Chapter 59 Meeting and Negotiation Failed

Before the formal conversation, Jin Qi took out a small handheld camera.

Shen Siyan asked what they were going to do.

"It's not a live broadcast, don't be nervous." Xia Shi said, "It's just a record to prevent someone from forgetting what they said later."

Shen Siyan frowned: “That’s not necessary.”

"If you don't think it's necessary, then there's no need for us to sit here today." Xia Shi reminded the other party: "If I understand correctly, you want to reconcile, right?"

Shen Siyan gritted her teeth and said nothing.

The camera was turned on and pointed at Shen Siyan's face. The display was clear enough to show the tightened masseter muscles on the other person's face and the blue veins on her forehead.

She was silent for half a minute, and adjusted her mood: "There is one thing I want to clarify. Cancan talked to Kang Lei at the time and asked him to find two ordinary medium-sized dogs. He took the initiative to get eight dogs, and also added two fierce dogs. This was not Cancan's intention. She didn't intend to let you get so badly injured."

From the beginning, they were talking about two dogs, and they decided to quit while they were ahead. Dogs in small places are free-range, so it is normal for two of them to suddenly appear and it will not arouse suspicion. But Kang Lei felt that two dogs were not enough. In order to complete the task assigned by his employer efficiently and perfectly, he got eight dogs himself and added two fierce dogs.

Gao Luo paid attention to another key point and asked, "It's Yao Cancan, not you?"

The whole speech from beginning to end is about Yao Cancan, without mentioning herself. Yao Cancan went in for her, and she didn't want to take any responsibility on herself.

"Isn't she your good friend? Don't you have a good relationship? She did this for you, but you tried to clear yourself of all blame." Gao Luo said disdainfully, "You are not sincere at all."

Shen Siyan defended herself: “You guys recorded the video, how do I know if you will post it online.”

"It doesn't matter whether it's posted online or not. We all have our own brains. Yao Cancan is your assistant and your best friend. What she did is what you did. Only your fans watch you two separately. Maybe... you're not afraid of posting the video online, but you're afraid that we'll submit it to the court and let the judge sentence you?"

Gao Luo said with a sigh: "It turns out that we can only share the good times but not the bad times. I wonder what Yao Cancan will think when she finds out."

After hearing this, Shen Siyan’s face darkened.

People are selfish. Although Shen Siyan regards Yao Cancan as very important, her arrest is an established fact. If she confesses everything honestly, only one more person will go to prison, and Yao Cancan will still not come out. In this case, of course she has to consider herself.

But Gao Luo's words just now gave her another idea.

If Gao Luo and the others showed this video to Yao Cancan, and Cancan found out that she was shirking responsibility in her words and deeds, would she become disheartened, thinking that this friendship was fake, and thus give herself away?

If this is the case, then no matter what I say today, I may be sentenced.

Thinking of this, Shen Siyan's resentment towards the people opposite her became even stronger.

The road was blocked, so she could only tell the whole story: "I asked her to do it, are you satisfied?"

Gao Luo rolled her eyes.

Who is the victim anyway? What kind of tone is that? It was as if they were persecuting her.

"Please put yourself in the right position and remember the purpose of asking us out today." Xia Shi reminded her.

Shen Siyan took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

After a while, she spoke again, in a pleading tone: "I will tell you everything, and then you can make your demands. If I complete your demands, you will agree to a settlement, right?"

"It depends on my mood." Gao Luo said.

Shen Siyan ignored Gao Luo and only looked at Gao Shule.

Gao Shule is soft-hearted and a respectable person. She privately thought that Gao Shule would be easier to talk to, so she only wanted to make an appointment with her today.

But Gao Shule's answer was also ambiguous.

Gao Shule: "My opinion alone doesn't count. It depends on the opinions of all of us."

Shen Siyan wanted to leave, but this was her last resort, she had to at least give it a try, otherwise Yao Cancan would definitely blame her when she came out in the future.

She took out her cell phone and clicked on a recording, which was the entire conversation between her and Wen Cheng about reaching a cooperation agreement.

She would record every transaction she made with others, in case the other party could use it against her in the future.

"It's Wen Cheng who wants to deal with you. He wants you to quit the variety show. I don't mean to target you. If you want to expose him, I can testify for you."

Shen Siyan finished speaking and opened an electronic file.

"This is the script and production team of my movie. Now that I can't shoot it, I will recommend you to the company and you will be the leading actress."

Although her agent explicitly rejected her request, Shen Siyan still took out the movie, trying to confuse Gao Shule and pretending that this was a benefit she could offer.

She first said these two points that were beneficial to Gao Shule and the others, and then explained what she had done, including letting Ze Yin pretend to faint on the island, injuring A Luo's leg in the ancient city, and letting the dog bite people in Sulijin Town.

After Xia Shi finished listening, he said slowly, "Did you miss something? Think about it carefully and think it through before you speak."

Shen Siyan was stunned for a moment, then added the incident of Longkou Village deliberately falling into the water.

Only Xia Shi realized that she did it on purpose. The other three didn't know and were dumbfounded when they heard it.

Gao Luo slammed the table and said fiercely, "Is there anything else we don't know? I advise you to tell the truth. We Xia Shi know it clearly! Don't try to get away with it!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Shi looked at A'Luo with a smile and said "hmm".

Shen Siyan had no choice but to tell her everything, from making plans, to the goals she hoped to achieve, to spending money to hire people, she told her everything from beginning to end.

Finally, he said, "My original intention was just to get you to withdraw from the variety show filming. I didn't want to hurt you. My plan was already very mild."

Shen Siyan thought that all her methods were quite gentle. When she was on the island, her goal was to get Gao Shule blamed and have her reputation damaged, but she did not suffer any actual physical harm; when she was in the ancient city, A'Luo only had a broken ankle, which she would be fine after resting for a while, and it was not a big deal at all, and her recovery would not affect her walking.

In Longkou Village, she herself fell into the water, which was just like taking a cold shower, so there was nothing to say; as for the final incident in Sulijin Town, it was Kang Lei who was smart enough to find eight dogs and change her request, so she believed that Kang Lei should bear the main responsibility.

She truly felt that what she had done was no big deal, and that the other party was being too much and unreasonable, and was trying to drive her to death.

"If I really wanted to hurt you, I could have found a sea snake when I was on the island."

The sea snake bit Gao Shule and she was dead. There was no chance for her to sit here and talk to her. She had already shown mercy, why were they haggling over it?

Shen Siyan even felt that Gao Shule and Gao Luo should be grateful for her kindness. She only wanted to force them to withdraw from the filming and never thought of harming their lives.

Gao Luo originally didn't want to come today, but now it seems that it was the right decision to come, otherwise she wouldn't have heard such shocking fallacies.

It's impossible to reason with someone like this who has her own complete logic. You have to be better at talking nonsense than her.

Gao Luo said casually: "You think what you did is nothing, then I think Yao Cancan's current situation is nothing either. Someone provides food, drink and shelter for her. She is not exposed to the wind and rain, and when she is sick, the government provides her with free treatment. How great!"

Jin Qi had been silent the whole time, but now he burst out laughing: "It sounds like he's going in to enjoy himself."

Gao Luo also laughed: "Isn't it just enjoying the good life, eating the government food?"

The two of them cooperated, and Shen Siyan was so angry that her face turned black. But now the other party has a hold on her and she has no choice but to bow her head.

"I have said everything I need to say. Now you can put forward your demands. I will do what I can."

Gao Luo turned her head to look at others.

She just came here to join in the fun today, and she would not reconcile with Shen Siyan.

Gao Shule didn't say anything either.

Xia Shi opened his mouth and asked her back, "Are you sure you have said everything you need to say?"

Shen Siyan's heart sank, and she asked warily, "What do you mean?"

Xia Shi: “Literally.”

Shen Siyan felt that the other party was deceiving her, and pretended to be calm: "That's it."

Xia Shi: “No additional information?”

Shen Siyan: "I've finished talking about this. Is there anything to add?"

"Since you are not sincere." Xia Shi smiled and said, "Forget it."

Xia Shi stood up, Gao Luo followed him, Gao Shule and Jin Qi also stood up immediately.

The four men looked like they were about to leave.

Shen Siyan was anxious, “Give me a hint, I really can’t remember it!”

Xia Shi: "Do you really not remember, or do you not want to say it?"

Shen Siyan: “I really can’t remember.”

Xia Shi looked at her with a half-smile: "Okay. I'll give you a hint, the person who had dinner with you at Wen Yanju that day."

Xia Shi had already made it so clear, Shen Siyan had no choice but to announce the relationship between Sun Xu and Yao Cancan, and recounted the process of how she relied on Sun Xu to get in touch with Zhang Jing.

Gao Luo and Gao Shule were surprised. They never thought that the artist coordinator of Xi Que TV and Yao Cancan were actually a couple. No wonder they had dinner together that day. Gao Luo always thought Chen Siyan was a good person, but it turns out that she is one of their own.

Gao Luo asked Jin Qi: "Ah Qi, do you know about this?"

Jin Qi was surprised. "I don't know. I've never heard that he has a girlfriend."

Xia Shi continued: "Now you tell us their relationship, does Sun Xu agree?"

Shen Siyan: “He will agree.”

If his relationship is made public, Sun Xu will at most lose his job, but if he keeps silent, the other party will not agree to a settlement and Yao Cancan will have to go to jail.

He is Yao Cancan's boyfriend and he will not stand by and watch her die.

Xia Shi: "Let me tell you first, I will send this part of the video about Sun Xu to the production team of "Wonderful Holiday"."

Shen Siyan said it didn’t matter: “Whatever you want.”

The worst that could happen is that Sun Xu was fired, which is nothing compared to Yao Cancan being sentenced.

Shen Siyan asked: "I have really finished talking about everything. Can we talk about reconciliation now?"

Xia Shi calmed down and said, "We have been hoping that you could be more sincere since the beginning, but every time you speak, you deliberately conceal or omit some facts. If I don't remind you, you won't say anything. Do you think that your attitude in communicating with us today is acceptable?"

After saying that, he didn’t look at Shen Siyan again.

The other three people shared his attitude and left.

After leaving the private room and about to go downstairs, I suddenly saw Ze Yin standing there.

Gao Luo turned around and saw Shen Siyan catching up with her.

Shen Siyan hugged Ze Yin and asked him to beg for mercy.

"Zhe Yin, your Aunt Gao asked the police to arrest Sister Cancan. Can you please beg her to release Sister Cancan?"

Shen Siyan told Ze Yin that it was because he said the wrong thing in the hospital that day that led to Yao Cancan being arrested. Ze Yin felt very guilty and had not been sleeping well during this period. He was in a daze, did not speak every day, and often sat alone in the room crying quietly.

When Ze Yin heard that Gao Shule could release Yao Cancan now, he immediately stepped forward and grabbed the corner of her clothes. Before he said a word, tears started to flow.

He was thin to begin with, and now he looked even thinner than before. The clothes on his body looked like they were hanging on a hanger, thin and empty. Only the shapes of the joints and bones protruding from the clothes could reveal that there was a human body underneath.

Gao Shule looked at Ze Yin's face, and her heart suddenly felt like it was stabbed by a needle.

How can I not feel sad? He is still so young and has just gained a basic understanding of the world, but someone shatters all his cognition and makes him choose between family and conscience.

He became sick because of the pain, but the people who loved him did not realize this, or they realized it but thought that what he was going through was unimportant.

When Gao Luo asked her if she would be soft-hearted if Shen Siyan used Ze Yin to plead for her, Gao Shule thought at the time that she would not. But when Ze Yin really stood in front of her, looking at his skinny appearance, his sunken eyes filled with tears of fear and anxiety, she really couldn't say anything cruel.

But she knew that she couldn't always hide behind others like an ostrich.

She squatted down, wiped his tears gently with her hands, and said softly: "Zhe Yin, has your teacher ever taught you that it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, as long as you can correct them in time, you are a good child. Your sister Cancan made a mistake, she needs to go to a place to correct it, and when the correction is finished, she will come back."

Ze Yin looked at her with tears in his eyes: "Really? She will come back?"

"Yes, she will become the same as before." Gao Shule said earnestly: "Every one of us has to take our share of responsibility when we make mistakes. We must be brave enough to take responsibility, right?"

Ze Yin only understood half of what he heard, and nodded in confusion: "I know."

Gao Shule touched his head with relief, then stood up and looked at Shen Siyan coldly: “Not everything in this world can be used, so be a human being.”

I had wondered if I was too ruthless today, but now it seems that she is far worse than Shen Siyan.

Seeing that she was indifferent to Ze Yin, Shen Siyan tried her best to suppress the anger in her chest and did not go crazy on the spot.

"Just because I left out some unimportant information, you didn't even give me a chance to discuss it?! Aren't you playing a trick on me today?!"

She admitted everything, and they just walked away? Are you making fun of her? !

"It was because you were insincere that you missed the only chance to get Yao Cancan out. You are too calculating, too concerned about gains and losses, and always put yourself first. It's you who caused Yao Cancan to end up like this."

After Gao Luo finished speaking, she took Gao Shule's hand and walked around her. I ran quickly after going down the stairs, fearing that she would catch up with me again.

*

This is the worst case scenario. You go to plead with that group of people, but end up exposing your past and they don't give you any benefits at all. After arriving home, Shen Siyan finally couldn't bear it anymore, smashed many things, and screamed to vent her anger.

When she was furious to the extreme, she wanted to kill all those people with a knife, but when she calmed down and thought about the price she would have to pay, she gave up the idea.

She didn't eat much that day and only felt hungry at night, so she ate some leftover bread at home.

Just after taking a bite, she received a call from Sun Xu.

Sun Xu yelled on the other end of the phone, asking her why she wanted to expose his relationship with Yao Cancan. Not only has he been fired, he also has to pay liquidated damages to Xi Que TV, and has even been banned from the entire industry due to leaks.

He scolded in a stern voice: "Who did I break the TV station's rules for? It's not enough that you have harmed Yao Cancan alone, but you are also trying to harm me? Where did you come from, you ungrateful person?"

Shen Siyan wanted to curse back, but she still explained the reason to him first, and finally questioned him in return: "Are you not willing to sacrifice even this little benefit for Cancan?"

Sun Xu seemed to have heard a joke: "You asked me to sacrifice myself, but what about you? We are all doomed, and you are the only one who stays out of it, right? Yao Cancan treats you as a friend. She is in prison now, why don't you go in and accompany her?"

"Oh no! You shouldn't have accompanied her! This whole thing is your problem from the beginning to the end! We are all helping you. If you had confessed your guilt earlier, there would be no need for Yao Cancan. Cancan and I would be fine now. You are the one who should go to jail! You should be in jail!"

After Ning Heng fired Sun Xu, he had the official account of "Wonderful Holiday" publish a notice of dismissal on various platforms:

"Employee Sun Xu, who served as the artist coordinator in the production team, violated the contract by contacting the guests privately during work and leaking information. The labor contract is now terminated in advance and he will never be rehired."

As soon as the notice came out, everyone was discussing who this employee was and whether he was related to the recent case, because generally no notice is issued when an employee is fired.

The person who can post this must be an extraordinary person.

After a round of guessing, Sun Xu finally posted on Weibo himself and confessed everything. Of course, all the criticisms in these words were directed at Shen Siyan.

He publicly stated that he was Yao Cancan's boyfriend because his girlfriend worked as an assistant to Shen Siyan. He took the risk to pass on the information on the show to her based on the principle that helping Shen Siyan was helping his girlfriend. Unexpectedly, after the accident, she pushed all the responsibility onto Yao Cancan and got away with it.

Shen Siyan was so angry when she saw this Weibo post. He described himself as being so affectionate, but in fact he was a cheap man who was unwilling to sacrifice even his job. He also said that he was helping her just to help his girlfriend. Bullshit, he was clearly taking the initiative to show his affection. I don't know how many times I've followed her to eat and drink for free, and now she has the nerve to blame me.

He always emphasized that she got away with it unscathed, even though she had lost everything except going to jail. She was now even more miserable than Yao Cancan.

She wanted to go online and expose Sun Xu, this hypocritical man, but she couldn't. Once she proactively responds to the first question, the second and third will follow immediately.

She wanted to lower her presence and wait for this matter to pass quietly.

But there is no way around it because Yao Cancan is still being detained in the detention center.

The lawyer came to urge Shen Siyan every now and then, asking her whether she had negotiated with the other party.

Shen Siyan was annoyed by her questions and retorted: "I paid you to do this, why are you calling me that here?"

Do you know who paid her lawyer fees?

The lawyer apologized to her and said, "Time is running out. It will be too late to prosecute by then. Ms. Yao is suffering in the detention center. She said that you are the only one who can help her."

“But what can I do!” Shen Siyan told the truth: “I have looked for them, but they won’t reconcile.”

She looked for everyone she could and tried every possible means, but there was really nothing she could do.

The lawyer thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go talk to them. If they're willing to make an offer, I'll come back and discuss it with you."

Later, the lawyer contacted Gao Shule himself and said he wanted to talk to her.

Gao Shule no longer wanted to deal with the people on Shen Siyan's side. She felt that each of them had eight hundred schemes and she simply couldn't handle them.

If it weren't for Xia Shi, she would not have had the chance to know that Chen Siyan deliberately fell into the water in Longkou Village that day, nor would she know that Sun Xu and Yao Cancan were a couple.

Gao Luo thought that her brain was quite good and she didn't even notice these problems.

She asked Xia Shi how he knew it, and Xia Shi said he would tell her later.

She insisted and asked Xia Shi to speak now, but Xia Shi said that now was not the right time. After that, no matter how Gao Luo asked, Xia Shi didn't say a word.

Gao Shule did not meet the lawyer in the end, and asked her own lawyer to meet the other party, who was one of the two lawyers that Gao Luo asked Gao Chengsheng to help find.

The lawyer hired by Shen Siyan was called Chi Lin, and the lawyer who represented Gao Shule and others to meet was called Deng Huamao.

Chi Lin first confessed her intentions and expressed sincerely that she would try her best to meet any of their demands as long as they could understand her client.

Deng Huamao asked her if she knew the whole process of the incident, and Chi Lin said she knew.

Deng Huamao asked her to speak first, and when he heard that she had omitted many important events and details, he opened his mobile phone and showed her the video, which was the entire video recorded when he met with Shen Siyan that day.

After she finishes watching this video, play the surveillance footage on the island and the audio footage on the mountain.

After reading this, Chi Lin suddenly understood why the other party was unwilling to reconcile. She only knows about the current case and doesn't know all the causes and consequences. She now understood that the other party was kind enough, otherwise he would have exposed everything to Shen Siyan at the island.

Chi Lin: "Then let me confirm, Ms. Gao is not considering negotiation and settlement at all, right?"

Deng Huamao nodded: "Yes."

"So what is the purpose of your agreeing to meet today?"

Deng Huamao smiled friendly and said, "I want to give you some advice."

"What?"

"First, you have to make it clear that your target of defense is Yao Cancan. Secondly, she will definitely be sentenced, so what you should do is not to seek our forgiveness, but to work hard to reduce her sentence."

If there is another principal offender in this joint crime case, then Yao Cancan's sentence as an accomplice will naturally be reduced.