Logically speaking, Wen Shouyi was also one of the defendants. She had the right to remain silent and not say a word.
However, in reality, the defendants who did not say a word in court were either scheming and afraid of saying the wrong thing, or they were especially bad at talking. Even good words would be ruined by him, such as Lu Jin, who was suffering from interpersonal disorder.
This kind of person did not give a good first impression to the judge and the jury.
The purpose of a court debate was to give both parties a chance to speak face-to-face. If you completely gave up this opportunity, then don’t blame others for figuring out if there was something wrong with your motives.
Gu Nianzhi looked at Wen Shouyi with a smile and said, “It’s fine if you don’t speak. I can make my own reasoning.”
A hint of impatience flashed in Wen Shouyi’s eyes. She wondered what kind of nonsense Gu Nianzhi would come up with if she made her own deductions.
She raised her head and calmly said, “Lawyer Gu, you don’t have to goad me. What can’t I say? Just ask.”
Gu Nianzhi smiled and tilted her head to look at Wen Dayou and Liang Meili, who were sitting on either side of Wen Shouyi. She let out a long “Oh” and said, “You mean the other two defendants have something they can’t say, so they can’t answer my questions?”
“Please don’t let your thoughts wander, Lawyer Gu.” Jin Wanyi’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly tried to smooth things over. “The person you want to interrogate is Ms. Wen Shouyi, not her parents.”
Gu Nianzhi stopped teasing Wen Shouyi and stopped smiling. She recounted the testimony of the two passers-by and what Wen Shouyi had said to He Zhichu eight years ago.
She took the testimony she had signed and asked, “You said it yourself, didn’t you?”
Wen Shouyi nodded calmly. “I did say it, word for word.”
Gu Nianzhi suddenly smiled meaningfully. “Miss Wen, you can remember every word you said eight years ago. Your memory is impressive.”
Wen Shouyi looked up calmly at Gu Nianzhi. “Lawyer Gu has probably forgotten what happened that night, but to me, it’s an unforgettable memory. That’s why I remember every detail of what happened that night.”
“Really?” Gu Nianzhi rested her hands on the table in the dock and looked down at the round-faced, fair-skinned Wen Shouyi. She asked indifferently, “Then can you please describe what happened that night in detail?”
Wen Shouyi shook her head. “I’m afraid I’ll disappoint you.”
“But you said you remembered every single detail, and that you forgot everything you just said so quickly?” Gu Nianzhi’s lips curled up into a smile, her voluptuous lips half-smiling.
Wen Shouyi stared at her lips, which were identical to Qin Yaoguang’s, for a while before saying, “I only said that I would disappoint you. I didn’t say that I didn’t remember the details of that night. There’s no logical connection between the two.”
What she meant was that the details she remembered wouldn’t help Gu Nianzhi’s case.
Gu Nianzhi was slightly taken aback, but quickly admitted her mistake. “Okay, I was wrong. Miss. Wen is indeed a great lawyer. Her words and actions are flawless. But I still want to hear your account of that night.”
Wen Shouyi lowered her eyes. Her long, black eyelashes were like two small fans that covered her thin eyeliner.
“Actually, I didn’t see much of that night,” she said lightly, “When I came back from school, I saw a very ordinary Audi at the corner of the He family’s mansion. Then I saw a tall, thin man holding a little girl’s hand and getting into the car. That was it.”
“When I returned to the He family’s mansion, I found that the place was in a mess. The military and police were standing in the corridor, and everyone was only allowed in and not out. I didn’t know what had happened.”
“I asked a maid that my parents were familiar with, and only then did I know that you were the one who went missing…” Wen Shouyi looked up at Gu Nianzhi after she finished speaking, “At that time, I thought of the little girl that I saw in the man’s hand at the end of the street, so I mentioned it to Young Master He.”
Gu Nianzhi listened to her carefully and asked carefully, “Then who did you find out about the man? And who was the little girl he was holding?”
Wen Shouyi smiled. “I’m a law student. I never make conclusions about things that I’m not sure about.”
“At that time, I said I saw a man holding a little girl’s hand and getting into the car. Eight years later, I still said the same thing. As for who the man was and who the little girl was, I don’t know, and I never said I knew.”
Wen Shouyi mimicked Gu Nianzhi’s gesture and spread her hands, smiling.
Gu Nianzhi smiled, thinking that Wen Shouyi was quite cautious. Her words had completely cleared her of all responsibility.
“So you’re saying that you don’t know who that man was, and who that little girl was. You just saw these two people and the car, and casually mentioned it when the He family was looking for the little girl. But in reality, you’re not targeting anyone or anything, right?”
Gu Nianzhi calmly translated what Wen Shouyi hadn’t said. “Aren’t you just trying to mislead people?”
“How did I mislead people? Is it a crime to tell the truth these days?” Wen Shouyi asked slowly, “I told you, I saw it with my own eyes. As for how other people try to figure out the identities of the two of them, that’s other people’s business, not mine.”
In other words, she was just reminding everyone that these two people had just left the main street outside the He family’s house.
As for whether the people listened to her subconsciously thought that these two people were Gu Xiangwen and Gu Nianzhi, that was someone else’s business, not hers.
From a legal point of view, she really didn’t have any responsibility at all for what she had done.
As for misleading, it could be subjective or objective. At most, it could only be used as a moral reprimand. As for legal responsibility, it did not exist.
The person who had been misled was just being stupid.
It was because she was different from the two witnesses, who recognized Gu Xiangwen and Gu Nianzhi’s photos. Wen Shouyi did not. She did not even mentioned Gu Xiangwen and Gu Nianzhi’s names.
Wen Shouyi smiled gently, but in her heart, she was thinking that if she could be intimidated by Gu Nianzhi, then all her years in the legal world would have been for nothing.
Gu Nianzhi’s eyes darkened as she looked at Wen Shouyi. She was thinking that she had really been scheming. Eight years ago was her last year of university, right?
She was still a greenhorn, but she had actually planned out all these details.
Gu Nianzhi cleared her throat and stopped thinking. She nodded. “Yes, indeed. If anyon is misled, it’s because those people are stupid and don’t understand what Lawyer Wen is trying to say.”
“I didn’t say that. Lawyer Gu, don’t put what you’re thinking on me.” Wen Shouyi returned the sentence to Gu Nianzhi with a fake smile.
Gu Nianzhi didn’t care, nor did she get angry. She thought quickly in her mind and quickly found another breakthrough point.
“Miss. Wen, what was your relationship with me eight years ago?” Gu Nianzhi continued to ask with a smile. “Although I don’t remember it very clearly, I remember that you seemed to be quite familiar with me.”
This was a lie to Wen Shouyi.
Gu Nianzhi actually did not remember anything from eight years ago. All her memories of Wen Shouyi came from He Zhichu’s surveillance footage and the “teaching assistant” Wen Shouyi she had met in the other world two years ago.
Wen Shouyi’s smile did not change, but she was wondering in her heart, could it be that Gu Nianzhi’s memory had actually recovered?
Was she just pretending to have “memory loss”?
After all, to Wen Shouyi, the possibility of pretending to have “memory loss” was still very high.
She blinked her slender eyes and slowly said, “We weren’t really familiar with each other at that time.”
“Oh? Really? But… When you saw me two years ago, you seemed to know me very well!” Gu Nianzhi pretended to be surprised and exclaimed, “Could it be that two years ago, you were lying to me? Pretending to be familiar with me?!”
Wen Shouyi’s expression was obviously stifled.
She had not expected Gu Nianzhi to actually mention what had happened in the other world…
That was an absolute secret of this world.
If it had not been for the fact that Qin Yaoguang’s hand had been injured by Gu Nianzhi and could not be operated on, Wen Shouyi would have already been stripped of her memories from the other world.
It was because of Gu Nianzhi that Wen Shouyi was no longer He Zhichu’s personal secretary, and her security clearance had been lowered.
According to special laws, she should not retain that kind of memory.
However, Qin Yaoguang was still training doctors who could perform this kind of memory-stripping surgery. This was not something that could be learned in a short period of time.
Therefore, Wen Shouyi’s memory was temporarily safe.
She did not want to undergo this kind of surgery.
Qin Yaoguang also did not want her to undergo this kind of surgery.
She had already made arrangements for her. When she became the executive director of the Qin Private Hospital Group, her security level would be greatly increased, and she would no longer need to undergo this kind of surgery.
At this juncture, Wen Shouyi did not want to attract any special attention.
Her mind raced, and she immediately said, “Familiarity is relative. When I said we weren’t familiar, it was actually because you weren’t familiar with me, but I was quite familiar with you. So it was only a one-sided familiarity, not a connection between us.”
“Is that so?” Gu Nianzhi tilted her head and looked as if she didn’t believe her. “Then tell me, how familiar are you with me?”