Gu Chen continued, "After the accident, Fan Lijun died in the hospital after half a month of treatment."

"According to the investigation, Fan Lijun suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and a cerebral hemorrhage is not necessarily incurable. At the time, the doctors proposed a reliable treatment plan, but Wang Zonglei did not choose that plan."

"After half a month of conservative treatment, Wang Zonglei ultimately chose to give up treatment, and then Fan Lijun died of respiratory failure."

Gu Chen went on, "Under normal circumstances, active treatment is of great significance for saving a patient’s life and reducing the extent of injury. Yet it was Wang Zonglei’s decision to abandon treatment that directly led to Fan Lijun’s eventual death. There is no causal link between Huang Rong’s placement of her suitcase and Fan Lijun’s death."

"If Wang Zonglei had chosen active treatment and followed the doctors’ advice, Fan Lijun might not have died. It was precisely because Wang Zonglei gave up treatment that she died in the end, not because of Huang Rong’s initial act of placing her suitcase."

The viewers in the livestream room were all a bit dumbfounded when they heard Gu Chen say this.

[Huh?]

[What the hell? Wang Zonglei chose to give up treatment?]

[Are you kidding me, he did this on purpose, right? A cerebral hemorrhage isn’t something that’s completely untreatable, it’s not some terminal illness either!]

[Plenty of terminal patients are still fighting to get treated, there might still be hope for recovery. And this guy just gives up treatment? Then turns around and blames Huang Rong? Wow. Didn’t Fan Lijun die because Wang Zonglei chose to give up treatment? If he’d just kept treating her, she wouldn’t have died.]

[Shouldn’t it be on Wang Zonglei to bear responsibility? What’s it got to do with Huang Rong? Asking for one million in compensation on top of that—this is basically extortion! He did it deliberately, just wants money! Deliberately gave up treatment, then dumped all the blame on Huang Rong. That’s really too much.

[Support a not-guilty verdict for Huang Rong!]

Wang Zonglei: [???]

Wang Zonglei said, "I believe giving up treatment is the family’s right. She was beyond help already. We stayed in the hospital for half a month, burning through sky‑high medical bills, and it was still very hard to cure her. It was better to give up treatment than to keep my mom barely hanging on in the hospital in pain. That was too cruel to her; it was better to let her go faster."

"I don’t think giving up treatment is illegal, right? And the reason my mom ended up like that, laid up in the hospital—wasn’t that because of Huang Rong? If not for Huang Rong, would my mom have been in the hospital at all? If Huang Rong had just placed her suitcase properly, would any of this have happened?"

Wang Zonglei was furious. "Huang Rong is the one who committed a crime! She refuses to take responsibility, refuses to pay the medical bills. If she had at least come forward and advanced the medical expenses, I wouldn’t have been forced to give up treatment. Treatment costs money; I’m a poor man, where am I supposed to get that kind of money? I had no choice!"

"It’s all because of Huang Rong... Huang Rong is the real culprit. I only gave up treatment because I was pushed into a corner; otherwise I wouldn’t have given up treatment!"

Wang Zonglei said, "I admit my mom wasn’t watching where she was going and that caused her to fall. She bears responsibility, and so do I. My mom and I each bear 20% of the responsibility. But at the end of the day, it was still Huang Rong’s improperly placed suitcase that caused my mom’s accident."

"Like I said, Huang Rong’s suitcase was not kept fully close to her body; it was just left behind her at random. She should have foreseen that the suitcase might trip someone. She thought of it, but still didn’t place it properly. That’s negligent homicide, and since Huang Rong refuses to bear responsibility, she should pay the price!"

"I have responsibility, my mom has responsibility, and Huang Rong also has responsibility. So Huang Rong must bear 60% of the responsibility! If she bears 60%, she has to compensate us one million yuan, or I won’t accept it!" Wang Zonglei said.

At this moment, Gu Chen spoke up, "The position where Huang Rong placed her suitcase did not obstruct normal passage, so she herself bears no responsibility. Moreover, during the normal process of lining up for ticket inspection, Huang Rong could not foresee that Fan Lijun would ignore where she was walking and crash into the suitcase. This kind of accidental collision is something that, under normal circumstances, is hard to completely avoid."

"Huang Rong should not bear criminal liability. She did not intentionally or negligently harm anyone."

Wang Zonglei: [????]

Chen Debai: [???]

Chen Debai still wanted to speak...

Gu Chen said, "Article 6 of the Tort Liability Law: If a person, through fault, infringes upon the civil rights and interests of another, he shall bear tort liability. But Huang Rong did not intentionally trip the elderly woman and therefore should not bear tort liability on the basis of fault!"

"The fifteen days of rescue efforts in the hospital have nothing to do with Huang Rong. It was Wang Zonglei himself who chose to abandon treatment. All of these subsequent events have nothing to do with Huang Rong."

"Huang Rong should not bear 60% of the responsibility. Her share of responsibility should be zero."

"Why should an innocent person bear any responsibility?"

At this point, Chen Debai was at a loss for words.

Gu Chen directly pulled out the legal provisions...

Article 6 of the Tort Liability Law: since Huang Rong did not deliberately trip the elderly woman, she had no fault at all.

On what basis should a person without fault bear responsibility?

Just because Fan Lijun ran into Huang Rong’s suitcase?

To put it bluntly, this whole thing happened because Fan Lijun herself wasn’t watching where she was going and walked straight into someone else’s suitcase...