07

How to say it? Xu Huaisong really didn't know where to start, and he spit out four words in a long time: "It's a bit complicated."

"There are any more complicated relationships in this world than their ex?"

“Isn’t the debtor and creditor complicated?”

Liu Mao widened his eyes and thought, it was really like that.

As a lawyer, he has been dealing with all kinds of people for a long time and his observation skills are becoming increasingly sharp. Judging from today's situation, he can be sure that Ruan Yu and Xu Huaisong know each other.

He originally thought that the only one who could make a "reunion" so irrelevant was the "most familiar stranger", but when he was reminded of this, he realized that his thoughts were too narrow.

Liu Mao suddenly realized and stuttered, saying, "She...she owes you money?"

No wonder Ruan Yu was trembling and pretended not to know Xu Huaisong. Xu Huaisong also forced his poker face.

Seeing that he was serious, Xu Huai Song laughed: "No."

"..." Liu Mao wanted to break the law a little.

"Let's find a place to eat." Seeing that he was asking, Xu Huaisong cut off his slogan in time.

He had to step on the accelerator and recall yesterday while turning the steering wheel.

Yesterday, Xu Huaisong called and asked him to make a relationship to check a person's basic information and contact information in Suzhou and Hangzhou. He asked if he was anxious, because he had just received a copyright and reputation dispute case, and was rushing to protect online evidence.

Xu Huaisong said "urgent", but after saying that, he lost the following text. He thought of something and asked who the client of the case was.

He is Zhikun's partner and has the right to understand the case taken over by the firm. Liu Mao explained it clearly, but he was hurriedly hung up the phone.

I got the news about Xu Huaisong again in the early morning. He said that he was at Pudong International Airport.

After such a connection, Liu Mao understood through the beginning and end: the person Xu Huaisong was going to investigate was Ruan Yu.

There was no unexpected reunion? He was the country he returned to for her.

It’s just that I came from afar, and I just said “I don’t know each other”.

Which man doesn’t want to give him some face? Liu Mao didn’t break the casserole and asked to the end, saying, “What are you eating, Western food?”

"It's too slow. Just make it simple, catch the plane."

"Flying in San Francisco?" He was surprised.

Xu Huaisong nodded.

It turns out that even looking for a hotel is lying.

"Aren't you just here? Why are you in a hurry to leave?"

"There are less than twenty-four hours left before the trial of my client. Do you think I'm anxious?"

Liu Mao was stunned: "Are you crazy?"

I spent more than ten hours rushing back to China, met in a hurry, and spent more than ten hours back to defend?

Xu Huaisong lowered the seat and lay down, closed his eyes tiredly: "Maybe it is." After saying that, he smiled and sighed, "Who will not be crazy if anyone is replaced."

In Shen Mingying's apartment, Ruan Yu curled up on the sofa and buried her head in the pillow: "I'm going crazy..."

After hearing her talk from beginning to end, Shen Mingying burst into tears: "Who was the one who swears that she would not be recognized?"

"How could I really make trouble for myself?" She grabbed her hair and got up. "It's so fantasy. I don't dare to write novels like this. I'm dreaming, right?"

"Do you know when you look like now?"

She muttered weakly: "When..."

"On the first day when he turned 18, the night when Xu Huaisong held hands."

That day, she didn't sleep all night like she was injected with chicken blood, and asked herself over and over again if she was dreaming.

But the more excited I was at the beginning, I wanted to go wild now.

Shen Mingying turned her head to go to the kitchen to cook lunch. When she came back, she saw her holding her phone and looking as if she was dead: "What should I do? I said that this novel is the Weibo I experienced personally, and it was posted together with a video that clarified the time of the outline creation..."

In other words, she cannot delete blogs or edit content again, because such actions will definitely be given dirty meaning by those who are interested.

"Stop narcissism, American elite lawyers won't be idle to read your Weibo. And they don't remember you at all. Even if you turn your novels into pieces, they may not find you writing about him." Shen Mingying calculated the accounts for her, "Besides, it's all the past. Just be a passerby. The worst is to be shameless. Who doesn't have a fantasy of adolescence, right?"

Ruan Yu knew that this was reasonable, but: "When I think of him as he might see the 'spring dream' in the novel, I can't get through this hurdle in my heart..."

Shen Mingying laughed: "I asked you to add fuel to the artistic effect!" After laughing, she hit the person who was slapped into mud with her elbow, "I'm just serious about this and won't sue me?"

She cheered up and shook her head.

It is of course fake to say that he doesn't sue, but he just plans to give up and find another lawyer.

After confirming that Shen Mingying's friend would not be difficult to do, she contacted another law firm in Hangzhou that day.

The other party also invited her to have an interview.

The law firm is called "Ding Zheng". The lawyer surnamed Fan, who took over Ruan Yu's case, took on the responsive plan that night.

So the next day, when she came to the office, she got a plan directly.

While looking through the information, she listened to the middle-aged man opposite her: "Ms. Ruan mentioned that your case involves copyright and reputation disputes, but in fact it has little to do with the latter. Whether your work is original or not does not need to be recognized in court."

She was a little surprised: "How to reverse public opinion?"

Fan Yizhong pulled the corner of his mouth: "With the premise that online evidence is preserved, as long as the outline is proven to be stolen, the defendant's infringement will be established."

"It may be the case at the legal level, but you have also seen that the authors involved in the case have cooperated with me to make clarifications, but it does not have much effect on the public opinion level."

"Because that statement is not legally effective at the moment."

She frowned: "But if we discuss the originality of the work on the basis of proving the stolen outline, wouldn't it be more convincing?"

"After the theft was established, it is meaningless to discuss two more works. Is Ms. Ruan looking forward to the result of "the works of both parties are highly similar"?"

She shook her head: "Similarity is just a manifestation. As long as you carefully compare the two articles, you will find..."

"If Miss Ruan insists on her own opinion," Fan Yizhong interrupted her, "My plan does not meet your expectations, I suggest you ask Gao Ming. But to be honest, I don't think any lawyer will adopt your opinion."

She was silent for a moment and nodded: "I understand, thank you for your advice."

Hangzhou City has entered summer rapidly these days, and when Ruan Yu left Dingzheng, the sun was already quite fierce.

She took a taxi in the scorching sun and was about to go back to the apartment, but when she was at the fork in the road, she remembered Fan Yizhong's last words. She was vaguely unwilling to accept it and changed her way to a law firm.

After entering and leaving the two houses one after another, she received a call from Liu Mao on the road.

Liu Mao heard the sound of her whistle and said softly: "Ah, are you outside? Let's talk again when it's convenient."

She said "wait" and turned to an unmanned newspaper booth on the roadside.

A row of transparent bins are lined up on one side of the newsstand, with newspapers and magazines for self-service purchases. However, no one has the time to buy newspapers in hot weather.

Ruan Yu stood under the cool and clean eaves of the pavilion: "Tell me, Lawyer Liu."

Liu Mao straightforwardly said: "The notarization procedure is almost in place, how are you thinking about it?"

Ruan Yu was silent for a moment.

Of course, she never gave up on the lawsuit from beginning to end. Although she encountered a wall in three law firms in just half a day and it was impossible to say that she was not discouraged, but to think rationally, the lawyers were not wrong.

Why do you have to be roundabout and troublesome when you can hit the red heart with one shot? Who is willing to do something that is difficult but not compelling?

After all, people have been polished by society. They know that learning to adapt is sometimes a rule of survival. So when they just crossed the road, Ruan Yu was wondering whether to stop being stubborn.

However, the call from Liu Mao made her want to try again in the last time.

She asked replies without answering: "Lawyer Liu, in your idea, how should this case be handled?"

Liu Mao seemed to be stunned and said, "Proving theft of the outline is the most direct way."

Ruan Yu said "hmm" with his fate.

He keenly noticed her depression and asked, "What's wrong? If you get into trouble, even if you speak, even if I'm not your client, you can be your friend."

She hesitated and said, "I'm thinking, if I have a demand to explore the originality of the work, can it be realized in this case?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a long time. She probably understood and said with a smile: "Forget it, I know..."

"Yes." Liu Mao interrupted her.

"Can?"

Liu Mao pondered for a while and said, "Yes, it can be realized..."

Hearing that his tone was wrong, she was stunned: "If it was for the help of a friend, you don't have to force it."

"Not forced!"

This high-profile voice drew echoes, and she asked: "Lawyer Liu, is your landline turned on hands-free?"

"Yes. Sorry, please wait. I have a few documents to sign."

"Then you can do it first."

Ruan Yu didn't hang up the phone. Hearing the sound of the other end, he took his cell phone and looked down at the newspaper in the transparent box.

The folded evening newspaper revealed a small piece of news report, which was about a resigned executive of a US S.G company who turned to a competitor's position and was prosecuted for violating the restrictions on competition.
To be continued...