Chapter 780 is really touching
Xiao Shiqiu scoffed, "Lawyer Yuan got into the role really quickly. He's actually more responsible than me, who's been her father for eighteen years."
Yuan Youan could see that Xiao Shiqiu had no good feelings towards him. Although he didn't want to offend Xiao Shiqiu, he didn't mean to curry favor with him. He said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "The grace of raising a child is not as good as the grace of giving birth to him. Thank you for your concern, Mr. Xiao."
Xiao Tiantian's biological father came, and the three of them were reunited. I felt that the two of us seemed a little redundant here.
I asked him quietly, "Is there nothing wrong with us?"
"Wait a minute, we'll leave once Tiantian is out of danger." He paused, as if afraid I'd be upset, and emphasized, "No matter what, people outside still think I'm her uncle. Legally, I'm her adoptive father. Abandoning her wouldn't be good for my reputation."
I didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did. I thought I was being very virtuous and comforted him, "It's okay, I understand. Raising a cat or a dog over time will make you emotional, not to mention raising a child from childhood. But~"
I changed the subject and said, "I didn't expect that a man like Yuan Youan would be so loyal. He recognized the girl he had never even met without saying a word.
It's quite rare, regardless of his reputation in the industry, his devotion to his first love is truly touching."
Xiao Shiqiu looked at me like I was a fool. Seeing that he looked at me with a wrong look, I pretended to be fierce and said, "What's your attitude? Why are you looking at me like that?"
He chuckled and said, "If I were still obsessed with my first love, would you be very touched?"
I almost jumped up when I heard that, "How dare you! Are you..." Before I could finish, he pulled me into his arms and said, "Look, isn't this double standard? You feel touched when others miss their first love, but you get furious when I miss my first love?"
I argued, "That's different. I'm your fiancée, so I have a different perspective..."
He immediately followed up on my words: "Yeah, that man you just praised, does his wife think he's loyal?"
I was speechless for a moment. Yes, if his wife knew about this, she would definitely be furious.
"He just adopted a daughter out of thin air. Isn't he afraid that his wife will find out?"
Xiao Shiqiu laughed with some disdain, "If this happened a few years ago, he would never admit it even if you beat him to death."
I sat up straight, blinked my eyes and said to him, "Please tell me more about this. What's going on?"
I don't know whether Xiao Shiqiu was dissatisfied with my praise of Yuan Youan just now, or simply wanted to satisfy my curiosity, but he dug up everything he knew about Yuan Youan.
"Since Yuan Youan became famous in City T, he once thought about developing in City A. He came to my company to look for me a few years ago.
That was the first time I met him, and I felt something was not right in his eyes, so I asked someone to investigate.”
Yuan Youan was admitted from a rural area under T City. He was the first person in their town to be admitted to B University and was a celebrity in their county.
"The people I arranged to investigate only had a general idea of what happened before he graduated. They probably thought there was nothing to investigate about his student days, so the information they sent back was all about his life after graduation. Otherwise, I might have discovered the affair between him and He Qingrong a long time ago." Xiao Shiqiu was still a little angry when he talked about this matter.
After graduation, Yuan Youan originally got an internship at a large law firm in City A with his excellent grades. As long as he completed one year, he could become a practicing lawyer and also obtain a household registration in City A.
Unexpectedly, the law firm fired him, and he couldn't find a job in City A for several months, so he had no choice but to return to City T.
"The person who investigated told me that he was fired because he offended someone at the law firm. I didn't think much of it, but now I know it was He Qingrong's mother who did it."
Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask, "Do you think he knows it was He Qingrong's mother who did it? Since she ruined his future, doesn't he hate her family?"
Xiao Shiqiu shrugged and looked at me helplessly: "Little aunt, I asked someone to check him out to see what cases he has handled, his abilities and character, and whether he can cooperate.
Not to gossip about his private life.
If I let him investigate his trivial matters, people would think I had some strange ideas about him."
I laughed dryly. "Haha, that's true. What happened next? He must have done something you really despised."
Xiao Shiqiu's eyes flashed with contempt again. "After he returned to T City, he somehow met the daughter of the former Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, who is now his wife. Leveraging his father-in-law's connections, he took on many shady cases."
Xiao Shiqiu told me that a few years ago, there was a very famous case in T City where a nightclub owner murdered his wife, and it was he who took the case.
I couldn't help but blurt out, "Did he take that case?"
"Do you know about this case?"
I nodded heavily and told him the version I heard that year.
As a native of T City, I have indeed heard of this story, but I was still young at that time and my impression was not very deep.
I vaguely remember hearing my parents talking about it during dinner.
At that time, all the evidence pointed to the owner of the nightclub, but the murderer's lawyer found loopholes in the police's case and made two key pieces of evidence invalid, and the murderer was acquitted in court.
At that time, my father, who had a strong sense of justice, sighed a lot, because the deceased was the only daughter of one of his business partners, and his son-in-law made his fortune by relying on his family's connections and money.
My father said that the old couple did not agree with their daughter's marriage before she got married. They always felt that their son-in-law had bad intentions. In order to guard against him, they transferred several properties under their name to their daughter's name before the marriage, thinking that if they divorced, the man would not take half of them.
Unexpectedly, the daughter was killed by her son-in-law, and he could not be sentenced. Relying on his two children, he took away most of the assets.
Within two years, the old couple died of depression one after another. The only heirs to their property were their two grandchildren, who were all under the care of guardians as they were still minors.
The murderer remarried soon and had another child. The two children born to his original wife were sent to the countryside, and no one knew what happened to them afterwards.
I said somewhat indignantly, “I understand that as a lawyer you need to defend the murderer.
But knowing clearly that he was the murderer, they desperately tried to find loopholes to help him escape the crime. This is something I cannot accept. Why should I avoid sentencing just because I paid for a powerful lawyer who can exploit loopholes?
Xiao Shiqiu put his arm around my shoulders and said, "It was this case that made him famous in T City. It can be said that he is the biggest headache for the T City police.
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