Chapter 380: A Yi Seems to Have Been Targeted Again

Baidu is truly a great thing; although it works intermittently, it is genuinely useful for looking up certain information.

For instance, right now, Xiang Yuyu is looking at the news about A Yi popping up online, and she is completely speechless.

She had always assumed that this A Yi must be a famous internet celebrity, and that because of his fame, many people were afraid to provoke him.

If that were the case, she wouldn't feel afraid, because when Lawyer Zhang Wei was consulted previously, the other party had said as much.

If things really blow up, it's the internet celebrity who should be afraid, not you; after all, as ordinary people, if we really get into a conflict with an internet celebrity, the netizens online will naturally stand on our side.

Even if someone dares to speak up for the internet celebrity, they will be branded a "brainless fan" in a heartbeat.

This is also a very serious problem online right now: binary thinking—if this person isn't black, then they must be white.

It's just that, looking at these reports now, she feels like something is a bit off, because according to these news items, this internet celebrity named A Yi seems to have always been the one to blow things out of proportion.

Continuing to read down, good heavens, Ah Huang, Xiao Lan, Chengdu, Qiyi—all the major companies have been taken on one by one!

And the man really never engaged in any crooked paths; he has always followed legal channels.

This made Xiang Yuyu feel that something was wrong.

To repeat the point, she is just a little foolish, not purely stupid; just looking at it like this, it seems like no matter how much she blows things up, it won't be easy to handle.

But the words have already been said, and it's a bit difficult for her to take them back now.

Besides, she doesn't seem to have said much, just mentioned the situation where the other party hit and killed her dog.

And then there was the matter of her suffering from depression due to Internet Violence.

Could he really find trouble with her because of this?

But to say she can just ignore it would definitely be a lie, because looking at the comments from netizens, this A Yi is someone who will send people to prison at the drop of a hat!

Xiang Yuyu decides that she still needs to go find Lawyer Zhang Wei; Lawyer Zhang is so capable, he will definitely be able to give her a reasonable answer.

After tidying up, Xiang Yuyu goes out to hail a taxi, and twenty minutes later, she is already sitting in the office of the law firm where Zhang Wei is located.

"Miss Xiang, why have you come? Our Lawsuit has already had a Case Filing, but we still have to wait a while for the court session. Is there something the matter?" Zhang Wei asks, very curious as he looks at the flustered Xiang Yuyu before him.

Xiang Yuyu looks at Zhang Wei in front of her and says anxiously, "Lawyer Zhang, you must not be afraid of what I am about to say!"

Hearing this, Zhang Wei smiles and says, "Miss Xiang, I am a professional Lawyer; I certainly won't be afraid. Please, go ahead."

"Lawyer Zhang, the person I had the dispute with is A Yi!"

Zhang Wei knits his brows: "A Yi? Who is A Yi?"

Don't misunderstand; he really hasn't heard of A Yi. When he was chatting with Wang Daoren at the training class previously, the other party had spoken to him about Zhou Yi.

"It's that big internet celebrity famous for being a stickler for details!"

Zhang Wei is once again bewildered: "Internet celebrity? A stickler for details—do internet celebrities even care about details? Who exactly are you talking about?"

Xiang Yuyu hurriedly explains: "It's that one, that big internet celebrity who can send people to prison at the drop of a hat!"

"Continue."

"I was just livestreaming, and then a court police officer knocked on the door saying there was a Summons for me; the other party has sued me, and then I discovered that someone online had doxxed the other party's information."

"They said it was that A Yi. I asked other big Self-Media influencers, and the result was that they usually claim how tough they are, but after hearing the name A Yi, they just said they didn't know me."

"Then they blocked me immediately. I was very angry, so I posted the chat logs online, and then they seemed to get scolded by many people... What are you laughing at?"

Zhang Wei hurriedly stops his smile and says, "No, no, Miss Xiang, I am a professional Lawyer; generally speaking, I don't laugh."

"Unless I can't help it..."

Xiang Yuyu is expressionless; how long are you going to play this stale joke?

Zhang Wei actually wants to get to the bottom of it, mainly because the content Xiang Yuyu just told was truly too funny, okay?

"Miss Xiang, don't worry for now; I'll call and ask my friend, the same Lawyer Wang that your husband knows; he should know."

Very quickly, a call is made to Wang Daoren.

"Hello, Lawyer Wang, it's me, Zhang Wei."

Wang Daoren on the other end of the line naturally cannot do something like turning his back on someone, so he can only say, "Lawyer Zhang, why are you looking for me?"

Zhang Wei hurriedly smiles: "Lawyer Wang, I'm just asking, this case you introduced to me last time, the client on the other side..."

However, before he could even finish this sentence, Wang Daoren on the other side gets anxious.

"What case that I introduced to you last time? Let me tell you, Old Zhang, we may be close, but don't go spouting nonsense. I've been busy at the Company lately."

What the hell? Zhang Wei is instantly stunned.

"No, Lawyer Wang, what's wrong? It's just a case!"

After a pause, Zhang Wei looks at Xiang Yuyu opposite him and adds in a low voice, "I even sent you a red envelope."

Now Wang Daoren can't stand it even more and says directly, "Zhang Wei, I warn you not to talk nonsense. Who received your red envelope? For no reason at all—besides, believe it or not, I'll sue you for defamation!"

"I'm hanging up."

A busy signal comes from the phone, and Zhang Wei is even more bewildered. What is going on now? It was clearly a case introduced by Old Wang; why is he suddenly denying it?

The other party did indeed send the red envelope back, and he had accidentally accepted it, but why wouldn't he dare to acknowledge it?

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Wei suddenly says, "Right, Miss Xiang, give me the Copy of the Complaint from the other party."

He doesn't know why, but after becoming the agent for this woman, his brain has been getting foggier by the day; he clearly already had the Copy of the Complaint, yet he was still asking people about it.

Could Lawyer Wang be thinking I'm stupid because of this matter...

He shakes his head to stop thinking about it and takes the Copy of the Complaint to start reading; the personal identity information of the Plaintiff on it is very detailed.

"Zhou Yi? It's actually Zhou Yi?"

Zhang Wei shouts out.

Xiang Yuyu hurriedly asks, "Lawyer Zhang, do you know him?"

"I... I don't know him, it's just, just heard a friend mention him," Zhang Wei hurriedly recovers to normal.

The Plaintiff's name is one thing, but the key is that the name of the other party's agent is a bit terrifying!

Fang Xujing—he had only heard before that this Lawyer was terrifying and very perverted, but after hanging out with Wang Daoren in the training class, he realized that Fang Xujing isn't just terrifying; he is purely inhumane!

After all, normally, no one is keen on debate and constantly thinking about pinning the other party to the ground and rubbing them in the dirt.

Xiang Yuyu looked at Zhang Wei with some hesitation: "Lawyer Zhang, you are sweating; is it a bit hot?"

"Ah, it is a bit hot. Well, Miss Xiang, according to the rules, this case is not under my jurisdiction..."

Unfortunately, before Zhang Wei could finish his sentence, Xiang Yuyu couldn't help but say: "Lawyer Zhang, you aren't afraid of that Zhou Yi too, are you!"

"Even if he has money and can be pedantic, this matter is on our side! He hit my dog to death and even wants me to pay for his car repairs. How is this justified? How can there be such logic in this world!"

"Does that mean if he hits a person to death one day, the victim's family will have to pay for his car repairs too?"

Zhang Wei was silenced by this punch.

He had the heart to explain that a dog and a person are different, but decided against it, because in most cases, it is impossible to convince others.

Especially regarding dogs and people, whether a dog's life is equal to a human's life has truly become an eternal topic.

Not to mention anything else, although many Self-Media and big Vs online don't dare to speak now, some dog lovers are not intimidated at all.

Especially on the issue of whether to eat dog meat or not, a sentence many people blurt out is: Look at foreign countries; foreigners don't eat dogs, and foreign countries think our eating of dogs is a very uncivilized behavior.

Whether eating dog meat is right or wrong, Zhou Yi does not want to evaluate; if one feels that eating dog meat is cruel and chooses not to eat it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

He just feels that the argument that "foreign countries don't eat dogs, so foreign countries think our eating of dogs is uncivilized" is truly too problematic.

Can whether a thing is civilized be defined by how foreign countries do it?

And Zhang Wei really feels that there is no way to communicate right now.

"Miss Xiang, look, the case I took is you suing the other party, a Tort case for the other party to bear responsibility for hitting your Beibei to death."

"And this case here is the other party suing you for Tort; these are two different cases, do you understand? I only took that case of yours, I did not take this case of yours!" Zhang Wei tried hard to explain.

Perhaps ordinary people don't pay much attention to these details, but lawyers, regardless of their level of competence, will distinguish this very clearly!

Why? Because one case is one case, and the legal definition is also very clear.

You can file a Lawsuit with the Court regarding a certain cause, but you cannot ask the Court to adjudicate another case within this one; that is impossible.

Even if the two cases you mention seem to be related, it won't work.

Zhou Yi has chatted about this point with Fang Dazhuang many times; for someone like Zhou Mouren who has not undergone systematic legal education, many things are truly a bit hard to accept.

For example, Fang Dazhuang once gave him an example.

He said Zhang San borrowed ten thousand yuan from Li Si, and when it was due, he didn't pay it back, so Li Si took the IOU and filed a Lawsuit.

Then, in the middle of the court hearing, Zhang San said that Li Si had bought things from him before, but only paid half of the purchase price.

So he wanted the Court to order Li Si to pay him back this half of the purchase price.

Would the Court support it? The answer is no.

The Court would let you undergo Mediation, have you offset it yourselves, and then have the side that is short pay the remaining money to the other side.

But if you two do not accept Mediation, then it's simple: the Court will only judge whether Zhang San needs to pay back the money based on the existing evidence.

As for Zhang San's claim regarding the purchase price, it would be suggested to file a separate Lawsuit; this is because they are two cases caused by different legal relationships.

No matter how related they seem, they won't be judged directly for you.

This aspect is extremely rigorous!

Obviously, the Xiang Yuyu on the opposite side could not accept it.

"What two cases? I paid money, can't you just go and say something? I see you are just like those Self-Media, you're scared too!"

Zhang Wei was at his wit's end; he used soft and hard tactics to stabilize the person first, then made a phone call to Zhuang Qiang.

At the very least, this man was slightly more reasonable.

The other party was also quite shocked after hearing about it; after talking for a long time, they finally reached an agreement, and Lawyer Zhang took on this lawsuit as well.

But since they were two lawsuits, there would be an appropriate twenty percent discount.

Zhuang Qiang even joked, if there were more lawsuits looking for you at the same time, would it be possible to get a fifty percent discount?

Zhang Wei's mouth twitched and he didn't say much; ever since he knew the other party was Zhou Yi, he had a feeling that this Summons would definitely not be the only one.

But it doesn't matter; he, Zhang Wei, considers himself no weaker than anyone!

Others fear Fang Xujing, and he... also fears him, but can fear solve problems?

As a Legal Person, for his own client, he must try his best to win within the requirements of the law!

This is his, Zhang Wei's, self-cultivation; for a Civil Dispute, he must strive to ensure the client doesn't pay a single cent.

For a Criminal Case, of course, he must strive to ensure the client is innocent!

Besides, this car repair money is not cheap; what kind of piece-of-junk car is it that a headlight dares to cost so much?

At the same time, Zhou Mouren, who was at home, also received a Summons.

He found it very rare, truly very rare; these days, anyone who sends him a Summons is very rare.

The Summons he received before had already been framed, and this one would certainly be no exception.

Zhou Yi did not realize that his current behavior, in a certain sense, was already very close to Fang Dazhuang—quite abnormal.

This case didn't matter; it was a small lawsuit, or in Fang Dazhuang's words, a lawsuit that even a dog could win.

If it followed the abnormal procedure, the Court would first hold a hearing for the lawsuit Zhou Yi filed, then hold a hearing for the lawsuit Xiang Yuyu filed.

But the Court isn't stupid; why make such a case so complicated? Wouldn't it be best to just settle it through Mediation?

In the office, the judge in charge of the trial, Li Xusheng, was busy working, and then he received a phone call.

"Don't mediate for now? Why? Zhou Yi isn't that hard to talk to."

As the civil judge who deals with a certain handsome guy the most, and also the judge with the least hair in the Guangming District Second Civil Court, Li Xusheng now had the feeling of a senior judge.

It is said that he will be promoted soon.

The other party said some things, and as he listened, Li Xusheng was speechless.

Putting down the phone, this Mediation could not be done for the time being.

Just thinking about it, Judge Li said: "What a sin..."

Why? Because the pile of Criminal Private Prosecution and civil Tort cases that that handsome guy filed have all been accepted for Case Filing.

It is said that two days ago, that assistant to Lawyer Fang, Zhou Xinran, brought a bunch of Interns and a pile of evidence to the Case Filing hall.

It just so happened that a few judges from the Criminal Division No. 2 were there, and it is said that after seeing the situation, they wanted to request leave on the spot.

Jingzhou has gained one Zhou Yi, and it seems the judges will all live ten years less...

However, this time is different from the previous situation; those filing the Criminal Private Prosecution are mainly some big influencers who are extremely active in the pet sphere, as well as some dog lovers.

They are all "famous" figures in many pet circles; they are truly famous, and the updates they post on a daily basis are all about rescuing little dogs of various kinds.

Honestly speaking, in normal terms, these are all good deeds!

But, the law does not talk about good deeds and bad deeds offsetting each other; if you do good deeds your whole life but commit a crime, you must still be sentenced if you deserve it.

And besides these, the biggest target is that celebrity!

A celebrity becoming the target of a Criminal Private Prosecution is simply an inconceivable thing; it has never happened before.

Because celebrities almost never get involved; unless it is some conventional matter, they basically will not speak recklessly.

Except for those who have a hole in their brain.

However, perhaps it is because of this point that some celebrities now feel that they have privileges.

For example, that "very big" celebrity, whose operations were as fierce as a tiger, jumping around and making all sorts of harsh threats, even actively calling the police!

And then they went in...

But even so, a celebrity becoming a target of a Private Prosecution is still a very big deal, and the Guangming District Court is conducting a review with extreme strictness.

That female celebrity from before has already deleted the relevant content, but unfortunately, deleting it does not mean it is gone.

Since even a celebrity has been sued, then suing Xiang Yuyu is also very normal; the classic embellishments in her Small Essay were played too skillfully by her.

Yet, even now, she still feels that everything she said was the truth.

Therefore, the Court's meaning is, setting aside the other Private Prosecution cases for now, since these three cases all involve the two of them, they will just call them together to see if they can all be settled through Mediation.

Li Xusheng feels helpless just thinking about it; when will the habit some people have of speaking recklessly online ever change?

Online, the audience of Zhou Mouren has already started a war of words with the other party's fans.

The other party's fans just feel, the sister has already deleted the Weibo post, what more do you want!

"I just want to know, who hasn't said the wrong thing in their life? The sister already deleted it, what more do you want? Does she have to kneel down to that so-called A Yi?"

"Apologize? Why should she apologize? The dog owner from before already filed a Lawsuit, and the sister only said that based on her words, so is that also a problem?"

In any case, in a word, the sister is not wrong; she deleted it because she didn't want to argue, and arguing with an internet celebrity is too beneath her.

Does Zhang Qi regret it now? She certainly regrets it a little; it is true that with her status, she shouldn't have stood up and cursed people directly.

But it is only regret, because this time it might affect her career.

Will the other party file a Lawsuit? This is really hard to say; if it were someone else, it would be hard to tell, but as for that A Yi...

After understanding the other party's previous actions, Zhang Qi really doesn't want to say anything more.

Why does this world have such people? Speaking online, after getting angry they don't even use their brains, so why do they have to hold on and not let go?

She thought about it and decided to consult a Lawyer.

The matter continues to ferment, and the dog lovers online still haven't stopped the Internet Violence; in their words, as a public figure, A Yi must apologize publicly!

Doesn't it look very familiar? It's as if he owes all of them something.

Of course, paying with one's life and such, that's just talk...

And under such circumstances, Xiang Yuyu received a call from the Court.

"Criminal Private Prosecution? I might go to jail? This, how is this possible? I can swear, I absolutely did not speak recklessly online!"

"No, why is this? Even if you are the Court, you can't just talk nonsense; Mediation, right? I..."

Although she really wanted to act tough, it was obvious that under the threat of going to jail, she could no longer act tough.

I don't know why, I posted it, but the backend showed it was under review, and then it came out, but looking at the backend, it shows it was posted on the 17th, which is very magical. Is there something in this chapter I can't write?

Thanks to another newcomer, Feimaowuyu, Wenchidage, Yimaishengcheng, Eric3Fang, and Book Friend 2019; thank you brothers for the tips, thank you.

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