Cai Shengnan had made it clear to the court early in the morning that she would plead not guilty in Luo Jialan's case, so she would definitely not agree with Gu Nianzhi's accusations.
She stood up from the dock, bowed to the judge, and then nodded slightly to the people in the courtroom.
The judge looked at the information they had presented and asked, "May I ask if you want to call your witnesses?"
The witnesses Cai Shengnan and the others had brought were Auntie Xing and Auntie You. They were still waiting to be called in the next room.
According to the procedure, Huo Guanchen was the prosecution's witness. He should have left by now, and the defense's lawyer would call in their witnesses to testify.
However, Cai Shengnan changed her mind at the last minute.
She shook her head and said with a smile, "No need. I want to cross-examine the prosecution's first witness, Mr. General Huo Guanchen."
The judge thought for a moment, nodded, raised his hand, and said, "You may begin."
Cai Shengnan lowered her head and organized her documents and folders. She took out a translucent yellow folder and held it in her hand. She walked to Huo Guanchen's witness stand.
"Hello, Mr. General Huo." Cai Shengnan addressed him very politely by his military rank. Her movements were very restrained, and she trembled in front of Huo Guanchen, as if she was very afraid of him.
Gu Nianzhi was slightly stunned.
She had come with ill intentions.
This was to emphasize Huo Guanchen's status and give the people in the courtroom a preconceived impression of Huo Guanchen, which would affect their impression of him and their judgment of his testimony.
Gu Nianzhi covered her lips with the back of her hand and coughed softly.
In the quiet courtroom No. 1, the cough was very obvious.
Cai Shengnan turned around abruptly and looked in the direction of Gu Nianzhi's cough.
Her expression was sharp, and her gaze was sharp. Her timid demeanor from before was gone, and her entire aura had changed.
Gu Nianzhi smiled at her. "Sorry, my throat is itchy. Lawyer Cai, don't be paranoid."
Her interruption destroyed the sense of respect and fear that Cai Shengnan had created for Huo Guanchen.
When she turned back to face Huo Guanchen, Cai Shengnan felt a little uncomfortable and couldn't pretend to be as cautious as before.
She simply stopped pretending and flipped through the folder in her hand. She asked casually, "Mr. Huo Guanchen, may I ask how you met Ms. Song Jinning?"
Huo Guanchen: "…"
Gu Nianzhi quickly stood up. "Objection. The questions asked by the defense lawyer are related to the privacy of my client and the witness, and have nothing to do with the case. "
The judge rapped his gavel. "Objection sustained. Counsel for the defense, please be careful with your questions and wording. "
Cai Shengnan smiled and said, "As far as I know, you knew Ms. Song Jinning after your brother, right?"
Huo Guanchen's face darkened and he did not speak.
Gu Nianzhi continued, "Objection. If the defendant's lawyer continues to pry into my privacy like a paparazzi, I'm going to file a complaint with the lawyer's license authority. "
Cai Shengnan did not wait for the judge to speak and immediately said quickly, "Your Honor, this matter is also closely related to this case. I can prove it."
The judge looked down at the documents and evidence she had submitted in advance and nodded. "Defense counsel, please get to the point quickly."
Cai Shengnan glanced at Gu Nianzhi with a smile, then retracted her gaze and looked at Huo Guanchen. She said, "If you don't answer, I'll take it as a yes."
Huo Guanchen nodded. "Yes, my brother knew Song Jinning first. It's no secret."
Cai Shengnan nodded. "Later, you met Ms. Song Jinning and began to pursue her. Ms. Song Jinning once swayed between you and your brother … "
"Objection." Gu Nianzhi stood up again, her expression solemn. "The defendant's lawyer's question just now has already slandered my client's reputation. I reserve the right to sue the defendant's lawyer."
"Lawyer Gu, I have evidence for every word I say. Isn't this considered obstructing justice?" Cai Shengnan raised an eyebrow with an extremely serious expression.
"Evidence? May I ask where you got the evidence to prove that my client swayed between us more than 30 years ago? Did you open your Heavenly Eye, or did you use a time machine to go back in time and see it with your own eyes? Maybe you even took a small video? Can you share it with us? "
Gu Nianzhi rebutted Cai Shengnan eloquently, not letting up at all.
Cai Shengnan said calmly, "I heard about it from someone who knew them. You can believe it or not. But Huo Guanyuan's belongings contain love letters to Song Jinning. You can't deny that, can you? "
She went around in a big circle, but the main point was still the love letters that Huo Guanyuan had written to Song Jinning.
These love letters had been exposed during Bai Jinyi's case.
It was obvious that Cai Shengnan was still using those "love letters" as an excuse.
Gu Nianzhi smiled. "I'm sorry, I do want to deny it. Lawyer Cai didn't personally attend the trial at that time, so she probably doesn't know that I had already refuted those love letters. Because there was no header on them, it was impossible to tell who they were written to. You've blamed all of them on my client. It seems like you've been too deeply influenced by Bai Jinyi and Luo Jialan, because that's what they think. "
"Is that so? I think lawyer Gu, you can deceive yourself, but you can't expect us to deceive ourselves like you. These love letters were actually written by Huo Guanyuan to Song Jinning. Otherwise, why would your witness fly into a rage when he saw those love letters? He even filed for divorce with Song Jinning despite her being seriously ill at the time? "
Cai Shengnan closed her translucent yellow folder and turned to look at the head of the courtroom. "Your Honor, the truth is that Mr. Huo Guanchen couldn't stand the ambiguous relationship between his ex-wife and his brother, so he filed for divorce."
This was indeed the truth.
Even Gu Nianzhi couldn't deny it.
She glared at Cai Shengnan angrily, her lips opening and closing silently as she said, "Despicable!"
Cai Shengnan smiled and made a "calm down" gesture at her.
Gu Nianzhi seemed to be so angry that she couldn't speak. She sat down heavily, but when she lowered her head and lowered her eyes, a glint flashed across her eyes.
Cai Shengnan didn't see the change in Gu Nianzhi's expression. With the joy of suppressing Gu Nianzhi's aura for the first time, Cai Shengnan turned around and said, "And after Mr. Huo Guanchen divorced Ms. Song Jinning, he didn't ask her to move out of the Huo family. Instead, she continued to live in the Huo family. Mr. Huo Guanchen was still responsible for the manpower and expenses to take care of her. "
"At that time, many people praised him for being affectionate and not forgetting to take care of his seriously ill wife. But in private, he had already hooked up with Song Jinning's best friend, Bai Jinyi. He betrayed his wife. So can the words of such a person really be trusted? "
"I didn't." Huo Guanchen objected in a low voice. "When I was with Bai Jinyi, I had already divorced Song Jinning."
"Really?" Cai Shengnan shook her head with a smile. "But according to what I know, Bai Jinyi personally said that when you had sex with her for the first time, you hadn't officially divorced her."
Huo Guanchen almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
His first time with Bai Jinyi, to put it bluntly, was because he had been tricked by Bai Jinyi …
But he was a man. Even if he had been tricked by a woman, it was his own fault.
It couldn't be that a woman had pointed a gun at him and asked him to have sex with her.
Drunken sex was also messed up.
Song Jinning was sitting in the plaintiff's seat below. What had happened when she was unconscious back then had been mercilessly exposed by Cai Shengnan in front of her.
Not only was Huo Guanchen extremely embarrassed, but Song Jinning's cheeks were also flushed. She didn't know if it was out of anger or anger.
Gu Nianzhi was a little dumbfounded.
She had really underestimated Cai Shengnan's "professionalism". She had actually gotten such a thing out of Bai Jinyi.
Gu Nianzhi had only gotten one sentence out of Bai Jinyi about Luo Jialan's background.
However, Cai Shengnan had gotten all the secrets about her and Huo Guanchen from Bai Jinyi!
Gu Nianzhi didn't know whether to say 666 or laugh out loud. 23333 …
Cai Shengnan continued, "So, Mr. Huo Guanchen, after you betrayed your seriously ill wife, you continued to raise your divorced wife at home. You even let my client, Miss Luo Jialan, who was only 18 years old at the time, take over the responsibility of taking care of your ex-wife. What were your intentions?!"
Huo Guanchen raised his head and didn't dare to look at Song Jinning's face. He took a deep breath and said, "Although I divorced Song Jinning, she was seriously ill at the time, and her family didn't have any immediate family members. I couldn't let her leave the Huo family."
"Then should I praise you for being affectionate and loyal? Or should I praise you for being a pervert?! "
Cai Shengnan's tone changed, and her expression became sharper.
"During the years when Song Jinning was seriously ill, you peeped at her whenever you had time, and you didn't let her know. If my client really abused Ms. Song Jinning to the point of death, why didn't you say a word?! Or were you the one who wanted to kill Song Jinning?! "
Cai Shengnan's purge was really aggressive.
Not only did she start with Huo Guanchen's personal privacy to question Huo Guanchen's character and integrity, thus doubting the credibility of his testimony, but she also threw a huge trap.
She raised her head and looked at the solemn judge.
"Your honor, Mr. Huo Guanchen was jealous of his ex-wife and brother's ambiguous relationship, and he put his ex-wife, who was incapacitated, in front of him. Can I also prove that Mr. Huo Guanchen also had a motive for the crime, and even had the conditions to commit the crime, so it was also possible that he had the intention to kill!"
"Don't forget, the motive that lawyer Gu mentioned before, the possessiveness between a man and a woman, is also one of the most important motives for the crime!"
Gu Nianzhi's heart skipped a beat.
Cai Shengnan had really taken a huge step.
She had gone from questioning the witness to shifting the blame to another suspect.
Moreover, she had pinned the two procedures on the same person.
If she took too big a step, she could easily pull her balls, even though Cai Shengnan didn't have any balls.
Gu Nianzhi stood up calmly and said, "Objection. Even according to the defendant's lawyer, it can only prove that Mr. Huo Guanchen loved Ms. Song Jinning deeply. If he really wanted her life, he could have kicked her out of the Huo family after the divorce and ignored her. " "I guarantee that Song Jinning wouldn't have survived the winter at that time."
"Since he could have taken Song Jinning's life so easily and clearly without any legal responsibility, why did he have to spend money, effort, and energy to visit her so often?!" Gu Nianzhi retorted without hesitation, "Although in the eyes of the defendant's lawyer, Mr. Huo Guanchen didn't go to visit his seriously ill ex-wife, but 'peeping'."
"Tsk tsk, as expected, the world you see is the way you see it."
Gu Nianzhi chuckled. "Lawyer Cai, your reasoning is too much."
Cai Shengnan blushed a little. She was a little too impatient.
She quickly retracted her gaze. "Okay, even if Huo Guanchen didn't have the intention to kill, everyone heard him lie in court. May I ask, Your Honor, what will happen if the witness lies in court and hides important things? "
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