The judgment had concluded. In the courtroom, faced with the final verdict...
Yang Tiejun did not know whether what he felt was excitement or some other emotion.
He stood at his place in the courtroom, his eyes red, his face buried in both hands. Tears streamed down uncontrollably as he kept murmuring:
"Son... did you see that...?"
"They sentenced them. They sentenced them to death!"
"All of them got death sentences... the murderers who killed you have all been punished by the law."
"It was all my fault... if I hadn't built the house so far away back then..."
"You and Yunyun wouldn't have had that happen to you. Even if something had happened, someone would definitely have been able to save you."
"It was all my fault..."
Yang Tiejun slumped to the floor, murmuring to himself over and over.
He expressed his guilt.
Watching this, Su Bai stood to one side without speaking or stepping forward to comfort him.
He could understand how Yang Tiejun felt. This was the time for Yang Tiejun to let out the emotions inside him.
Before the judgment, Yang Tiejun might have been holding everything in, wanting to see the four defendants sentenced to death.
Now that he had seen it, his tightly wound nerves needed an outlet.
The collegial panel members at the judges' bench, along with the court police in the courtroom...
Seeing Yang Tiejun break down, they all felt some measure of sympathy for him.
After all...
Whether they were the presiding judge and judges hearing this case...
Or the staff investigating it, they all knew the entire course of the case in great detail.
They were better able to put themselves into the whole sequence of events.
They could empathize more deeply with what Yang Tiejun had suffered.
They also