Difficult office romance

Hearing Ke Ran's dissatisfaction, Cen Jing joked with a smile, "Why are you so careless about work recently?"

Ke Ran was a little guilty. Although he had never been late or left early during this period, and sometimes worked overtime with the team, he knew what Cen Jing was talking about.

It is true that he did not pay much attention to Sun Youde's case. The last two discussions were rejected by evading the need to go to the field for other cases.

Before that, he felt that he was a "saving people" lawyer, and he did not violate his heart and professionalism. He was full of motivation to participate in this drug case, so even if he was absent from discussing Cen Jing, he never doubted his professionalism. .

Only when he has been really busy recently.

But this did not prevent Ke Ran from feeling guilty.

He said in as relaxed a tone as possible: "How can I? I've been arguing with Ye Sa every day about the traffic accident case."

It was true, he could say it with confidence.

Cen Jing also just mentioned it casually, but he could hear that Ke Ran's tone was a little nervous, was it his own illusion?Casually talking about work, why is Ke Ran so nervous.

"Meet you next week and come with me?"

Ke Ran was stunned for a moment when he heard this sentence. Most of the lawyers who joined Yan Lieqi's descendant Youde case met with them. He subconsciously wanted to shirk, "Brother Yan, what's the matter?"

"fine."

Cen Jing frowned, he thought Ke Ran would be happy, and he felt guilty for not taking him to meet Yan Lieqi once he participated.

How come it feels different from what I expected.

"You can't go if he's fine?"

"No, I just asked." Ke Ran whispered.

"Are you under pressure?" Cen Jing lowered his head and looked at him seriously.

Don't feel the pressure of death penalty cases at this time.

Looking directly at Cen Jing's concerned eyes, Ke Ran was a little embarrassed, "No."

why?Cen Jing was puzzled.

"Ke Ran, why do I feel that you don't want to handle this case?"

After a moment of silence, Cen Jing asked.

I really just don't want to do it now, Ke Ran thought to himself.

Originally, my heart was full of wanting to help Sun Youde to be a man again. I don't know where to go.

Thinking of this person now, he can't help but think of Zhou Renyang.

Zhou Renyang was still crying sadly to himself in his mind, and when the picture changed, Sun Youde stood aside holding a gun.

At that moment, Ke Ran, who also had a gun in his hand, even wanted to kill Sun Youde to make him pay for his life.

But the camera turned around, and behind Sun Youde stood his mother, ex-wife, and daughter.

Then it was as if all his strength had been sucked out of him, and he couldn't even make the movement of loading the gun.

He wanted to ask Cen Jing many times, tell me, which side should I be on?

If I save Sun Youde, will Zhou Renyang hate me?

Since I was a child, I have been helping the honest Zhou Renyang to avenge, why do I feel that I have become an accomplice this time?

If I abandon this case, will I be able to get a restful sleep?

But what about the promise to the old lady?

I can't afford to compensate the little girl's father either.

More importantly, what I want to be is a professional criminal lawyer.

How can, how can you not try your best to defend your own defendant?

Leave me alone, I don't want to make a choice.

However, Ke Ran didn't want to talk about these things at this time, and he couldn't take back some words that he couldn't take back. He vaguely felt that the consequences of blurting out the words would not be very good.

"I didn't. I put so much effort into this case." Ke Ran said.

Two months ago, he was still staying up all night in order to help Sun Youde reduce his sentence as much as possible, and was even taught by Cen Jing that he was "unprofessional".

It's just because he saw Sun Youde's human side, he wanted to be a hero once, to wash away a gray soul.

I smiled mockingly in my heart, I am not "unprofessional" now.

From one "unprofessional" to another "unprofessional", there is really no one.

After thinking about it, Ke Ran tentatively asked, "Then can I ask some questions of my own during this meeting?"

You must know that Cen Jing and Yan Lieqi gave the outlines in the past, and he just did some detailed work.

"You have your own ideas? Yes." Cen Jing rubbed his hair, "This is great, why are you so unconfident."

"That's what you said." I hope you won't explode my head with anger after hearing my question.

Ke Ran leaned on Cen Jing meekly.

He just wanted to know if Sun Youde kept his bottom line.

Ke Ran grasped this opportunity tightly, as if grasping his last straw.

After such a long time, Sun Youde already had a general understanding of his situation.

During the previous meetings, Cen Jing had clearly told him that the situation was not optimistic.

He accepted it calmly, because the voice sounded more vicissitudes than before.

He said, "Lawyer Cen, my mother is an old teacher. At that time, being able to be a teacher in a township primary school was considered very educated. When I was born, I was in poor health. I didn't pay attention to rest when I was pregnant. I was brought out of the mother's womb. So my mother Give me a name of 'You De'. She said that if there is a loss, there is a gain. I didn't like cultural classes since I was a child. It can only be understood that she thinks that I was not healthy when I was young, and good things will always happen in the future. God. Will make it up to me. I didn’t really understand that until recently.”

A wry smile flashed across Sun Youde's face very quickly, "It's none of God's business, 'giving up' and 'gaining' are both karma planted by myself, but I've lived so many years in a daze, why did I put The order of these two words is reversed."

And in a certain meeting during the prosecution period, the mother brought the words that Jingjing was not hidden in the end.

At that time, Sun Youde was the most flustered that Cen Jing had ever seen.

This man who has always been calm turned pale for a moment, his eyes turned around absently, and in the slightly chilly weather, big drops of sweat appeared on his forehead.

But even knowing the fact that her father has been in the detention center for a long time, Jingjing has always believed that her father is innocent.

This may be the only comfort in Sun Youde's heart.

But so ironic.

Holding the warm scarf carefully selected by his daughter in the world outside the iron gate, Sun Youde stroked the texture of the scarf over and over again, just like stroking his daughter's hair.

Lowering his head, he shrugged his shoulders slightly, and dark circles spread out on the scarf.

During this meeting, the light in Sun Youde's eyes was a little less bright than last time.

Seeing that it was Ke Ran who came, he seemed to be a little bit more serious, maybe he saw his juniors outside the iron gate through Ke Ran.

He also told Ke Ran to wear more clothes during the initial exchange of greetings, saying that young people these days mess around in dressing because of their good health.

After hearing this, Ke Ran just nodded cautiously and didn't say much.

It wasn't a very friendly relationship in the first place, and after not seeing each other for a long time, Sun Youde didn't mind Ke Ran's reaction.

On the other hand, Cen Jing pushed his glasses and felt that Ke Ran was a little strange, but he couldn't say what was so strange.

After all, this is the normal attitude towards the defendant.

"Lawyer Ke, do you have any questions here?"

After asking a series of questions of his own, Cen Jing turned to look at Ke Ran, indicating that Ke Ran could ask his own questions.

Nodding, Ke Ran followed Cen Jing's words and said, "I have a question here."

Sun Youde was a little surprised. In the many meetings in the past, Ke Ran played more of an assistant role, dutifully recorded the content of the meeting, occasionally added a question or two, and raised his own question formally like today The situation is the first time.

The air remained silent for a few seconds, and Ke Ran asked in a serious tone: "Have you ever used the seized gun?"

Cen Jing, who was originally sitting on the sidelines in peace and waiting to hear what new ideas Ke Ran had this time, suddenly raised his head and looked at Ke Ran in disbelief.

Ke Ran didn't look sideways, he knew that Cen Jing must be staring at him now, but since he had already said the question, he never thought about swallowing it back.

Saying sorry in his heart, he looked directly at Sun Youde and waited quietly for an answer.

Sun Youde felt the undercurrent between Cen Jing and Ke Ran, but he didn't know what happened. The two people's defense ideas were at odds?

It was useless to think about it, and now that he had reached this point, there was no point in lying to the lawyer about these details in his opinion.

After a while, Cen Jing and Ke Ran heard Sun Youde's deep voice: "Used."

Hearing these three words, where Sun Youde could not see, Cen Jing quickly stretched out his hand to hold Ke Ran's thigh, applying a little force.

Ke Ran's hand covered his, fingers intertwined between Cen Jing's, squeezed hard and then left.

"What is it for?" he asked.

"What else can you do?" Sun Youde pressed down his eyelids, "What else can you do with a gun?"

Ke Ran's eyes were still fixed on Sun Youde, not wanting to miss any of his expressions.

Sun Youde behaved very naturally, and these answers obviously did not cause any pressure on him.

"Have you ever hurt anyone?" Ke Ran asked.

"Ke Ran!" Cen Jing made another effort with his hand, turned sideways, and reminded Ke Ran with a voice that could only be heard clearly by the two of them.

Cen Jing was angry.

Ke Ran could feel the clear pain from his thigh and the anxious and angry voice in his ear.

But he can only go on.

"Who doesn't have this on their hands?" Sun Youde said easily, but turned his head to the upper left, not looking at Ke Ran and Cen Jing.

"Didn't you use a gun this time?"

Seeing that Ke Ran was out of control, Cen Jing had no choice but to change the subject.

"No." Sun Youde thought for a while and said, "Lawyer Cen, I really didn't shoot at the police this time. What's the use of a group of them swarming us if we only have one gun? It's still in the urban area. It can only get bigger and bigger."

"Yeah." Cen Jing nodded, "It's good that it's useless this time, it can prevent more serious—"

Before he could speak, he was interrupted by Ke Ran's next question, "What about other times, did you shoot the police before?"

He paused, stared at Sun Youde's suspicious eyes, and said word by word, "Has anyone ever died?"