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On the day his parents had an accident, Jin Zhou happened to be in the college entrance examination.

An overloaded truck changed lanes illegally and smashed into the car driven by Jin Zhou's father.Jin Wei and his wife died on the spot, and there was no chance of rescue. The truck driver emptied his family's wealth and actively compensated. Finally, he was sentenced to six years in prison for the crime of causing traffic accidents.

What seemed like an ordinary accident, Jin Zhou never thought that there might be complicated inside story behind it.

Counting the days, the truck driver—that is, Wang Darong in Ren Wenli's mouth, should have been released from prison long ago.

And what about Jin Zhou?

I missed two exams in the college entrance examination, not to mention my favorite university of political science and law, and I didn't even pass the three ordinary ones.

After finally cheering up, he planned to repeat his studies for another year, but when he asked Yang Shiyu to help him with his homework, the person who had always been gentle and patient with him looked at him indifferently and asked, "Why do you have to go to this university? "

The reason why Jin Zhou yearns for the University of Political Science and Law is not only the influence of his family, but also because it is the school where Yang Shiyu studied.

Yang Shiyu is a top student at the University of Political Science and Law. He has been tutoring Jin Zhou since his freshman year. He is three years older than Jin Zhou.When Jin Zhou first entered high school, he was fond of playing and didn't like studying, so his grades kept going up and down. Later, under the guidance of Yang Shiyu, he gradually began to rank among the top of the grade.

On the eve of the college entrance examination, in order to encourage Jin Zhou, Yang Shiyu made an appointment with him to be a judge together in the future.

If there was no accident that year, Jin Zhou would have become Yang Shiyu's junior, and he might be working in the court now.

However, there is no if in reality, and fate likes to joke like that.

After Jin Zhou's parents had an accident, Yang Shiyu suddenly seemed to be a different person, saying that the job of a judge had less money and more work, and he had nothing to look forward to. He also said that he was about to graduate from college and had no time to tutor Jin Zhou's homework.

During that time, Jin Zhou was in a daze, not knowing where to go.He gave up repeating his studies and went to a car repair shop to find work. Later, he met Liu Yongchang and a group of cronies.

As for Yang Shiyu on the other side——

"The court is now open."

The man sitting in the middle of the trial seat knocked on the gavel, and looked through the lenses of the gold-rimmed glasses and landed on the open file.

Chains dangled from the temples, sliding back and forth on the stately robes as the man moved his head from side to side as he read the dossier.

The question and answer of the prosecutor and the defendant quickly sounded in the courtroom. Perhaps he was dissatisfied with the content. The man frowned slightly, raised his eyes to look at the defendant, and said coldly: "Now it's a court investigation. It's not time for you to repent."

Behind the defendant was an empty auditorium with only a few family members sitting, so the man's sight inevitably fell to Jin Zhou who was sitting in the corner.

He paused for a moment, then looked away.

Jin Zhou was suddenly a little bored. He thought that when he first got his lawyer's certificate, he came to see Yang Shiyu's court just like today.At that time, Yang Shiyu had just become a registered judge, and when he saw Jin Zhou sitting in the public gallery, he was so surprised that he made a mistake in the procedure of the trial.

Looking at Yang Shiyu's reaction now, it seems that he is becoming more and more accustomed to seeing Jin Zhou in the court, and Jin Zhou, as a "regular visitor" to the court, is becoming more and more accustomed to being treated as air by Yang Shiyu.

At the end of the prosecutor's questioning, Yang Shiyu looked at the defendant and asked in a calm tone, "How long have you been married to the victim?"

Defendant: "Five years."

"Married for five years," Yang Shiyu's tone suddenly became serious, "Just because 'cooking tastes bad', you hacked at the victim with a kitchen knife?"

Defendant: "This is not something that happened once or twice, but a conflict that has accumulated over a long period of time. I have been married to her for so long, and she never cooks a good meal."

Yang Shiyu: "So do you think your motives are reasonable?"

Defendant: "No, I was just impulsive..."

Nine years had passed, and Yang Shiyu's appearance had hardly changed. He still had short, clean hair, and a row of white teeth occasionally appeared from his thin red lips, letting out a soft but powerful voice.

Judges in the civil law system are different from those in the Anglo-American law system. They will actively cross-examine the defendant to investigate the facts of the crime.In cases with clear facts, some judges will even put pressure on the defendant to realize his mistake.

Obviously, Yang Shiyu was an offensive judge, and he faltered and hawed at the defendant's questions, at a loss.

When it came to the court debate stage, Yang Shiyu stopped asking questions.

Since the victim saved his life, the prosecutor suggested that he should be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years for attempted murder, while the defendant's lawyer suggested that he should be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years for the crime of intentional injury.

The former is more serious and the latter is lesser. The defendant's lawyer also adopted a defense strategy of misdemeanor, but judging from the current witness and material evidence, Jin Zhou feels that it is not enough.

The defendant had the subjective intention to kill, but the final result was unsuccessful. If Jin Zhou was a judge, he would most likely not accept the defense lawyer's opinion.

His thoughts suddenly stopped here, and Jin Zhou smiled self-deprecatingly - "If he is a judge", this is clearly a false proposition.

Whenever he thought of this, Jin Zhou couldn't help scolding Yang Shiyu a bitch.

He said that the judge had nothing to look forward to, which caused Jin Zhou to lose his direction in life, but it turned out to be a good thing now, this man himself became a judge.

This is like two brothers who have a sweetheart at the same time. For the sake of brotherhood, the two made an appointment not to leave the singles, but one of them secretly embraced the beautiful woman. In short, it is not human.

But then again...

Jin Zhou exhaled lightly, and put away his cursing thoughts.

He and Yang Shiyu were already no different from strangers, even if they met in the aisle of the court, they would not say hello, so he naturally had no position to scold Yang Shiyu for not being a brother.

In the end, the verdict was pronounced in court, as Jin Zhou expected, for the crime of intentional homicide, but he was given a lighter punishment.

The defendant's mother broke down and burst into tears, saying that her son was born with a good nature, and that he had the bad luck to meet that bad woman in eight lifetimes, and cursed her to die a bad life.

Jin Zhou has seen many such farces in court. At first, he would feel emotional about all kinds of things in the world, but now it's like watching someone run a red light, and there is no disturbance in his heart.

Coming out of the back door of the auditorium, Yang Shiyu on the other side just walked out of the court through the front door.The elevator was not far from the front door. Under normal circumstances, Yang Shiyu would have walked straight to the elevator instead of looking at the back door.

However, when Yang Shiyu walked out of the court, he glanced in the direction of the back door vaguely, and then walked towards the elevator.

Although this move was fleeting, it was still accurately captured by Jin Zhou.

——Yang Shiyu was looking at him.

Coming to this conclusion, Jin Zhou couldn't help laughing. After so many years, in the eyes of Judge Yang, he seemed to finally have a sense of existence.

"Yang Shiyu." Jin Zhou shouted.

There are so many staff members in the court, Jin Zhou is always polite and doesn't call people by their names directly, so only Yang Shiyu can "enjoy" this treatment.

The slender figure stopped when he heard the sound, and turned his head to look at Jin Zhou.

The lights in the corridor were not turned on, and the light was a little dim. All kinds of people walked past Yang Shiyu, but he stood there with his expression hidden in the shadows, waiting for Jin Zhou to pass by.

"I know about Wang Darong." Ren Wenli didn't need to ask for a reminder, she could know about it just by reading the news headlines.

Jin Zhou came to Yang Shiyu and wanted to continue talking, but he suddenly discovered a situation that made him uncomfortable.

After breaking contact with Yang Shiyu, Jin Zhou worked hard to grow to 1 meters, and stayed at this height.He remembered that Yang Shiyu once said that he was 83 meters, that is to say, Jin Zhou always thought that he had surpassed Yang Shiyu.

But now after getting closer, he realized that Yang Shiyu didn't stop when he grew taller, and was still taller than him by a little bit.

Jin Zhou glanced at Yang Shiyu's leather shoes unwillingly, but didn't see anything special about it.

He suddenly realized that his actions were a bit naive, so he raised his eyes and looked at Yang Shiyu again, but he happened to see Yang Shiyu looking at his fancy shirt with a slightly displeased expression.

"Still under verification." Yang Shiyu quickly put away the expression on his face, returning to the usual alienation when he saw Jin Zhou.

"Has Wang Darong been found?" Jin Zhou asked.

Jin Zhou once asked Ren Wenli this question, but Ren Wenli didn't say much, she just said that it was inconvenient to disclose, probably because she was afraid that Jin Zhou would do something irrational.

Jin Zhou also understands, because he and Ren Wenli are close friends, and they haven't reached the point where they have a good personal relationship.

But he is different from Yang Shiyu.

Yang Shiyu had no relatives around him. When Jin Zhou was in his third year of high school, Yang Shiyu still spent the Spring Festival at Jin Zhou's house.

Even though the two haven't talked for a long time, at least on the matter of Jin Zhou's parents, the two should communicate with each other and reach an agreement.

However, Jin Zhou was wrong, and only heard Yang Shiyu say indifferently: "It's none of your business."

Jin Zhou almost had a heart attack: "It's none of my business??"

"There will be prosecutors to follow up." Yang Shiyu said, "Don't get involved."

"Brother, are those my parents?" Jin Zhou unconsciously used the tone he usually used when talking to his friends, and said "Brother" with a bit of anger in his speechless voice, which actually highlighted the relationship between the two.

"I understand your feelings, but I have no obligation to disclose the case to you." Yang Shiyu said, "After the investigation is clear, the procuratorate will give you a result."

Inexplicably, Jin Zhou felt that what Yang Shiyu said was very familiar, such as "understanding the mood", and so on. After thinking about it carefully, he dared to treat him as the victim's family, and what he said was all perfunctory rhetoric.

If it is someone else's case, or another presiding judge, Jin Zhou can't find out the situation, so forget it.

But the question is, are his parents and him just ordinary "victims" and "victims' family members" to Yang Shiyu?

"Yang Shiyu," Jin Zhou couldn't help but frowned and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

At that time, Jin Zhou was still a silly boy who hadn't left the society, facing a series of things that happened, he was always in a state of confusion.

Looking back now, what he couldn't understand the most was Yang Shiyu's indifferent attitude.

How can a person be so heartless?Fortunately, his father still regarded Yang Shiyu as his student.

"I remember that my dad often brought you to discuss the case." Jin Zhou suppressed the continuous anger in his heart, "Do you know anything about what happened back then?"

"I'm very busy." Yang Shiyu didn't answer, he raised his wrist and looked at the time, "I'll tell you one more time, don't worry about this matter."

Yang Shiyu's figure quickly disappeared into the elevator, as if the brief conversation just now had never happened.

Jin Zhou suddenly realized that when Yang Shiyu glanced at him, he didn't have anything to say to him at all, but just wanted him to stay out of it from the beginning to the end.

If it was put in the past, Jin Zhou would definitely obey Yang Shiyu's words.

But just like Jin Zhou was wrong about Yang Shiyu, Yang Shiyu was also wrong about one thing.

The current Jin Zhou is no longer the fool he was back then, and even Liu Yongchang can't control Jin Zhou, so what kind of onion is he, Yang Shiyu?