
Making Tang Ye bigger and better is what my Dad wants to see the most.
Then that's good. I was still worried that you won't agree to reconcile.
I've actually really wanted to reconcile all along.
I'll go.
- Xiao Jing!- Get away!
Xiao Jing!
- What's going on?- Tang Ning, you cunning fox. Aren't you so great?
What are you trying to do, making Zheng Hao and Dai Bo entangle themselves around you?!
You've even beaten my Dad. Say, what tricks did you use?!
What tricks did I use?
Xiao Jing, what are you doing?! How could you speak to your older sister like this?
- Xiao Jing!- How am I speaking to my Older Sister?
Can you calm down?
- What about it?- Can you not always put Tang Ning in a difficult position?
What? Have I? The wealth and property that we share is about to be all stolen by her!
Why have you blamed it on me again?
- That's right.- How have I blamed it on you again?! Shut up!
I'm telling you, all of you can just mind her!
Nobody care about me!
- Xiao Jing! Why are making a scene?!- Xiao Jing!
- Xiao Jing!- Xiao Jing!
What?
Xiao Jing got into a car accident?
Shanghai General Hospital
How is she right now?
Emergency
Lao Ke, go to the hospital.
- Xiao Ning.- The doctor said she must immediately undergo surgery.
How is she? What's the situation?
- Director Zhong.- Uncle.
She needs a blood transfusion.
She's an A type, I'm an AB type.
Then I will supply, I am type A.
Tang Ye Corporation
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She's an A type, I'm an AB type.
Director Zhong, once you called last night,
I had someone search overnight.
All of the information you want is in here.
Tang Ning's blood type is AB.
Other than that, I've put Tang Ji Ye's information,
all of his medical history have been gathered.
His blood type is O.
Dean Wu, I want to ask you a question.
A father of blood type O,
what will his child's blood type be?
According to Mendel's law of heredity,
the child's blood type comes from the parents. Usually,
if one of the parents have blood type O,
then the child's blood type...
will not be able to be AB. Please look here,
if the father's blood type if O
and if the mother is type A,
then the child's blood type can only be O or A.
♫ 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” ♫