Judge Liang, a stern woman in her fifties with no-nonsense glasses, adjusts her files and stares through her glasses at the two young men.
JUDGE LIANG: "Lu Ting Cheng, Lu Zi Zhen. Charges: reckless driving, endangering public safety, resisting arrest verbally, and driving without a license. How do you plead?"
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: "Not guilty on all major charges, Your Honor. They have already acknowledged their mistake and are willing to accept a fine and public service of two days, your honor. I think that should be fair, knowing they are still minors."
Judge Liang raised a brow and shifted her gaze to the boys who stood there like two naive kids who had just accidentally explored this wildness and everything that had happened, it was an accident. It felt like it wasn't their fault that this happened like this and turned out to be this way.
JUDGE LIANG: "I must admit, you two don't look particularly regretful of the misconduct! Not repentant at all"
Lu Ting Cheng responded with a straight face and a poised manner, "I regret trusting my brother with the GPS directions. Your Honor, if not, I wouldn't be chasing after him like a maniac. I think that's where the problem rose from. I'm a law-abiding citizen, your honor..."
Lu Zi Zhen nonchalantly chimed in, "And I regret not picking a better escape route because I couldn't have been caught so easily, your honor. I should be a good citizen, and that's the reason I didn't resist getting arrested early on your honor."
The lawyers present wanted to drag those two out of the courtroom, but damn! They didn't know they were so talkative!
The courtroom chuckled and the judge coldly glared at the two of them with how unserious they were. All in all, she couldn't do anything when it came to this family. She was powerless, with the number of people they had killed, they couldn't do anything, even if there was some concrete evidence, they would still walk out scot-free.
JUDGE LIANG: "You boys think this is a game, don't you?" If not for the fact that they had money, she would have locked them up for the weekend, but with such a family, how would she dare? She had also received a call from the President, how could she dare retain them? She could only swallow her anger....
Silence. There was total silence...
She flipped through their records and loudly sighed.
"Case file number two: Your car was seen parked close by where dead bodies were found inside the warehouse, apart from dead bodies, there were guns and banned drugs. How do you plead?"
LAWYER 3: Your Honor... Not guilty! We recently lost one of our cars, and that couldn't be my client's work, your honor... Before their name gets tarnished, whoever filed for that case should provide evidence. Here is the report of the lost car, your honor." The lawyer presented them with an affidavit written about their stolen car, number plate, and everything, and this was the same car that was spotted in those areas.
Judge Liang went through the file, and seeing there was no substantial evidence, she couldn't hold them up for investigation. Even if she did, they would still be bailed out, and all the evidence they could collect from the warehouse would be completely erased when it suddenly burned down into ashes.
Lu Ting Cheng turned around and gazed at his brother Lu Zi Zhen before whispering.
"When did we lose a car? When did we file for an affidavit?" They hadn't done any of that because they knew someone who attacked them last night would try to erase all clues on their behalf. Thus, they cleaned up the CCTV camera footage along the highway.