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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 23 -
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.
I agree on that point.
Your Honour, if the court accept this written evidence,
I wish to bring in a witness.
Because written evidence is a dead evidence.
But the true meaning would require a living person to explain.
Attorney Dai.
You have a problem with Defendant brining in a new witness?
Yes, I do.
We oppose Defendant's lawyer who is trying to do sudden attack
and asking for new witness. This is not fair to us.
Lawyer Dai. You are mistaken.
Our side is not brining in new witness. It is your witness.
Chen Jin Bao.
You won't disagree, right?
The court is adjourned.
Chen Jin Bao is not switched to other side and become their witness.
We should blame it on not having strict regulations for evidence and witnesses.
They can't touch our witness. If they did, it is disturbing the witness.
What should we do if Chen Jin Bao say something that is not good for our side in court later?
We will wait and see. Chen Jin Bao
can't let his words contradict themselves and deny his own testimony after all.
[Witness]
Witness, didn't you tell me that you are not feeling well so you couldn't come to testify in court?
Oh...that was 2 weeks ago.
I am feeling very well now so I can testify.
Okay.
This is your testimony. You testified that in 1998,
it was also when Tang Ji Ye past away.
Tang Ye Corporation's market net asset value
was around three hundred million, right?
Yes, that is correct.
Okay, this also means that,
this case's First Defendant, Miss Tang Li Qun, and Second Defendant, Miss Xia Yun,
confirmed the shares transferal price when they signed the shares transferal agreement,
which was twenty million RMB,
obviously lower than the company's net asset value. Is that correct?
No, you can't say it like that. You can't say it like that.
No matter how I say it, the price
should not be too different from the company's net asset value.
We'll calculate it with 50%, that should amount to at least
one million RMB, right?
No. It's like this, I'm not a buyer or a seller, right?
Even if I say what the transaction price was, it still wouldn't count.
Attorney Dai don't look at me like that.
Your eyes are very aggressive, looking at them makes me scared.
I...right, right, right. How about this, this is the
two thousand RMB that you gave me.
I've thought about it and still think that I should return it to you.
Since, today, you weren't able to get from me
the transaction's price.
Witness, this is a court. What nonsense are you saying?
This money is not related to you attending court as a witness.
I am not spewing nonsense.
Didn't you personally come to my home to give me this money?
That's only why I agreed to come to testify for you.
Your Honour,
it was the witness who told me his family was in difficulty. I gave him this money out of pity.
This money weren't given for him to attend court as witness.
I gave you this money not in exchange for your testimony.
Also, you know that you have responsibility to testify in court.
Let me tell you, it was only because of this money that you gave me,
that I agreed to come to testify for you, right?
Don't set me up. People like me,
are insignificant characters, insignificant civilians.
All these laws and all these responsibilities,
you telling me...I really don't understand these things.
Fine, I don't have any questions.
Witness, if Tang Li Qun what price to raise
to buy the shares under Tang Ning's name,
that is still reasonable, how would you answer her?
At the time, it was during Asia's financial crisis.
At that time, as long as you had readily available cash, you would have been king.
Also, everyone was haggling property prices at the time.
Tang Ye Corporation's estate project...
that price fell to a complete mess.
I remember the market's price must be far below
the net asset value.
What's even scarier is, it can't be cast away.
Then, raising twenty million in this special situation,
is that reasonable or not?
Of course it's reasonable.
At the time, a lot of external resources were being spent. Also,
I remember if the buyer could bear
all of the company's debts...
You guys might not believe it if I tell you, just one dollar
could buy all of the project.
I don't any more questions.
Judge
Tang Ning.
Is there an issue? If not, we're leaving first.
What? Chen Jin Bao changed his mind?
Who was it that leaked the information?
I don't know. At the last moment, it was Brother Dai Bo,
who gave Chen Jin Bao's written testimony to the court.
But I don't know why, I feel like Zhong Ke Ming knew way earlier on.
It's very possible that it was because of people in our department.
Alright, bye bye.
Aunt Tang.
How are you? Are you alright?
Could I be alright? These days,
apart from going to the hospital, it was going to the court.
I am really afraid that I would faint in court if I couldn't hold on anymore.
The doctor said, at the same time of killing my cancer cells,
they have also killed all of my normal cells.
Sit.
It was my fault. You're so ill now,
yet I am still making you angry. It's my fault.
It's good that you know of your mistakes. In the future,
make less mistakes towards me.
Xiao Bo, I watched you grow up.
This time, for you to help Tang Ning,
I can entirely understand.
But, you can also see in court,
Tang Ning can't overthrow the shares transferal agreement.
Say, what is the point in continue fighting like this?
What do you think?
Aunt Tang, did you ask me to come here today
to have me convince Tang Ning to revoke her case?
Yes.
We were originally a happy family.
Why? Why did we have to bring this fight to the court?
In the court, you could already see.
It is a war zone. Look at those behind us,
they are all cameras and videoing cameras. We don't know
what news those writing reporters would make up.
You're right.
A family definitely shouldn't be like this.
This attitude is good.
Since...since we're fighting in a lawsuit,
this way, you...
tell Tang Ning, tell her, tonight,
to come here to me.
I will beg her. Go back.
Aunt Tang.
Oh my, what are you doing?
- Hurry and get up! Get up, get up, get up.- I won't get up.
I must say it while kneeling.
I grew up in the Tang family since I was young.
You were the one who taught me how to be a person since I was young.
You paid for my education, for university to let me learn about law.
You were the one who constructed my character.
Since I've studied law, I've made helping the weak
and reveal the truth my life's principles.
But I really didn't think that,
revealing the truth would happen in the Tang family.
I don't want to face this.
I really don't want to. I did try to persuade Xiao Ning,
I told her to give up. She didn't listen to me!
She's different to me, Aunt Tang. She is a litigant,
she has the right and reason to know the truth.
I'm sorry.
Come, get up.
Dai Bo,
you're really not suitable to be a lawyer.
The words you said just then,
makes me lament.
But what is it that you really want to say?
Continue speaking from where you were.
Aunt Tang,
I won't be able to persuade Xiao Ning, I won't be able to move her.
Because what she wants isn't the shares,
what she wants is the truth.
The truth?
Hasn't she already seen the truth?
What Xiao Ning wants...
the truth that she wants is the truth about the abortion medicine from that year.
What she wants to know is the truth about Auntie Wang's death from collision.
What abortion medicine? What truth about the death from collision?
- What are you talking?!- Aunt Tang.
Are you guys trying to name me as a murderer?!
- Are you trying to push me to the edge of death?!- Aunt Tang!
- No!- What are you doing?!
- Why do you have to torture me like this?!- Aunt Tang, don't get angry!
Aunt Tang, I'll leave! I'll leave!
- Aunt Tang...- You, leave! Go report to the police!
I'll be sitting right here!
I'll be waiting!
Get out of my house!
I committed this crime.
What have I done?!
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Mum. Mother, what is this?
It is coincidentally season sale when I return to Hong Kong this time.
Many clothes have been discounted 60% to 70%, it's especially a good bargain.
Everything in the small luggage is yours. I'll open it for you to see later.
I'm so tired. I'm tired to death.
Mum, I realise that your heart is quite big.
It's not as if you don't know why I came back from America. But you?
You go out for every kind of shopping and gambling.
Xiao Ning, although you're a girl, you don't even know this,
women are always missing a piece of clothing.
- As long as I see something pretty or on discount, I can't not buy it...- You're going at it again.
As long as I talk to you about this topic, I will definitely be diverted away by you.
Mum.
That year, my Dad's Tang Ye Corporation was worth three hundred million.
Why did you only take twenty million?
Didn't I tell you already, I didn't know anything back then.
I didn't know your dad's shares were worth that much.
Then fine. The court will be in session next Monday.
I hope you could tell everyone in court that you were lied to.
When you signed the shares transferal agreement, you didn't know
that my Dad's company was worth three hundred million, okay?
Will that work?
It's already been so many years.
Do you want the shares back?
I don't want the shares. I want my Aunt to tell me the truth.
Truth?
Xiao Ning, why are you still dwelling on this? Does truth have a use?
- Could truth bring you meals?- Mum.
You're my mother, you should help me. You shouldn't be helping my Aunt and Uncle.
I won't be helping anyone. I won't go to the court anyway.
Didn't you also accuse me? Accuse me then,
I won't be a witness for you.
Ke Ming, I really got scared to death, I really...what should I do?
Do you know what truth it is that Tang Ning wants?
She wants the truth about the abortion medicine
and the truth about Auntie Wang's death by collision.
Qun, you don't need to be anxious.
Xia Yun has already told Tang Ning very clearly.
The issue about abortion medicine is not related to you.
About Auntie Wang's death,
the police has already investigated, they've proved that it was an accident.
Ke Ming,
when do you think Xiao Ning is going to fight until?
If we keep fighting like this, my reputation
and Tang Ye Corporation's goodwill will be destroyed by her.
Don't worry, as long as Xia Yun doesn't stand on Tang Ning's side,
Tang Ning won't be able to bring up anything elaborate.
By then, the court will revoke her lawsuit.
Why have you come?
Why aren't you staying in the house but out here? Is there something on your mind?
My Mum doesn't want to attend court to testify. What should I do?
At least your mum told you straightforwardly that she doesn't want to testify in court.
What should be feared is if someone is good to you on the surface, but betray you behind your back.
Who is it?
I am only suspecting
of your Representative Attorney.
Why are you suspicious of Brother Dai Bo again?
I also hope that I am wrong but at this time, we must be cautious.
Otherwise, I'll apologise. Since we can't find out by discussing,
how about we tell Dai Bo by meeting with him?
What? You're saying that I betrayed Tang Ning?
I am only suspecting. I want you to tell me, why did you go to find Tang Li Qun?
Aunt Tang told me to go. She told me to convince Tang Ning to revoke her lawsuit.
To convince Tang Ning to revoke her lawsuit?
But I didn't promise her.
Of course you wouldn't promise her,
because you know that Tang Ning won't agree.
Tang Ning has never left anything unfinished before.
I'll say what I want to say straightforwardly.
Tang Ning, I advise you to be more careful. He was raised by your aunt after all.
Tang Li Qun is his benefactor.
These are two separate issues, alright?
I will not betray Tang Ning for Aunt Tang.
Fine. Then tell me,
how did Zhong Ke Ming know about Chen Jin Bao?
You should understand Zhong Ke Ming's plan of operation very clearly. How did Chen Jin Bao betray us?
Zhou Tong, could you not blather? To protect Chen Jin Bao's secret,
I only handed over his testimony the very last minute, the day before the court was in session.
But Chen Jin Bao still betrayed you, you still lost.
There is a problem in here, but it is not my problem.
Fine. If I am wrong, I will definitely apologise to you.
Alright, alright. Stop fighting.
Zhou Tong,
please believe in Brother Dai Bo.
I'm sorry, Brother Dai Bo.
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The court is now in session.
Your Honour, since the Plaintiff couldn't provide any secure evidence
- to overthrow the shares transferal agreement, I advise the court－- Your Honour,
I believe the Defendant Attorney has been overly arbitrary.
In reality, I still have evidence that I have not used.
- Is this new evidence?- Yes.
Before I provide this evidence, I wish to ask the First Defendant a question.
Allowed.
Aunt Tang.
Attorney Dai, since you and I are in court,
let's not address each other so closely.
Just directly call me Tang Li Qun.
Continue.
Miss Tang Li Qun,
could I ask, do you thoroughly know your husband, Zhong Ke Ming?
What do you mean? Zhong Ke Ming and I,
we have been living together for half of our lives. He is my husband, I believe I understand him very well.
Do you truly understand him?
Your Honour, I object.
I object that the opposing Attorney is asking questions irrelevant to this case.
This questions is relevant to this case.
Miss Tang Li Qun, I believe you do not truly understand your husband, Zhong Ke Ming.
He has betrayed you. He has a woman outside of the marriage.
He even had a son with this woman.
His son is also present in this court today!
He is sitting in the public gallery! His name is Zheng Hao!
Dai Bo, you're blathering!
I'm blathering? Can you deny that he isn't your son?
And could Zheng Hao say that you're not his father?
- You don't dare,- Enough.
he is unable to either. Because you're his biological father,
that's why you care for him boundlessly.
That's why you broke the rules and took him into Hai Ming Office.
That's why, you gave him the largest associate's office to him.
That's why, you let him take over Li Tian Ran's big case!
- Dai Bo, you, you－!- I'm not blathering, right?!
- Dai Bo! You－!- Auntie Tang! Auntie Tang!
- You're really that shameless? You dare hide such a grown up son- President Tang.
- right under my nose!- President Tang, calm down.
- You're really a shameless, despicable person!- Auntie Tang!
For over twenty years,
- we have been working for over twenty years...- Calm down, President Tang! Careful, President Tang!
- President Tang, let go!- I'll strangle you!
Attorney Zhong has fainted! Attorney Zhong.
Uncle Zhong, Uncle Zhong, Uncle Zhong.
Call the doctor. Call the doctor!
How did you know about this?
I unintentionally overheard. I'm sorry.
You can't say it even if you heard.
Do you know how many people you've hurt with that one sentence?
My Uncle had a heart attack.
- Also...- Didn't I do it for your case?
If I didn't say that, how could we have won over Director Zhong?
This is the Tang family's enormous secret.
I promised my Uncle that I wouldn't tell anyone.
You didn't tell me, I myself heard it.
Who would believe that? Would Zheng Hao believe that?
If he won't believe it, then don't believe it.
You're in a lawsuit with his father right now.
Xiao Ning, you two are destined to be enemies.
♫ Because love is the most fragile line of defense ♫
♫ In the end, hate became the last outcome ♫
It's a shame I've always called you Brother Bo.
It's a shame I see you as my best friend in my life.
For winning a lawsuit, you would expose someone else's privacy?
Fine, even if you don't consider my feelings. What about Zhong Ke Ming?
You say that he is your benefactor.
He is now lying in the hospital, he was about to die!
How could you be so vile?
My profession is a lawyer.
All that I did was the only correct choice I could make in court.
If it was you, believe me, you would also do this if you had evidence like this.
You call me vile? Then what about Zhong Ke Ming?
Chen Jin Bao was my witness. What did he use to interfere with him?!
You talk of bribery, do you have evidence?
I don't have evidence. But since Chen Jin Bao is my witness,
he has no rights and can't interfere with him!
Zheng Hao, we're both lawyers.
Protecting our litigant's benefits is our responsibility.
More than that, I was protecting Tang Ning's benefits.
Yes,
all of my debates were within the boundaries of law. Perhaps it has hurt you,
I'm sorry. I'll apologise to you.
You might think that I am vile. Have you thought about why?
Because you're not looking from Tang Ning's perspective, you're looking from your father's perspective,
Zhong Ke Ming! He is your father!
He has given your current life, your current status.
Have you ever thought about Tang Ning?
What is Tang Ning doing now?
She wants truth, just a truth.
For this truth, she would go against her own family!
Have you thought about her feelings?
Even as a regular friend, what have you done?!
Have you helped her?!
♫ 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 ♫
Dai Bo,
if you were looking from my perspective,
on one side is someone you like,
on the other is your biological father.
What would you do?
And what can you do?
♫ 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? ♫
Shanghai City General Hospital
Don't worry, I'm fine.
In the future, be more careful. Your body is more important than anything else.
Yesterday, I'm glad you were there in court yesterday.
Last night, Tang Jing has come to look for me.
She was going to know sooner or later.
I really don't want to be involved in your family's conflicts.
Don't worry, I will tell Tang Li Qun.
I won't let you leave me.
Keep silent about the thing I have assigned you.
What does that mean?
In court, for you to throw out such a bomb,
you nearly blew me into pieces.
You knew I am an ill patient.
Do you not have any empathy?
Could I still trust you?
Aunt Tang, you can trust me, it's just...
you just can't entrust me right now. I am representing Tang Ning now,
you two are opponents in court.
I can understand that. You've fallen in love with Tang Ning,
you youngsters see love as the utmost important.
Even if I was your mother, you would still
forget your mother after you marry your wife.
I won't, Aunt Tang. I'm not like that.
Alright.
What I want to tell you now is irrelevant to Tang Ning.
It's unrelated to Tang Ning's lawsuit?
Dai Bo,
when did you know that Zhong Ke Ming and Zheng Hao are father and son?
Why didn't you tell me after you found out?
I only just recently. I unintentionally overheard it.
Unintentionally overheard.
One old and one young, interacting back and forth,
It's especially abnormal.
I just...I just don't want to think of the worst.
This old bastard, he has hidden it from beside me for so many years.
He has lied to me and Tang Jing for over twenty years.
Dai Bo,
I want to divorce.
Aunt Tang, you don't need to leave so extremely, right?
I think, Director Zhong didn't hide the fact that he had such a son from you on purpose.
No matter if it was intentional, no matter if he knew,
as long as this Zheng Hao is his son,
I can't give him Tang Ye Corporations.
I want to change my will.
I want to give all of property to Tang Jing.
I want to strip this Zhong Ke Ming's right of inheritance.
You want to change your will?
I must change it.
I have to change it. You change it for me. That's arranged.
Aunt Tang, if Tang Ning wins this lawsuit,
the shares would belong to Tang Ning, then－
Do you think she's going to win?
How are you? Do you feel better today?
I'm much better. I want to leave the hospital as soon as possible.
The doctor said you need to rest in peace right now.
There is much to do at the office. How could I not go?
Work can never be finished.
You should take care of your body.
Alright then. I'll listen to you, son.
But,
if I don't go out, what about Tang Ning's case?
You still haven't left Hai Ming Office.
Could you...attend in my place?
There's something that you should be able to promise me.
I really hope that you could reconcile with Tang Ning.
No matter what, you two are still family.
On this world, there is nothing more important than family.
If I agree to reconcile,
will you be willing to call me dad once?
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A good scene of a father and son reunion.
Go back a moment.
Zhong Ke Ming, Zhong Ke Ming.
Tell me yourself right now,
is he your son?
Is he your illegitimate child?
Could you tell me?
Dai Bo...in court, Dai Bo
said you two are of father and son relationship.
At the time, how much I hoped this wasn't the truth.
How much I hoped that what Dai Bo said was all nonsense!
But what is the truth? What is the truth?
He is your illegitimate son! He is!
Qun,
tell him to leave first, I'll explain it to you.
You don't need to explain to me, he must stand right there.
I must say this clearly,
you...you have a woman outside,
you have a son outside.
Zhong Ke Ming,
but what did you once tell me? You said,
you're mine, you said you would treasure
the years we lived through all of our difficulties. You said,
you would never lie to me.
Qun...
- Let me finish!- I didn't hide it from you!
I didn't hide it from you. Listen to me!
You didn't hide it from me? But what is the truth like?
The truth is just as it is!
He is your son. Our Xiao Jing,
they're siblings.
♫ 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” ♫