As soon as Zhong Qing walked into the gate of Huinan Company, a tall, thin and young boy greeted him.

"Lawyer Chung, is that? I'm really sorry, our general manager is in a meeting, and it will be over in fifteen minutes, can you please wait in the reception room for a while? ”

Zhong Qing didn't say much, and followed the boy to the reception room.

The boy walked beside Zhong Qing, tilted his head and began to introduce himself: "Lawyer Zhong, my name is Li Chang, I am the assistant to the general manager, I really didn't expect you to be so young and beautiful, when I contacted the law firm before, Zhiyou directly recommended you, saying that you are experienced and have a high rate of winning the case, I thought you were at least a middle-aged person." ”

Zhong Qing is noncommittal, she is 27 this year, and she belongs to the age of "humble words" in the lawyer industry, but she has a baby face again, and she is even smaller, people are always used to putting trust on age, so Zhong Qing is often regarded as a paralegal or an intern college student by clients over the years, and even some people report to the law firm that they want to change an older lawyer, and at first Zhong Qing had to take on some small cases with rich experience, but in the past two years, Zhong Qing's reputation has gradually improved, and the law firm has also vigorously promoted her.

The hard days are finally over.

"At most, I have some experience in commercial torts, which is far from being a barrister."

Li Chang smiled and introduced some information about Huinan Company, and took Zhong Qing to a small reception room.

Zhong Qing picked a front position and sat down to wait for the arrival of the person in charge of docking.

Huinan is a very strong emerging network technology company, in the game has a good development, Zhong Qing looked around, although the area is not large, but the advantage is that the environment is clean, the layout is simple, and the division of various departments is also reasonable.

Judging from the experience of previous commercial cases, the corporate environment and corporate culture can directly reflect the future of a company, and Zhong Qing feels that Huinan should be a company with great potential.

The promised fifteen minutes passed quickly, Li Chang kept raising his hand to look at his watch, and explained to Zhong Qing with an embarrassed face: "Mr. Ji, this meeting should have ended at four o'clock, but there was an accident halfway, and it might take a while." ”

"Mr. Ji?"

"Yes, Ji is always the general manager of Huinan and the project leader of the game Fantasy World, so he is also responsible for this lawsuit."

"But I see that the person in charge on the power of attorney writes Liu Zhangke."

"Uh...... It was an internal problem of the company, and now it has been changed to Mr. Ji. ”

Zhong Qing didn't ask any more questions and continued to read the information.

Twenty minutes have passed, although Zhong Qing said that he was not in a hurry and could wait, Li Chang still looked sorry and chatted with her a few more words, but fortunately, it didn't take long for his mobile phone to vibrate, and he quickly got up and left saying that he was going to bring Mr. Ji over.

Bring it here? Don't know your company's meeting room?

Zhong Qing secretly wondered, but didn't think much about it.

A copyright infringement case is not too difficult.

Because he was not familiar with the infringement of the game, Zhong Qing did not have an in-depth understanding when he received the commission, and wanted to come to Huinan Company to understand the situation first.

Zhong Qing didn't look at the time, but felt that it was a long time before footsteps came from the door.

"Lawyer Zhong, this is our Mr. Ji." Li Chang stood in front of Zhong Qing with a stack of folders, and introduced the person behind him to Zhong Qing with a smile, "Mr. Ji, this is lawyer Zhong Qing from Zhiyou Law Firm. ”

Zhong Qing had already gotten up when she heard the footsteps, and just put on a generous smile, but instantly froze in place after seeing the comer.

Li Chang blocked in front, Zhong Qing first saw a black cane, a solid one-legged cane with no patterns, Zhong Qing's breath was stagnant, and when he looked up, the cane was attached to the gray straight suit pants, he was wearing a gray suit, his face was much thinner than back then, and the edges and corners were sharp.

Zhong Qing's eyes were hot, and she felt that tears were pouring into her nose, and the sour taste made her almost cry.

Compared with Li Chang, who was smiling in front of him, Ji Mingchen, who was respectfully called "Mr. Ji" by his subordinates, stood tall and completely detached from the original appearance of a teenager.

Things are people, and tears flow first, which is probably what it means.

Zhong Qing wanted to say hello but didn't dare to say hello.

"Zhong Qing-" Ji Mingchen was stunned in place, and it took a while for two words to come out.

Zhong Qing half-leaned on the edge of the table, still holding a stack of documents in his hand, he stood in front of her, a delicate and crisp suit could not coincide with the school uniform of the year, Zhong Qing looked at him, but did not dare to look directly at his face, so he had to put his eyes on him and linger, the two stood face to face in the small reception room, but stiff like two stone sculptures.

Li Chang was dumbfounded, stood in the middle and said at a loss: "The two of you have known each other for a long time?" Classmates? ”

Zhong Qing just wanted to speak, but he couldn't think of what relationship to use to describe the relationship between the two of them for a while.

At this time, Ji Mingchen replied for her: "High school classmates." ”

Zhong Qing's body stiffened even more, and these four words were circling around in her mind, and together with the strange Ji Mingchen in front of her, she woke up from a good dream that she had had had been having for nine years at once.

Regarding Zhong Qing's obsession with Ji Mingchen, it is useless for others to persuade her for many years, but today Ji Mingchen can beat her into the bottomless abyss with only these four words.

The original hand-holding, hugging, love letters and love were screened after nine years, and in the end, only one sentence was left "high school classmates".

"yes, it's been a long time." Zhong Qing sat down, held back his trembling hand and handed the prepared materials to the other side of the table, Li Chang saw this and hurriedly went over to help Ji Mingchen pull out the chair over there, and waited for Ji Mingchen to come over.

Ji Mingchen's stiff body gradually recovered, and he was shocked to realize that this was actually a reunion after nine years. Since he moved away from Zhongning City after the college entrance examination, he has been in college for four years and has worked for five years, and the two have not seen each other for nine years.

He stepped down, leaned his cane on the table, and took the document handed by Zhong Qing. The movements were a little stiff and at a loss, and he was not used to entering the work mode face-to-face with Zhong Qing.

Li Chang probed his brain behind him to observe, and Zhong Qing simply lowered his head and did not speak.

Ji Mingchen eased the atmosphere and said, "I really didn't expect you to be a lawyer." ”

Zhong Qing said: "Then what do you think I should do?" The tone is neither salty nor light.

"I thought a lot about it when I first filled in the volunteers, but-" Ji Mingchen regretted it as soon as he said it, and hurriedly changed the topic: "But according to your temperament, it is quite suitable to be a lawyer." ”

Zhong Qing suppressed the countless emotions in her heart, and only replied after a while: "Well, it's appropriate." ”

Ji Mingchen nodded, he would never have imagined that the two people who talked about everything would be so speechless nine years later.

"I didn't expect us to see each other again." Zhong Qing's tone was light, but Ji Mingchen clearly heard a trace of resentment and grievance in this sentence.

Zhong Qing took a breath and sorted out her mood.

"I have roughly sorted out the content of this case, specifically your company's new fantasy world game, which was sued by a game company called Tongxiang for plagiarizing his Cracked Battlefield, from the perspective of time, the time of the launch of the Cracked Battlefield was indeed ahead of the fantasy world, but your company's opinion is that the similarities between the two are within the normal range from the perspective of game content and structure, after all, they are all fantasy themes, and they should not belong to plagiarism, from this point of view, copyright infringement is still easy to solve." As soon as she entered the scope of legal affairs, Zhong Qing was quickly able to put away her emotions and go to work.

Ji Mingchen looked at Zhong Qing opposite, and felt that the time of nine years seemed to have suddenly condensed into a point and stayed in the past, and Zhong Qing's slightly frowning appearance when he spoke completely coincided with the past.

Thinking about it, the chair was suddenly knocked a few times by Li Chang behind him, and Ji Mingchen realized that he was distracted during working hours.

"Well, in fact, the game Fantasy World was prepared by our company two years ago, and the proposal has already been filed."

"That's great, it's a lot of evidence, and besides, I don't really know much about games, so I'd like to know how much of a game can be reasonably borrowed?"

"To be honest, the scope of reasonable borrowing is just a cliché and has no practical effect. The overlap of the same type of games on the market is already high, and even if the aspects of the screen character gameplay are 100% copied, as long as some new elements are filled in, it is difficult to define who copied whom. ”

"What about the overlap between the fantasy world and the Cracked Battlefield?"

"It's clear to say that the story background of the fantasy world is almost completely different from the Cracked Battlefield, but other aspects, it's hard to say."

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Ji Mingchen and Zhong Qing discussed every word, and Li Chang's eyes on the side were straight.

Where are these high school classmates who haven't seen in years? This is an old partner who has worked together for many years!

Zhong Qing picked up the pen and wrote it down quickly, and threw the prepared questions to Ji Mingchen one by one, and Ji Mingchen put one hand on the table, looked through the information with the other, and then answered Zhong Qing's questions seriously one by one.

"Then let's do it for now, and I'll tell you the details before the court session on Monday." Zhong Qing almost understood, and signaled that Ji Mingchen could finish.

"Okay, you'll be in for the rest."

"No trouble, it should be."

"Dinner together?" Ji Mingchen instructed Li Chang about the matter, stood up and asked Zhong Qing.

Zhong Qing was just about to speak, when the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

is both unexpected and not unexpected, it is Yang Zuo from the same law firm as her, a typical * prodigal, who somehow has recently become interested in Zhong Qing, and he teases her every day.

"Xiaoqing, let's have dinner together tonight? You have returned the flowers and perfumes, and you can't refuse me for dinner anymore! ”

Yang Zuo's voice was very loud in the small reception room, and Li Chang hooked his head and looked at Zhong Qing with interest, Zhong Qing was a little embarrassed.

If it had been before, Zhong Qing would definitely say into the mobile phone, "Even a person like you can be a lawyer?" To what extent has society become morally corrupt now? Although she has no feelings for Yang Zuo, this prodigal son is very interesting, and when he speaks, he is a long-standing and oily tone, and Zhong Qing will quarrel with him to adjust his mood if he has nothing to do. But not today, Ji Mingchen can stand next to her.

"Xiaoqing, are you there? Why don't you speak, let's go tonight-"

Zhong Qing turned her head, Ji Mingchen was looking down at her phone, she couldn't see his expression clearly.

This reunion was not easy to come by, Zhong Qing cherished it very much, and she was also afraid that Ji Mingchen would misunderstand.

What if Ji Mingchen misunderstands that she is a woman who plays ambiguously with other men?

"Yang Lu, I have something to do tonight, next time I will definitely invite you to dinner to apologize to you, I'm sorry I'll hang up first." Zhong Qing hurriedly replied to Yang Zuo and hung up the phone, turned around and stood in front of Ji Mingchen, changed his smile and said, "Old classmate, let's go to dinner together!"

Ji Mingchen glanced at her, and immediately turned his gaze, hiding the smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Okay, then you wait for me here for a while, and I'll go back to the office and clean up." Ji Mingchen nodded at Zhong Qing, called Li Chang to his side and instructed him to do something, and then picked up his cane and walked towards the door, he was still a little unsteady walking, his left hand with a cane pulled his whole arm hard, his right leg took a step forward, and then moved his left leg forward.

For more than a decade, he has been able to merge with his cane, and although he still walks unsteadily, the picture does not seem strange and abrupt.

Zhong Qing stood behind him, feeling that the time had returned to nine years ago, and Ji Mingchen, who was wearing a school uniform, walked in front with a limp, turning back from time to time to urge Zhong Qing.

At that time, he was not used to his leg injury, and when he was troubled, his brows were tightened, and the whole world seemed to be embarrassed by him.

"Zhong Qing, why are you walking slower than me?"

"If I walk slowly, a lot of people will look at me, which is annoying."

"That's a lot of homework today! Isn't the liberal arts class less tiring? ”

"Zhong Qing, why don't you speak?"

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