Chapter 697: Chapter 257 Jin City Lawyer: If I Don’t Get Another Case, I’ll Have to Change My Profession!_2

She went to pick up a delivery. On the way, she kept guessing what on earth the parcel could be. From what she recalled, none of her close friends had sent her anything recently.

A summons?

But when she signed for it and opened the package, she was shocked by the contents.

It was a summons and a copy of the complaint. Inside the copy, the reasons for the lawsuit and the sequence of events were detailed. The opposing party’s legal representatives were Wang Dachui and Qin Mu. They were suing her for not leashing her dog in the nursing home, which had frightened Zhang Qingyuan, and they were demanding she pay fifty thousand yuan for emotional distress, nutritional supplements, and other costs.

The court had scheduled a hearing for three days later. She was required to arrive on time.

After reading the summons, she trembled with anger, her face ashen, wishing she could tear it to shreds on the spot.

Qin Mu! He actually had the nerve to sue first and demand compensation from me!

The amount of the claim was, coincidentally, fifty thousand yuan. This was clearly a slap in her face.

Truth be told, after finding out Qin Mu’s identity, she hadn’t really been involved in the subsequent "plans." She had tried several times to convince the other core members to stop. But they weren’t in Jin City and didn’t understand how terrifying Qin Mu was; they had no intention of backing down.

But... this summons was like a fuse. It set her off. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Qin Mu... This is outrageous!" She clenched her fists, growing angrier by the minute.

She had been ready to let things go for the sake of peace. But Qin Mu was doubling down, pushing his luck, clearly not intending to let her off the hook. Fifty thousand yuan wasn’t a lot to her, but this was a matter of pride! Her dog had been killed, and now *she* was supposed to compensate the perpetrator? Was she that easy to bully?

At that thought, she picked up her phone and sent a message to the core members’ advocacy group, explaining that Qin Mu had sued her and was demanding fifty thousand yuan in compensation.

Soon enough, the core advocacy group erupted.

"Damn! Are there really people so shameless in the world? Killing someone’s dog and then demanding compensation from the owner?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, I’ve truly seen it all now. It takes all sorts to make a world."

"Sister Cheng, do you see now? You can’t just take this lying down. The more you tolerate it, the more others will think you’re easy to pick on!"

"Fifty thousand yuan isn’t much, Sister Cheng, but this isn’t about the money; it’s about standing up for ourselves!"

"Exactly! If it were me, I definitely couldn’t stand for it!"

"..."

In their shock, within the group chat, the other sixteen friends all began to stir the pot, urging Cheng Chuxiao not to give in.

As Cheng Chuxiao read these messages, she nodded subconsciously. Her friends were right. Perhaps she had been too kind, which was why the other party dared to be so aggressive.

"So... what do we do now?" she asked in the group chat. "They’ve sued me, and the trial is in three days. If I don’t want to pay, I have to win."

But... going to court against Qin Mu? She really wasn’t confident at all. Few lawyers in Jin City, she guessed, would dare claim they could definitely beat Qin Mu. No. To be precise, none of the lawyers in Jin City could best Qin Mu. All those previous defendants... At first, they all thought they could win, but their outcomes were all miserable.

"Next, we definitely have to hire a lawyer, Sister Cheng. You’re not short on money, right? Get a top-notch lawyer, win outright, and even make the other side pay!"

"Sister Cheng, I have a friend who is a lawyer from out of town, a real ace in the courtroom, never lost a case. I can introduce you."

"I know a lawyer too. I hired him for a previous case where I was supposed to lose, and he turned it into a win for me—he’s very skilled."

"There’s a gold-medal lawyer in my city, very famous..."

"..."

Within the group chat, everyone was eager, vying to recommend lawyers to Cheng Chuxiao. Each lawyer was described in glowing terms, with claims of a sure win the moment they took the case. This Qin Mu, or whatever his name was, was nothing to be afraid of.

Looking at these messages, Cheng Chuxiao was somewhat skeptical and couldn’t help but remind them, "Qin Mu is very skilled in legal matters. Those cases of his... they’re all real."

After learning Qin Mu was her opponent, she had spent the past few days specifically researching every one of his cases and the bloody fate of each defendant involved. Behind each case lay a wealth of legal knowledge. There were many aspects... she hadn’t even known about. For instance, spitting, if it transmitted a contagious virus, could potentially constitute the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means. Various industries had suffered from Qin Mu’s ’plague’ of litigation. People tended to steer clear of him. Rumor had it that during one trial, dozens of women from the public gallery were even sent to jail. It was utterly unheard of. If she had known Qin Mu was at that nursing home, she’d sooner die than have taken her father there.

"Sister Cheng, you’re too timid. These are all just rumors spread by online media; how could such a terrifying person exist?"

"Yeah, Sister Cheng, could there really be someone so fixated on trivialities in the world?"

"No matter how formidable this Qin Mu is, he’s not as good as the lawyer I found for you."

"Don’t be scared; you’ll see once you go to court. To put it bluntly, the lawyers in Jin City really aren’t up to much. I heard they’re practically starving."

"..."

In the group chat, everyone chimed in one after another, constantly persuading Cheng Chuxiao, trying to convince her with their rhetoric, repeating over and over that Qin Mu was not to be feared.

Finally, Cheng Chuxiao’s gaze flickered, and she gradually accepted her friends’ advice. With things having reached this point and the trial imminent, she had no choice but to trust them.