Chapter 14: Lawyer Fang!

On a summer afternoon, the weather in Jingzhou City was a little hot, but Zhou Yi's mood was a little... bewildered.

The reason was the person currently in front of him.

This was a person who looked extremely fastidious: he wore a suit that was clearly very refined, his leather shoes were polished to a high shine, and his hair had been meticulously groomed, with hair gel applied in just the right amount.

Add to that his pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and the moment one saw him, he gave off a sense of... a refined scoundrel.

This was that Lawyer Fang Xujing, the one Lao Wang had mentioned—the industry expert who was a bit strange.

However, what left Zhou Yi bewildered was not the other party's attire, but his current actions.

His manners were extremely elegant and high-class; whether it was the way he held his coffee cup or his posture while drinking, it was all extremely professional.

But there was just one thing... when had you ever seen someone add vinegar to their coffee!

Yes, as soon as this person sat down, he took a small bottle of vinegar out from his pocket and then, with an extremely practiced motion, added it to his coffee...

The amount was certainly small, but Zhou Yi had lived for over twenty years and this was truly the first time he had ever seen such a way of drinking it!

"How about it, Mr. Zhou? Would you like a little? The taste is quite wonderful," Fang Xujing said from across the table with a smile.

"I'll pass, you go ahead and enjoy it..." Zhou Yi waved his hands repeatedly; even if Lao Wang were beaten to death, he would never drink that bizarre coffee!

"Sigh, you people, you don't know how to appreciate things. It's precisely for this drop of vinegar that I drink this coffee," Fang Xujing laughed.

"Alright, enough small talk. My time is very precious, so let's talk about your case first."

"Ah... oh, it's like this..."

Zhou Yi recounted the matter regarding himself and the trading platform, and explained that he intended to file a lawsuit.

The expression on Fang Xujing's face across the table was originally quite strange; just as Lao Wang had said, Fang Xujing was an odd person.

His professional level was second to none in Jingzhou City, and even in the country, but unlike lawyers like Lao Wang who would take any case as long as they were paid, Lawyer Fang did everything based on his own mood.

If he felt a case suited his taste, he would take it even for the lowest price.

But if it didn't suit his taste, even if you offered a high price... well, of course, you could still hire him.

After all, who would turn away money? It's just that the price would need to be very, very high...

And Lawyer Fang's personality was of the type that was particularly pedantic.

He was the kind of person who could spend over twenty-four hours researching data just to debate someone over a single sentence posted online.

If the other party started cursing or blocked him after they finished, he would rather switch to ten alt accounts just to keep flaming them to the end; he was a truly pedantic person.

And now, upon hearing Zhou Yi say that he felt annoyed about his account being recovered, so he turned around and topped up one million just to ensure the other party received the punishment they deserved, Lawyer Fang's eyes immediately lit up!

A kindred spirit!

He had been in Jingzhou for so many years, and he had never met someone whose thinking was so consistent with his own!

Thus, Zhou Yi saw that after he finished speaking, the lawyer in front of him reached out his hand directly.

Ah, what is this for? A handshake?

But when he first came in, I wanted to shake his hand, yet he just sat down.

But now was not the time to think about that; Zhou Yi reached out in bewilderment, shook his hand, and watched in bewilderment as the lawyer across from him seemed very excited.

"Little Brother Zhou, I see I'm a few years older than you, so I'll call you Little Brother. I'll take this case. These intermediaries nowadays, ah, they only know how to collect fees; as soon as you pay them, they ignore you. We absolutely cannot indulge them!"

"And this matter is simple, but Little Brother Zhou's approach is just satisfying to watch..."

Zhou Yi had a strange look in his eyes as he watched the guy across from him who kept talking non-stop. He didn't know what was going on; it seemed... it seemed that his completion of the System Task had inexplicably struck a chord with this guy's kinks.

But whatever, having a lawyer is good, especially since the person already said this time is about making friends and he won't charge money!

Is there really such a good thing in this world?

Fang Xujing across the table was already beaming, feeling that he had truly come to the right place today.

He was too lonely; he hadn't expected to meet a kindred spirit today!

"Little Brother Zhou, sign the contract when you go back later. I'll send you the things I need. This case is simple, but the point is to make them uncomfortable!"

And so, until he had a big drink with Lawyer Fang and went home dizzy to lie on his bed, Zhou Yi still hadn't figured out how a guy who was pedantic to the extreme hadn't been beaten to death yet?

Lawyer Fang acted quickly. After receiving the documents Zhou Yi sent him, it wasn't long before he directly sued the trading platform's company, Little Cat Internet Technology Co., Ltd.

There was no help for it; the company's address happened to be in Jingzhou City, which saved him from running around.

Of course, he also followed Zhou Yi's account and took photos of some content that wasn't critical but could prove the lawsuit, then sent it to the other party.

Once the lawsuit was filed here, on the other side, inside the office building where Little Cat Internet Company was located in Jingzhou City, the company's Chairman, Liu Qingyuan, looked at the Copy of the Complaint in front of him in bewilderment.

"No, what is this situation? How did someone suddenly want to sue us? Why wasn't there any movement before?" Liu Qingyuan couldn't quite react.

The Court staff member in front of him heard this and said, "You can look at the specific content inside this Indictment. Alright, once you sign, I have to head back."

Liu Qingyuan hurriedly signed, then opened the Indictment and began to read. It didn't matter until he read it; after he finished, he felt terrible.

"Just because your account was recovered and the company didn't compensate you, you just filed a lawsuit? Is a five-hundred-yuan account even worth a lawsuit?"

Liu Qingyuan truly couldn't understand why, why the other party would choose to sue. It was only five hundred yuan; the company would cover it, and triple compensation would only be fifteen hundred. That money wasn't even enough to hire a lawyer.

After thinking about it, Liu Qingyuan picked up the phone. Of course, the company had a legal department, but the company's legal staff also needed to be paid to go to court. The key was that this small amount of money wasn't worth going to Court over.

It wasn't like it was a big deal.

And the person even said they had approached the company, but the company had ignored them entirely; this was an act of "malicious Breach of Contract."

Heaven knows why those two words were put together.

But soon, Liu Qingyuan noticed something wrong. This account looked a bit familiar. Wait, isn't this the account from when the police came to check here a while ago!

So this is that guy who "recovered the account and topped up one million"?

What is going on? Why would the staff below not provide compensation when a person like this requested it? Have they all lost their minds too!

At this moment, Chairman Liu felt as if everyone was trying to sabotage him...

So, in the process of checking level by level, he soon reached Li Xiang, the Manager in charge of customer service.

Manager Li was reading a novel on his computer when, suddenly, the door was pushed open.

"Hm? Chairman Sun, you could have just called me if you needed something."

It was his immediate superior, General Manager Sun, who walked in; Manager Li hurriedly stood up to welcome him, though he felt quite strange inside, as a leader like General Manager Sun would not usually come over on a normal day, and if there were any matters, a single phone call would have him running faster than anyone else.

General Manager Sun waved his hand, said nothing, and tossed the Indictment directly into Li Xiang's hands.

This is... Li Xiang opened it with curiosity and was instantly stunned.

"Explain yourself, what is your Customer Service Department for? Why wasn't this matter regarding the netizen named A Yi reported? Just for this pittance of money, we have to deal with a Lawsuit?"

There are quite a few companies these days that like to file lawsuits, but their Company is not among them.

Furthermore, if a case like this were to spread, it would make people think that their Company has problems!

A mere 1,500 yuan, and it was executed according to the contract, yet you actually refused to compensate? That is simply absurd!

"General Manager Sun, please wait a moment, let me ask the people below; this, they should have reported it to me!"

"Then let us go to the Customer Service Department together to ask," General Manager Sun said in a calm tone.

Li Xiang felt helpless, and the two of them soon arrived at the adjacent Customer Service Department.

Because there was a name in the Indictment, the previous record was found very quickly.

Shanshan stood in front of Li Xiang, while the other customer service girls watched the scene with some worry.

"What is the duty of your customer service? Why didn't you report it when something like this happened?" Li Xiang roared directly.

No matter what, he could not lose face in front of General Manager Sun; as the leader of the Customer Service Department, although this department was outsourced, he could still manage it after all.

However, he roared, but Shanshan opposite him roared even louder!

"Manager Li, what are you roaring for? One must have a conscience; look, I sent you an email about it, I said the customer wanted compensation and if it wasn't given, they would resort to legal channels, but you never replied to my message."

"What, now you are actually starting to blame me?"

Hmm... hmm? Li Xiang looked at the email in front of him and was instantly dumbfounded.

Because the amount was too small, he had simply forgotten about it, but, five hundred yuan, is it worth suing over?

The update is here, goodnight everyone, worried about the war and having no heart to write, Lao Jiu is indeed a kind person.

(End of this chapter)