Chapter 617: 552 I don’t need you to prove it!
The judge looked at Song Jing, and Song Jing raised his head and declared,
"I do not admit it."
...
Faced with Song Jing’s unequivocal denial, Lu Xiaoer was momentarily dumbfounded.
A person could be despicable, shameless, but should still have a bottom line.
Now, it seemed, Song Jing was a person without any bottom line.
At this moment, he was still denying his crimes.
His denial made people sitting in the courtroom involuntarily utter sighs.
Sitting in the front row of the spectator seats, Lu Yonghuai took a deep breath; he looked at Song Jing at the defendant’s bench and wished he could rush up and beat him to death!
The judge looked towards the defense attorney,
"Defense attorney?"
The defense attorney stood up,
"Your Honor, my client, Mr. Song Jing, claims that he had a legitimate relationship with Lu Xiaoer. On the day in question, it was Miss Lu who invited my client to room 520 of the Kasi Hotel."
"You’re lying! I did not invite him!"
Lu Xiaoer hastily said; Lawyer Fu quickly pulled on Lu Xiaoer,
"Xiaoer, don’t worry, it’s okay."
Lawyer Fu reassured Lu Xiaoer.
Lu Xiaoer was not an impatient person, but at this moment, she really felt disgusted by Song Jing and his defending lawyer.
She took a deep breath, calmed her agitated emotions, and nodded to Lawyer Fu.
"Miss Lu says you did not invite my client, Mr. Song Jing. Then may I ask, if you went alone to the Kasi Hotel to book a room, and specifically booked a couples’ suite at the Kasi Hotel, whom were you meeting?"
Lu Xiaoer pursed her lips, clearly unwilling to bring up Zhongli Wuzhi.
Lawyer Fu knew this and also knew that during the course of the trial, the opposing party would definitely find and seize upon this issue.
Song Jing was a very clever and cunning man.
From the morning of the day after the incident, when Lu Xiaoer told others that her lower body was hurt by kicking, not caused by Zhongli Wuzhi, Song Jing had already seized upon Lu Xiaoer’s psyche.
"Your Honor, the question posed by the defense attorney is irrelevant to this case; my client did not arrange to meet anyone at the hotel on that day. My client is a doctor, often busy with work, and had not had a proper rest for over two months before the day of the incident."
Lawyer Fu looked at the judge seriously,
"My client only wanted to relax alone in the hotel room that day. As for what the defense attorney calls a couples’ suite, that is just an imposed label and not sufficient to serve as evidence."
"Okay, plaintiff’s attorney, you keep insisting that Miss Lu Xiaoer just wanted to relax alone, in a couples’ suite at the Kasi Hotel without inviting anyone else. What about the decorations in the hotel room, clearly meant for a romantic date, flowers, you must surely deny any special significance to these decorations too?"
"The question asked by the opposing lawyer is irrelevant to the case, and we reserve the right not to answer."
Lawyer Fu said.
He sat down and whispered to Lu Xiaoer,
"Miss Xiaoer, the opposing party has already pinpointed our loophole. If we don’t disclose the truth, including the involvement of the third person, I’m afraid..."
"Lawyer Fu, if you don’t have the capability to win the lawsuit, I can find someone else."
Lu Xiaoer was stubborn in her own way, and this stubbornness seemed foolish in court, but...
Not entangling Zhongli Wuzhi in this also aligned with Lu Yonghuai’s wishes.
The trial was public, with so many people sitting in the spectator seats. If the fact that Lu Xiaoer had actively invited Zhongli Wuzhi was revealed, firstly, it would reopen old wounds in Lu Xiaoer’s heart; secondly, others might perceive Xiaoer as lacking decorum, inviting trouble upon herself.
From any perspective, neither Lu Yonghuai nor Lu Xiaoer wished to mention that Zhongli Wuzhi had once been involved in this.
Seeing the resolute attitude of Lu Xiaoer, Lawyer Fu nodded and did not press further.
"Your Honor, my client was invited by Miss Lu Xiaoer to the Kasi Hotel room 520 at eight o’clock in the evening. That fact can be verified by his colleagues from the hospital."
After the defense attorney finished, he called up the first witness.
The person who came up was Dr. Qi, a surgeon from Anlin Hospital and a colleague of Xiaoer and Song Jing.
Dr. Qi approached the witness stand, glanced at Song Jing, then at Lu Xiaoer, and said,
"That day at noon, Dr. Lu didn’t take a lunch break but went out to handle affairs. The specifics of what she went to do seemed very mysterious, but Dr. Lu looked in a good mood when she returned."
"Then may I ask Dr. Qi, what is usually the relationship between Dr. Lu and Dr. Song Jing?"