novelraw Chapter 371 - 249: College Students Don’t Do Pure Love!
Chapter 371 - 249: College Students Don’t Do Pure Love!
The other side.
Listening to the busy signal on the phone, Liu Xiaojie was completely dumbfounded.
He didn’t understand the law at all and couldn’t judge whether Shen Qiushan’s words were true or not.
"What’s going on?"
"What jail time?"
All Xu Huili heard were a few fragmented words, so she anxiously asked.
She was still thinking that Liu Xiaojie could buy a house in Sanjiang, but first Li Guilian said the bank card was frozen, and now this talk of possible jail time—what kind of boyfriend did she find!
She was already thinking about packing up and leaving.
"It’s about that money for buying the house..."
Liu Xiaojie had no choice but to tell her about how he and his mother scammed money from his sister, Liu Qingwu.
After hearing his story, Xu Huili was completely stunned. During a previous meal with Liu Qingwu, she sensed that this sister-in-law seemed unhappy, but she thought it was just because Liu Qingwu was distant. It turns out it was because she was scammed out of so much money by Li Guilian and Liu Xiaojie.
Even someone like Xu Huili, whose morals are questionable, felt that what Li Guilian and Liu Xiaojie did was really underhanded.
Thinking about facing a mother-in-law and husband with such character traits in the future made Xu Huili’s spine shiver.
"Lili, do you think we really committed fraud?"
Liu Xiaojie asked with a bitter face.
"How would I know!"
"We need to ask a lawyer."
Xu Huili thought for a moment and said, "Oh right, I follow an influencer lawyer, he has more than a million followers!"
"He does live broadcasts every day, you can ask him."
As she spoke, Xu Huili opened her Kuaishou app, intending to give Liu Xiaojie the influencer lawyer’s account, but she found that he was currently live streaming.
"He’s live right now, you can connect and ask him!"
Xu Huili pointed at her phone screen.
"Okay!"
Liu Xiaojie quickly searched for the account name [Not-so-famous Lawyer Lin Kaixuan].
Entering the live broadcast room, he found that there were over three thousand viewers.
A lawyer’s live broadcast with over three thousand people watching was quite a lot.
Lin Kaixuan, looking around forty, wore gold-rimmed glasses and had a gentle and refined appearance.
He was currently connected with a woman whose husband had a mistress outside, asking for advice on how to get the money back that her husband spent on the mistress.
Liu Xiaojie listened for a while and discovered that a microphone connection required sending a gift of sunglasses, so he immediately sent the gift and entered the queue.
After waiting for two people, it was finally his turn.
"Hello, Brother Jie."
"What questions do you have for consultation?"
After greeting, Lin Kaixuan took a sip of tea beside him to ease his throat.
"Hello, Lawyer Lin, there’s something like this..."
Liu Xiaojie immediately recounted how he and his mother, Li Guilian, scammed his sister out of money.
After he finished speaking, the chat in the live broadcast room exploded.
"How dare he consult about this?"
"Having a mom and brother like this is truly unlucky!"
"This mother and son pair are worse than beasts!"
"Hearing about them being sued is kind of satisfying!"
"People like this deserve the death penalty!"
"..."
As an experienced lawyer, especially one who livestreams online, Lin Kaixuan had encountered many bizarre cases. So after hearing Brother Jie’s story, even though he internally cursed the pair, he still kept his professional composure while analyzing the case.
"You and your mother have committed fraud, but the victim is your sister. If she reports it to the police, charging both you and your mother will be certain..."
"Who came up with the idea?"
Lin Kaixuan asked.
"I thought of it first."
"But how to talk to my sister was my mother’s idea..."
"So, you provided the idea, and your mother filled in the details."
Lin Kaixuan quipped, "In that case, both of you are the main offenders."
"But it seems my sister hasn’t reported it yet."
Liu Xiaojie added.
"Reporting or not is her choice."
"Her not reporting it now shows she still cares about family ties."
"Lawyer Lin, what should I do now?"
"If I were you, I would quickly return the money to your sister and sincerely apologize. She’s just a newly graduated teaching intern; how much could she have earned?"
"The money transferred to you was likely all borrowed by her!"
"Having such a good sister, you should cherish her, not deceive and exploit her family bond."
Lin Kaixuan advised sincerely.
"Thank you, Lawyer Lin."
Ending the live chat, Liu Xiaojie slumped onto the hotel sofa, feeling guilty for scamming money from his sister.
However, such deeply ingrained thoughts aren’t going to change just because of a few words from Lin Kaixuan.
He immediately called his mother, Li Guilian, recounting what he learned from Lin Kaixuan.
"I don’t believe it. Would Liu Qingwu really send her own mom and brother to jail?"
"Those online lawyers are just alarmists; we don’t have to listen to them. I’m not returning the money I have in hand!"
Li Guilian had just finished speaking with a lawyer in the county, who told her that the court might not support the plaintiff’s claims.
The reason being that the money was actually borrowed by Liu Qingwu, so if there’s any suing to be done, it should be against her.
With a lawyer’s backing, Li Guilian felt emboldened. What she didn’t know was that this lawyer also just wanted to earn some attorney fees.
After all, win or lose, the lawyer’s fees have to be paid, and they’re paid in advance.
"Oh right, Xiaojie, I’ll send you the lawyer’s payment code, transfer ten thousand to them!"