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Zhen Liu frowned. "Didn't they test him for drugged driving at the time?"

"He hit someone and ran, then Lawyer Jin took him in to turn himself in. Because of that ridiculous act of surrender, he even got a reduced sentence!" Second-generation Zhao truly hated him, the teeth-gritting kind. "Lawyer Jin isn't a good person. Since he can defend drug dealers, he can naturally kill people too. The victim threatened him with the second-in-command's affairs—how could he possibly let Ying De live? Maybe for the second-in-command's sake, Brother Hao would even say Lawyer Jin did a good job."

Zhen Liu could understand Second-generation Zhao's grief and indignation after immersing himself in the story, but...

"Whether Lawyer Jin is a good person or not, the law will punish him accordingly. Just like that second-in-command—he did not pay for what he did back then, but today, retribution still caught up with him. But that has no direct bearing on whether Lawyer Jin is the murderer." Zhen Liu hoped Second-generation Zhao would come to his senses. Getting into the role was fine, but he had become somewhat irrational.

Second-generation Zhao took a deep breath. He knew that in his current unstable state, he would have a hard time convincing anyone. Only after quite a while did he ask Zhen Liu again, "Then who else do you think it could be?"

"I don't know. I can only say that I'm still doing my best to reconstruct this story." If they wanted to win, they not only had to catch the murderer, but also reconstruct the stories of everyone in the script as completely as possible.

Second-generation Zhao nearly rolled his eyes into the back of his head. "Do you really think you're Bao Qingtian? Since you don't know, why can't you just vote with us?"

"Because wrong is wrong. If everyone solved cases as muddleheadedly as you do, what would be the point of the law?"

The two parted on bad terms. Everyone had their own thoughts, and each was deeply convinced of them.

Second-generation Zhao stubbornly continued trying to persuade Professor Lu.

Meanwhile, in Basketball Qiao's room, Zhen Liu found a groggy Basketball Qiao and got the recording of Lawyer Jin destroying evidence in the living room from him. Sure enough, it was just as Second-generation Zhao had said. The social news report that had sparked the conflict between the lawyer and the victim mainly discussed the second-in-command's past illegal acts, including a segment of surveillance footage from the traffic accident.

Although the footage had only flashed by, Zhen Liu still noticed a suspicious point.

At that moment, 333's voice appeared again. [Ta-da! Congratulations, you have obtained more than seventy percent of the information from Lawyer Jin's character arc and unlocked Lawyer Jin's character card. Would you like to view it now?]

Zhen Liu paused. "A character card?"

[Yes, it's like a brief character biography. After all, the game requires you to reconstruct the story. Once you have obtained over seventy percent of a character's information, it will unlock automatically. Of course, information you have not uncovered still will not appear on the character card. We only record and connect a person's historical information for you.]

Zhen Liu nodded. That alone was already a huge help. It also indirectly proved that Lawyer Jin had not lied to him about his story in the Black Room just now.

[I really didn't expect Lawyer Jin's character card to be the first one you completed.]

After opening the brief biography, Zhen Liu saw the story from Lawyer Jin's perspective.

Lawyer Jin had been born into poverty, but he was naturally intelligent. From childhood, he had excelled both academically and morally, and he had always been determined to rise above others. At school, he had been the class monitor and appeared to have a good relationship with everyone, because he was skilled at reading people and situations, and because he knew how to protect himself. When Doctor Zhen was bullied, he had successfully made himself invisible.

After growing up, Lawyer Jin entered a well-known local law firm as an intern with outstanding grades. Unfortunately, becoming a full lawyer was not as easy as he had imagined.

It was then that Lawyer Jin ran into his former classmate, Ying De.

Of everyone, Lawyer Jin had been the first to reconnect with Ying De. Or rather, they had never truly lost touch. Ying De had not gone to college. After graduating high school, he became a tabloid reporter, making a living by blackmailing celebrities.

Ying De would also follow people involved in cases Lawyer Jin handled, trading the intelligence he gathered to Lawyer Jin for extra money.

At first, theirs had been a simple partnership: Ying De provided information, and Lawyer Jin provided money. Later, Ying De began not only blackmailing prominent figures whose weaknesses he had uncovered, but also introducing "important people" embroiled in lawsuits who did not want their private lives exposed to Lawyer Jin. By cleaning up these people's messes in the gray areas of the law, Lawyer Jin gained money, fame, and support, gradually securing his footing at the firm.

After Lawyer Jin became a famous attorney, Ying De finally bared his fangs and introduced Brother Hao—the former School Bully and current underworld boss—to Lawyer Jin.

Naturally, Lawyer Jin had not wanted to get involved with Brother Hao at first. But this was not the sort of thing he could refuse just because he wanted to. Ying De had thoroughly trapped Lawyer Jin, but he had no choice but to board Brother Hao's pirate ship, because he could not afford to lose. He had already acquired too many things he cared about: a house, a car, a wife, and both fame and fortune.

Thus, Lawyer Jin began going against his conscience, handling one shady case after another for Brother Hao. Among them was the second-in-command's "traffic accident." The person he had hit and killed was a deranged middle-aged woman.

Because of the woman's mental illness, there had been more room to manipulate the case.

That woman was none other than Basketball Qiao's mother, whom he had once talked about at length. Basketball Qiao had been away playing basketball at the time. He had wanted to make his mother proud, but all he received was news of her death.

Basketball Qiao did not want to let it go, nor did he want the settlement money from the second-in-command. He only wanted the man to pay for his mother's life. Unfortunately, he had been far away and powerless to do anything. But Basketball Qiao did not give up because of that. He wanted to earn more money so he could go after the second-in-command again, but he accidentally went astray for money. Not only did he fail to teach the second-in-command a lesson, he also ruined his own future.

And the second-in-command? He merely spent some time in prison before swaggering back out.

If Jin Zhuang's guess was correct—that Second-generation Zhao and Basketball Qiao were full brothers born to the same mother—then there was a reason Second-generation Zhao was so determined to identify Lawyer Jin as the murderer. He was avenging the mother he had never managed to recognize in time.