Chapter 69.1: “Are you dating him?”

Although the situation was not favorable for Bai Duanduan’s debut, Ji Lin didn’t seem to care much. Then Bai DuanDuan heard him turn the conversation around and say, “I told you, Lin Hui is not a good person. Before, you said he had been kind to you and that he was not a bad person, and I didn’t feel comfortable arguing with you. But now you see it, right? He’s the kind of person who, when his own interests conflict with others, doesn’t need to think and will choose to sacrifice others to benefit himself. He even uses his knowledge of you without regard for your principles, causing the parties involved to feel more guilty and upset after losing the arbitration.”

Clearly, Ji Lin could never see eye to eye with Lin Hui. At this moment, he was like a little boy who had finally found the faults and evidence of someone he didn’t like and was going to report it to the teacher. He finally seized the opportunity and attacked Lin Hui on all fronts.

After venting his anger, he cleared his throat and summarized, “In any case, it’s good that you can see his true nature now. As for Tian Mu, we’ll continue to investigate and gather evidence. Since his strategy is to prove that Tang Li and Lu Shuisheng had an extramarital affair, and that the money was given for that reason, and Tian Mu was unaware of it before and became very angry after finding out, even almost getting into a fight with Lu Shuisheng on the spot. Then our strategy for proving the case becomes even simpler. We don’t need to find evidence of cooperation between Tian Mu and Lu Shuisheng. We only need to prove that their explanation is untenable. If there is no extramarital affair, then Tian Mu can’t explain the monthly flow of 200,000 yuan, and he will have to bear the consequences of adverse evidence.”

In the face of this dilemma, Ji Lin was confident and even a little excited. It was as if he had been waiting for a long time to confront Lin Hui.

The following parts of the text will be scrambled to prevent theft from aggregators and unauthorized epub making. Please support our translators by reading on secondlifetranslations (dot) com. If you are currently on the site and and you are seeing this, please clear your cache.

Tl pxkzle yde pyke, “Rv’p nzlya vbyv ol’hl bkv y csvvzldlnj kd rashkdt vbl nssrlayvkhl alzyvksdpbkr clvolld Mkyd Yw yde Nw Fbwkpbldt. Jwv ol byhld’v vakle vs rashl vbyv Mydt Nk yde Nw Fbwkpbldt’p lmvayxyakvyz yqqyka kp qyzpl. Mbyv’p y dlo yrrasynb yde R vbkdj kv nswze osaj.”

Gqvla blyakdt vbkp, Jyk Pwyd Pwyd pweeldzu qlzv ldzktbvldle. Nkd Twk’p elqldpl pvayvltu oyp kdelle dlo, cwv kv yzps rashkele vblx okvb y dlo nbyddlz qsa scvykdkdt lhkeldnl. Mblu bye dlhla vakle kdhlpvktyvkdt qasx vbkp ydtzl clqsal. Gzvbswtb kv oyp ekqqknwzv vs rashl vbyv Mkyd Yw yde Nw Fbwkpbldt olal kdvldvksdyzzu nzlyakdt yzz vaynlp sq vblka nssrlayvksd, vblal oyp ds lhkeldnl vbyv Mydt Nk yde Nw Fbwkpbldt bye yd yqqyka, ulv vblu bye qycaknyvle y zsv sq lhkeldnl vs rashl kv. Mkyd Yw bye pbsod ydtla obld bl zlyadle sq vbkp, cwv yzz sq vbkp lhkeldnl oyp zkjlzu bypvkzu qycaknyvle kd y pbsav rlakse sq vkxl, ps vblal xwpv cl zssrbszlp…

Valhkswpzu, vblu bye clld pvawttzkdt clnywpl vblu bye ds lhkeldnl sa pvyavkdt rskdv, cwv dso…

“Rq ol pvyav okvb vbl lhkeldnl sq vbl lmvayxyakvyz yqqyka yde rashl vbyv kv’p qyjl sa elzkclayvlzu qycaknyvle, kv nswze cl vbl jlu vs hknvsau.”

Ji Lin smiled. “You’re smart.”

Bai Duan Duan felt a bit embarrassed by the praise. “If I were really smart, I wouldn’t have missed Lin Hui’s idea.”

Ji Lin didn’t think much of it. “Normal people wouldn’t think of this approach. Only someone like Lin Hui would.” After he finished speaking, he opened the passenger door for Bai Duan Duan. “Let’s go eat first and talk more on the way.”

Bai Duan Duan nodded and got into the car. Ji Lin closed the door for her and got in as well. After helping her fasten her seatbelt, he looked at her and calmly and coolly gave her a kiss.

Bai Duan Duan stared at Ji Lin.

Ji Lin remained calm and said, “Oh, you seem a bit upset about losing, so I’m consoling you because I think you need it.”

Although his words sounded sincere and reasonable, his ears were slightly red.

Sure enough, he would be shy with this kind of excuse.

People were coming and going outside the arbitration commission, and Ji Lin’s expensive car was eye-catching enough in the labor dispute field. Soon, an arbitrator passing by noticed the scene of Ji Lin kissing Bai DuanDuan. The arbitrator was someone whom Bai DuanDuan knew well. She felt embarrassed being stared at, and when she looked up, she caught a glimpse of Lin Hui, who was standing behind the arbitrator. He had also noticed the interaction between Ji Lin and Bai DuanDuan. His previously calm face was now filled with undisguised astonishment…

Ji Lin’s kiss had diluted Bai DuanDuan’s frustration from losing to Lin Hui. She felt rejuvenated, motivated, and positive again. Without thinking too much, she followed Ji Lin to have lunch.

Two people informed Xie Miao of the details of the morning arbitration without omitting anything, and made an appointment to meet again to discuss. In the afternoon, Ji Lin had an external meeting with a client, so he sent Bai DuanDuan back to the office and hurriedly left. Bai DuanDuan started to sort out the clues alone, based on the plan she had discussed with Ji Lin during lunch, hoping to find a new breakthrough in evidence.

Now that their undercover identities with Tang Li have surely been exposed, Tang Li was willing to cooperate with a script to cover up for Tian Mu. It was probably useless to try to send someone else undercover because Tang Li and Tian Mu would be highly vigilant and careful, and might even refuse to leave their home.

As expected, because their defense reasons were not honorable and were false, Tang Li did not explain to her plastic-surgery-obsessed friends that Bai Duan Duan had a fake identity, but she did indeed stop going out.

“She has been in seclusion recently, saying she wants to stay at home and accompany her husband. We tried to make plans with her but she won’t come out.”

Bai Duan Duan asked a few minor internet celebrities, and the answers were all consistent. Tang Li had indeed become low-key and stopped updating her social media accounts. She probably did this to completely avoid the risk of being caught again, leaving Bai Duan Duan and Ji Lin with no options.

However, Bai Duan Duan was the type of person who would knowingly take the risk and face it head-on. Even when Lin Hui was manipulating her principles and bottom line, she was determined to do what was right.

Unexpectedly, after carefully examining the evidence for a while, Bai Duan Duan received a phone call from Lin Hui.

She hung up on the first call.

She still didn’t want to answer the second call.

But Lin Hui was persistent this time. He called her ten times in a row, and when she didn’t pick up, he started texting her:

“Duan Duan, I’m at the café downstairs from your office building. I have something very important to tell you. Please meet with me.”

Bai Duan Duan didn’t really want to meet with Lin Hui, but he was insistent this time: “I really need to talk to you about something important, related to you and Ji Lin. Even if you’re busy, I’ll be waiting for you downstairs.”

…………..

Afterwards, he sent a few more messages, which seemed to be urgent in tone.

But the last message finally made Bai DuanDuan waver–

“I will tell you about what happened between me and Ji Lin.”

Ji Lin? Bai DuanDuan didn’t know that there was anything between Lin Hui and Ji Lin from the beginning. From the way Ji Lin treated Lin Hui, Bai DuanDuan felt that it was probably not simple, perhaps some old matter that Ji Lin didn’t want to talk about. But Bai DuanDuan wasn’t stupid. After all, Ji Lin was doing well in non-litigation business in the United States. Why did he come back to China and stubbornly focus on labor law? And once he focused on labor law, he either competed with or became the opponent of ZhaoHui’s cases. Even though the first case Bai DuanDuan took after coming to Sheng Lin was the Dai Qin case, which Ji Lin clearly wasn’t interested in, as soon as he heard that Lin Hui was on the opposing counsel, he was even willing to make breakfast for herself for a month without taking any percentage…

Upon careful consideration, many clues that were not noticed at the time have now become suspicious. Ji Lin’s unusual hostility towards Lin Hui…

Lin Hui was still sending messages–

“I brought you two boxes of crabs. It’s almost the end of crab season, and these two boxes of crab roe are very fat. Just come downstairs and pick them up, it won’t take up too much of your time.”

One shouldn’t turn away someone who smiles and extends a hand. Although Lin Hui made her feel nauseous this morning, he did have some kindness towards her in the past, and Bai DuanDuan couldn’t completely cut off contact with him. Besides, she was really curious about the old matter between Ji Lin and Lin Hui. After thinking about it, she finally decided to meet him.

_____________