The trio, fresh off their courtroom victory, went to a little bar to celebrate.
Amid the clinking of glasses in the private room, they polished off two bottles of baijiu.
Sun Feng, his face flushed, asked, "Brother Chen, how are you so damn awesome? You actually turned all those people who gave false testimony against them?!"
Xie Chen waved a hand. "Awesome is a stretch. I just understand human nature."
"It was already a society governed by law, yet they still dared to give false testimony?! No amount of money was worth it. Sooner or later, they'd have to give it back."
"Besides, a stain on their integrity would affect their children. It'd make it hard for them to take the civil service exam in the future!"
"Brother Chen's right. These days, everyone wanted their kids to get into the system. It was stable, rain or shine," Lu Fei said with a drunken belch. "If you got locked up for giving false testimony, your kids wouldn't be able to turn their lives around either!"
Xie Chen raised his glass. "To sum it up: being a law-abiding, upstanding citizen is a basic requirement in the new Hua Nation of the new era!"
"Brother Chen, I promise you, I'll obey the law. I won't be a doormat, I won't gamble, I won't fool around..."
Sun Feng realized he had gone off-topic and quickly corrected himself, grinning. "You can't charge me legal fees this time, right?"
Xie Chen shot him a sidelong glance. "We'll talk after the compensation comes through!"
"Knowing those scumbags from the Xie Family, they'd probably make Pan Bing take the fall alone."
"If we wanted the compensation paid in full, we'd still have to put in some work."
Just as he finished speaking, Lu Fei, who was holding his