Published at 2nd of January 2020 10:31 am

Chapter 68: Freeze, This Is A Robbery

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Translator: Sumi Wang

Edited by White Whale

Su Mo knocked on Cui Xun’s office door and said, “I’ll go out to look into the case. If it was too late, I’ll get off duty directly.”

“Tell me a specific address, so that I know how to handle Xing Biao in case he asked about you.”

“To the accuser’s parents’ house first, and then to the prison.” Su Mo answered, leaning against the door and looking at Cui Xun with a faint smile. “Senior, are you his spy? Telling him on my whereabouts?”

“He says he’s going to tear down my lawyer’s office if I don’t do it. I can’t stand it.”

“If he dares to tear this place down, I’ll ‘tear HIM down’ first.”

“Then fix the glass for me first. Look at this big hole. You couple are both spoilers.”

Su Mo turned around and left. He waved his hand to Cui Xun, implying that this was not within his responsibility.

The accuser’s mother cried and said to Su Mo, “My son did not kill her. This was definitely not my son’s doing. I could not explain what was going on, but my son was really wronged.”

This was to reverse a case. The sentence of the first trial was already issued, and if there was no evidence strong enough, they were likely to face the upholding of verdict during the second trial. It was a tough case, but it was also a good opportunity for Su Mo to make a name for himself once he helped the accuser acquitted of the charge.

Su Mo then headed to the prison. As soon as Su Mo showed up, the accuser took him as the only savior and started explaining, “I argued with her. I loved her so much at that time, but she chose a rich man over me. I had no idea why she called me that night but I still went to meet her. She hugged me, saying that she wanted to rekindle our relationship. I pushed her away and asked, ‘What did you do when I’m in love with you? Now you want to get back together with me?’ She told me that the man was married, and his wife knew about their affair and had been harassing her for a long time. The man was very afraid of his wife and hid away, so she broke up with him and wanted to get back together with me. I said it was too late, and was about to leave. Then she hugged me from behind, and I pushed her away. I knew that I pushed her down on the floor, but left directly without checking her status. I remembered very clearly that the elevator broke down that day, and I had to take the stairs going down since she lived on the 8th floor. I felt very sad all my way down the building and even squatted at the gate of the community for a while to ease my pain till the guard came asking me to go away. When I just came back home, the police arrived and arrested me. But I didn’t kill anyone.”

“In the security cameras, there were footages of you going in, but none of you coming out.”

“I did take the elevator when I went upstairs, but I took the stairs when going down and there were no cameras.”

“Did anyone see you taking the stairs?”

“No, I didn’t meet anyone.”

“She was stabbed to death with a wound in her forehead.”

“I didn’t carry any weapons with me. Indeed. Lawyer Su, you must believe in me.”

Su Mo looked at the file. It was clearly written: Stab wound. One deadly wound in the heart. Wound width of five centimeters. No weapon found. He asked, “Did you go anywhere else or go straight home?”

“I didn’t go straight home. We were college lovers and we liked to go to the park all the time. I thought it was unbelievable that a pure girl like her had become like this. I went to the park we used to go and strolled for a while. There were very few taxis that day, and I walked for a while before I saw one.”

Su Mo came to know that this was why the police claimed the accuser to be the murderer. He went to the park? Who would go to the park in the middle of the night? And who would believe that he was simply reminiscing the old days? He must have gone there to dispose the murder weapon. However, no weapon was found in the park. There was no witnesses or evidences, so they judged the accuser as the murderer according to all the coincidences – it was a very convenient scenario.

“Lawyer Su, you must help me. I am really innocent.”

Su Mo frowned and nodded. It was confusing – a weird case but a fair trial. He felt like there‘s something missing, but could not tell what it was.

While working, Su Mo was always 100% focused, making careful inquiries. However, what the accuser said was the same as the interrogation statement – not much difference.

By the time Su Mo left the prison, it was already dark. He checked the time – after eight? It was already late? Working until this time on his first day of work. He rubbed his head which was aching from the files, the pleading eyes of the accuser, and the cries of his parents.

‘Come on and go home. I’m so tired.’ Su Mo thought. As expected, being a lawyer was a mental-exhausting profession.

The prison was far away from city center. There was rarely a taxi at such a time. He took out the mobile phone and saw around twenty missed calls all from one single person – Xing Biao. The phone was silenced, so he missed the calls.

Su Mo thought, ‘Xing Biao hadn’t called for an hour. Was he mad at me as I didn’t pick up the phone? HIM being angry?’

There was still no taxi on the road, so he decided to call Xing Biao and ask him to take him home. He walked forward with his eyed clung on the phone. It was a long way from downtown and it was impossible for him to walk home.

The call was still connecting and someone held something against the back of his waist and said, “Freeze. This is a robbery!”

Su Mo lazily put the briefcase under his arm and began to take off the wedding ring on his finger. He took it off, threw it backwards, and continued to stride forward without even looking back.

“Ah, ah, darling, darling, wait for me, I’ll get the ring back!” Xing Biao yelled and thought, ‘What the hell am I doing? Intending to frighten my darling by pretending to rob him and stabbing his waist with my finger as a weapon – what now? I got frightened BY my darling instead.’

He wanted to chase Su Mo, but feared that the ring would really be gone – Come on, they had only worn the ring for two days! And that was their significant wedding ring.

Su Mo looked around and found that the fool had parked the car on the roadside under the tree. No wonder he did not see it earlier. There were no street lights and how was he supposed to notice on a dark night? He opened the door and started smoking after he sat on the passenger’s seat. His casually laid his arm over the car window while looking at Xing Biao scouting for the ring.

Xing Biao was murmuring to himself. “Where is it? There is a diamond in that ring and it’s supposed to shine in the light. We’re still in the front square of the prison and there’s light. Where could it be?” Squatting on the ground, he searched everywhere and even felt the grass with his hands. He still couldn’t find the ring after several times of inch-by-inch search.

“Darling, where did you throw it?”

Su Mo’s mood suddenly lifted seeing Xing Biao clumsily look for the ring. It was pretty amusing to have someone like Xing Biao acting funny all day and clung to him like a big stupid bear. The fatigue from a tiring day just vanished. He honked and Xing Biao ran over to him immediately and said, “Darling, I didn’t find it. How can you throw it away? It’s our wedding ring.”

Su Mo showed his hand to Xing Biao and apparently the wedding ring was still on his finger.

“Oh my, you’re playing with me.” Xing Biao got angry. He almost got cross-eyed looking for the ring so hard for a long time. Why not tell him the truth earlier?

“Get in the car and let’s go home. I’m tired and hungry.”

Hearing Su Mo’s words, the furious Xing Biao became obedient right away, getting in the car with no more complaints. “I’ve been calling you since five o ’clock, and when I couldn’t get through anyhow, I became worried about you. I asked Cui Xun and then knew where you were. And he taunted that I was your shadow, chasing the wife all day. What are you doing here?”

“Looking into a case.”

“You must be starving. I’ve got a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk in the compartment. Eat them for now and we’ll go home to have a delicious dinner.”

“I want to eat wonton.”

“Sure, I’ll make wonton for you as soon as we get home.”

Hearing Xing Biao’s answer, Su Mo smiled. It was a bit after eight o ‘clock now, and by the time they got home, it should be around nine o’ clock. Yet he was in the mood of cooking – that was quite patient of him.

“Why did you park so far away from the prison?”

“I have a psychological shadow over prison.” Xing Biao drove very fast and the prison was out of sight within just a few minutes. He explained, “I’ve been in prison and this place can suffocate people to death. When I was in jail for a few months, I swore that I’d never come back here again. If it isn’t because that you are here, I wouldn’t bother to come here.”

“That’s a good idea. Never go back in there ever again.”

“I’m not going back to jail. I’m going to spend my whole life with you.” He took Su Mo’s hand and wanted to kiss it. Seeing the ring on the finger, Xing Biao changed his mind and pinched Su Mo instead. “You can’t throw the ring away even when you are just joking. It’s our wedding ring. You can’t take it off ever. If one day you take it off again, I’ll make it smaller so that once you put it on you could never take it off.”

Hearing no response. Xing Biao shouted fiercely, “Do you hear me?” Su Mo rolled his eyes at Xing Biao and said, “Just drive fast.”

“There is no one more disobedient than you in this world, who has never taken my words to heart. If I don’t do anything to punish you, you’d always think I’m a pushover. When I get really angry, I would really punish you. I’m not just saying.”

The answer was still silence. Su Mo reclined the seat and lied down lazily.

Finally they were home. Su Mo was surprised that this guy did a great job tidying up the house. Urging Su Mo to take a bath and change pajamas, Xing Biao himself went to the kitchen to prepare meat and chives to make wontons.

After bathing, Su Mo sat on the sofa, towel-drying his hair and looking at the contract. “It looks like a reasonable contract, but there are a lot of traps. It’s drafted by a masterstroke. What seems like a reasonable item now will have a different legal interpretation when something really goes wrong.”

“Then what should we do?” Xing Biao stood at the kitchen door and asked Su Mo, holding a small ingot-shaped wonton with his hand covered all over by white flour.

“Easy.” Su Mo took a pen and added a few words where he thought they were at disadvantage. “His message was simple: if something goes wrong, the company is 100% responsible for all losses, and they will pursue the company’s legal liability. 100% responsibility? Will the jewelry company pay a large sum of money or not? I don’t know much about the market value for bodyguards, but I think the job is underpaid. If they are the reason the jewelries are lost, it is not YOU to blame.”

“Darling, then change it and earn some benefits for us.”

“Yeah.”

Xing Biao boiled the water while making raw wonton. “If something does go wrong, and I have to pay for all the losses, then I’ll go bankrupt. I have thirty to forty employees. To hold them responsible and send them all to prison by signing this contract? I can’t do such thing.”

“I’ll revise the contract, and when you are to sign it, do not compromise on any terms.”

“Darling, I’m serious, be my legal adviser.”

“I’m not going to give you a discount on the lawyer fees.”

“I’ll give you the highest price.”

Su Mo shook his head and refused. He just took the opportunity to blackmail Xing Biao. Even if Xing Biao didn’t pay him, he would still give a hand under such circumstances. How come others could set a trap for his husband Xing Biao by playing word game? That was a total humiliation okay?

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