Two days later, the case went to court. Cen Sisi didn't even submit a statement of defense, let alone appear in court, and the whole trial just went through a process.
The evidence was complete, but the defendant voluntarily gave up. A week later, the court ruled that Ruan Yu won the case.
She posted the result on Weibo and ended the matter completely. That night, he was invited by Liu Mao to have dinner in the city center.
For this meal, Liu Mao's words were "celebration", and the reason she accepted it was to thank him for his busy work these days.
As for Xu Huaisong, she thought he was probably in the United States, so she sent him a message before leaving to inform him of the verdict and thank him.
Xu Huaisong came back with a voice: "I'll also..."
The conversation came to an abrupt end here, because a female voice interjected in the background: "Huai Song, look..."
The word "watch" fell, and the voice was cut off.
Three seconds later, the message was retracted.
Ruan Yu was a little confused. what's the situation
She stared at the phone and waited for a few minutes, but she didn't get a reply, so she pretended not to hear the voice message just now, and typed and asked, "Lawyer Xu, what did you withdraw?"
Xu Huaisong: "Nothing."
Then there is no text.
For some reason, Ruan Yu was blocked somewhere, so that when he entered the restaurant, he was a little absent-minded.
That female voice sounded very young, so it wasn't Tao Rong.
Her name is "Huai Song", so she should be a Chinese woman.
Her tone was casual, so she probably knew him well.
So, what is the relationship between this person and him
It wasn't until the dust of the case was settled and all the intersections should have ended, that Ruan Yu realized that in the past month, she had never known whether Xu Huaisong was single or not.
Thinking back carefully now, when I was videoing with him, he once said that he was going to eat, but he got a plate of macaroni within two minutes of walking away. Then, this supper must not be made by himself.
In other words, he was not alone at home.
Besides that orange cat, he said that he is not the owner of the cat. At that time, she thought, it might be a friend who fostered him here, but now that she thinks about it, maybe it belongs to the mistress
Ruan Yu recalled all the past in detail, and felt more and more that he had neglected too much in the abnormal state of trembling, until Liu Mao shook his hand in front of her and asked her, "What's wrong?"
She recovered and found that she had been sitting opposite him for a long time like a wandering soul.
The waiter who ordered the meal looked at her with a smile, as if waiting for her opinion.
With a low "ah", she glanced at the row of hooks on the menu and said, "That's enough, two people can't finish it."
Liu Mao was surprised for a while: "Two people?"
This time it was Ruan Yu who was stunned: "Isn't it?"
"Didn't I just say that Huai Song will come later?"
She didn't hear it at all.
She smiled "hehe": "I mean, I have a small appetite, so I don't care about it. How can you two eat so much?"
The waiter went down with the menu.
In order to hide her embarrassment, she took a big sip of water and asked, "Didn't he go back to San Francisco?"
"After finishing the case over there yesterday, here we come again."
Ruan Yu said "Oh" and cleared his throat: "It's hard work, did he often go back and forth like this before?"
Liu Mao smiled: "No, come back once a year."
"Oh, then he's in America..."
"Have you got married?" Before he could ask the words, Ruan Yu's cell phone rang, and it was Shen Mingying.
Because she didn't know the purpose of the call, and was afraid of revealing something, she got up and walked to the door of the restaurant before answering the phone: "Mingying."
As soon as he finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of Xu Huaisong's car parked at the door.
But she didn't have time to take care of it, because the female voice in the receiver sounded anxious: "Look at Weibo!"
"What's wrong?"
"Cen Sisi committed suicide in a live broadcast, and some people said that she was forced to death by you!"
She was so startled that her knees slid down a step, and her elbows were held by a pair of hands at the right time.
Xu Huaisong stood in front of her: "What's wrong?"
She raised her head in a daze, and whispered, "Cen Sisi committed suicide..."
On the day she announced the verdict, Cen Sisi committed suicide.
Ruan Yu opened Weibo with trembling hands, and found that the live broadcast had been blocked, and no one answered when he called Cen Sisi's mobile phone number.
"Who can contact her family, think carefully." Xu Huaisong's voice was still very calm.
Yes, there is one.
She dialed Li Shican's number.
The phone was connected in seconds, and Li Shican's voice was also very unstable, panting and said: "I already know, I contacted her father, if all goes well, she should be sent to the first hospital in the city."
Ruan Yu didn't know the specific situation, and asked, "How did she..."
"Cut your wrists and take medicine, don't worry, it's not necessarily a dead end."
Li Shican also sounded very busy. After hanging up the phone, Ruan Yu stared at the steps under his feet in a daze, and he didn't recover for a long time.
The volume of her mobile phone was not low, Xu Huaisong heard Li Shican's answer, and said silently: "Let's go."
Ruan Yu raised his head: "Where are you going?"
"It's better to know the result at the first hospital in the city than to stand here and wait?"
Ruan Yu and Xu Huaisong got into the car.
The first hospital in the city seemed to be very calm, and it didn't cause a storm just because it received a suicidal emergency patient.
But smelling the strong smell of disinfectant, Ruan Yu's steps were too heavy to drag.
Xu Huaisong told her to wait aside, and went up to the consultation desk, but before she could get a result, she heard a loud noise coming from the direction of the hospital gate.
He and Ruan Yu turned their heads at the same time and found a group of reporters holding cameras and microphones, surrounding a man wearing a mask, asking questions in a hurry.
Ruan Yu recognized at a glance that the person surrounded by them was Li Shican.
Li Shican also saw her standing in the bright hall, and quickly took out his mobile phone.
Five seconds later, Ruan Yu's phone vibrated and received a message from him: "Don't stay here, let's go."
Xu Huaisong caught a glimpse of this news and frowned. At the moment when reporters flooded into the hall like a flood, he pulled Ruan Yu past him and walked towards the back door of the hospital.
Ruan Yu was staggered by him, his mind still spinning rapidly.
In a blink of an eye, she seemed to understand, and stopped when she was approaching the parking lot: "Is Li Shican trying to guide public opinion?"
Regardless of whether Cen Sisi was rescued or not, according to public opinion, Ruan Yu, the original victim, would most likely be bombarded as the perpetrator.
So Li Shican planned to disclose his entanglement with Cen Sisi to the reporter, and let the dirty water pour on him.
The attractiveness of a traffic star is much greater than that of a small web writer.
Xu Huaisong didn't speak, it seemed to be tacit agreement.
Ruan Yu blinked twice dryly, took away the hand held by him, turned his head and left.
He chased after her and pulled her back: "What are you going to do?"
"Can't he let him destroy his future?"
To her, "Wen Xiang" is just a pen name, even if this pen name is destroyed, she will still be Ruan Yu.
But Li Shican is Li Shican.
Xu Huaisong took a breath, grabbed her wrist and said, "He is an adult, he should be responsible for his actions and decisions."
The two stood in a silent stalemate for two minutes, and faintly heard that Li Shican was already answering the reporter's question.
Ruan Yu sighed.
Xu Huaisong let go of his hand and lowered his eyes: "I'm sorry."
Ruan Yu didn't understand the meaning behind the phrase "I'm sorry", looked down at his red wrist, and said, "It's okay."
The two returned to the car to wait for news.
Half an hour later, Li Shican's WeChat came in: "People are out of danger, and the reporters have been kicked out of the hospital. Where are you? I'm here to find you."
Ruan Yu glanced at Xu Huaisong: "He's coming to find me."
He said "hmm" and started the car: "Give me my license plate number and ask his assistant to drive the nanny car out first, and he will take the safe passage to the underground garage by himself."
Ruan Yu understood the meaning of "tuning the tiger away from the mountain".
The car drove roundabout to the underground garage. Li Shican came alone, changed his clothes, and got into the back seat of Xu Huaisong's car.
The moment the car door was closed, the atmosphere in the car was extremely solemn.
Ruan Yu turned his head and didn't know what to say for a moment.
It was Li Shican who said cheerfully: "The person has been rescued, what are you doing with this expression? Do you think that a person who really wants to die can start a live broadcast with such a big fanfare?"
Of course Ruan Yu understood this truth, but: "Then what should you do?"
"She has been planning for a long time, just to drag you and me into the water one after another. I can't be alone, so I might as well follow the plan, keep it secret, and control public opinion first."
She frowned, and wanted to say something, but Li Shican turned her head to Xu Huaisong: "This is Lawyer Xu?"
"Um."
"You didn't do the thing that picked up Cen Sisi back then?"
Xu Huaisong shook his head: "No." As he spoke, he met his eyes through the rearview mirror.
Their eyes met, and they both understood what was going on.
In fact, at the beginning, Li Shican only made long pictures on Weibo and some public opinion control, and did not find out that Cen Sisi was a "Wen Xiang" school girl.
When he saw Xu Huaisong in the video that day, he guessed that this person had a special relationship with Ruan Yu, and heard her call him "Lawyer Xu", so he thought that the exposure incident was his work.
After being questioned by Ruan Yu, Li Shican saw that she didn't know, and out of a secret feeling of "not wanting to make a wedding dress for others", he hesitated to explain.
As for Xu Huaisong, after the video that day, he found that Li Shican was very familiar, so he remembered the "idol" that Xu Huaishe talked about every day. After checking his identity, he naturally thought that the series of actions on the Internet were all his intentions.
And he also did not discuss this matter with Ruan Yu in depth for the reason of "not wanting to make wedding dresses for others".
In the end, it turned out that Cen Sisi picked herself up in order to create a "victim" image in advance, paving the way for a big scene on the day when the verdict came down.
Xu Huaisong and Li Shican looked at each other helplessly, then lowered their heads and pinched their brows at the same time.
Ruan Yu, who didn't know the inside story, was a little confused.
But neither of them apparently intended to explain.
Li Shican said first: "It doesn't matter, it's a small scene, my team will solve this matter, you go back to rest early, and don't read Weibo these days."
Ruan Yu nodded, and after he left, he leaned back on the back of the chair, exhausted physically and mentally.
Xu Huaisong didn't speak, and drove the car out of the parking lot, heading towards her apartment. When I got downstairs to her house, I saw a BMW parked there.
As soon as Ruan Yu opened the car door and got out, he heard Xu Huaisong say "wait".
She stopped in her tracks and saw him loosen his seat belt and get out of the car. At the same time, a man got off the driver's seat of the BMW.
The other party walked up to her and said, "Is this Miss Ruan?" He pointed to the person in the back seat of the BMW, "Miss Cen's father wants to talk to you."
Xu Huaisong walked around to her: "If you have anything to say, you can talk to me."
The other party showed a puzzled expression: "You are?"
"I'm her lawyer."
The driver glanced back. Cen Rongshen nodded, got down from the back seat, tapped his cane, and slowly walked to stand in front of the two of them. In the night, a pair of eagle-like eyes were piercingly sharp.
Ruan Yu subconsciously took a small step behind Xu Huaisong.
But the next moment, the expected confrontation did not happen. The man over half a century old bowed solemnly to them at a full ninety degrees, then straightened up and said, "Miss Ruan, I am very sorry for causing you trouble. , I apologize to you on behalf of Sisi, and at the same time, I also apologize to you as Sisi's father. It was my neglect of discipline and care for her that caused the situation today."
Ruan Yu didn't expect such a scene, so he didn't answer for a while.
Xu Huaisong took a step back and stopped standing in front of her.
Cen Rongshen nodded to him, as if to express his gratitude, and continued: "I also just got the diagnosis report today, confirming that Sisi suffers from a serious mental illness, so she often acts paranoid and radical, not only against you. Of course, Telling you this is not to get your sympathy or understanding, if you are wrong, you are wrong, you have the right to pursue responsibility, and the Cen family is also obliged to compensate. I just think that you should get this explanation. "
Ruan Yu's eyes flickered for a moment, then he nodded silently, "Thank you."
Cen Rongshen smiled, probably not a person who usually smiles very much, so it seemed a bit weird to squeeze the corners of his mouth like this.
He said: "I have already understood the compensation agreement in the judgment. In addition, I would like to pay you another sum of mental damage, or what other compensation do you need?"
Ruan Yu shook his head: "I just hope that the impact of this incident will be minimized, and my life, as well as Li Shican's, can return to normal as soon as possible."
"You don't need to talk about it, it's right." Cen Rongshen smiled a little more naturally this time, "Shican is also a stubborn boy... Don't worry, I will cooperate with him to clarify the truth, and I am willing to disclose my daughter's information when necessary. illness."
Having said that, Cen Rongshen glanced at Xu Huaisong, probably seeking his opinion as Ruan Yu's lawyer.
Xu Huaisong smiled warmly and said, "I have no objection to the issue of compensation, but I'm just taking the liberty to ask Mr. Cen, how did you find this place tonight?"
Cen Rongshen froze, shaking his head to indicate that he was confused: "I'm old, my memory is bad, and I forgot the most important thing. I came here to remind Ms. Ruan that your address is in my Sisi notebook. I found it. I don’t know if she has other extreme behaviors. In the next two days, I will confirm all her recent external contact records for investigation. For safety reasons, I hope you don’t live here for the time being. I am willing to fully bear the expenses caused by this. "
Ruan Yu looked up at the dark window of Room 302 in the apartment building, restrained his trembling and said, "Okay."
Cen Rongshen nodded his goodbyes to the two, turned around and got into the car and left.
Before Ruan Yu recovered from his last words, he heard Xu Huaisong say, "Go, go upstairs and get some clothes."
"Um?"
"Stay with me tonight."