Chapter 7 Case Opening

Lu Yunsheng acted quickly. The next day, the entry #A certain popular female singer's plagiarism controversy fully revealed# was pushed to the top of the hot searches, even overshadowing Ruan Wanning's negative news. Before netizens could figure out what was going on, the post disappeared.

But soon, this topic became a hot search again, but the new post was deleted in just a few minutes.

The trending searches kept disappearing one after another, which clearly indicated that there was something fishy going on! Netizens’ curiosity was completely ignited, and the related terms immediately became the top trending searches.

After careful investigation by netizens, it was discovered that the plagiarist was Chu Yidan, who was affectionately called the Little Song Queen by her fans.

Chu Yidan is a popular singer in the music industry with good national popularity. She is good-looking and has a lot of fan marketing efforts. Many passers-by have a good impression of her, so there are quite a few people who click on the hot search to watch the show.

At first, some passersby who were not sure whether it was true or not spoke for her:

— Is "Echo" plagiarized? Seriously? This is my ringtone!

——Oh my god, something feels a little off. Which investor did Starlight Films offend?

——Is this considered plagiarism? Please don’t try to blacken our little singing queen!

Following the clues provided in the article, careful netizens actually dug up a lot of information about Chu Yi Dan.

Do you remember Chu Yidan's debut show, "I Am a Rising Star"? Check out the first episode of Season 3!

——Oh my god, this girl actually formed a small group to bully the contestants of the same period.

——The plagiarized author responded and pointed out the way (link)

As the situation escalated, some people dug up content from her previous variety shows. Chu Yidan teamed up with other contestants to isolate her teammates, and her disrespectful behavior towards fans caused great disgust among netizens. A big fan came forward to expose that every album Chu Yidan claimed to be original was actually produced by someone else.

Chu Yidan deployed a large number of internet trolls and removed trending searches, but the criticism still didn't subside. In desperation, she called Lu Yunsheng.

"Brother, how could you treat me like this for a stranger, you..." Chu Yidan's voice choked.

Lu Yunsheng interrupted her in a serious tone.

"She is not an outsider, she is my baby."

After saying that, Lu Yunsheng ignored the crying coming from the other end of the phone and blocked the number.

Ruan Wanning, who was standing by, blushed when she heard this confession.

Lin Zhihua was caught off guard and ate a bowl of dog food.

Due to undisclosed reasons, Attorney Fu was unable to leave the house today, leaving Lin Zhihua to meet with the client. She solemnly and in detail explained the trial process and precautions, as well as the guidelines for answering the judge's questions.

Lin Zhihua reminded her, "The evidence we provided is very complete, and the judge will most likely pronounce the verdict in court. Regarding the family's letter of understanding, I hope Ms. Ruan will consider it carefully in advance."

"I will not agree to sign a letter of understanding." Ruan Wanning's tone was very serious. Even the blood relationship was thicker than water, but it had been worn away by the day-to-day disputes.

Lu Yunsheng held her hand and comforted her softly, "Don't worry, Ningning. I've already made arrangements. We'll issue a statement to clarify the matter after the trial."

After finishing the business, Lin Zhihua said goodbye to the young couple and prepared to go back to organize the case materials.

The phone vibrated twice. Lin Zhihua thought it was Fu Shengyan who was memorizing his lessons at home, calling her, but she didn't expect it was a message from Ye Qianxi.

Refuse to work overtime without pay: President, you haven’t been to the company for 22 hours!

Refuse to work overtime without pay: Mr. Li has arrived and is waiting for you in the reception room.

Oops, I accidentally forgot my job. Lin Zhihua quickly turned the car around and stepped on the accelerator to drive towards the company.

Lin Zhihua hurried to the company. Feeling guilty, she ignored Ye Qianxi's resentful look, straightened her sleeves and pushed open the door of the living room.

*

After seeing off the partners, before Lin Zhihua could breathe a sigh of relief, her capable secretary appeared behind her.

"Boss Lin, are you ready to get off work?"

"How could that be? It's not time to get off work yet." Lin Zhihua retracted her right foot and said seriously, "I was just going to see Mr. Li off."

Ye Qianxi rolled his glasses, his expression serious. "I've put all the documents that need signatures yesterday and today on your desk. It's urgent."

Secretary Ye said he was anxious, and it seemed that he was really anxious.

Mr. Lin reflected on himself seriously and decided to work overtime at noon to finish tomorrow's work.

Lin Zhihua was very efficient and finished processing all the documents that needed to be reviewed and approved in less than two hours.

She glanced at the time. It was already one in the afternoon. She wondered if Fu Shengyan had eaten lunch yet. "Secretary Ye, I won't be in the office this afternoon or tomorrow. Please send any important matters directly to my email."

Ye Qianxi turned her gaze away from the melodramatic idol drama playing on her phone and looked at Lin Zhihua with a resentful expression, "Boss Lin, isn't Xiao Ye your most trusted secretary?"

Lin Zhihua:?

"Now you contact Secretary Yu for everything, and you even assigned him a special mission." Ye Qianxi held his chin with a somewhat aggrieved look on his face.

She likes to slack off occasionally, but that doesn’t mean she is efficient. Only by rejecting internal competition can she improve her work happiness index.

The president has actually ignored her these past two days and hasn't even come to the company. Ye Qianxi feels that her position as chief secretary is slightly shaken.

In order to regain Secretary Ye's trust and facilitate subsequent work arrangements, Lin Zhihua told Ye Qianxi about Fu Shengyan's amnesia and finally instructed: "This matter must be kept confidential. The fewer people who know about it, the better."

Ye Qianxi nodded like a chick pecking at rice, indicating that she would keep her mouth shut.

"Then doesn't that mean Lawyer Fu doesn't remember you? Is this the scenario of marriage first, love later?" Ye Qianxi took a breath, her expression visibly excited. "Even if I lose all my memories of you, I will still fall hopelessly in love with you the first time I see you."

What a beautiful love story! It's so sweet! She really wants to share this new love story with her friends in the group.

Lin Zhihua was speechless for a moment. It took only a short while for him to think of the script for her?

"Fu Shengyan and I were childhood sweethearts. He just lost his memory of these seven years, not forgotten me." Lin Zhihua coughed lightly, although he did forget her the first time he lost his memory.

After hearing Lin Zhihua say this, Ye Qianxi's eyes became brighter after being surprised.

"That means I finally got what I wanted one day. I got married to Bai Yueguang, the girl I've secretly loved for eighteen years!"

"Editor Ye, it's a real waste of talent to be my secretary," Lin Zhihua said, not wanting to chat with Secretary Ye, who was not working. "I'm going back first. I won't be in the office tomorrow. If you have anything important, please contact me directly."

"Mr. Lin, young people are in good health, but they should also pay attention to moderation." Ye Qianxi smiled ambiguously, with an expression of "I understand."

You, a person who has been single for 28 years, don’t know anything. Lin Zhihua took a deep breath, wishing she could shake all the bloody idol drama plots and some garbage from Ye Qianxi’s mind.

"Don't spread rumors about the president. I have something important to do tomorrow. I have to accompany Lawyer Fu, who has lost his memory, to court." Lin Zhihua wiped his face and explained to her seriously.

She has reported everything to the company and will never allow any gossip about the president to circulate in the company again.

Ye Qianxi promised with a serious face: "Okay, Mr. Lin, I will take care of the company's miscellaneous tasks. You can rest assured that Secretary Ye will do the work."

Lin Zhihua left the company feeling uneasy.

Holding a bunch of candies but with no one to share them with, Ye Qianxi felt even more itchy. After thinking for a while, she decisively added Yu Yao to the group.

[Marketing Department Xiaoqin: Welcome newcomers~]

[Li at the front desk: Welcome, newcomers! Spread the flowers~~]

[Finance Wang Xin: Newcomers, please remember to change the remarks!]

[Wife, Children, and a Warm Bed: What kind of group is this? Who recruited me?]

Yu Yao looked at the group that appeared on his phone with a puzzled look on his face. "Picking up candy on the ground today too? What kind of group is this?"

The group members seemed to be all colleagues from the company. Who created this small group? Without thinking too much, he changed the name and lurked in the group.

"Secretary Yu, why hasn't Zhizhi come back yet?" Fu Shengyan walked over and asked him for the twenty-third time.

Yu Yao put down his phone, his face vicissitudes, and said, "Boss Lin is working overtime and will be back late at noon."

"Oh." Fu Shengyan nodded calmly and picked up his professional book seriously.

Yu Yao couldn't help but say, "Mr. Fu can send a message to ask Mr. Lin himself."

He spent almost an hour reading that page!

Fu Shengyan agreed, but had no intention of sending a message to Lin Zhihua.

Dating tips say that being too clingy to your partner will make him/her feel annoyed, so you should give each other enough trust and private space.

He had read the chat records and knew that Fu Shengyan would never ask Zhizhi when she would be home every day.

But there is another tip for love: pay more attention to your partner and make him/her feel loved.

He began to feel conflicted again, looking at the hundreds of comments below the love post, and the two villains in his mind were about to fight.

"Click", there was a sound of unlocking at the door. Seeing Lin Zhihua coming back, Fu Shengyan's eyes lit up.

"Zhizhi, I've ordered takeout for you. Let's eat first." Fu Shengyan walked up quickly to help her put away her bag and car keys.

Yu Yao's mouth twitched. It was clearly him who ordered the takeaway!

*

Time passed quickly, and soon it was the day of the trial.

On the way to the court, Lin Zhihua sternly instructed Fu Shengyan: "Later in court, if the presiding judge doesn't call your name, don't speak."

Fu Shengyan was a little unhappy, "I finished reading the files last night, it's no problem for me to go by myself."

"No." Lin Zhihua helped him straighten his lawyer's robe and fixed his tie which had been clumsily tied crookedly by someone in the morning.

The neatly dressed lawyer Fu was in a bad mood. He buried his nose in Lin Zhihua's shoulder and said in a muffled voice, "Zhizhi, you don't trust me."

"It's not that I don't trust you, but you should be familiar with the process first, right?" Lin Zhihua looked at Fu Shengyan who was holding her clothes, and couldn't help but whispered coaxingly, "Be good, next time I'll let you do it by yourself, okay?"

After getting the guarantee, Fu Shengyan was quickly coaxed into submission. He raised his head happily and picked up the book "Lawyers' Professional Ethics and Professionalism" again, reading it with great interest.

It was already past the morning rush hour and there were not many cars on the road, so they soon arrived at the A City District Court.

This was the first time Lin Zhihua met Ruan Xingyun's family.

Maybe it was because they received a huge transfer, but Ruan Xingyun and the other two bought themselves some fancy clothes. They looked radiant and there was arrogance in their eyes when they looked at people.

Before coming to the court, Ruan Xingyun specially asked someone to hire a small lawyer. After consultation, he learned that it was impossible for children to sever ties with their parents!

That is to say, when they are old, Ruan Wanning will still have to pay alimony and provide them with care and support until the end of their lives.

Ruan Xingyun then came to the court fearlessly and asked the judge to judge the case and ask for more alimony!

Before the trial, Li Suhui saw Ruan Wanning and suddenly became furious. She pointed at her and yelled, "You money-loser! How dare you sue us? I shouldn't have given birth to you! You want to sever ties with us? Dream on!"

"Silence." The presiding judge struck the gavel.

"The court is now announcing discipline..."

When they saw the witnesses who came to the scene to testify and the photographic evidence produced by Ruan Wanning, Ruan Xingyun and his wife could not believe their eyes and verbally abused Ruan Wanning for five minutes.

The presiding judge frowned frequently, Ruan Wanning sat in the plaintiff's seat with an indifferent expression, not even bothering to look at anyone, Lu Yunsheng in the spectator seat had a gloomy face, and Fu Shengyan looked at them leisurely.

When it was the plaintiff and his agent's turn to speak, Lin Zhihua slowly stood up. Her eyes swept across Ruan Xingyun and his wife opposite her, and finally fell on the solemn face of the presiding judge.

"Respected presiding judge, collegial panel," her voice was clear and steady, yet sharp. "Today, on behalf of the plaintiff, Ms. Ruan Wanning, I present the facts and claims of this case to the court..."

"We're not suing for alimony, but for this question: As children, do we have the right not to love our parents?" Her eyes were sharp as she slowly surveyed the courtroom. "Parental kindness should be instinctive. If a father isn't kind, then his children won't be filial. If you give birth to a child but don't raise him, why should you expect your child to be grateful?"

The gavel fell, and the presiding judge looked at Lin Zhihua deeply.

"This court declares that it supports all of the plaintiff's claims and that the defendants, Ruan Xingyun and Li Suhui, committed serious abuse..."

The moment they heard the result, Ruan Xingyun and his wife, who had been shouting before, fell to their seats with pale faces.