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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 Heirs
- Episode 34 -
Does it taste good?
It's delicious.
If you like it, there's another piece.
I'll finish them all.
Brother Dai Bo, you came back from studying overseas,
do you know about this cake's story?
This cake has a story?
I don't know.
What cake is this called?
It's called Matcha Mousse.
Matcha Mousse?
I'll remember it.
Once upon a time, there was an poor young man.
He fell in love with the daughter of the farm owner.
So everyday, he would use matcha leaves
to make cake and give it to the girl.
Then the girl began to like him.
So the both of them eloped.
In the end, the farmer owner also agreed.
They had a happy ending.
So this cake is called Matcha Mousse.
I didn't think this matcha cake had such a pretty story.
So, you see,
a piece of cake can pull two people closer.
Right?
That's right. Right.
If you like it, then I'll make it often for you in the future.
Sure.
There's still some.
A stillborn?
- Do you know who told Xia Yun? - Who?
Lawyer Zhong Ke Ming.
What happened to Xia Yun's child, apart from us,
Lawyer Zhong is also looking for it.
My Aunt has her own reasons for telling me to search,
but for Zhong Ke Ming wanting to look,
he knew that if he were to find the child,
it won't be greatly disadvantage him.
So he must have other intentions.
Let's think about it with counter-intuitive thinking.
If finding the child is disadvantageous to Zhong Ke Ming,
then his reason for finding the child must be opposite to ours.
We're looking for the living child,
he's looking for the dead child.
So he told my Mom that child was stillborn.
About the stillborn, could it have been made up by Director Zhong?
It wasn't.
I heard from the Nurse Director, that on the night Tang Ning was born,
there was really a stillborn child at the hospital.
Artificial insemination?
Of course I didn't!
I married Tang Ji Ye while I was pregnant, why would I have to be artificially inseminated?
Mom, we're only asking.
Auntie, sorry.
It was me who asked Tang Ning to ask you.
Xiao Ning,
I know it's really hard for you to accept the truth that you're not part of the Tang family,
It is actually really hard...really hard for me to accept too.
You're innocent.
Mom.
You'll forever be my Mom.
You'll also forever be mom's daughter.
But my child who died is so pitiful.
But Auntie, can you really confirm,
that the child you gave birth to really couldn't survive?
I don't know.
But Zhong Ke Ming said it very surely.
He seems to already have evidence for the stillborn.
After so many years, the old documents at Chuan He District
were all in the storage. I've tried many times,
but the storage manager, Mr Lu, never let me in to search.
How could Zhong Ke Ming have found
that your child was stillborn?
I don't know.
Doesn't the information storage manager knows Hua Ye?
Is he unwilling to help us?
That old man Lu is very stubborn.
Apart from Hua Ye, I've talked to
Li Dan and Nurse Director Sun. They have all said no.
He said, your birth card can be searched for,
but other people's can't be looked at.
That's true. Birth cards are personal privacy, not everyone can look at it.
But if I don't look for it, how can I find evidence?
It's really odd. How could Zhong Ke Ming find...
...find out that the child my Mom gave birth to was a stillborn?
Don't worry.
No matter if the secret is with Zhong Ke Ming
or in the document storage room,
I will try to find it for you.
Lao Ke.
Your efficiency this time was really high.
Luck. It was our good luck.
Older Cousin,
do you know, He Ya Yin's younger sister, He Yu Qin,
have helped a great deal this time.
He Yu Qin?
How have she helped a great deal?
That year, He Yu Qin was in the district hospital's obstetrics department.
She was a nurse.
Right, right, right. I remember.
She was a nurse at the hospital?
At that time, she wasn't called He Yu Qin.
She was called...He Xiao Xue?
Could she have－?
Also, on the night Xia Yun gave birth,
she was the nurse on duty.
That coincidental?
I've found her.
What she said was exactly what Nurse Director Sun said.
On that night, there was indeed a stillborn.
Then does she know who the stillborn belonged to?
She only remembers there being a stillborn.
About who stillborn's parents were...it has been too long, she couldn't remember.
Then how did you find out...?
The stillborn's parents?
How can we prove that the stillborn's parent is Xia Yun?
I...still haven't found that yet.
I was thinking that it should be confirmed that a stillborn is in this case,
then add in the child death verification. Wouldn't that be enough?
Then that means, this child death verification is fake?
Did you want to harm me?
This fake child death verification,
do you think it could fool the court?
How are you so naïve?!
Older Cousin, this...this...I'll think of another way.
But the dead child has already been cremated.
Even if we could find the family, they still can't do a parent-child identification test.
Think of a way if there's no way!
Yes, I will think of a way.
Wait.
Find He Yu Qin again.
Get her to testify in court. Get me a real death verification.
Yes. I will do that right away.
- Hey! Xiao Jing, you're here. - Hello, uncle.
Your outfit is so pretty today.
- Your dad is inside. - Okay, okay.
I'm going first.
Sit.
Dad, is there a reason for you ask me to come?
To come back to work.
Work? Does the company still even need me?
Haven't you already pulled me down from the Replacement President seat?
I pulled you down because I was hoping you would work upwards from the bottom.
- So that you can understand the bottom levels more. - I don't want to understand.
You don't want to understand? Then how are you going to manage the company in the future?
Aren't you there at Tang Ye Corporation?
I will get old! I will retire.
If you get old, there's still Zheng Hao. What part do I have in it?
Why would you have no part in it?
Mom said, Dad just wants to change Tang Ye Corporation into Zhong Ye Corporation.
Whether the company is under the Tang or Zhong name,
you're still my daughter. Is that not so?
Dad.
Why do you and Mom have to be like this?
Can't you two go back to how you were before?
In the past, would you Mom use every kind of way to find her older brother's child?
Would she make me lose everything?
She's afraid that Tang Ye Corporation would be taken away by outsiders.
Outsiders? Am I an outsider?
She should think about it. She married me, Zhong Ke Ming, so she is a person of mine.
Right now, even my daughter's surname can't be Zhong.
Dad, is the surname that important?
It is important!
Do you know your grandmother,
before she died, she kept complaining to me,
saying that I couldn't leave an heir for the Zhong family.
Now, even my daughter can't have the surname Zhong.
Do you know in these many years,
how guilty I felt, how tortured?
Fine, let's not talk about this.
Since whether the company is under the Tang name or Zhong name is irrelevant to you.
You will still be my daughter in the end.
Xiao Jing.
Dad hopes that you...
I hope that you and Zheng Hao could recognise your blood line.
Zhong Hao and Zhong Jing, how resounding these two names are.
I don't want to, I can't possibly change my name.
Mom will become upset.
Also, I can't possibly have any older brothers.
- I'll just take up 2 minutes of your time. - What is it?
So rushed.
- Just come with me. - What are you doing?
This way.
- What is it? - We're here, we're here.
Nurse Director Sun, I'm sorry. I still have two questions to ask you.
Alright, alright. As long as I can answer.
Sure.
That day you told me, on the night Xia Yun gave birth,
there was another nurse who was on duty in the delivery room.
I would like to know where she is right now and what her name is.
She left here a long time ago.
She was transferred away over twenty years ago.
Her surname is He, her name is He Xiao Xue.
He Xiao Xue?
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Xiao Ning.
I've researched at the court yesterday.
fought in a lawsuit against each other.
- What lawsuit? - Here.
These people were all residences in Pu Jiang area and on Jiang Bian Street.
For a dispute over the move, they've filed a lawsuit against Tang Ji Ye.
What is interesting was, do you know who their representative attorney was?
It was over twenty years ago, how would I know?
You know them both.
One was Zheng Yi Jian, the other was Zhong Ke Ming.
There was another one, Xue Han Zhi.
How do you know this so in depth?
When I was studying in England, I studied the history of the legal system.
So I understand, any current situations have their own historical reason.
I kept thinking, you're Zhong Ke Ming's son, why did Zhong Ke Ming never know?
Then, your mother, He Ya Yin, was unwilling to tell Zhong Ke Ming.
We know now, we can understand that.
But why did she marry Zheng Yi Jian in the end?
And Zheng Yi Jian and Zhong Ke Ming had a very good teacher and student relationship.
Why did they not contact each other in 20 years?
And why didn't he, about the truth of you being Zhong Ke Ming's son,
tell him?
I've asked Zhong Ke Ming before.
But he told me, he and my Dad didn't have any grudges.
Do you believe that?
So I think, the two of them must have had conflict.
See,
the one who wrote the anonymous letter to Tang Ning was definitely Zheng Yi Jian, right?
Why would he write you a letter?
His real intention was to target Zhong Ke Ming.
So I strongly believe that the two of them must be conflicted.
Then my Dad must have not known Tang Ning had such a secret about her life.
He only knows that Tang Ning is Tang Ji Ye's daughter,
that's why he would write a letter to her.
Hey, have you tried to use your
history analysis powers to analyse why her biological parents
would substitute her in secret?
My biological parents substituted me in secret?
That's impossible.
Tang Ning was substituted, that can be confirmed.
But which biological parents are willing to give their own child to someone else?
Then who could it be?
What was the real intention?
If we analyse from their intentions,
then Tang Li Qun and Zhong Ke Ming would be under suspicion.
Logically, this inference will definitely not work.
No matter what, it must be related to Zhong Ke Ming.
It's just that we don't know where the relation point is now.
I will definitely think of a way to find out
what kind of secret Zhong Ke Ming has.
Alright, say it.
What do you want to ask?
I want to ask about the stillborn from 28 years ago.
How much do you know?
Why do you need to know about this?
I want to help Tang Ning find her biological parents.
Fine.
Then I will tell you.
I really don't know.
If you know know, then why are you certain that
the child Xia Yun gave birth to was a stillborn?
Since Tang Ning wasn't born by Xia Yun,
and on that night, in the hospital,
there were no misplaced children.
There was only a stillborn. If this stillborn wasn't born by Xia Yun, who gave birth to it?
If Xia Yun did give birth to a stillborn,
then what about Tang Ning?
Wouldn't her parents have lost their child?
This is a good question.
That's why, I think, it's very possible that Tang Ning
and Xia Yun's stillborn were swapped.
Tang Ning got swapped?
Who would do that?
What would the intention be?
Not everything has an intention.
Moreover, who can prove that Xia Yun didn't give birth to that stillborn?
Who can prove it?
Boss Ning, I'm off work.
What are you doing? All down and dejected here alone.
I just went to Zhong Ke Ming.
All of the evidence around the stillborn are gone.
Boss Zhong, Dai Bo would like to meet you.
He has waited for two hours.
Where is he?
He is outside.
Boss Zhong.
Are you going to meet him?
Director Zhong.
I came today...
just to tell you,
I was too immature before, I was very childish.
I...I thought I was above everything
and could do anything.
To chase after my so-called true love,
I gave up everything.
I have betrayed the expectations you had in me.
I know.
I'm sorry.
I understand now.
Actually, the true love that I've been chasing
never belonged to me.
It was me who was too immature.
I really know now.
Have you finished talking?
- Director Zhong! - Don't call me!
It's been so long already.
The legal time is no longer than 20 years.
It's normal for traces of evidence to be lost.
Once the 20 years pass, the inheritor's right of inheritance will be gone.
Zhong Ke Ming is trying to veer our thoughts towards the stillborn.
He wants to use that to drag out his time.
He wants us to think that the child has died.
No matter whether we believe it or not,
we will still continue to investigate the truth about the stillborn.
In the end, if we continue, not even in a couple of years,
we still won't be able to find out.
In another 2 years, my Dad would have passed away for 20 years.
If by that time, Tang Ji Ye's biological child
really returned,
the child will still lose the right to inherit.
Zhong Ke Ming is indeed a prestigious lawyer.
His move this time has no countermove.
We think of one move, he thinks of two moves, even three moves.
He's quite scheming.
President.
In these recent few days, there's also something that was odd.
- What is it? - Director Zhong and Lao Ke are busily going everywhere
trying to also find Xia Yun's child.
He was desperately trying to not let me search,
- then he... - No, no.
His and our targets are different.
I heard at the office yesterday, that the child has been found.
But...
it was a stillborn.
Stillborn?
After work, let's go eat together.
What are we going to eat?
What do you want to eat?
I want to eat...pizza.
Sure. I'll bring you there to eat.
Brother Bo.
Zheng Hao?
I thought you were off work.
- I just did. - What would you like to eat?
Orange juice.
Brother Bo, why did you go to Tang Ye Corporation today?
- You saw me? - Yeah.
Nothing much.
Zheng Hao,
since you saw me, I'll tell you something.
I...might make an important decision.
But I still haven't told Xiao Ning about this decision
because I don't know how to tell her.
So don't tell her yet.
You know, every decision I make
has their own reason.
We're good friends.
So I hope that when you hear this decision in the future,
you would be able to understand me.
Then...alright.
Orange juice.
Thank you.
Dad, don't say any more. Come here, don't say any more.
Don't be like this. Dad!
- What?! - Dad.
Mom was in pain and didn't sleep last night. Now she has finally fallen asleep.
Just stop disturbing her.
What logic is this?
Her illness wasn't my fault.
This is good. A few days ago, I was in the office,
I didn't come visit her while I was intensely busy.
Say, she in her room,
she flew into a great fury, scolding horrendously.
Alright, now that I came to visit her, I'm afraid of getting into another argument with her.
What do you want me to do?
Dad.
You two have gone through ups and downs for 20 years after all.
Mom doesn't have much remaining days left.
Can't you just let her get her way once? You two are a couple, a couple!
Don't you worry.
I won't let her get upset.
Alright?
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Qun.
Don't be so fake.
These few days, you didn't come to keep a close eye on me.
Were you busy trying to replace me at the company?
Nothing like that.
There's someone who always reports my every move to you.
Would you not know?
Have you set it all up already a long time ago?
Set up what?
29 years ago,
the first time you stepped into the Tang's house, the first time you saw me,
you've set it up already.
You made a huge trap, you were just waiting for today,
to replace me, to replace the Tang family, right?
Can you stop thinking irrationally?
Tell me,
my Older Brother's child,
where have you hidden it?
I don't know.
I don't know anything.
That child was a stillborn.
Right?
How did you know?
How did you kill it?
Don't be nonsensical.
What does the stillborn have to do with me?
Zhong Ke Ming,
my Older Brother's child,
is it dead or alive?
Either is possible.
But...
But what?
On that night, there was a stillborn.
And Xia Yun's child
disappeared.
Xiao Jing.
Xiao Jing, wake up.
Xiao Jing.
Help Mom call Dai Bo, tell him to quickly come.
Mom, why are you looking for Brother Dai Bo?
He has already left Hai Ming Office.
Don't mind so much. Just call when I tell you to.
Also, go home to sleep tonight.
Come again tomorrow morning.
Mom, then I will go back tonight.
Go. Go.
I'm leaving, Mom.
Goodnight.
Hello, Xiao Jing?
Hello, Brother Dai Bo? Where are you?
I am going to eat with a friend.
Come to the hospital quickly. My Mom is looking for you.
Xiao Jing, don't get nervous. What happened to your mom?
Come to the hospital quickly.
Don't get nervous. I will be there right away.
Come to the hospital with me for a bit.
There must be something going on with President Tang.
Xiao Bo.
I asked you to come is to ask you...
...to help me fight Zhong Ke Ming in a lawsuit.
A lawsuit?
I know. I am not filing a lawsuit for divorce.
You and Xiao Ning have explained to me already.
The success to divorce isn't big.
Moreover, I have no more time to waste anymore.
Aunt Tang, don't say that.
You will recover.
No need to console me. I know my illness
doesn't have much time left for me.
The point is, the hope that I entrusted on you guys to quickly find my Older Brother's child, it now looks like...
We are already searching, we already have a lot of traces of evidence.
It's too late.
Think about it, if I find Older Brother's child then fight it out with Zhong Ke Ming,
I wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
Zhong Ke Ming is also looking for that child.
He is very purposive, he wants to prove that the child is already dead
or if it is not dead,
he will make a trap for it,
to make it die.
No...no...no way.
Aunt Tang,
Director Zhong is a person who knows the law.
I think that, you shouldn't keep thinking about this issue.
Don't keep thinking that Director Zhong is evil.
Think about it, when he was good to you,
think about when you two were at peace.
Wasn't that quite good?
At peace...when he was good...
We can no longer go back.
It can't be achieved.
Zhong Ke Ming,
he has a son now.
Say, could he turn to look back?
During these days,
I've thought a lot while lying in bed.
There's actually nothing that lasts forever in the world.
Wealth is a fleeting cloud,
living is temporary.
There is only one thing that is forever, death.
Aunt Tang.
- Don't... - Don't interrupt me.
So, everything in the world
has their cause and consequences.
Think about it,
over 20 years ago,
my Older Brother and I
thought that Zhong Ke Ming was a superior son-in-law,
that he was our Tang family's servant. But look at him now.
Look at him now.
My Older Brother and I
were working for Zhong Ke Ming, were working for his son.
Aunt Tang, Director Zhong...
He has lived for so many years with you after all.
He isn't that evil.
Whether he is that evil or not, I know it myself.
Dai Bo.
I remember that you've promised me,
between Zhong Ke Ming and I,
you are standing on my side, right?
That's right. I have promised you.
Good.
I want to sue Zhong Ke Ming, I want to report him.
You say, what should I do?
I'm afraid this would be really hard.
You're a reputable lawyer.
There should be nothing hard in front of you. You have a lot of tricks.
To me, it's not hard either.
I am a person about to die, I am not even afraid of death.
Would I be afraid of Zhong Ke Ming?
If you have to sue him no matter what,
you can sue Xia Yun and him.
Sue him and Xia Yun?
How?
Since Tang Ning isn't Tang Ji Ye's child,
then all of the shares she inherited from Tang Ji Ye
would lose their legal basis.
Xia Yun transferred her shares to you,
those would lose their supporting base.
Her agreement with Zhong Ke Ming would become ineffective.
Let's say that Zhong Ke Ming's child was found.
Then everything would become easier to work with.
You and Xia Yun's shares transferal agreement becomes ineffective.
All of the shares
would return into Tang Ji Ye's child's hands.
Xia Yun can't give the shares to you and can't give them to Zhong Ke Ming either.
Just tell me how to do it.
You can ask the court to give the shares
to keep the shares for the unfound child.
Before Tang Ji Ye's real legal inheritor by will is found,
these shares could be looked after by the mother, who is Xia Yun.
But Xia Yun's disposition of these shares
must be monitored.
Then that means, after I die,
Zhong Ke Ming won't be able to get even one cent?
Is that how it is?
Aunt Tang.
The case you're reporting about them,
I can't help you.
If you have to find out about everything in this,
you can go find Ning Ning Office.
Tang Ning?
Also Zheng Hao.
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Brother Dai Bo, I want to buy something at the shopping centre in front.
Just put me down over there.
Just there is fine. I can walk there myself.
Wang Ke.
I'm fine, you don't need to get off earlier than needed.
Brother Dai Bo.
Do you really like Lawyer Tang?
Between you two,
did something unhappy happen?
Was it also related to Lawyer Tang that you not to take Aunt Tang's case?
Aunt Tang,
I want to ask you something.
You must tell me the truth.
Do you know or not know that Tang Ning was swapped?
Where are her biological parents?
What do you mean?
Are you suspicious of me?
I really, really don't know anything.
Then who do you think would know?
Is it Director Zhong?
Yes.
It is Zhong Ke Ming.
Only Zhong Ke Ming, that bastard, would create a plot like this.
Dai Bo, this is another conspiracy.
No.
It was not related to Tang Ning.
She is only my little sister.
I just don't know what to do now.
Because I can only choose to return to Hai Ming Office.
I can only choose to help Director Zhong.
I think that, do it as long as you think it is the right thing to do.
The people who understand you will understand you naturally.
Xiao Ning.
Tell aunt, what I should do.
Aunt.
If you must file this lawsuit,
I will help you.
♫ 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” ♫