"Sure, but five hundred is not enough. If Chenchen tells me, he still has to pay child support, at least one hundred a month."

Fang Qing opened her mouth loudly, and Lu Jiangting was so angry that he wanted to scold her again.

The mediator quickly restrained the two men and said, "We'll talk later. Go to the tea room and rest first."

The staff separated them temporarily. Lu Jiangting and Fang Qing went to small rooms on both sides of the mediation room respectively, while Wang Chenchen stayed where she was, accompanied by two staff members.

"Who would you like to follow, child?"

Wang Chenchen shook his head, "I don't know."

"Your opinion is very important. Would you like to tell Auntie what you think?"

Wang Chenchen thought for a while and said, "My mother has no money, but... Uncle Lu doesn't like me now."

"If I don't like you now? Did I like you before?"

"I like him, but he doesn't like me anymore after he said I'm not his father's child."

Everyone also sorted out the entanglement between these people.

It is outrageous that the man chose to marry his friend in order to better take care of his friend's wife and children.

What's even more outrageous is that this daughter-in-law also cheated on her husband.

Then the man found out that the children were not his friends, and he completely broke down. He was so angry that he had mental problems and took medicine for two years.

This story is outrageous from beginning to end.

"Who do you want to be with, then?"

Wang Chenchen whispered with tears in her eyes, "I really don't know."

No one pressed him anymore.

Seeing him sitting there obediently, I felt sorry for him and brought him some bread.

But he didn't eat it, he just held it in his hand and continued to sit there pitifully.

On the other side, the mediator spoke to Lu Jiangting and Fang Qing separately.

Talk to Lu Jiangting first.

"Regarding this child, regardless of the reason, you did win custody of him. Your case history will definitely help you win the case. However, even if the child is awarded to his mother, you will still have to pay child support."

Lu Jiangting: "I was deceived by them. I won't pay child support. I won't use my money to raise a wolf cub."

"Even though you keep saying that you were deceived by Fang Qing, the judge has to consider various possibilities and may not agree with you.

Don't forget, the reason for your divorce was because you caught Ms. Fang cheating, not because you found out the child wasn't your friend's."

Lu Jiangting was silent.

The mediator continued, "Then the judge will likely conclude that your marriage was due to a breakdown. After all, you said it was to repay a favor..." The other party laughed. "Such an outrageous reason is unlikely to be accepted."

"I..." Lu Jiangting opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything because he was in the wrong.

The other party continued, "Marrying because of love, divorcing because you caught her cheating, which led to the breakdown of the relationship—that's logical and more easily accepted. Your claim that you were deceived into marrying me is hard to accept. And I've seen that you were in a military marriage. If you say you were deceived into marrying me, how do you think the comrades who were being investigated feel?"

Lu Jiangting was completely speechless.

"In short, in my opinion, the success rate of changing child custody is very high, but you will definitely have to pay child support. If you don't want to pay, or pay less, I suggest you have a good talk with Ms. Fang and negotiate a suitable price."

Lu Jiangting: "I don't want to talk to her. Please help me negotiate a suitable price."

"Yes, that's why we invited you here today. I'll try to negotiate a price that satisfies both of you."

Based on the limited materials at hand, the mediator believed that it was impossible for him not to want to pay alimony.

Unless he becomes completely incapable of civil conduct and has no income at all.

Of course, they expressed deep sympathy for Lu Jiangting's care.

But there is no way. The law will definitely not agree that he was deceived, nor will it agree that he married someone just to make it easier to take care of his sister-in-law.

They could only try their best to mediate and prevent Lu Jiangting from suffering too much loss.

The mediator went to Fang Qing and asked her about her plans.

"I've already said, he can have the baby, but he has to return my 3,500 yuan and pay for Chenchen's child support. I know his salary has increased to 300 or 400 yuan a month, so I won't ask for more. I'll only ask him for 100 yuan a month."

"One hundred is too many."

"Why is it more? The average worker's salary has risen to over 100 yuan now. I saw in the newspaper last time that the national average monthly salary is over 200 yuan. Do I only need a little over 100 yuan?"

When the mediators heard the average salary, they were a little upset.

"Ms. Fang, you know this is the national average wage for employees, not the national average income. How many people in the country qualify for this statistic?"

To put it bluntly, I only make a little over a hundred yuan a month, and I don't know who splits the other hundred. You can't calculate it that way. For ordinary people like us, earning a hundred yuan a month is good. How can you possibly ask someone for a hundred yuan in child support?

Fang Qing curled her lips. Of course, she also knew that it would be difficult to get one hundred.

But she asked for a higher price so that it would be easier to bargain.

"So what do you think is a suitable amount?"

"I think we should use the minimum living standard. This year, our district's poverty line is 361 years, which is about 31 months..."

"Thirty?" Fang Qing shook her head decisively. "Impossible. What can you do with that much money? It's definitely not enough."

"Don't worry, I'm not finished yet."

"Okay, go ahead."

"Generally speaking, once the cost of raising a child is determined, each parent will pay half. In other words, if it's determined to be thirty-one months, then you and Mr. Lu will each pay fifteen months."

"What?" Fang Qing couldn't sit still anymore and stood up. "Fifteen dollars to pay a beggar? Impossible. I won't agree to that."

The mediator calmly watched her rage, and only continued after she calmed down, "Ms. Fang, let me be frank. You know exactly why Mr. Lu wanted to help you and your child. He had no obligation to help you raise your child, but how has he treated you and your child over the years?"

Fang Qing: “…”

"I haven't done anything wrong to you. We can't let good people down."

Fang Qing said sarcastically, "Oh, is he a good man? You don't know, after we got married, he..."

The mediator raised his hand to stop her from speaking.

How could he not know this since he specializes in this?

If they were to bring up the trivialities of marriage, it would take three days and three nights to explain them all.

"We're divorced, so let's not talk about the marriage anymore. I looked at Mr. Lu's bill, and he didn't record any expenses from the marriage. Putting aside whether he was a good husband during the marriage, I want to ask you, as your ex-husband's friend, is he a good person?"

Fang Qing had nothing to say about this.

"He really took care of us before I married him. He was a really good person back then."