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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 36 -
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.
Sister!
Hao Hao, can you listen to something mom have to say?
Don't keep going against your dad.
I am not going against him.
Aunt, how about this,
write a testimony for me, I guarantee you won't have to testify in court. Alright?
Alright.
I can write the testimony for you.
But I definitely won't attend court to testify.
I won't go even if the court asks me to go.
Boss Zhong,
I think that, even if the opposition has He Yu Qin's testimony,
if she can't attend court, this testimony will only be a piece of waste paper.
Dai Bo, what is your opinion?
I think Uncle Ke only said half of what is right.
Although we are the defendants in this case,
it's fine if we just target the opposition's appeal.
But to get to our goal,
I don't think defending will be enough.
For example, the opposition is certain that the Tang family's child is alive.
If we only tell them in court,
that there isn't enough evidence about the child being alive,
will it be able to achieve our goal of distributing the inheritance according to the will?
I'm afraid that won't work.
That's why, it is an urgent priority to find evidence of the dead child.
Only if we say with iron certainty, that Xia Yun's child was a dead child,
would we be able to persuade the court.
A very good analysis.
Dai Bo.
Go to the General Hospital, search the documents.
Alright. I'll go now.
Older Cousin.
Try to think of a way to find Liu Zhu.
He can convince his wife, He Yu Qin.
Okay.
Older Cousin.
Are you really assured to let Dai Bo investigate?
Let him investigate.
There must have already been a mistake when the infant was born.
Just searching the birth registration card is a waste of effort.
He didn't find any breaches.
I have already asked Dean Wu
to get all of the information of the infants born that day
all together.
Hurry and confirm, guarantee that the child
was Xia Yun's.
Understood.
Older Cousin, this is the right way to investigate.
Come in!
- Hello. - Hello.
Come, come, come. Sit.
Old Man Lu!
- Hey, Brother Bo. How coincidental. - Take a look,
they also came to investigate the infant documents from 1988.
Looks like neither of you will be able to find it.
Why?
Old Man Lu,
when I came with Hua Ye yesterday, you said we were able to find it.
You also told me, that you would
find all of the birthing information for me.
Yesterday was yesterday, today is today.
If you ate yesterday, could you not eat today?
What kind of logic is that?
I'm telling you, I just got the Dean's instructions.
He said, the issue about Chuan He District Hospital is very complicated.
It is also related to a case about a stillborn.
So, our hospital needs to investigate internally,
then let outsiders investigate.
Then when can we search again?
That is not so certain. We'll need to wait for instructions from the higher-ups.
It may be a few days or a few weeks.
No way. Our case is in session next week.
- We can't wait. - That's right.
Then that's out of my control.
Since none of you are able to search today.
Please.
Hai Ming Law Firm
Director Zhong, all of the other information are almost ready.
Right now, we are just missing the General Hospital's documents.
If we can't get it, they won't be able to get it either.
It's fine.
But, without those documents, the truth still can't be revealed.
With the documents, will the truth be definitely revealed?
On Tang Ning's birth certificate, it clearly says her parents are Xia Yun and Tang Ji Ye.
In the end?
Then, what you mean is, when the court starts its sessions next week,
we can still fight even without the document information?
We don't have the document information but we have a witness.
Witness? Who is it?
Zheng Hao found a witness for us, He Yu Qin.
What's wrong?
He Yu Qin is the opposition's witness.
She's not now.
She's unwilling to testify in court for Zheng Hao. Contrarily,
she's willing to attend court for us.
You look so nervous,
are you anxious to notify Tang Ning and Tang Li Qun?
Director Zhong.
You still don't trust me.
You still haven't given me enough of a reason to trust you.
I can give you a reason.
But don't be angry.
Say it.
20 years ago, you loved He Ya Yin so much.
But why did you leave her still in the end?
That was because...I had a bigger goal.
That's right. I do too.
In the past, I believed in love.
For Tang Ning, I left you and Aunt Tang.
But now,
I have the same goal and pursues as you.
So I can give up anything.
Do you know what my goal is?
Of course I know.
Wealth.
Not entirely.
- Status. - That's not entirely it either.
Then how about you say it?
It should be a feeling.
This feeling can make someone feel that they can
cruise above everything else.
The old saying goes, "When one stands on top of a mountain, all other mountains seem small."
Of course, this is only a feeling. To reach this state,
wealth is the foundation, status is the pillars.
Without these two things,
one is merely a miser with only wealth.
Only Dai Bo knows me best.
It's unfortunate...it's unfortunate that my son, Zheng Hao,
has not experienced this level.
You are very thoughtful.
That is only because he has not had a taste of it.
If he has tasted it,
he would become addicted to it too.
We don't have the document information but we have a witness.
Witness? Who is it?
Zheng Hao found a witness for us, He Yu Qin.
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Hello, Brother Dai Bo?
Hello? Tang Ning.
The court begins sessions next Monday. About the evidence...
you guys must be careful.
Brother Dai Bo, I understand.
Thank you.
Ms He,
can you tell me the child from 28 years ago,
who is also Xia Yun and Tang Ji Ye's child,
was it a living or dead child?
Are you all trying to force me to death?
What do all of you want me to say?
Tell the truth.
Was the child alive or dead?
So what if it was alive?
So what if it was dead?
Don't be agitated just yet.
It's like this,
our Boss Zhong said, it the child was alive,
you...might have a huge trouble.
What kind of trouble could I have?
According to our investigation, you were the only one that night
to be on duty in the infant monitor room.
If the child was alive, then how did it get swapped?
You were the only witness who was there. At the same time, you could also become
the only criminal suspect.
Cri- criminal?
What crime?
I didn't do anything.
According to laws from before, the crime of trafficking civilians of the population,
if it was serious, the sentence could be five years or above in jail,
the person may even be executed.
I didn't. I didn't.
I didn't do anything.
Nothing?
Then can you tell me, how did Xia Yun's child get swapped?
How did it become Tang Ning?
I don't know.
I said it, I don't know! I don't know!
Alright, let's say,
that child was stillborn.
If that child was stillborn, what would happen?
If the child was a stillborn,
then it is possible that it was unrelated to you.
Because you were outside the delivery room at the time.
If someone was inside the delivery room took Xia Yun's stillborn child
and another woman's child, who is Tang Ning,
to swap them,
then you would know nothing of it, right?
Right, right, right.
I...I remember it now.
The child who was brought out from the delivery room
was already swapped, it's been swapped.
I...it has nothing to do with me.
I did nothing.
Alright.
Then could you say all of this in court tomorrow?
But I have already written the testimony for Zheng Hao.
I can't change it.
It's fine.
You don't need to change the testimony.
I'll tell you what to say.
Hey.
Are you really not going to attend court tomorrow?
I have promised my Mom.
As long as my Aunt have signed the testimony, I won't attend court.
Haven't you still not acknowledged Zhong Ke Ming?
He is not your dad according to law.
Here, all of the documents,
they're all here.
He Yu Qin's signed testimony is also here.
My mission is complete. Good luck tomorrow.
Director Xue said,
you must attend court.
The both of us is the best team match.
Tang Jing have said, she doesn't allow me to fight in this lawsuit.
Could I still possibly be so brazen?
They have already agreed to it now.
My Mom doesn't allow me to go.
Fine.
You don't have to attend court,
but...you must sit in the audience row.
Why?
So that you can be with me.
Am I that important?
I am assured with you present.
Alright.
But I won't be in the session.
Carry the box for me.
No problem.
Where are you? Quickly, the session is about to begin.
[I am stuck in a traffic jam! Help me start the session first! Thank you.]
Alright. I'll go in for you first.
Hurry and come over. I'll be waiting for you.
[Defendant] [Representative]
[Plaintiff]
Why is it Zheng Hao?
What happened to Tang Ning?
Where's Tang Ning?
She will be here soon.
All members stand up!
Please enter, the Presiding Judge and Judge.
Please sit, everyone.
[Presiding Judge]
The court is now in session.
He Yu Qin was, from 1998,
a witness from 28 years ago.
Your Honor.
Ms. He Yu Qin was a nurse on duty at the time.
Is she able to testify in court?
My witness is unwilling to testify in court.
Your Honor.
My party believes that the witness must attend court to be interrogated.
Otherwise, her testimony shouldn't be used.
Attorney Dai,
could you please tell me, which law
states the word "must"?
Your Honor.
In numerous cases, if the witness doesn't attend court
but makes a testimony, the court will still accept it.
Then why is my witness's testimony
unable to be accepted?
Auntie He?
- Ning Ning. - Why are you here?
Are you waiting for Zheng Hao?
N- no. I am not waiting for him.
The opposition has asked you come testify, right?
Dai Bo asked you to come?
It was...
Zhong Ke Ming. It's him, right?
You see, I...I...I couldn't testify, he had to make me come.
Auntie He,
didn't you already write the testimony for Zheng Hao?
Yes.
This is too difficult for me.
- Never mind, I think I should leave. - Don't.
If you leave now, it will be even more disadvantageous to us.
It's should be nearly time for them to call you.
Ning Ning, Ning Ning!
Say, now, I...
I'm about to have a heart attack.
- Were you really stuck in a traffic jam? - I saw He Yu Qin.
- Where? - Witness resting room.
Why is she here?
- The court will continue its session now. - Your Honor.
My party requests to have Ms. He Yu Qin enter court to be interrogated by my party.
The court agrees to let witness He Yu Qin enter court to testify.
Calling witness He Yu Qin to court!
Witness Ms. He Yu Qin,
may I ask, was this the testimony that you wrote?
Ms. He, it is useless for you to just nod your head.
You must say it with your voice.
That way, the clerk will be able to record what you say.
Yes.
On the written testimony, you said,
on the night of 18th June, 1998,
you were on duty at Chuan He District Centre Hospital's obstetrics department, right?
Yes.
Then do you still remember where you were in the hospital that night?
I was in the infant monitor room.
- It was beside the delivery room. - Okay.
Your testimony says, on that night,
Ms. Xia Yun gave birth to an infant,
that were delivered by you, is that right?
Yes.
Your written testimony also said, from the delivery room,
when you received the infant,
that infant was alive.
Yes.
- It was alive. - Very good.
I have a question here.
How are you able to confirm
that the live infant you took from the doctor's hands
were definitely the child given birth to by Xia Yun?
I don't know.
He has gotten hold of the breach in our testimony.
That's why, when you took over the living infant from the doctor's hands,
you were unable to determine whether the child was Tang Ji Ye's child
or Tang Ning, is that right?
Yes.
At that time, it was windy and rainy,
the electricity also went out.
So...I am unsure.
Even if the hospital didn't have an electricity blackout at the time,
and even if you could see everything,
you still wouldn't be able to determine, right?
Let's say,
if the living infant you took over from the doctor's hands
were Tang Ji Ye and Xia Yun's child,
then how did that child become Tang Ning?
How did that child get lost?
And how did you swap the child into Tang Ning?
I didn't! I didn't swap the child!
Why would I swap the child?
Good. Then there is only one conclusion,
it is that the child you took from the doctor's hands
was Tang Ning because you have no way of determining
that the child Xia Yun gave birth to was alive
because you have never carried the child.
Is that right?
- Yes. - I object!
- Wait! - Your Honor!
After my party finishes asking, your party can ask.
Ms. He,
could I ask, how many infants were there in the hospital that night?
Ab- about...about over ten.
I can't quite remember to exact number.
But there was one among them who was a stillborn.
Stillborn?
Whose was it?
Looking at it now, it seems to be Xia Yun's.
I object.
I object leading questions.
Your Honor.
All my party's questions were based on the witness's testimony.
I have not made any hypothetical questions.
Ms. He,
may I ask why you said, "Looking at it now"
the child should be Xia Yun's?
On that night,
at that time, it was around ten o'clock.
It suddenly became very windy and rainy,
the hospital also had an electricity blackout, the delivery room was temporarily closed.
- So, during this time, there were no newly born infants? - That's right.
Before the hospital's self-owned electricity generator to provide electricity,
there were only two newly born infants. One was Tang Ning,
the other one was a stillborn.
If Tang Ning wasn't given birth to by Xia Yun,
then the stillborn should be...born by Xia Yun.
Your Honor.
I believe that there is a problem with witness's testimony trustworthiness.
She said on the testimony, that Xia Yun gave birth to a living infant.
Now, she is saying it was a stillborn.
I believe her testimony can't be used.
I didn't.
I didn't lie.
Your Honor.
The witness indeed didn't lie.
The witness said that, in the delivery room,
she received a living child from the doctor's hands.
That infant was living.
That point didn't change in her testimony in court today.
But the important problem is,
the witness told a key truth today,
that is, during the hospital's electricity blackout, there were only two new born infants.
Strictly speaking, there was only one living infant.
The other one was a stillborn.
So, even if the witness said, she took from the doctor's hands
a living infant,
but that living infant can obviously only be Tang Ning
and not Tang Ji Ye's child.
This point,
when the opposition's lawyer recorded the testimony from the witness,
was a key message that was left out.
Your Honor.
So there is only one conclusion, that stillborn is the Tang family's child.
The Tang family's child died within the womb.
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Come in.
Lawyer Dai.
Xiao Lu, Xiao Lu.
I have learnt, I really have learnt.
I didn't think that, with one flick of your hand, you
made Zheng Hao's witness become our party's witness.
You also flattened all of the contradictory points.
Impressive, impressive.
Looking at it now, both Zheng Hao and Tang Ning are still a few levels behind you.
They're still in the beginner's level.
Zheng Hao and Tang Ning are still young.
Perhaps they are, like you said, in the beginner's stage.
But they're different from you.
They're both have a bottom line.
What do you mean by that?
They won't betray their litigant.
Lawyer Dai, didn't I just tell Chen Jin Bao's name to Boss Zhong?
That doesn't count as betraying. Why do you have to hold on to it?
Lu Jing Ming,
you're a lawyer.
Do you know?
The duty of a lawyer is to try to their utmost effort
to protect their litigant's benefits
and not to do the opposite.
If you think that you could, for your own benefits,
to betray your litigant, I advise you
to not be a lawyer anymore.
Lawyer Dai.
Your words are right.
But don't you forget,
I am just a small character.
Even if I struggle, I still won't be make any kind of a wave.
The real one who make the wind blow and the waves in the water
are those giant crocodiles.
What are you trying to say?
Why aren't you thinking,
why it is that the General Hospital won't let you guys search through their documents?
What is it?
I'm feeling gloomy.
I want to get some peace by myself and think about it.
What are you thinking about?
I have never seen you so deep in thought.
I am thinking, if my decision was right, I shouldn't have gotten involved in this case.
You regret it?
The session has already finished. Is there a use in being regretful?
I'm sorry.
I was the one who was careless.
About my Aunt's testimony, you should have been the one in control.
So that Dai Bo wouldn't have been able to find such a big breach.
You really thought that it was the breach in the testimony
and not your aunt retracting her testimony?
Then at least, on the surface, Dai Bo
got my Aunt's testimony and her words in court into agreement.
Speaking from the perspective of the defendant,
we have He Yu Qin's testimony,
they only need to find the breaches and contradictions in the testimony.
About why Zhong Ke Ming and Dai Bo would use all of their efforts
to get He Yu Qin to come explain it herself?
They don't want to waste this witness.
They hope that He Yu Qin's testimony is believable,
so it could be used by the court.
That's right.
To them, what is their goal?
Their goal is to prove that Xia Yun's child was a dead born
and that it was died within the womb. But they don't have evidence to prove that.
So they can only have He Yu Qin stand up and say it.
We should still look through the hospital's documents.
If we can find out the ten new born infants' information who my Aunt mentioned,
we can find out the exact details of the dead child.
You've recovered your fighting spirits.
I did recover some of it.
But if...
...you could stay with me for longer,
then I would have a better recovery.
Am I not already with you?
Stop.
Who did this? Where are my things?
With President's care, he has remodelled the place.
He wants to move in.
President?
Who is it?
It's Zhong Ke Ming's newly chosen President.
There is only one President here.
It's me.
I'm sorry, President. I was mistaken.
Go.
Get him here.
I am here.
Qun.
Your body is so weak now,
why do you still have to come here?
This is my place,
I have worked hard all my life.
I must guard it.
Your body is in this condition, do you still have energy to guard it?
Zhong Ke Ming,
I really didn't that think,
you would be so impatient.
The earlier you hope for me to die,
that means the more guilty you are.
Don't worry, I won't let you get anything.
I will let you see yourself with nothing.
No family, no children, no family bonds.
I want to make you have nothing at all.
Qun,
I'm telling you,
who made Tang Ye Corporation, from a few millions
to hundreds of millions?
All of it was my, Zhong Ke Ming's, effort,
to fight for Tang Ye Corporation's empire.
It was me.
Tang Ye Corporation belongs to me, nobody can
take it from my hands.
That is too odd.
You are really too odd.
With you?
Just with a little lawyer like you?
Zhong Ke Ming,
stop giving useless dying punches.
There is no use.
Right now, please leave my office.
We will meet in court.
Did you think with just He Yu Qin's testimony alone,
that the court would give him the win?
You wish!
Don't feel pleased too early!
I am not feeling pleased.
I was only preparing for both possible consequences.
If the court doesn't support me,
I could wait. I could wait for another two years.
Two years? What do you mean?
According to article 8 of the Inheritance Laws,
if Tang Ji Ye's child still hasn't been found after he died for 20 years,
even if the child was alive,
the litigation period would have been over.
No wonder...no wonder you're not anxious at all.
It's not that I am not anxious,
you're the one who is anxious.
It was you who was you anxiously asked Tang Ning to go against me.
Zhong Ke Ming,
we have been a married couple for over 20 years,
could you tell me something honestly?
Could you tell me?
Was it you...was it you who took away my Older Brother's child?
Was it?
You're a joke.
♫ 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” ♫