Lawyer: Send the Judge to Prison

Shen Jiarui nodded and struck the gavel.

"Court is now adjourned!"

"We will reconvene in three working days!"

This adjournment was actually already doing Wang Xiaoru a favor.

To put it bluntly, what Wang Xiaoru did can’t really be fully classified as extortion.

Even though she did take a lot of money...

But that still needs the court to investigate, and the court has to carefully verify the evidence Gu Chen submitted; the key is how it’s legally characterized.

This case is still quite complicated; there’s no way they could just deliver a verdict on the spot.

Gu Chen submitted a pile of evidence, but the court can’t just because it’s Gu Chen rush to a judgment; all the proper procedures still have to be followed.

The court recessed.

Wang Xiaoru was still very pleased.

Heh, that’s all Gu Chen’s got?

If Gu Chen actually had some skills, why didn’t he just have her hauled off on the spot?

Wang Xiaoru knew that no matter what the plaintiff’s lawyer says, it’s all just hot air in court.

If she really broke the law, then let the police come arrest her.

If the police don’t arrest her, how could she possibly end up in prison?

At least that’s how it worked in Wang Xiaoru’s mind...

All those who committed crimes and had to go to jail, which one of them wasn’t directly taken away by the police?

How could a normal person end up in prison without first being arrested?

Did she break the law?

Isn’t that nonsense?

"Gu Chen is just talking shit, heh. When the time comes I’m not paying back a single cent of Shen Fei’s 250,000, and I don’t care about anything else—I am not going to prison." Wang Xiaoru said.

She really didn’t think she’d lose this lawsuit.

Gu Chen was really just bullying her for not knowing the law?

So what if she hired a useless lawyer?

As for paying the money back?

Heh!

How could she possibly pay it back?

No way!!

Wang Xiaoru said, "Three-day adjournment, right? Paying back money is not happening! I’m going to transfer all assets under my name, damn it, why should I have to pay them back?"

"I worked so hard to squeeze that money out of Wang Haidi and Zhang Ruihua, and now you tell me to give it back? What are you thinking?" Wang Xiaoru said.

"Seven hundred thousand... how long would it take me to earn that seven hundred thousand?" Wang Xiaoru shook her head.

She had originally planned to rely on livestream selling, but now Gu Chen had already blasted all her crap across the entire internet...

There’s no way she can stream now... because her Douyin account has already been banned.

Douyin still has its rules; at least for now she definitely can’t be making money via livestreams.

She could only wait for the lawsuit to be over and then see...

Right now it wasn’t that easy to count on streaming for income.

"Might as well take this seven hundred thousand and just retire on it. My family has money anyway, my parents have money too, what am I afraid of? I just won’t get married..."

"Even if my credit record turns me into a blacklisted case, what can anyone do to me? I’ve got this seven hundred thousand—am I going to be short of cash? Heh." Wang Xiaoru was still very confident.

"If I really run out of money someday, I’ll just go start a business!" Wang Xiaoru thought of entrepreneurship again.

She was still young; once this blows over, after a few years... who’s going to remember her?

The internet’s memory fades fast...

By then, she could go on blind dates again, get married again...

With her looks, asking for a 660,000 bride price isn’t that hard, right?

Then she’d just find some excuse to break up, and walk away with the bride price, no?

Anyway she’d be a credit "black case"... she could just hand the bride price to her parents...

And then she’d be in the clear again, wouldn’t she?

Even if the other side tried to claw the bride price back, what good would it do?

Even if she lost the case by then, so what?

She’d be blacklisted in the credit system, but she wouldn’t be short of money!

Then she could go on blind dates again anytime, and start new ventures....

Each time she could get a pretty decent bride price.

It’s not like the guy’s going to run a credit check right at the blind date, right? That’s absolutely impossible.

While she was still young, she should milk as much bride price as she could and keep going out to "start businesses"...

Would she ever be short of money later?

Wang Xiaoru felt she was just too smart, totally in control!

Wang Xiaoru said, "Heh, this is nice! This is what you call enjoying life!"

"And this is only the first step of my plan!"

Wang Xiaoru wasn’t in a hurry to file a complaint against Zhang Yun.

She’d wait until the lawsuit was over to complain about Zhang Yun; there was no point now.

She had more important things to do at the moment!

Namely... moving her assets!

What if the bank followed the online trail to her door and froze the funds?

That’s easy!

Just withdraw the money and turn it into cash, and it’s done, right?

What, is the court going to come raid her house?

No way!

Wang Xiaoru happily went to do just that.

From start to finish, she never once thought she’d be sentenced.

Anyone who ends up sentenced would’ve been arrested by the police first.

She hadn’t been arrested, so what was there to be afraid of?

...

The viewers in the livestream chat saw that court was adjourned and were all a bit speechless.

[Damn, if this Wang Xiaoru really pays everything back and the victims forgive her, odds are she won’t get that heavy a sentence in the end.]

[Might even end up with no actual jail time at all, just a suspended sentence at most...]

[As long as she apologizes + compensates, maybe she won’t even get probation...]

[Right now the cost of breaking the law by spreading rumors is way too low. Unless Shen Fei directly kills himself, they won’t give her a really heavy sentence.]

[Who knows? Sigh, Lawyer Gu brought out a mountain of evidence—no idea if he can actually get her locked up.]

[Hope Lawyer Gu can really put her away, just send her to prison already!]

[There’s really no way around it. The nature of her case actually isn’t as serious as Lawyer Gu made it sound. As long as she’s willing to bow her head, apologize + compensate, it’s nothing in the end....]

[At worst, she just gets a suspended sentence.]

The netizens were all discussing it.

Shen Fei also went to find Gu Chen.

Shen Fei said, "Lawyer Gu, can Wang Xiaoru really be sentenced to life? Or at least more than ten years... I just want someone like her to go to prison!"

"Even if I never get my money back... if she can be sentenced to life, I’ll accept it!"

Gu Chen said, "In reality it’s very hard to get life, and even more than ten years is hard. What she did is indeed vile and way over the line, but in terms of legal nature and degree, it’s still different from a full-blown fraud or extortion case, and the consequences aren’t that severe either. Simply put, as long as she pays back the money, there really isn’t much we can do...."

Gu Chen knew the law.

This case was something he’d talked up as very serious.

In reality whether or not she’d do time was up in the air.

If she coughs up the money, everything is negotiable.

As long as she pays enough...

On Wang Haidi and Zhang Ruihua’s side, once they get their money back, they might even issue a letter of understanding.

Once that’s issued, talk of extortion or fraud basically disappears.

At most there’s still Shen Fei’s side... the issue of that 250,000.

That 250,000, even if it was Wang Xiaoru who led Shen Fei on and induced him to transfer it to her...

Strictly speaking, it doesn’t really qualify as some huge crime.

Because that money was transferred by Shen Fei himself; it’s not like she secretly grabbed his phone and moved the money.

Shen Fei wrote that it was a voluntary gift himself... just getting this money back would already be tough.

As for those long "essays" she posted online, as long as she deletes them, then apologizes and compensates...

In the end it’s all negotiable.

Shen Fei clenched his teeth and said, "Why? She doesn’t go to prison... and all those little essays she wrote online, is there no cost at all for making up lies?"

Gu Chen said, "There’s nothing we can do, that’s just how it is right now. Unless she flat-out refuses to pay. If she refuses, there’s still hope in how the case is classified, and getting her sentenced becomes quite possible."

Shen Fei said, "She’s disgusting! If she really doesn’t pay, how many years can she get? Can they give her more time? Don’t just give her a suspended sentence... what’s the difference between that and not sentencing her at all? Even two years is something I can’t accept! We’re talking about hundreds of thousands!!"

Gu Chen said confidently, "Don’t worry. If she refuses to pay and won’t apologize, I’ll be on this case from start to finish. All I can say is... she will definitely be sentenced!!"