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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? ♫
Heirs
- Episode 35 -
Xiao Ning. Tell aunt, what I should do.
Aunt.
If you must file this lawsuit, I will help you.
I will be your lawyer.
Xiao Ning.
You're really a kind child.
You're really understand to aunt.
I regret...I regret, I shouldn't have
kicked you out of the Tang family.
Aunt, don't say that. That was all in the past.
What difficulty did Dai Bo have? He's just selfish. Seeing my Mom...
...was sick, he did what he did.
Xiao Jing, Brother Dai Bo isn't a person like that.
How is he not that kind of person? He is just that kind of person.
Xiao Jing, stop making your older sister mad, alright?
It's fine, Aunt.
What is there that I can't bear?
Mister, what time is your family coming? Are you able to order dishes now?
Why are you here?
Today is your birthday, I must come.
You still remember my birthday.
Only you still remember my birthday.
In the past, we celebrated your birthday every year.
You and Aunt Tang's birthday,
I will never forget.
Come to work tomorrow.
You're not allowed to be late.
Tang Ning, please forgive me for leaving Ning Ning Office just like this.
I actually feel unwilling to too.
Leaving you, leaving Ning Ning Office's colleagues,
I feel quite pained.
I know, you would definitely ask me, "Brother Dai Bo,
"why did you have to leave Ning Ning Office? Leaving Ning Ning Office,
"why did you have to return to Hai Ming Office?"
I can't answer.
I can only say, this may be my destiny.
Xiao Ning.
I once loved you. For this kind of love,
I left Hai Ming Office,
betraying Aunt Tang and Director Zhong.
But I don't regret it
because to me, getting your love was the most important.
For loving you, I could sacrifice any other thing.
But in the end, I understood.
Even if the offer period I give you is any longer,
I would still not be able to get your promise.
Because when I wanted to confess,
in your heart...the promise of your heart has already been given to someone else.
Xiao Ning,
watching you walk the path here,
from a little girl who knew nothing,
to today, leading a lawyer firm,
apart from being happy, I am still happy.
You are stronger than what I thought.
At this moment, for me to leave you to go to Hai Ming Office,
I believe you will definitely be able to understand
and will definitely accept it.
Director Zhong, as someone who raised me
and an elder who nurtured me to become an associate,
even if he has done a lot of things that broke your trust in him and hurt you,
but...he, right now,
it is not an exaggeration to say he is being attacked from all sides.
In feelings and in logic, I should still go back to help him through this.
Because...
I don't want to see someone, who has graced me, to break away from his family.
You are a generous and understanding girl,
I know.
Even if other people won't understand, you would understand,
why I would return to Hai Ming Office in this kind of time,
to return to Zhong Ke Ming's side.
I believe,
this issue won't affect the brother and sister bond between us.
It won't dissolve the years of friendship between us.
I personally don't have any big goals.
I just don't want to see the people around me
live unhappily.
When you needed help most,
I chose to stand opposite Zhong Ke Ming and stand together with you.
Now,
I am returning to Hai Ming Office also because of this kind of situation.
Other that that, after you've returned to the country,
you have constantly been troubled by your heredity and inheritance.
I also really hope to find out the truth about this.
Truly.
Xiao Ning,
I will support you with all my might.
Similarly, at the time when Zhong Ke Ming needs me,
I will also support him. As long as you remember.
Xiao Ning,
you must remember, I am here.
You only need to call me.
Everything between us is still the same.
Two things needs to be announced.
Firstly, Lawyer Dai Bo has officially left Ning Ning Office.
Secondly, we have officially took on Ms. Tang Li Qun's big case.
Prepare yourselves.
Hey.
What did you just say? Dai Bo left?
He went to Hai Ming Office.
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Dai Bo.
Director Zhong.
Welcome.
Welcome back to the Tang Ye Corporation family.
Thank you for being able to take me in temporarily.
Right now, I feel like I did when I was young,
when you and Aunt Tang took me in.
I hope you won't run away from home anymore.
Come.
You're really going to take Tang Li Qun's lawsuit?
Aunt begged me to help her.
Have you forgotten how Tang Li Qun treated you?
No matter how she treated me, she still treated me like my aunt over these twenty years, right?
I can't forget those feelings.
Moreover, she has become like she is now. If I don't help her, who will?
I'm sorry.
If I took this case, I will have to fight against Zhong Ke Ming.
He is your father after all.
For you, I am not afraid of fighting Zhong Ke Ming.
I just don't want to see you get hurt again.
I won't. Don't I have you here?
Director Zhong.
Yesterday, I visited Aunt Tang at the hospital.
If you won't compromise with Aunt Tang,
I'm afraid your company empire won't be able to hold out for long.
I will take care of that. You don't need to worry.
This time, if it wasn't because my company empire needed talented people,
I definitely wouldn't have let you come back.
But I am not a talented person.
I am only an idiot who can give up everything for love.
The idiot has turned around now.
I hope that, you have finally realised.
Oh, right, Dai Bo. Have you thought about,
for you to return to my side this time, it means to let those two people fight to the end.
Yes.
Tang Ning was a person I loved, Aunt Tang was my benefactor.
You're the teacher of my being a lawyer.
Honestly from my heart, I really don't hope to hurt any of you.
But destiny keeps forcing me to make a choice time after time.
There's no choice.
Actually, two people were sued in this case.
But actually, it's trying to dig up Zhong Ke Ming's roots.
Zhong Ke Ming will definitely be against it.
But there's still something that I can't understand.
Does this case have to continue?
Hasn't Tang Li Qun decided to return the shares to Xia Yun?
Then why is your mom...
...stil unwilling? She should be overjoyed.
It is quite...complicated in this.
I don't know what weakness my Mom has of Aunt and Zhong Ke Ming.
She doesn't quite dare to fight in this lawsuit.
She said, she can't be against Zhong Ke Ming
and can't be against my Aunt. She can only stand neutral.
She also said, even if she took the shares back, they are only temporary.
She is keeping them for the child.
Moreover, she has signed a contract with Zhong Ke Ming.
Right now, Ning Ning Office is going to fight Hai Ming Office in a lawsuit. Our opponent...
seems to be more of Dai Bo.
Could I possibly choose a woman who doesn't love me?
How am I to protect the benefits of a person with a few weeks left?
Reality is brutal.
You can only choose me.
Yes.
Director Zhong, Aunt Tang told me something else yesterday.
What did she say?
She wants to sue you and Xia Yun.
Xiao Jing.
Hello? Sister Ning.
My Mom is worried that you won't be able to go against Zhong Ke Ming alone.
Moreover, Dai Bo has gone to his side. She contacted a professional for you.
Who is it?
You know him. Your previous boss, Xue Han Zhi.
He and my Dad are best friends from the same profession, he also has the same skills.
Aunt asked me to find him?
Yes. My Mom has already contacted him for you.
Alright. I got it.
My Aunt...
...told me to find Xue Han Zhi. She said he can help us.
Lawyer Dai, you're back?
Hey, Lawyer Dai! You're back.
Brother Bo.
- You're finally back. We finally have a backbone. - Jiang Yang.
- Lawyer Dai, milk tea. No worries. - Thank you.
Hey! Lawyer Dai! It's been a long time, it's been a long time.
Come, come, come.
It's me, Xiao Lu. Lu Jing Ming.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Hello, hello. You've worked hard.
I have cleaned the office. I did it all personally.
It was to congratulate your return. This way, please.
Lawyer Dai,
Director Zhong has already told me to gather the related documents for you.
If there's nothing much, I will leave first.
You're busy, you're busy.
Wait.
Why are you here? When did you come to Hai Ming Office?
I have come for quite a long time.
I came after Tang Ning's case finished.
I got transferred from Tian He Office.
Director Zhong did it for me himself.
You're not any kind of associate,
did you personally hire you?
You don't know about this.
But thankfully, we're allies on the same side.
I am unafraid to tell you,
you...do you know that Director Zhong was able to win Tang Ning's case
because I contributed greatly.
Really? What contributions?
Do you still remember Tang Ye Corporation's old accountant, Chen Jin Bao?
Approximately three hundred million.
Three hundred million?
Would you be willing to be a witness in court for me?
This doesn't seem to be very convenient for me.
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?
So it was you.
I never understood what was happening.
Lawyer Dai, why are you angry?
I know the rules.
Look, the witness needs to be transparent and publicized, right?
So I am not at wrong to tell the opposition or the court the witness's name.
But you told the opposition's attorney, they will then have the chance to interfere with my party's witness!
Didn't Chen Jin Bao change his testimony in court just like this?
Lawyer Dai, you're a Master's Degree holder from England.
In England evidence laws, there may be regulations about not letting the opposition interfere with witnesses.
But there are none here. We don't even have evidence laws.
- Also, each level of laws－ - The areas not within the regulations are not your reason to betray your customers.
I don't need you to be my assistant.
People like you, you could betray Tang Ning yesterday
and betray me tomorrow.
Lawyer Dai, your words were very good.
But don't forget, how are you not just a tuft of grass at the bottom of a wall?
You're with this person today, then with that person tomorrow. So what rights do you have to teach me?
Oh, right. I also need to remind you.
It was Director Zhong who personally arranged for me to be your personal assistant lawyer.
If you want to fire me, ask him first.
Get out!
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The general situation is like this.
I would like to ask Director Xue to attend to lead the hearing. I will be your assistant.
Tang Li Qun did call me.
She said, she hoped I could take this case.
But I think that, I am not quite suitable to directly attend.
Why? Haven't you already agreed with my Mom?
I only agreed with her to plan behind-the-scenes.
About the what happens upfront, that will still need to depend on Tang Ning and Zheng Hao.
Zheng Hao? Do you think he's suited?
- Tang Jing thinks that Zheng Hao has conflict in interests, not suited to attend court. - Yeah...
Wrong, you're both wrong.
On the surface, Tang Li Qun sued two people in this case. But in reality,
it's Tang Li Qun fighting with Zhong Ke Ming.
So, whether Zhong Ke Ming attends court or not, Zheng Hao
is the only person who can disrupt his emotions and mentality.
Zhong Ke Ming is my older condisciple.
He has been a lawyer for so many years.
Only when he first begun, did he lose a movement dispute case.
After that, he had a zero chance in losing.
Until this year, in Li Tian Ran's inheritance case.
The lawyers have all done a closeup analysis.
They say that Tang Ning and Zheng Hao were able to beat Zhong Ke Ming,
one of the main reasons, was because of Zheng Hao.
Zheng Hao has disrupted his normal state of mind.
No way. Zheng Hao has this much of an influence?
A while back, in the lawyers association meeting, he told me himself,
he said, when he saw Li Sheng Li repenting to Li Tian Ran at the time,
he was deeply moved.
He said, he is afraid that Zheng Hao would leave him one day.
Father and son relationships.
The softest spot in his heart was strike by Tang Ning and Zheng Hao.
So you're still advising me to attend court with Zheng Hao?
That's right. You two are the best group to do it.
Have you seen Dai Bo? How do you think he is?
Lawyer Dai doesn't seem to like me that much.
You need to go whether he likes you or not.
Yes, yes, yes.
Boss, I still don't quite understand this.
You don't need to understand.
You don't need to mind my relationship with him. You only need to take care of those issues.
Go.
Hello?
Tang Li Qun is really going to sue?
Yes. She's suing you and Xia Yun.
She's claims that the shares transferal agreement is ineffective.
Her body is already like this
She still wants to act strong. What does she really want?
She is requesting the court to keep the shares for Tang Ji Ye's child.
Once the child is found...
That child was a stillborn. She is just wishfully thinking.
Director Zhong, I need evidence.
Then go look for it.
Tang Li Qun wants to sue me. She wants to classify me and Xia Yun as defendants.
She got scheming this time.
Older Cousin.
Do you really trust Dai Bo that much?
You even got him back here.
You favor him so much.
He is a talent. Talents are hard to find.
I understand. He is still you beloved student.
Then, if they classify you as defendant,
do we have any way to save ourselves?
We will counter the incoming soldiers with arms.
Lao Ke, prepare the car. We will go visit Xia Yun.
Judge.
What judge? Haven't I already left court?
Hey! Why did you bring this for me again?
Recently, my goddess has been working too hard. This is to help nourish your body.
Why were you looking for me?
I went on a holiday overseas, how did so much happen here?
Tell me, why did Dai Bo leave?
He went to buy milk tea.
He is having some good feelings with Wang Ke.
It's that milk tea girl, right?
That's not right.
If he got close with Wang Ke, why did he leave you here?
He hopes that I could grow independently.
Excuses. All excuses.
Did he returned to Hai Ming Office to go back to what he left behind?
Let me tell you, Tang Ning, I have always thought there was something wrong with Dai Bo. He is disloyal to you.
I'm telling you, one can't have the heart to hurt but always have the heart to defend.
I don't allow you to talk about him like this.
You were suspicious of Brother Dai Bo joining up with my Aunt.
But he didn't go help my Aunt now, he returned to Hai Ming Office.
Anyway, I just think there is something wrong with this person.
But now, we can't find out why he went back to Hai Ming Office.
Tang Li Qun has really sued me? Is she crazy?
Last week, Xiao Ning came to find me.
She told me, Tang Li Qun was ready to return the shares to me.
I said that it wasn't too possible. I told her to make a plan with you first,
for me to be able to decide what to do.
I understand. You're afraid of wronging both sides.
I thought that she would discuss with you.
What? She didn't discuss at all and went straight to the court?
She's abnormal right now.
Every of her behaviour is bordering insane.
But I can't oppose this issue, right?
Of course you can't oppose. Otherwise, won't other people know you're feeling guilty?
Then what should I say in court?
That you don't oppose.
But your goal and standpoint are different to Tang Li Qun.
How are they different?
Could it be that...the shares aren't going to be given to my child?
It's not that it's not going to be given,
it's can't be given. There is also your agreement with me.
Tang Li Qun think that the child didn't die.
Then where did the child go?
Don't know. I told you before,
there was a stillborn that night.
About the stillborn,
Zheng Hao seems to tell it differently to you.
He told me, there is still not a conclusion whether the stillborn from that night is mine.
Very soon.
The stillborn can be proven dead very soon.
Xia Yun.
Don't have too much different thoughts.
You and Gao Huai Yi only have one path, that is to follow me.
I think, we should still go with the original plan.
What kind of thoughts can I have?
Who will represent me in court this time? You?
I have already found a lawyer for you.
- Who is it? - Dai Bo.
Come in!
Old Man Lu.
- It's you? - Yeah.
Take a seat.
What? You got the investigation order?
Not yet.
But we have already filed the case, the investigation order will definitely come in a few days.
So, I hope that Old Man Lu, for Hua Ye,
could be generous to me and let me start the search a few days prior.
No way. Get the investigation order here.
Also, on the investigation order must clearly write
your name, Lawyer Zheng Hao.
- I really can't? - No.
Alright. Then...then continue with your work. I won't disturb you anymore.
I'm leaving then.
What's wrong? You hit another snag while investigating at the hospital?
Originally, I didn't want to take the case. But now, it seems I can't not take it.
That old man Lu has to see the investigation order.
Also, the investigation order must have my name.
That means, you have to take the case?
Yeah.
Welcome, Master! Thank you, Master.
Happy new year, may you have great health.
Why are you so happy?
But say, I am only doing behind-the-scenes work. I'm not attending court.
Not attending court?
I'm telling you, Zhong Ke Ming won't be in court.
Then who will be helping Xia Yun?
Dai Bo?
Mom!
Mom?
What happened to you?
Zhong Ke Ming just came.
He told me,
you guys have already sued me.
Xiao Ning, didn't I tell you already?
I don't want to get involved in this case. I can't wrong either of them.
I came to talk to you about this. Aunt wanted to file it.
Aunt told me to tell you, she's not targeting you, it's Zhong Ke Ming.
I know this.
But both of them are fighting and I am stuck in the middle. How hard it is for me.
Mom, don't you want to find your child?
I want to. Of course I want to.
If you want to find your child,
this case needs to be filed. Once the court is involved, they will issue an investigating order.
We will be able to find out what happened to your child sooner.
Really?
No way. I can't agree to Tang Li Qun's sue at all.
Then what's your request?
This way,
let's say the child was a stillborn.
Let's deal with this as inheritance by law.
I can take 50% of the shares, Tang Li Qun can also take 50% of the shares.
If once my child was found, we'll then ask her to give the other 50% of shares back to me.
Then what about yours?
Mine is still mine, of course.
Could I find my own child,
and it won't want to give half of it to its own mother?
Won't the child be a conscienceless person?
But...
...if you ask the court to confirm that you child was a stillborn,
the judge will also find out how the child died.
Isn't a dead child just a stillborn? What else do they want to find?
Strictly speaking, dead child and stillborn are not the same. I once had a case,
the point of our dispute was, the child's
death, was whether it died before leaving the mother's body or after leaving the mother's body.
Is there a difference?
Of course they're different.
If the child died in the mother's body,
then inheritance by will won't be effective.
If the child died after leaving the mother's body,
whether it lived for an hour or a day,
the will will still be effective.
So that is how it is?
Then that means,
the shares will belong to the child 100%?
But the child is still dead.
But the outcome was entirely different. Although the child died,
the child's mother will have become this child's only inheritor.
I got it. So the child died,
but my child's shares will belong to me, right?
That's right.
But Zhong Ke Ming never said that to me.
He didn't say...must because of his own reasons.
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Director Zhong, I have already looked at the file.
Right now, the key is still the problem about the stillborn's evidence.
Even if we could prove the stillborn's truth, we still need to further...
We need evidence to prove if the child died inside the mother's body
or died after it left the mother's body. Is that right?
Yes. The outcome of the will's inheritance is different depending on whether it was alive or dead.
Xia Yun is a very confused person, she won't be able to tell.
But she knows.
It was Tang Ning who told her.
Tang Ning again.
Then what did Xia Yun say?
She said, she hopes that I...if I could prove that her child
was that stillborn, then it would be better to further prove that
it died a few hours it was given birth to.
Greedy.
This useless woman is just greedy.
Doesn't matter.
As long as she proves that this was a stillborn with us,
then I will be able to find evidence
to prove that, the child inside her belly was a dead baby.
You have evidence?
- Old Man Lu. - Come in.
Investigation order.
You want to search Chuan He District Centre Hospital,
new born file from the 18th of June, 1988?
Chuan He District Centre Hospital's information files
are a lot and are very messy.
How about this,
I will tidy it up as quickly as possible and then I will contact you guys.
Then you guys can come search again. Is that alright?
Of course it's alright. Thank you, Old Man Lu.
Welcome.
Boss.
Zheng Hao has gone to search the files at the General Hospital again.
Did he find something?
It's hard to find anything. The documents are too messy.
Remember to watch He Yu Qin closely.
Who is it? Oh, it's Hao Hao?
- Mom. - What is it?
- Is Aunt here? - She's inside.
- Aunt! - Hao Hao, you're here.
Aunt, 28 years ago, were you a nurse in the obstetrics department at Chuan He District Hospital?
Why did you think to come ask this? I can't remember.
Xiao Xue, how have you forgotten?
She worked there. What's wrong?
Hello, Older Cousin?
I am at He Ya Yin's place.
I saw Zheng Hao. His car is also here.
Listen, just wait there. Don't scare them.
- Alright. - I will get there as quickly as I can.
I have something to ask you.
Sister, fold this.
Let's talk outside.
- Come, come. - Aunt, let me ask you.
Why are you such an inconsiderate child? If you have something to ask, don't ask in front of your mom.
What's wrong? What is it?
Aunt, let me ask you.
Why did you change your job? Why did you change your name?
- How did you know? - Sun Xiao Li told me.
She said that, not long after Xia Yun gave birth, you changed your job.
You even changed your name from He Xiao Xue to He Yu Qin. Why is that?
Was it really related to Xia Yun's swapped child?
Hao Hao, don't be insane, alright? Why would I swap Xia Yun's child away?
Then where is the child? Where could I have hidden the child?
Why would I change my job? Even if you don't know, your mom knows.
it was all because of Zhong Ke Ming. That bastard.
He made your mom like this. If I didn't change my job, who would take care of her?
Alright, then. I still have one question.
No need for so many questions. I have things to do.
Aunt! Just one question.
Can you confirm that Xia Yun's child was a dead child?
- I can't. - Then testify for me in court.
You were the nurse on duty that day, you're the only witness. Testify for me in court,
that there is no evidence proving that the child Xia Yun gave birth to was a dead child. Alright?
I can't attend court.
- I'm afraid... - Afraid of what?
Hao Hao.
♫ 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” ♫