"Are you Ye Li's lawyer?"
Scratching his balding head, Vice Principal Liu said with a displeased expression, "These students nowadays are truly lawless! Such a small matter, and they've escalated it to the point of hiring a lawyer? This is utter nonsense!"
Tang Yanhui was taken aback.
I initially thought he was referring to the group of students who were defaming and slandering Ye Li on the forum, acting lawlessly.
Unexpectedly, it was Ye Li who was being mentioned?
Tang Yanhui said with a serious expression, "Vice Principal Liu, Ye Li was slandered. Isn't it inappropriate for you to say that?"
"Then how should I put it?"
Vice President Liu sneered, "Flies don't land on eggs without cracks. Imperial University has 20,000 undergraduates, plus master's and doctoral students and all faculty and staff, making a total of 40,000. There are over 10,000 female students. With over 10,000 people, why aren't you spreading rumors about others instead of focusing on her?"
From the moment I took on Ye Li's case, I knew it wouldn't go very smoothly.
After all, it involves a prestigious university like Imperial University, and it's just casual banter among students on the school forum.
He has obtained the IDs and real names of "Good Jasmine Flower" and the most offensive comments from the school official in charge of the network and forums.
Vice Principal Liu is in charge of student affairs. With his cooperation, after talking to those students who made those inappropriate remarks, they publicly apologized to Ye Li and deleted the posts. That would be the end of the matter.
How the university decides to handle the situation is up to Imperial College London.
But Tang Yanhui didn't expect that taking the first step would be so difficult.
Vice Principal Liu is not cooperating; it's just him alone. How long will it take to find him?
Moreover, the police officers who accompanied him couldn't possibly follow him around every day, talking to each student individually.
As the work reached a stalemate, the forum posts continued to climb, with no end in sight.
Tang Yanhui decided to return to his office first and then discuss the matter further.
"Take care, and don't bother seeing me out..."
Vice Principal Liu had an indifferent expression that said, "Do whatever you want."
Tang Yanhui stopped abruptly as he opened the office door, turning to Vice Dean Liu and saying, "That student with the ID 'A Beautiful Jasmine Flower' is named Liu Zimo. Right now, it's just spreading rumors; a public apology and deleting the posts will solve the problem. But if it escalates and Ye Li insists on refusing mediation, defamation can result in several years in prison. Vice Dean Liu, are you aware of that?"
With his eyelids trembling, Vice Principal Liu stood there dumbfounded.
On one hand, he felt that Tang Yanhui was bluffing him; he couldn't possibly know that Zimo was his son, and he just hoped that Tang Yanhui would consider things from the school's perspective.
After all, once a criminal case that damages the reputation of a university is involved, no matter how small, it will still be a disgrace to the university.
On the one hand, I felt that he knew.
The office quieted down, and Vice Principal Liu typed rapidly on his keyboard, searching for the charges and penalties for defamation.
Upon reading the contents, Vice Principal Liu broke out in a cold sweat.
The page states: Defamation is a crime committed by intentionally fabricating and disseminating fictitious facts sufficient to damage another person's character and reputation, where the circumstances are serious. The penalty is imprisonment for up to three years, detention, public surveillance, or deprivation of political rights.
Putting aside the number of years, the mere mention of words like detention and probation was enough to send a chill down Vice Principal Liu's spine.
With such a record in his file, what kind of good job can Zimo find when he graduates in June?
Let alone a large company like the Fu Group, even small and medium-sized companies with some strength in the industry probably wouldn't consider him.
My heart tightened, and without even wiping the sweat from my brow, Vice Principal Liu stood up and chased after him, calling out, "Attorney Tang, please wait..."
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