Chapter 28
I was shocked by Mr. Yajing's sky-high legal consultation fee of 200,000 yuan per hour.
However, he himself seemed to disagree with this, and even said: "This is already the friendship price I give you. If it were someone else, even if they offered me 500,000 or more and begged me to defend him, I might not pay any attention to him..."
Seeing that I was still in a trance, he patiently explained to me what it meant to be a famous practicing lawyer in Japan, which meant money, connections and social status.
According to the annual industry report issued by an authoritative Japanese organization last year, lawyers ranked fifth in the list of highest-paid professions with an average annual salary of 10 million yen.
This is still the industry average, not the industry ceiling, not to mention Mr. Yajing's own abilities and the income generated for him by the top lawyers employed by his law firm.
The fame and traffic brought by the two words "Yu Jian" alone are enough for his lawyers to have endless big cases to take on every year.
My mind was full of money that I couldn't count, and I immediately showed an idiotic expression.
Finally, I swallowed hard: "...Mr. Yajing, I don't think I can afford your legal fees. And this hospital room...you also paid for it...Thank you. Well, I will find a way to pay you back later..."
By the way, can I really make so much money in my lifetime?
Thinking back to my zero-score math test, I fell into a strange silence and felt guilty, not daring to look Mr. Yajing in the eye.
I'm sorry for being a waste...
"That little bit of money is nothing... I became a lawyer just for the sake of family tradition. My family has been renowned judges and prosecutors for two or three generations... Putting that aside, even if I were to do nothing and just idle away my time, the Yu Jian family's wealth would be enough for me to squander for ten lifetimes."
Perhaps he was not used to saying these words, he looked very embarrassed and unnatural.
Afraid that I might misunderstand, he added,
"I mean, this little money is nothing to me. Angel likes you very much, and this is a thank you for playing with her these past few days..."
He really made me cry!
I suddenly held his hand, tears welling up in my eyes, and asked, "Mr. Masakyo, are you really going to divorce Takahashi Masako?"
His eyelids suddenly twitched. His good upbringing didn't make him shake my hand off immediately. Instead, he stiffly corrected me, "I've already divorced her. Don't divorce her... Hey, hey, hey? Why are you crying all of a sudden?!"
I wiped my tears and choked with sorrow, "I almost became the carefree, second-generation daughter of a wealthy family. I could have sat back and enjoyed a carefree life. Now that you're divorced from Takahashi Masako, my dream of saving twenty years of hard work is over. I have to go back to the hardships of life...I'm sad, isn't it right?"
The more I thought about my wealthy life leaving me, the sadder I became, and finally I burst into tears.
“Wuwuwu…”
I cried till my eyes watered, and finally looked at Mr. Yajing with tears in my eyes.
"Wow... maybe, maybe Mr. Yajing, you want a lazy, gluttonous teenage girl who gets zero marks in math but is really good at otome games to be your cheap daughter? Is it too late for me to call you daddy now?"
"Then you can say...like waive my legal fees or something...Dad?"
Mitsuki Yakyo: ...6.
I can’t bear it, I really can’t bear it…
*
The days in the hospital were very boring. Zero hadn't shown up since that day when he said he was going to carry out a mission that might last a long time. Mr. Yajing did come to visit me once with Angel.
I don’t know where my cell phone went when I was kidnapped last time, so I spent most of my time lying on the hospital bed watching TV in a daze. Occasionally, the nurse would push me in a wheelchair to sit in the green belt outdoors.
As the days passed, I even learned to sit in a wheelchair on the green belt and bask in the sun, just like other old men and women, holding the newspaper of the day.
Of course, this is not because I love reading newspapers, but compared to other tools such as parasols and heavy books, newspapers are simply the perfect tool to block the sun.
It does not require hands to hold it up... It is not as thick as a book. The thin paper with the elegant smell of ink makes people feel at ease. You can also feel the sunlight shining through the paper and slightly warming your eyelids.
To round it off, this is a steam eye mask! (Not really)
So on this day, the afternoon sun was shining brightly, and as usual, I asked the nurse to push me under the shade of a tree in the green belt, then I spread out the newspaper and began to take a nap.
But today's nap seemed to have a little incident. Just after I closed my eyes, I felt a gust of wind blowing and blowing away the newspaper covering my face.
But how can I, a person confined to a wheelchair, chase after that newspaper that yearns for freedom?
So I simply didn't open my eyes, letting the mottled sunlight shine on my face. Just as I was about to fall asleep, I heard a familiar voice behind me:
"If you sit under a tree and bask in the sun, your face will get white and black marks, which will be very ugly!"
This sound...
I flung my eyes open, immediately meeting Aunt Huimei's magnified face. She was still wearing the same light windbreaker I'd seen her wearing when she left. Her hair had grown a bit longer, her skin a bit paler, and those eyes... They were covered in a pair of incredibly cool red contact lenses, their ruby-like crystals gleaming with a thousand stars, as if the stars themselves were glittering with brilliance.
"Aunt Huimei, what's wrong with your eyes??"
"Isn't it cool? To be honest, I'm actually the heir of the Uchiha clan. When I was on a mission for the organization and my life was on the line, I accidentally awakened the Sharingan... Look, it's these eyes, aren't they cool!"
I burst out laughing, "Aunt Emi, the Sharingan... doesn't look like this!"
She started to make amends: "It must be that store selling cosmetic contact lenses that cheated me, hahahaha, I'll go and settle the score with him in a couple of days... Eh? Nana, why are you crying all of a sudden?"
Seeing that she was a little flustered, I sniffed and tried to hold back the tears that were pouring out, but it was no use.
I had no choice but to wipe my tears with the back of my hand, trying to make myself look less embarrassed, but my voice couldn't help but tremble:
"...Aunt Huimei, you don't have any cosmetic contact lenses in your left eye, right?"
She was stunned and asked, "How did you tell that?"
"Because only your left eye has not moved from the beginning until now."
“.......”
She was silent for a moment, then she smiled with satisfaction, touched my head and said:
"Oh, it's been a while since we last met. Nana seems to have gotten smarter and isn't as easy to fool as before..."
She placed the bunch of chamomiles in her hand on my thighs, then half-knelt in front of me and opened her arms. "Nana, I'm back. Won't you give me a hug first?"
As soon as I finished speaking, I hugged her back tightly.
"That's great...Aunt Huimei..."
*
Aunt Huimei's left eye was injured during the process of capturing the mastermind behind the terrorist organization.
Because he was angry about the drama that she and Zero had jointly performed, the person behind the scenes was almost determined to die with Aunt Huimei and her group. While the two were fighting for the time bomb remote control, the other party stabbed her left eye with a dagger.
I thought a normal person would collapse to the ground and wail in agony after being blinded like this, so I let my guard down. But I didn't realize Huimei was not someone to be trifled with. She immediately pulled out the dagger that had pierced her eye, and with a backhanded blow, she slashed Huimei's throat...
Fortunately, the dagger was not inserted very deeply and did not affect other places.
However, the left eyeball could not be saved at all, so the doctor removed the entire eyeball.
In order not to scare me, she specially customized a very beautiful artificial eye, which is the ruby-like eye with beautiful brilliance that I see now.
"I think this is a blessing in disguise. At least I'm not completely blind, and I still have my right eye to see..."
She pointed to her right eye and said with a smile:
"Besides, there are so many styles of prosthetic eyes nowadays. It's really hard to choose. If you don't like red, I can change it to blue or purple... Or maybe you prefer gold?"
Hearing her talk so calmly about how she lost her left eye, I couldn't help but burst into tears again: "...I'm sorry, it's all because of me...Wuwuwu, I'm sorry..."
Being stabbed in the left eye by a knife, how painful must Aunt Huimei be...
But she shook her head and reached out to gently wipe away my tears. "Nana, you don't have to say sorry. Instead, I should say thank you. If it weren't for Nana risking her life, we might not have been able to get the information about the person behind the scenes and catch them all. I heard it all from Zero... Nana was really brave this time!"
I'm not that brave... I secretly retorted in my heart.
But now I also know that what Aunt Huimei said is right. As long as people are still alive and can stand in front of each other, it is the greatest luck.
only...
I suddenly thought of Masako Takahashi and the considerable costs of a lawsuit against her, and my mood immediately plummeted. "Auntie Huimei, I don't think I can live with you forever. Masako Takahashi is back... She seems determined to get custody of me..."
"I know,"
She interrupted me and took out a household registration book from her bag and handed it to me.
"Open it and take a look?"
I was a little confused, but I still opened the household registration book according to her instructions.
The first page was from the householder, and it read:
"Name: Kawano Hayami
Age: 32
Gender: Female..."
The photo attached to it is none other than Aunt Huimei in front of me.
I:?
She blinked and said, "Koizumi Emi tragically died in the plane crash. My old identity has been socially cancelled, so the organization assigned me a new one. How about it? Doesn't this name sound nice? I spent the entire night searching through name lists before choosing this one... Oh, no, that's not the point. Can you continue scrolling?"
I turned the page again, and the next page was——
"Name: Koizumi Na
Age: 15
Gender: Female..."
The photo is what I look like.
I looked at Aunt Huimei in disbelief: "What is this?"
"As you can see, when the organization helped me create a fake identity, they also took advantage of it and transferred your household registration to mine! So I am now your legal guardian and have nothing to do with Takahashi Masako!"
I:! ! !
I was delighted and moved, and was about to say something when she suddenly changed the subject and said to me with a pitiful look:
"After I finish this job, I will officially retire from the organization. From now on, I will be unemployed. Nana, you must study hard. I will rely on you for support in the future..."
She was serious about the first half of the word "retirement". She had originally planned to apply for retirement from the organization after finishing this job. Now she is considered disabled due to work (referring to her left eye being blind), so of course she got a lot of subsidies and benefits from the organization, and even retired honorably with a first-class merit.
As for the second half of the sentence... She had already saved a lot of money over the years. With these subsidies and some investment income, she had no worries about food and clothing, and it was more than enough to support another Koizumi Na.
What do you mean I will have to rely on her for support from now on... I was just teasing her to lighten the mood, but the kid replied seriously:
"Well, I will definitely work hard!"
Huh? Is your fighting spirit suddenly ignited?
But compared to the aggrieved young wife who looked depressed and as if the sky was falling, this is still a good thing.
She thought so.
"Then I'll leave my aunt in your care from now on~"
*
I deeply realized my own weakness and incompetence, and I yearned to become stronger and more capable of standing on my own. I was tired of always hiding behind others, and I also wanted to be Aunt Huimei's umbrella.
As long as I become stronger, I won't be afraid of monsters like Takahashi Masako appearing again...
So I have to make up my mind to study hard, get into a good high school, and then get into the University of Tokyo, become a great lawyer like Mr. Yajing, make a lot of money, and let Huimei... No, it's time to meet Auntie now. I want to let her rest assured in her old age!
So when Sister Xiong brought me the class notes she had made over the past two months to review the next day, I told her about this idea. I said that my goal was to get into the University of Tokyo and become a great lawyer in the future.
I knew Sister Xiong was a hidden academic genius, so I asked her for advice on how to study.
Sister Xiong just listened to me quietly. She didn't laugh at my dream, nor did she undermine my confidence. She just spoke to me as naturally as eating, drinking, and sleeping:
"I understand. No matter what the cost, you have to get into the University of Tokyo and become a lawyer, right?"
I replied without hesitation, "Of course!"
She nodded. "Very good. I'll make a very detailed study plan for you tonight. As long as you follow my study plan step by step, you may be able to achieve your goal... But before that, you have to do something to prove your determination."
I immediately boasted, "Don't even mention one, I'll even buy ten!"
She nodded in satisfaction.
I immediately pricked up my ears and listened attentively, afraid of missing a word, and heard her say:
"Break up with your online boyfriend first."
Me: “Huh???”
"Haven't you heard? Without men in your heart, learn from the natural gods."
"This is my secret weapon for maintaining my academic prowess over the years!"
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