Wang Zonglei said, "Fine, fine, fine, you’re ruthless enough. Just you wait, see you in court."

Huang Rong said, "See you in court then, see you in court."

The mediator saw that a mediation case had turned into this kind of mess and was completely out of options.

All he could do was let both sides go back and cool off for a bit, and see if they could still be mediated later.

If in the end there was really no way to settle it through mediation, then they could only go to court.

After that, over the following period, the mediator did try again to get Wang Zonglei and Huang Rong to come in for mediation...

If it could be resolved through mediation, there’d be no need to go to court and fight a lawsuit.

But what the mediator didn’t expect was that both Huang Rong and Wang Zonglei refused mediation.

Neither of them would accept mediation.

As for Wang Zonglei, he’d already found a lawyer and went straight to filing suit against Huang Rong; they’d just meet in court.

After Huang Rong received the court’s notice, she immediately went to find Gu Chen....

No matter how much the fee was, Huang Rong was willing to pay.

Even if hiring Gu Chen to fight one lawsuit cost three hundred thousand, Huang Rong was still willing.

It wasn’t her fault, so why should she have to shoulder this responsibility?

After Gu Chen finished his last case and returned to the firm, he happened to receive Huang Rong’s brief.

Gu Chen looked over the background of the matter, including the surveillance footage...

Without even thinking it over, Gu Chen said, "I can take this case. The attorney fee is three hundred thousand."

Gu Chen really had no choice...

He might be a lawyer, but he was still a university lecturer.

He had to teach classes for law students at two different universities...

Although Gu Chen didn’t teach every course in the law curriculum, he only had two classes a week at each school.

Two schools meant four classes a week...

It was just that Gu Chen had really been insanely busy lately...

He’d been in court nonstop, and with having to teach students on top of that, he was even busier.

And Gu Chen was also the boss of a company; being the boss didn’t mean he could just sit back and shake his hands all day—there were still a lot of decisions that needed him personally.

You can imagine how busy Gu Chen had been during this period.

He could take this case, though.

According to what Yan Yuting said, this case involved a relative of one of the company’s lawyers who needed to file this suit and hoped Gu Chen could help out.

After reviewing the file, Gu Chen also thought this was a winnable case.

He still had to go teach this week, and Gu Chen hadn’t even prepared his lectures yet; now he had to work on this case too....

Way too busy....

When she heard Gu Chen say the attorney fee would be three hundred thousand...

Huang Rong didn’t agree right away.

Gu Chen said, "This case is three hundred thousand in attorney fees. But if you go for mediation, at most you’ll be paying out 480,000 in compensation. So you need to think it through."

Huang Rong said, "Lawyer Gu, can we be absolutely sure to win this case?"

Gu Chen said, "No lawyer can guarantee a hundred percent win. I can only say the chance of winning this one is very high."

Because once the case was lost... even if Huang Rong was only held liable for part of the compensation, leaving aside how much that compensation would be, at the very least the attorney fees definitely wouldn’t be borne by the other side.

Huang Rong said, "Lawyer Gu, fine, let’s sign the contract. I’m willing to fight this case. As long as I can retain you to take it, anything is fine. I just can’t stand that scamming face of Wang Zonglei."

Huang Rong was furious...

The way Wang Zonglei talked, and all the ways he tried to squeeze money out of her...

An elderly woman suffering a cerebral hemorrhage after a fall is normal, but it’s also treatable...

With treatment, it would cost at most a hundred, two hundred thousand to sort it out.

Yet instead of choosing to spend that money on treatment, Wang Zonglei chose to give up and let the old lady die from respiratory failure.

And then he turned around and wanted Huang Rong to bear all the responsibility.

But the problem was... Huang Rong didn’t feel she’d done anything wrong.

She was standing there checking tickets; someone ran into her suitcase, and somehow that’s all her fault?

Isn’t that blaming the other person for not watching where they were going?

Anyone with eyes wouldn’t get tripped by such a big suitcase.

She had no malicious intent to hurt anyone; she just wanted to line up properly, and in the end all the responsibility was being dumped on her alone.

She only wanted to ask one thing: based on what?

And on top of that, Wang Zonglei was aggressively pushing to sue her, even demanding she pay dozens or even hundreds of thousands.

He was even talking about hiring some Red Circle Law Firm and wanting to have her thrown in jail...

The more Huang Rong thought about it, the angrier she got.

If he wanted to sue, then sue; she’d face it head-on.

What was the point of the threats?

It wasn’t like she’d ever been afraid of anyone.

At worst, they’d just face off in court!

Was she supposed to be scared of someone like Wang Zonglei?

Gu Chen said, "Alright, I’ll have someone draft the contract, then we can sign it and I’ll take full power of attorney on this case. Leave a contact number, add me on WeChat, and we’ll stay in touch anytime."

Gu Chen felt a bit worn out, but he still took the case first.

In the future, he’d have to raise his fees for litigation...

Otherwise there would be too many cases and he simply wouldn’t be able to handle them all.

Gu Chen couldn’t possibly take every case; he wasn’t made of iron, he couldn’t be in court 365 days a year...

After signing the contract, Huang Rong also paid the fee.

Then Gu Chen went to get some rest.

There were ten days left before the hearing...

In fact, ten days was very short.

Unlike in his previous life’s world, where a single lawsuit could drag on for a year or longer... constant adjournments and delays... each recess lasting several months.

But in this world the efficiency was way too high; lawsuits moved ridiculously fast...

Gu Chen only had ten days to prepare for this case; it was far, far too short.

After signing the contract, Gu Chen immediately took three days off.

During those three days, Gu Chen did nothing but rest at home; he didn’t even go into the company.

At the same time, Gu Chen also gave Xue Qingqing three days off...

On the fourth day, Gu Chen came to the firm to deal with firm business first.

After he finished handling all the firm’s matters....

On the fifth day, Gu Chen started preparing his classes...

On the sixth and seventh days, Gu Chen lectured at the two universities...

Xue Qingqing blinked.

What was up with the boss today?

In the past, whenever the boss went to court, every single case was meticulously prepared.

Unlike this one—this case actually wasn’t all that easy to fight. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Otherwise Huang Rong could’ve just hired any random lawyer; she wouldn’t have had to come to Gu Chen.

But with this case, why wasn’t the boss doing any prep at all?

Xue Qingqing asked, "Boss, for Huang Rong’s case, do we still need to prepare anything?"

Gu Chen said, "No need to prepare anything. Huang Rong’s case is way too simple; there’s no need. Doing extra prep is just a waste of time. We’ll just go and argue it on the spot in court."

Xue Qingqing: "????"

Xue Qingqing knew the boss was very good in court, but she hadn’t expected him to be this good...

Previous cases all required serious prep, but for this one the boss was actually saying there was no need to prepare.

This was the first time the boss was going into court without doing any prep at all beforehand!

Gu Chen was subbing at the universities and handling company matters....

Those two things alone were already exhausting him.

It was still that there just wasn’t enough rest time.

Gu Chen decided that after he finished this lawsuit, he’d take a proper break for a while.

If he kept working at this intensity, his body definitely wouldn’t hold up.

Gu Chen had only needed one look at this case to know exactly how to fight it.

For a battle-hardened lawyer like him, this type of case was almost too easy.

At the same time... this case had also stirred up heated discussion online.

A lot of netizens were on Huang Rong’s side.

The netizens already knew that Wang Zonglei was demanding over a million in compensation... and even wanted to have Huang Rong jailed.

Many netizens were speaking up for Huang Rong.

[I don’t think Huang Rong should bear any responsibility in this case. The old lady wasn’t watching where she was going and ran into the suitcase herself, then fell over. And now you want to blame Huang Rong instead?]

[Exactly, isn’t that just scamming? Asking for over a million in compensation—how is that not extortion?]

[This is terrifying. If this old lady had just tripped while walking on her own, would they blame the road for being uneven and go after the road authority for compensation too....]

[Outrageous. The key thing is that Wang Zonglei actually thinks he’s totally in the right. Can’t we do something about people like this?]

[People like Wang Zonglei are extortionists! And he still wants to go after Huang Rong’s liability? I’m on Huang Rong’s side!]