End of October.

Early morning.

Today is the day of Ren Xingyan's trial on charges of intentional homicide.

Zhu Shan was woken up by the mobile phone alarm, and did not dare to delay for a moment to leave the warm bed.

Ling Xiao didn't come home last night.

The night before each court session, he doesn't go home, which Doree says is his habit.

Zhu Shan asked Ling Xiao why.

He was holding her at the time, and teased her not very seriously: "Gentle township, red face and troubled water."

But Zhu Shan knew that the real reason was definitely not like this.

This habit has been there since before she returned to China.

After washing her face, Zhu Shan wiped the water on her chin with a face towel in front of the mirror, and then touched the shallow dark circles under her eyelids.

She didn't sleep well last night, she didn't sleep well with the violent bear, and she dreamed all night.

Zhu Shan finished breakfast, checked all the documents, and then went to the underground parking lot with her hard hat.

Riding out of the parking lot on a battery car, a cold gust of cold air drilled into her neck, making her whole body tremble.

The news said that this was the first significant drop in temperature this year, and the air in the south was humid, and the wind blew on the skin and was bitterly cold.

And today not only is there no sunlight, but there is also some smog, the view is not clear, and the whole city seems to be covered by a heavy barrier, and gradually pressing down, making people feel gloomy.

Zhu Shan shrunk her neck. She swore that after today, this beautiful battery car would be sent to the cold palace, and the sentence was pending.

When Zhu Shan arrived at the courthouse, it was still early.

She leaned against the wall, took out her phone and read the draft of her statement several more times, and she needed to tell the courtroom exactly what she had seen and heard that day.

She was a little afraid that there would be omissions because of nervousness, so she had such a draft of her self-report.

Time pushed little by little, and Zhu Shan was guided to check and sign various court documents.

When she stepped into the courtroom, her palms were slightly sweaty.

It's been more than half a year since the last time I came.

This time, she was in a different place and in a different state of mind.

Last time, she was a bystander;

This time, she was the participant.

Zhu Shan walked to her position and sat down.

She was still attracted by the huge national emblem in front of her for the first time, and then looked at the lawyer's seat.

Ling Xiao wore a black lawyer's robe, a red bow tie worn by a lawyer, and a blue double-ring badge on his chest.

He wore thin-rimmed glasses, revealing a smooth forehead, and his hands were folded around his chest and slightly leaning back in the chair, closing his eyes to recuperate.

And Li Shang next to him was sorting out various documents in an orderly manner.

Zhu Shan looked at the prosecutor's seat again, there was a neat stack of materials and documents half a palm-high in front of Prosecutor Su, and his eyes fell on Ling Xiao, not smiling.

At this moment, Zhu Shan smelled the smell of gunsmoke.

She remembered that Shu Qiwen had said that lawyers and prosecutors were old enemies.

After a while, the clerk stood up and read out the rules of the court.

Then, the presiding judge and the judges entered the courtroom.

With the brown gavel falling: "The first criminal trial division of the Yuhe City Intermediate People's Court is now open."

Defendant Ren Xingyan entered through the back door of the courtroom.

He kept his head down, his eyes covered with long strands of hair, and he walked with a wooden motion.

If Zhu Shan hadn't seen his rampant appearance, I was afraid that she would be deceived by his disguise.

According to the procedure, after Prosecutor Su read out the indictment, Ren Xingyan shook his head and denied: "I didn't kill Zhuofu."

Zhuo Fu is Zhuo Yue's father.

At this time, a sharp female voice came from the side.

Zhuo Yue stood up and wanted to rush to Ren Xingyan: "You pushed my dad down!"

She was stopped.

The presiding judge struck the gavel hard, and the scene was quiet.

Prosecutor Su first played a surveillance video, and then said, "From the surveillance video in the corridor, we can

At 8:35 p.m., the defendant asked bodyguards to escort the deceased and the deceased's daughter to the top floor, and at 8:43 a.m., four bodyguards came down from the top floor, and the police received the first call to the police at 8:48 a.m., so at the time of the crime, there were only three people on the top floor: the defendant, the deceased, and the deceased's daughter."

Prosecutor Su then projected several photos and said, "These are the footprints of the scene on the top floor, the footprints of the deceased are receding to the balcony, and the defendant's footprints are approaching the balcony and covering the footprints of the deceased."

Zhu Shan looked at the photo of the pile of footprints.

One retreated to the balcony, and the other was approaching the balcony, which clearly proved that Ren Xingyan pushed Zhuo Fu to the balcony.

Prosecutor Su changed another photo: "This is the footprints belonging to Ms. Zhuoyue, her footprints are coming in from the left side, and the steps are very large, which is completely consistent with seeing her father being pushed to the balcony by the defendant and running hard."

The photo on the big screen has changed again, and it's a black finger.

Prosecutor Su: "There were human fibers in the fingers of the deceased, which were completely consistent with the defendant after laboratory testing, and there were corresponding scratches on the back of the defendant's hand."

Speaking of this, Prosecutor Su glanced at Ling Xiao, then retracted his gaze and changed another photo: "This is a photo of the deceased falling from the building, he fell to the ground lying on his back. Based on his height, weight, balcony rubbing position, it was exactly the same as the position where he was pushed down by the defendant head-on and fell."

Zhu Shan closed her eyes and slowly buried her head.

When she saw the photo, she could clearly remember the sudden loud noise behind her that night, the sound of human flesh hitting the ground, and the image of blood spilling to the soles of her feet when she turned around.

Prosecutor Su looked at Ling Xiao again, and he found that Ling Xiao finally moved.

However, this movement was actually looking at the witness Zhu Shan.

He knew about their relationship, and for this reason, he took some effort to apply for Zhu Shan to testify.

He just didn't expect that Barrister Ling, who only needs fame and fortune in everyone's mouth, would be distracted at this moment.

Prosecutor Su's eyes were fixed on Ling Xiao, and continued: "The deceased is in his fifties this year, and he is skinny from the pain, from the previous surveillance video, we can see that the deceased was dragged to the top floor by the defendant's bodyguards, he was almost completely incapacitated at that time, and there was no threat to the defendant, and the defendant chose to take the deceased to the top floor, which was a premeditated and planned killing, and the defendant deprived him of his fragile life for no reason, cruelty, and ruthlessness......

"Against!" Finally, Ling Xiao spoke up.

He withdrew his gaze from Zhu Shan and looked at Prosecutor Su indifferently: "I oppose the prosecutor's speculation about my client's psychology."

The two looked at each other, and Prosecutor Su narrowed his eyes, it turned out that he was not distracted.

When Zhu Shan heard Ling Xiao's voice, she subconsciously raised her head, only to see his indifferent expression.

Presiding Judge: "Please don't speculate about the defendant's psychology."

Prosecutor Su nodded, then looked at Ren Xingyan: "May I ask the defendant, why did you take the deceased and the deceased's daughter to the top floor."

"I—I just want to scare them." Ren Xingyan still lowered his head, his voice trembling a little, "Zhuoyue has been making trouble for me more than once, so I want to scare them."

Prosecutor Su: "On the top floor, how do you want to scare them?"

Ren Xingyan raised his head, looked at Ling Xiao, and lowered his head again: "I said, if they come to trouble me again, I will throw them downstairs."

Zhu Shan was a little shocked, is this an admission?

Ren Xingyan's voice suddenly became heavy, and he defended: "But I didn't do it, I didn't kill anyone, I was just annoyed by them, I just wanted to scare them. I pushed him to the balcony and asked him if he was afraid of death. And then I let go......

Sue interjected, "And then he fell!"

"Not !!" Ren Xingyan was a little excited, "When I let go of him, he leaned on the balcony and gasped, my bodyguards saw it, I didn't push him down, and then the two fathers and daughters said they wanted to talk to me alone, so I let the bodyguards leave."

"Why did you let the bodyguards leave?" Prosecutor Su's voice was loud, "You have no reason at all

Let the bodyguards go! You just don't want to be seen killing! When you take people to the top floor, you're already murderous!"

Ren Xingyan and Ling Xiao spoke at the same time at this moment.

Ren Xingyan shouted: "I don't have !!."

Ling Xiao calmed: "Oppose!"

After two seconds of silence, the presiding judge looked at Prosecutor Su: "Please don't speculate about the defendant's psychology."

Prosecutor Su nodded again.

Zhu Shan glanced at Ren Xingyan, and at this moment, his mood was obviously flustered.

Zhu Shan looked at Ling Xiao again, his gaze fell straight into the air, he didn't look at anyone, and there was no emotion on his face.

Presiding Judge: "The defendant continues to make statements."

Ren Xingyan calmed down, he lowered his head, his two hands were empty in the air, and he looked very helpless:

"Because they're too tough for father and daughter."

"Bonjour has supporters online, and I don't want to have anything to do with her anymore."

"She said to talk about it alone, and she said to solve it all at once."

"I think that their father and daughter, one woman and one elderly, do not pose any threat to me, so let's talk."

"As a result, they are insane."

"He grabbed my hand and fell backwards on his own."

"He jumped it himself, it's none of my business!"

"I dragged him, I didn't hold him."

Myself?

Zhuofu jumped by himself?

Zhu Shan felt that Ren Xingyan's words were extremely ridiculous.

Ren Xingyan continued:

"I just wanted to get rid of the entanglement, I wanted to scare them, and I didn't want to kill people all the time."

"How could I kill someone?"

"Didn't murder ruin everything about myself?" Ren Xingyan looked at the presiding judge and shook his head, "I have no reason to kill."

......

Bonjour then went to court as an eyewitness.

Under questioning, Zhuo Yue spoke: "That night, my father and I went to Ren Xingyan to seek justice, and were taken away by his bodyguards at the door, he snatched my mobile phone, and punched and kicked me and my father......

Speaking of this, Zhuo Yue couldn't cry and regretted it very much: "Woo woo... We shouldn't... I shouldn't have ......."

Ling Xiao narrowed his eyes, then looked down at the papers.

Zhuo Yue continued to sob: "Later, I met a reporter I knew, Ren Xingyan thought that I was looking for a reporter and wanted to expose him, so he locked me up with my father, and it didn't take long for him to kick open the door, became very angry, very scary, and ordered a few bodyguards to take us directly to the top floor, he grabbed my father's neck and pressed him to the balcony, saying all kinds of cruel words, my father couldn't break free, his feet were off the ground, I begged him to let us go, he... He abruptly told the bodyguards to leave, and... Then he pushed my dad down......

Zhuo Yue cried so hard that the presiding judge was helpless, and tapped the gavel: "Please keep your emotions under control."

Zhuo Yue pursed her lips and nodded.

Zhu Shan wiped the sweat from her palms.

At present, the footprints at the scene, the marks of struggle and friction, the scratches on the back of the defendant's hand, the skin fibers between the deceased's fingers, and the testimony of Bonjour, the only witness present, ......

Zhu Shan felt that this battle without gunpowder seemed to have locked the winner.

But......

She looked at Ling Xiao.

He was still calm and unhurried, and he didn't panic at all.

Even, the indifference in his eyes is not hidden.