Chapter 328: Whether the Lawsuit Was Won or Not Is Unknown, but the People in the Gallery Have Entered

Wang Dazhuang felt he had been controlled by a mysterious force; it really was a case of not checking the almanac before leaving the house, which was why he kept encountering such bizarre clients.

He thought about trying hard to explain clearly to the other party that domestic violence was not limited to physical assault, but it was obvious that the Xia Ziyan in front of him was not a reasonable person either.

She just felt that if there was any domestic violence, it would be the other party committing it against her; how could she possibly commit domestic violence against him?

Oh, so it's my fault that he voluntarily handed over his salary, voluntarily did the housework, and was obedient in every way?

"That's not it, Ms. Xia. This really cannot be looked at simply based on what you say; it has to be based on your behavior and language at the time, and currently, the other party's evidence is very unfavorable to us."

It was a pity that Wang Daoren's explanation was interrupted by Xia Ziyan once again.

"I don't care. Anyway, I've already spent money to hire you, so you have to be responsible. If you aren't responsible, I'll go to the Lawyers Association to report you. Don't think I don't know that you lawyers are the best at bullying people!"

According to Xia Ziyan, before she decided to hire the other party, she had already checked where to go to file a complaint if she encountered any issues; this was called being prepared for a rainy day.

Wang Dazhuang felt his fists tightening, but thinking of the consequences of being reported, he suppressed that burst of anger.

He hadn't been holding his license for long, and if he were reported again, not to mention anything else, he would definitely be mocked by many peers who would say, "Look, that's that guy surnamed Wang, suspended from practice every few days; he's simply a disgrace to lawyers!"

The discussion between the two parties ended on a sour note. Wang Daoren now had only one thought: Damn it, why the hell did I bring this up with her? Can't I just handle the lawsuit by the book and lose the lawsuit by the book?

Even if I get reported later... looking at the situation, I will definitely be reported. When will I ever encounter a client like Zhou Yi? Sigh...

Xia Ziyan returned home and quickly opened the Big Green Book. She wrote a "Divorce Diary" on it, mainly recording her daily inner journey in the form of a diary.

She also received support from many sisters here, and everyone expressed one after another that since the other party is suing, we absolutely must not be afraid; we must safeguard our own legitimate rights and interests!

The bride price was clearly gifted by the other party's parents to my parents, and the house was also bought after marriage, and my name is on it too—what reason do they have to take it back!

"Today I had my third exchange with the lawyer. That lawyer who is supposedly very capable actually said that the other party provided evidence that I committed domestic violence. Really, I was shaking with anger. I am a girl, how could I commit domestic violence!"

"The court hearing is in two days. I am very worried now. How did he change so fast? Every time I talked to him about divorce, I was just testing him; I didn't actually want to divorce..."

As a serious person, Xia Ziyan writes a diary, and she even lets everyone read her diary and offer suggestions along the way.

"Ziyan, when the court hearing comes, remember to play the victim. You must keep crying and show the judge how miserable you are. In short, only by making a scene will there be a result."

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Two days later, at the Guangming District People's Court, Zhou Yi looked at Lawyer Fang beside him and said, "I say, why are you so keen on divorce lawsuits? And what do you mean by 'what if I divorce Zhou Xinran'?"

"Can we not discuss this topic? It is absolutely impossible between her and me!"

Lawyer Fang shrugged: "It's not that I'm keen on divorce lawsuits, but that I prefer this type of divorce lawsuit. It just so happens that our Civil Code has new regulations. Although it is certainly impossible for the at-fault party to leave with nothing, they should be given a smaller share at the court's discretion. I have to put it into practice."

While speaking, Lawyer Fang raised the notebook in his hand: "Besides, one always eats big meals; it's not bad to have some millet porridge occasionally to whet the appetite."

Zhou Yi had nothing to say. To be able to call this kind of divorce lawsuit—which leaves a rookie like Zhou Cainiao helpless—a "millet porridge to whet the appetite," it could only be Lawyer Fang; if it were anyone else, they would have been beaten to death long ago.

And what the hell is "practice plus recording"?

"We always talk about 'discretion,' but to know how to exercise that discretion specifically, we have to go through practice. This time it's domestic violence; next time, if there are those divorce lawsuits involving bigamy or infidelity, remember to tell me."

After the joking was over, Yu Dama, who was nearby, said with regret: "Sigh, if I had known, I would have looked more carefully. I didn't expect Teacher Fang to come to handle this lawsuit."

In her words, every one of Teacher Fang's lawsuits is worth her watching.

In this situation, Zhou Yi could only shrug his shoulders to show his helplessness. Just as he was about to enter the courtroom, he saw Xia Ziyan and a couple walking over.

She even took a glance when passing by Zhou Yi.

"Alright, Yu Dama, I'm going in first. I'll tell you about the case when I come out later!"

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he and Lawyer Fang walked in to wait for the workhorses of the Civil Division No. 1 to begin hearing this divorce lawsuit.

Both sides began the routine procedures, and before long, Zhou Yi started to feel sleepy.

But he could only force himself to endure it. Since he was already here, he sat in the public gallery and began to count silently. Based on his understanding of that Xia Ziyan, she would absolutely not be able to hold back.

This is a girl who has been accustomed to being self-centered since she was a child. It's just that she was lucky to have her parents when she was young, and then she had a big sucker like Wang Wucheng, so everything had always seemed to go smoothly.

But now, others won't indulge her!

"Therefore, based on these recordings, it can be determined that the defendant indeed engaged in mental control against my client; therefore, it can be considered that the defendant committed domestic violence against my client!"

"And furthermore..."

It was a pity that before Lawyer Fang could finish his "furthermore," Xia Ziyan suddenly shouted at the top of her lungs: "What are you saying? Can a lawyer just talk nonsense? Who committed domestic violence against him?"

As Xia Ziyan spoke, she began to shed tears; she felt she was truly so aggrieved.

Her husband, who used to be obedient in every way, suddenly said he wanted a divorce, and no matter how she tried to stop him, he wouldn't listen, and he even insisted on taking the money back; if she didn't give it, he would sue.

She thought that if she could keep the house and the money, that would be fine, but now, the other party's lawyer was actually saying she committed domestic violence!

And what she hated most was that while the lawyer was spouting such nonsense, Wang Wucheng, who was sitting in the plaintiff's seat, didn't say a word!

"Wang Wucheng, speak up! You say I committed domestic violence—what kind of man are you? I finally understand now; the vows of the past were all lies, right? Now, for the sake of this little bit of money, you even want to say I committed domestic violence!"

"If you have the ability, say something!"

Here it comes, here it comes. Zhou Yi had been a bit sleepy, but he suddenly perked up.

There are many people in life who are as muddled as Xia Ziyan. A reminder is needed here: whether male or female, it is the same.

Xia Ziyan has always been muddled. It stands to reason that she is already an adult, but she never considers the consequences when speaking or acting; she doesn't use her brain, saying whatever she wants to say and doing whatever she wants to do.

Including when she opened her mouth before and told me she wanted to change to a five-star hotel—I can pay such a high price to be serious, why didn't she think about what I would do in the face of such a direct breach of contract!

However, after Xia Ziyan finished shouting, Wang Wucheng on the opposite side still didn't say a word. This was arranged by Lawyer Fang; once in court, having a lawyer is enough. In fact, Wang Wucheng didn't even have to come.

But Xia Ziyan didn't notice that after she finished shouting, Wang Wucheng's expression became even more dim.

Who hasn't been young? Who hasn't had their passionate moments? But after the passion, marriage is plain; marriage needs to be managed.

It's not just about money, but also about family, life, and everything else.

If this were a romance drama, an old senior might pat the young person on the shoulder and say earnestly, "Don't divorce if you can; family is very important."

But here, Lawyer Fang doesn't indulge these things; he is a lawyer, not a mage.

So he didn't care at all what Xia Ziyan said and continued with his own script.

This naturally made Xia Ziyan very dissatisfied, and she interrupted Lawyer Fang's words again.

"That lawyer, I'm talking to you, didn't you hear me? I'm a woman, how could I commit domestic violence against him, a man? Are you still being reasonable or not!"

"Wuwuwu..."

Lawyer Fang was interrupted again, but he didn't say much; he just waited for Xia Ziyan to finish, then looked up at the judge.

The Presiding Judge spoke directly: "I ask the Defendant to control their emotions. If this continues, the Court will take measures to maintain court order!"

However, no matter what the judge said, Xia Ziyan below just kept crying, and while crying, she kept criticizing Wang Wucheng, saying he was heartless.

The trial could simply not go on. Poor Wang Daoren also spoke up to persuade her: "Ms. Xia, please stop crying for now. We are still in session, look..."

"I don't care! Everyone is bullying me. I spent money to hire you to handle the lawsuit, and you're helping them speak instead, right!"

Lawyer Wang: "???"

He had seen unreasonable clients before, but he had never seen one this unreasonable!

The trial could not proceed like this. Wang Wucheng tried to stand up to say something several times, but was stopped by Lawyer Fang each time.

The Presiding Judge spoke again: "I ask the Defendant's party to please control their emotions. If this continues, please leave the courtroom!"

After he finished, it was still useless. The Presiding Judge didn't speak again; he simply gestured. Two bailiffs took two steps and then stopped, and soon someone ran off to find others.

Not long after, two female bailiffs walked in and dragged Xia Ziyan right out.

"What are you doing? What are you doing? I'm not going out! I'm going to report you!"

At this moment, Zhou Yi saw the man from a couple in the gallery suddenly stand up and say: "What are you doing? Ziyan, Ziyan, are you okay!"

Why were the people in the gallery starting to shout? It was unclear what their relationship to Xia Ziyan was.

But Zhou Yi found out soon enough.

"Wang Wucheng, what did you say to me back then? You told me you would treat Ziyan well for the rest of your life. Now you insist on this divorce? How do you expect Ziyan to live!"

Well, it was definitely her father, no doubt about it. It was just a bit strange—why were only the woman's parents here? Why hadn't Xiao Wang's parents arrived for such a big deal?

At this moment, the entire courtroom was filled with the voices of the father and daughter. The courtroom, which should have been solemn, had now turned into a farce.

The Presiding Judge issued another warning and called for the bailiffs again; only then did Xia Ziyan's parents listen.

It was just that because Xia Ziyan's emotional state was not right, her parents went outside to begin soothing her.

At this point, the trial could not continue. The Presiding Judge announced a recess, stating that the trial would resume after Xia Ziyan's emotions had stabilized.

After about half an hour, Xia Ziyan's emotions finally stabilized. Returning to the courtroom, her parents also sat back in the gallery, and the trial continued.

But as the trial went on, Xia Ziyan's emotions started to go wrong again.

Why is it that in many cases, unless necessary, lawyers do not recommend that clients attend court?

It's simple. When you are the Plaintiff, and a Plaintiff who is clearly in the right, you will understand once you attend a trial in person.

For example, if your relative Zhang San borrowed your money and used all sorts of excuses not to pay it back, and you had no choice but to sue him in court, he might even tell you, "It's just a few tens of thousands, is it really worth it?"

You would be very angry, right? But then the trial starts and you find that the lawyer on the other side is simply a scumbag—damn it, even when it's a cut-and-dried case, he actually still wants to "find excuses" to try and prove the loan didn't exist!

This is a feeling you won't get no matter how many trial livestreams you watch.

You just feel the opposing lawyer is purely a damn shyster, simply talking nonsense.

And that's just for civil cases; Criminal Cases are even more so. This is one reason why many people don't want to be a Criminal Defense Lawyer nowadays—it's very easy to get beaten up by the opposing party...

They don't care about your legal defense; they just think you are damn well whitewashing a villain.

But if the clients aren't there, and only the lawyers from both sides are debating, then there won't be such large emotional fluctuations, since everyone is just doing a job for money.

From Xia Ziyan's perspective, Lawyer Fang was that scumbag lawyer, and every word out of his mouth was nonsense. The key was that you couldn't even interrupt him!

"The Defendant controlled the Plaintiff through material means by making my client hand over all her income, and he demanded to know every single expenditure the man made each month!"

"We can imagine: an adult man, even with a decent income, encountering difficulties and being unable to get money from his wife, even having to borrow from friends."

"It was clearly joint marital income, yet wanting to understand the general flow of funds could be called a lack of trust and a lack of love by the other party. May I ask, is this not Mental Control?"

When he said this, Lawyer Fang's expression was very serious. He felt this way of interacting was bordering on abnormal. Did he love her? Certainly, but this kind of love was suffocating.

This was also something Lawyer Fang had often encountered while browsing in many places—the so-called "way of controlling a husband": a man cannot have money, because if a man has money, he will go bad, so he must account for every ice cream he buys.

Xia Ziyan had been holding it in, but hearing this, she really couldn't take it anymore.

"He promised when we were dating that he would hand it over after marriage! It was voluntary! Wang Wucheng, you bastard, I misjudged you!"

Xia Ziyan didn't cry this time; she just started cursing loudly.

And Wang Wucheng, on the opposite side, felt a sense of relief. After all, the matter of handing over one's salary is a wonderful topic in romance novels, one that can let those romance authors pad out a million words.

But in real life, shouldn't whoever is better at managing money be the one to do it?

Xia Ziyan was shouting there, and her father simply ran down from the gallery and started shouting too. In short, it was all Wang Wucheng's fault, and the entire courtroom was in chaos once again.

This time, even the Presiding Judge couldn't get a word in, and several warnings in a row were useless.

"Hey, Li Daye, how do you think this will be handled?" Zhou Yi watched from the side, feeling his blood boil.

He had originally thought Xu Yufeng was invincible, but he hadn't expected this Ms. Xia to be even more ferocious than Xu Dama!

Li Daye beside him chuckled: "In all likelihood, it should be Administrative Detention. This is the second time already, and it's made the trial impossible to continue."

"Isn't there a crime of Disturbing Court Order?" Zhou Yi thought for a moment and continued to ask.

"That? I've been attending hearings at our Guangming District Court for so long, unless someone goes up and hits the judge, it's very rare for them to be convicted of that crime," Li Daye shook his head and said.

"I heard a judge say last time that they can understand the feelings of many clients, so unless the behavior is particularly excessive, they won't easily apply Criminal Law."

Zhou Yi nodded; he could understand that too. Just as he was wondering how this farce would end today, the bailiffs entered again.

It was just that, perhaps because the previous commotion went unpunished and made Xia Ziyan bolder, when the bailiffs tried to remove her, Xia Ziyan started struggling in every way, and her father started shoving the bailiffs!

Zhou Yi looked at the Presiding Judge above. He had seen this judge before; when Zhou Yi filed his large-scale Lawsuit, although he was in the Civil Division No. 1, at such times, basically all the "oxen and horses" of the entire Court were mobilized.

And now, watching the farce below, the Presiding Judge's face was black.

Finally, as Xia Ziyan stood in front of Wang Wucheng and even wanted to reach out to hit someone, comrades from the Public Security Department arrived.

It needs to be clarified here that bailiffs cannot use police equipment on people at will, so when encountering such extremely serious Disturbing Court Order, they can have comrades from the relevant departments handle it.

Facing the arriving police officers, Xia Ziyan and her parents still intended to "reason" a bit more, but the officers didn't bother saying anything and directly brought out the Silver Bracelets.

This thing is quite magical; except for those who have been in and out of the station several times, no matter how fiercely they are acting, as soon as they see them, they are affected by that "calmness aura."

Then, Xia Ziyan seemed to suddenly wake up, staring blankly at the police officers in front of her: I actually caused a scene in court?

Seeing the other party approach and prepare to apply the Silver Bracelets directly, Xia Ziyan's father hurriedly said, "Comrade, wait, we didn't do this on purpose; it's really because the other party was bullying us too much. We will sit down properly now, sit down right away."

The leading police officer opened his mouth and finally said, "No need to sit down anymore, come back with us. You have disrupted the order of the Court twice in a row, making the trial unable to proceed, and you even laid hands on the bailiffs..."

In fact, he wanted to say, do you think the Court is your home? You shout and then say we didn't do it on purpose; how could there be such a good deal in this world.

The people were taken away, and Wang Wucheng's expression was dazed, as if he had not expected things to develop to this stage.

That is why they say impulse is the devil; when one is impulsive, one does not care about the consequences.

In fact, let alone Wang Wucheng, even Zhou Mouren was dumbfounded sitting there!

You could say I have nothing to say about the parties involved being taken away, but even the observers were taken away; that is a bit outrageous!

The parties involved and the observers were all taken in, but the trial could still continue because the Lawyer was still there, only now Lawyer Wang did not know what to say.

After this time, it is uncertain whether he will be able to take on cases in the future; after all, the lawsuit had just started for a while and my client was already taken in, who would dare to hire him again.

The case was not adjudicated in court and required a later date; Lawyer Fang went to handle some other matters with Wang Wucheng, leaving only Zhou Yi to walk out of the Court, where he saw Yu Dama with a face full of expectation.

"How did it go, Little Zhou? Did Teacher Fang win?"

This... Zhou Yi hesitated for a moment: "I don't know if he won or not, but it seems like both the opposing party and the observer are going in."

Hmm... huh? What on earth?

Yu Dama, who intended to listen to how this classic divorce Litigation was fought, was directly stunned. Isn't this a civil lawsuit? How did it get to the point where the observers were taken in!

After greeting the stunned Yu Dama, Zhou Yi played with his phone on the side and began to wait for Lawyer Fang; as usual, the mobile app had a splash screen advertisement.

But this time, when Zhou Yi prepared to skip it, he found that after clicking skip, not only was there no response, but it jumped directly to the advertisement interface and inexplicably started downloading things!