"Old Zhang, if it really comes to that, let’s just give them the money," Feng Cuihua said, tugging at Zhang Qingyuan’s sleeve. "I don’t think there’s anything fun about being abroad anyway. The moon isn’t even as good as in Jin City, and I can’t understand a word of their foreign babble..."

Following this incident, everyone else had lost their desire to continue traveling. Although the tour they booked for one thousand yuan included over ten countries, they had only visited four so far. But they had already been swindled out of tens of thousands of yuan. If they continued, they feared they might even lose their funeral savings. It would be better to accept their bad luck and hurry back home.

However, Zhang Qingyuan looked at them, grinned, and said, "Everyone, just wait a moment."

"I’ve already hired a top-notch lawyer who is extremely skilled and has never lost a case. This case... I’m sure I’ll win!"

Having said that, he kept them in suspense and didn’t reveal Qin Mu’s identity. Instead, he continued, "The money you’ve all been swindled out of during this time—there might be a chance to get it back."

Upon hearing this, everyone was even more surprised. With a touch of disbelief, they all thought Zhang Qingyuan was bluffing. The tour group had said that they were dealing with a lawsuit abroad, under foreign laws. They had even signed documents, indicating their acceptance of this donation agreement. They could not retract it now. If it came to a lawsuit, on this point, it would be very difficult for them to argue, making it almost impossible to win.

"Just wait a little longer. He should be on his way," Zhang Qingyuan said, looking at everyone and patiently calming them.

Regarding Qin Mu... He felt an inexplicable confidence. Past experience told him that wherever Qin Mu went, no grass grew. Once Qin Mu appeared, these people were definitely in for a bad time!

...

Meanwhile, in another room of the hotel.

"Brother Xu, this Old Zhang is as stubborn as a mule; neither soft nor hard tactics work on him," Zhao Wan said, looking at the middle-aged man in front of him. The two had returned to their room. He respectfully lit a cigarette for the man and couldn’t help but complain, "We tried reasoning with him, even tried scaring him, but he just wouldn’t agree to pay. He even said he’s hired a lawyer and intends to fight us to the end."

In front of him, the middle-aged man squinted, saying nothing, neither affirming nor denying.

There were many ways to deal with Zhang Qingyuan, but the others involved criminal methods. Having been in this business for so long, he knew that to last, he had to stay clean. If he were to tread the path of crime, then he wouldn’t be far from a decades-long sentence. This was unlike back home. Once caught and charged here, the applicable criminal law meant multiple concurrent sentences! There was no such thing as only being punished for the most serious crime. Every crime he committed could potentially increase his sentence. Moreover, in terms of sentencing, aside from capital punishment, there were life sentences and continuously increasing terms. So much so that there was even a classic case where someone was sentenced to three hundred years in prison! It didn’t matter if the person could live for three hundred years; the sentence was for three hundred years. And this sentence was different from life imprisonment! Therefore, he couldn’t use force against Zhang Qingyuan and the others.

"Let’s first see who this lawyer Old Zhang hired is," the middle-aged man, Xu Liming, said after a moment, taking a deep breath. His voice was somber. "Our lawyer... well, his success rate in Ames City is ninety percent. He’s handled all our previous cases and has never lost." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

He had been in this line of work for several years. Aside from Zhang Qingyuan, there had been a few other hard cases who refused to pay, dragging things out to a lawsuit. Because of that, they even ended up in court. Ultimately, the court ruled in their favor, ordering those individuals to make the donations and pay compensation. With all the evidence in place, it was a foolproof method. The jury always sided with them, and the court consistently followed past precedents in its judgments.

He refused to believe... that this time, the opposing lawyer could make the court deliver a different verdict!