Chapter 31 I am a man

Zhu Shan was in a trance when she left.

Apparently two hours ago, she was still immersed in the joy of saving Wang Huili. At this moment, she was pulled by invisible hands and fell into the deep sea.

Zhu Shan sat by the wall of the old teahouse, watching the flow of people passing by.

Half an hour later, she took out her phone, opened WeChat, and typed quickly.

Zhu Shan: [Brother Ling Xiao, are you busy? 】

Within two minutes, the phone rang.

Ling Xiao: [Busy. 】

The word 'busy' cannot stop Zhu Shan.

Zhu Shan: [Then let me come to you, okay? 】

Ling Xiao: [Yusen Building, 42nd floor, Lingdu Law Firm. 】

This was Zhu Shan's first time coming to Ling Xiao's office.

Yusen Building is a very new office building. The exterior wall looks like a shampoo bottle and is covered with blue glass.

Yuhe TV Station is a historic building with a total of 16 floors.

Compared with Yusen Building, the elevator speed can be described as worm speed.

Zhu Shan took the elevator to the 42nd floor in the blink of an eye.

After getting out of the elevator, "Zero Degree Law Firm" in big black letters came to mind. There were not too many bells and whistles, as if there was no money for art.

To Zhushan's right is a wall, and to the left is a glass door.

Is this a whole floor?

Zhu Shan silently retracted the idea of not having money to be an artist, and replaced it with words such as serious, dignified, and low-key.

Zhu Shan walked over, but the glass door did not open automatically. It seemed that permission was required to enter.

She fumbled at the door for a while and found the doorbell.

After a while, a young lady wearing a formal pencil skirt came to open the door.

Zhu Shan politely said, "Hello, I'm here to see Ling Xiao."

"Do you have an appointment?"

Still need to make an appointment?

Zhu Shan was a little stunned and then shook her head.

"Sorry, I'll arrange for you to consult with another lawyer. Do you think that's okay?"

Zhu Shan waved her little hand on her chest and explained, "I'm not here to consult on the case, I'm just here to see him."

The young lady's expression did not change, her eyes flickered to Zhu Shan, "Are you Miss Zhu Shanshan?"

Zhu Shan nodded.

"Hello, my name is Doreen." She half-turned around and made a 'please' gesture towards the inside, "Ling Lu said hello, you can go in directly."

The working environment of Ling Xiao's office is completely different from that of the TV station.

The column group where Zhu Shan works is a very ordinary desk with a plastic partition in the middle. The space for one person is only about 1.2 meters.

My colleagues around me often have to go out to shoot materials, so they don’t have any requirements for clothing. Everyone just wears whatever is comfortable for them.

Including anchors, they usually wear big T-shirts in the office and only change into formal tops when recording.

So many times when you look at the glamorous anchors on TV, underneath they may actually be sports casual pants that you can’t imagine.

In Ling Xiao's law firm, everyone has an independent desk, and the desktop is very large, although it is filled with various documents and papers.

The staff are all dressed in formal attire, as if they were filming a modern movie.

In this environment, Zhu Shan felt that she had to step lightly.

Doreen took Zhu Shan to a small room with snacks and tea.

She stood at the door and said the standard 'please' as before, "Miss Zhu Shanshan, Ling Lu is busy now, please wait here for a moment."

"OK."

After the door closed and the space became completely quiet, Zhu Shan let out a long breath, then pulled out a chair and sat down.

This law firm really gives people a tight feeling from the inside out, from the environment to the staff.

Zhu Shan looked around. The room was only a few square meters and looked like a customer waiting room.

There is a log-colored round table in the center, with a five-layer golden carved dessert plate placed on it. Each layer is filled with pastries of different colors, which is small and exquisite.

There is a transparent teapot next to it. The tea inside is pink, a little misty, and there are some flowers floating in the center.

Zhu Shan poured herself tea and ate snacks leisurely.

She suddenly remembered that Wu Jing once said that Ling Xiao only took lawsuits from wealthy people.

No wonder the law firm is so impressive.

Zhu Shan shook her head and couldn't help but make a "tsk, tsk, tsk" sound of disgust.

Suddenly, gossipy chatter came from the next room, starting with the most common "Have you heard?"

Zhu Shan couldn't help but sigh, it turns out that lawyers also know how to gossip and talk about right and wrong.

She didn't want to hear it at first, but the word "Ling Lu" made her ears prick up involuntarily.

Female voice A, "Aunt Deng from the cleaning department told me that Ling Lu had a secret marriage and that his wife had cheated on her."

Female voice B, "Isn't it? How does Aunt Deng know?"

Female voice A, "He has been cleaning in the company for several years. He probably knows more than us."

Female voice B, "It's not very credible! Not only have I never seen Ling Lu's wife, I've never even heard of her, and he doesn't wear a wedding ring either."

Female voice A, "Actually, I don't really believe it. Hasn't Ling Lu been living in an office these past few years? How many times can he go home a month? Like a person with a family?"

After two seconds of silence, another female voice came out.

Female voice C, "You also said that he has been living in the office in recent years, right? If he doesn't come back home, the relationship between the couple must be bad. And in the past few months, how many times have you seen him living in the office? Sometimes he gets off work earlier than us. ,Do you know why?"

Female voice A and female voice B said in unison, "Why?"

Female voice C, "Because I'm busy with the divorce lawsuit."

Female voice B, "Who did you listen to? He really had a secret marriage and was cuckolded?"

Female voice C, "Don't worry about who I heard it from. Anyway, I heard that Ling Lu personally went to the hotel to arrest people, beat them half to death, and said he would kill the couple."

Female voice A, "Isn't this too cruel?"

Female voice C, "Do you think Ling Lu is the one who suffers?"

Female voice B, "How can his wife cheat on someone with Ling Lu's looks?"

Female voice C, "Who knows the reason? Maybe it doesn't work..."

Female voice A, "Stop talking, stop talking, be careful of it being spread."

Female voice B, "Let's go back to work."

Zhu Shan, "..."

Her little head has a big question mark.

If she understood correctly, and there is not another lawyer named Ling in this law firm, then this gossip is about her! Zhu Shan! Cheating? ? ?

Where did this rumor come from?

There’s a causal connection that even the bloody eight o’clock dramas can’t describe! ! !

This must be a ceiling created out of thin air, right?

A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door.

Zhu Shan immediately wiped her mouth and stood up.

Doreen opened the door and showed a standard smile with eight teeth, "Miss Zhu Shanshan, Ling Lu is finished."

Zhu Shan followed around the big office, then walked through a corridor, and finally arrived at Ling Xiao's office.

His office actually has double doors.

Sure enough, he is a big boss, he has a track record!

Doreen knocked on the door and signaled to Zhu Shan that she could go in without waiting for a response.

Zhu Shan opened the door and walked in, her lips slightly opened uncontrollably.

Ling Xiao's office is about thirty square meters, with a whole side of floor-to-ceiling windows on the left.

She walked over and lay down by the glass and looked down. The cars and passers-by on the road became as big as sesame dots. Looking up, she saw the blue sky, as ethereal as a sapphire.

This should be refractive glass, so it won't be dazzling when you look directly at the sun, and you won't feel hot when you get close to it.

There is a three-seater leather sofa on the right wall, with a black solid wood table and a professional tea set on it.

Zhu Shan knew it was a decoration at first glance, because Ling Xiao never drank tea.

He likes to drink coffee.

In front of it is a bookshelf with neat file boxes on top with small labels on the sides.

It’s the same thing as in Ling Xiao’s room.

There is an unknown green plant in the corner, which is taller than Zhushan people and has large and full leaves.

Ling Xiao raised his head and saw Zhu Shan looking around with her hands behind her back, slightly hunched over, like a leader inspecting the grassroots level.

But the leader will not wear a Mickey T-shirt and jeans, nor will he wear a macaron-colored plaid headband on his head.

Ling Xiao was amused by her funny appearance and clasped the table with the back of his hand, "Sit over here."

Zhu Shan looked back, rolled her eyes, ran over and sat down.

She did not forget about serious matters, tilted her head, and said in a gurgling tone, "Ling Xiao, can you help me?"

This slightly coquettish and pleading look made Ling Xiao unconsciously look at her twice.

His eyes turned around her little face, fixed on the gauze on her forehead, and opened his thin lips lightly, "What are you busy with?"

"It's Yang Maoxue's wife, Fang Xinnuo, helping her with the divorce lawsuit."

Fang Xinnuo said that she would definitely divorce if she could.

Ling Xiao is the undefeated 'Satan Lawyer'.

Send sub-questions.

Ling Xiao, "Divorce cases are not easy to litigate, unless the partner cheats or commits domestic violence..." Ling Xiao paused and then came to his senses, "Has she really suffered domestic violence?"

"right!"

Ling Xiao picked up the pen, unscrewed it, opened a document and sketched on it, "Then you should contact the police."

"No evidence."

"Then look for evidence." Ling Xiao spoke clearly, without any explanation, "Previous alarm records, medical records, injury examination records. Including but not limited to phone calls, text messages, emails, video recordings and other audio-visual materials. Relatives and friends Or a neighbor’s witness statement. Or a letter of repentance or a letter of guarantee written by the man, etc..."

Ling Xiao raised his head and raised his chin slightly, "All the above can be considered as evidence."

Zhu Shan closed her eyes and shook her head.

"None of them?" Ling Xiao lowered his head and focused on the documents, "Hasn't she called the police?"

"Um."

"Why?"

Zhu Shan, "Because there is no evidence.”

The topic turned back again.

Ling Xiao was a little impatient, "Zhu Shanshan, you have said this once."

The next second, Ling Xiao frowned, "Then why did you say she suffered domestic violence? Mentally?"

"Not only that, but also physically...that's that...that..."

Ling Xiao was reading the document with his head down, but when he heard Zhu Shan faltering and unable to speak a complete sentence, he looked up curiously and saw that her whole face was ripe with red shrimps.

Ling Xiao interrupted, "Sexual abuse?"

Zhu Shan was stunned for two seconds and nodded several times.

"That would be difficult."

"Why?"

"I don't know how to explain it to you, but it's really difficult to define this as domestic violence."

"Why? She was obviously very uncomfortable and even cried in pain."

"Crying... doesn't necessarily mean feeling uncomfortable."

"...What do you mean?" An idea flashed in Zhu Shan's head, and even her neck turned red. "How do you know?"

"I am a man."

After saying that, Ling Xiao stood up and walked to the bookshelf, passing the file boxes one by one with his fingers, as if he was looking for something.

Zhu Shan sat on the chair, blinked her big eyes twice, slowly raised her hands, crossed her arms and rubbed them, "Aren't you also...perverted?"

Ling Xiao clicked his tongue and turned around to look at Zhu Shan.

When their eyes met, Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows, and his dark eyebrows traveled inch by inch on Zhu Shan's face.

Zhu Shan took a deep breath, "What are you looking at me for?"

"What are you afraid of?"

"I..." Of course I am afraid that you will have thoughts about me.

I didn't say what I was saying, but my heartbeat was irregular. Zhu Shan changed the subject, "People in your company arranged gossip about me."

"What?" A smile appeared on Ling Xiao's lips.

He didn't expect that Zhu Shan's thoughts would jump so much and the topic would change so quickly.

Still stiff.

He turned around and continued looking for documents.

Zhu Shan stood up and walked over, raising her head, "Then let me ask you, besides you, is there another 'Ling Lu' in your company?"

"No."

"I just heard them saying that Ling Lu's wife had cheated on her, wasn't that me?"

Ling Xiao's eyebrows beat and he tapped his fingers on the file box twice, neither lightly nor hard.

Zhu Shan realized instantly that these words were equivalent to 'I am your wife', and she quickly made amends, "It has damaged my reputation."

Ling Xiao turned his head and looked at Zhu Shan, with a scornful look on his face, "Then I will send you a lawyer's letter?"

Zhu Shan, "..."

Ling Xiao's smile didn't stop, he raised his hand to grab the file box from the bookshelf and opened it.

Zhu Shan saw that he was calm and easy to deal with, and she was annoyed, "Ling Xiao, am I never going to be able to convince you?"

"You can change the subject." Ling Xiao rustled through the documents with his fingers and said in a joking tone, "Isn't this your area of expertise?"

Zhu Shan held her head, her eyelids rolled up, and she gasped, "Headache! Headache!"

This is Zhu Shan's regular performance, showing her dissatisfaction with Ling Xiao.

But the next second, she felt hot breath approaching.

Zhu Shan subconsciously took a step back, but was pressed down on her shoulders by a pair of big hands.

Ling Xiao's deep voice came down, "Let me take a look."

Zhu Shan's breathing paused for a moment.

She saw Ling Xiao's sharp eyebrows moving seriously on her forehead, as if there was a warmth she had never experienced before.

"Did you go to change your dressing today?"

"..."

Hearing no response, Ling Xiao lowered his gaze and stared at her little face.

Her lips were red and her eyes were moist, as if she was about to... cry?

"Does it hurt?" Ling Xiao closed the document and put it wherever there was space on the bookshelf. "I'll take you to the hospital."

Zhu Shan seemed to have finally returned to her soul and grabbed his sleeve, "Exaggeration, I'm so angry with you."