Chapter 515 - 438: Tragedy: Sentenced to Three Years in Prison (Part 2)
This feeling, it must be different.
First, make the company number one nationwide, then make it number one internationally.
For now, the most important thing is to get the company selected as a Red Circle Law Firm by the end of the year.
Xue Qingqing nodded, "Boss, I understand. Our company will definitely become the top law firm nationwide, and even globally in the future. After all, we have the best legal team in the country, and new talents are joining us every year."
The company is only in its first year of development...
But this year, many top universities across the country have numerous excellent law students joining Gu Chen’s law firm.
Moreover, Gu Chen is still a professor at two prestigious universities, Tsinghua and Peking University...
Gu Chen even often goes to other top schools in the country to lecture....
It’s just that Gu Chen is too busy and can only be a professor at two universities.
If the company continues to develop for a long time, reaching the top domestically and then internationally... that would naturally be completely different.
Xue Qingqing looked at Gu Chen and said, "Boss, are you also considering taking legal cases abroad? To fight international cases...."
Gu Chen smiled, "Let’s see the opportunity. Don’t we still have many artifacts outside? If we can win lawsuits to retrieve many valuable artifacts, that’s something money can’t measure."
Many precious artifacts... are the supreme treasures of China!
So many artifacts have been lost abroad, and some people don’t even acknowledge them as our treasures.
So if there’s a chance, Gu Chen still wants to try...
He wants to try fighting lawsuits to see if he can retrieve these artifacts.
But these are things to be done in the future.
Gu Chen said, "Having just finished a lawsuit, I can finally take a break. There shouldn’t be more lawsuits coming up soon, right?"
Over the past year, Gu Chen has been in court every day with very little rest.
Even when he was sick last time, he took the initiative to fight a case.
As the boss, he earns maybe two hundred thousand per case...
In fact, Gu Chen can earn a lot just by managing company affairs every day.
But Gu Chen always knew he was a lawyer, and his main task was to be in court.
If not, Gu Chen could have rested long ago, just be a name in big firms, make occasional appearances, and still earn millions every year...
But now Gu Chen is already the company boss.
Many big companies have their own legal departments and don’t need Gu Chen Law Firm’s legal team.
Xue Qingqing said, "Yes, boss, you can take a two-day break."
Xue Qingqing also wanted a two-day break; indeed, the boss has been working very hard recently.
One case after another, there’s never a moment of rest.
....
At the same time.
Netizens were all focused on a very popular lawsuit online.
The case had just announced its first-instance verdict, immediately trending on the hot search list, and netizens were intensely discussing it.
[Married for eight years, wife reports husband for rape, first-instance verdict released!]
[Does marital rape count as rape? A recent case provokes deep reflection.]
[Whether it’s rape or not, it’s unrelated to marital status, but relates to a woman’s self-awareness! Even if someone says no in the middle, if it’s continued, that counts as rape.]
[Does marriage allow violating a woman’s will? Can marriage negate rape?]
Major news media were releasing various news headlines online.
Many people were discussing it.
The incident’s origin was a recent court case.
A couple married for eight years with three children.
The husband’s name was Gao Jiantong, and the wife’s name was Li Ranran.
The couple had been married for many years, had three children, and the husband earned a million a year, with a very good job.
The husband lived in a large flat, equivalent to a villa, worth tens of millions for one house.
In new first-tier cities, this tens of millions-valued house could be considered a small villa.
The whole family lived a happy life...
And Gao Jiantong’s family conditions were good, coupled with his personal abilities, the whole family lived happily.
This was the life many people dreamed of.
How many people nationwide can live in a house worth tens of millions, earn a million a year?
Gao Jiantong and Li Ranran’s family achieved that.
Li Ranran, seven years younger than Gao Jiantong, is young and beautiful with a good figure.
It seemed from the outside that they were a very happy family, financially secure, with many children, and a fulfilling life.
Li Ranran was even a housewife, had no need to work, wasn’t a typical housewife... because there was a maid cooking, cleaning, doing chores at home.
There were even dedicated personnel to take care of the children... educate the children.
All the big and small matters at home didn’t need Li Ranran to handle personally.
Li Ranran’s husband, Gao Jiantong, earned millions, sometimes up to two or three million a year...
The family’s life could be described as quite blissful.
Netizens were envious of such a lifestyle.
But... such a family had an incident.
One night, Li Ranran called the police, saying her husband Gao Jiantong raped her.
The police attached great importance and immediately arrived at the scene to investigate.
Regardless of the investigation results, Gao Jiantong was arrested right then and there.
Then after the police investigation...
Actually, such cases are very difficult to investigate.
It largely depends on what the woman says.
After all, there have been cases...
Even if a woman initially agrees, if she says no later, it’s still rape.
Even if agreed initially, later, and at the end, but regrets half a year after....
There have been such cases, and even after half a year, the man was still arrested.
The question is about the right to define freely.
The woman can freely define whether it’s rape, which is the most unsolvable part.
Of course, in the judicial system, it’s also not so easy to determine rape.
There needs to be various evidence...
It’s not enough for a woman to just say rape, and it would be determined accordingly.
There needs to be other testimonies...
Like DNA evidence from fingernails, or various kinds of evidence...
Like signs of struggle, resistance, etc...
Especially since they are still in a marital relationship, married for so many years, labeling it as rape is quite challenging.
Unless there’s comprehensive evidence to fully prove it’s rape.
Otherwise, it’s tough to prove in other situations.
Especially as the case is special.
Normally, such rape cases are very rare, the two are married, have three kids, married for eight years, living happily, with a harmonious marital relationship, never worrying about financial issues.
Even the police racked their brains to imagine such a bizarre case appearing.
The woman reported her husband, accusing him of rape.
And from start to finish, the woman, Li Ranran, had a very firm attitude.
She was determined in labeling it as rape, unwilling to discuss anything else.
Li Ranran’s very firm attitude also made the case difficult.
In the end, the police chose to handle it according to the law.
Finding evidence... investigating evidence, then the prosecution filed charges.
Ultimately, the judgment was based on evidence...
Most crucially, the woman filed a lawsuit against Gao Jiantong in the court with a writ.
Li Ranran directly filed for divorce, adding a claim for division of property, and seeking custody of the children.
The reason was her husband raped her, violated the law, went to jail....
The divorce case is another matter...
After all, one must first see if the rape case holds.
Time passed quickly; the police investigated the case for a month...
Then the judicial process followed through.
Just yesterday, the court released the verdict.
The first-instance judgment results were announced.
The verdict showed that the rape case against Gao Jiantong was established, with clear evidence, finally sentencing Gao Jiantong to three years in prison.
Moreover, Li Ranran was suing for divorce on the grounds of emotional breakdown and requested dividing corresponding property in court.
The court simultaneously ruled for their divorce in the first instance... and the property was divided.
After the case was announced, it quickly incited a storm across the internet!
Gao Jiantong was sentenced to three years in prison, sent in by his own wife’s report....
