Lu Zi Zhen's lips curled into a faint smirk, his voice low as he whispered back, "You didn't, and I didn't! I wasn't even okay to do anything last night." He had received a gunshot, and he couldn't do anything. His brother was worried about his wound bringing up a fever, so they did nothing to cover up their traces.
Lu Ting Cheng frowned, "Then who did clean for us?"
Just then, Lawyer 3 gave them a subtle nod, his sharp eyes scanning the courtroom as he stepped back into position. Judge Liang closed the file and tapped her pen on the desk, visibly annoyed.
JUDGE LIANG: "You are really lucky, but next time, I'll make sure it's prison orange, not Gucci gray. You have been fined. Twenty hours of community service and no vehicles, not even a bicycle, until you have attained a proper legal age."
Case file number 2: "Since the place burned down and there is no substantial evidence, no grounds for detainment. Case dismissed," she declared, her voice stern but resigned.
The gavel dropped immediately.
The courtroom buzzed softly, murmurs rising as the gavel struck.
Outside the courtroom, as the brothers stepped into the hallway, Lu Ting Cheng rounded on Lu Zi Zhen. "You lied under oath? You are really something else!" Smirking while giggling.
Zi Zhen didn't look apologetic in the least, and it's not like his brother was a saint. "I didn't lie... I simply presented an alternative truth… one that someone was willing to forge for us. We're not the only ones playing this game, ge."
"You had someone plant that affidavit? When was that done? How did it turn out to be a lost car?" Lu Ting Cheng was certain that they hadn't lost a car as such.
"No, I think someone planted it for us, either on our side or theirs. I'm still figuring that out, who it could be... Or could it be our mother? She is the one who normally cleans up our mess." Any loose ends were always dealt with by their mother secretly without exposing them, and for their father, could he? He was in the darkness, he couldn't know what they were up to, right?
Lu Ting Cheng's eyes, slightly narrowed, squinted. "You think the people who attacked us are trying to shift the trail? Make it look like we're hiding something before we could be attacked unknowingly? Or they were trying to trap us?"
Zi Zhen nodded grimly. "The warehouse burned down to erase everything after we had left, and they had left, and they did so after the police officers took the drugs and guns away. I wonder who did that and from which side they are… or maybe they wanted to make us look guilty by burning the place down. Either way, we're being watched."
A flicker of concern passed over Lu Ting Cheng's face. "So what's next?"
Zi Zhen's eyes were cold and calculating; they didn't know if this person was an ally or an enemy. "We find out who forged that affidavit, and why the car just became our missing car. Then we dig into what was really inside that warehouse before it burned down. We would probably find some clues."
"Young Masters...." Shadow guards showed up as they walked through the corridor, going over to their parents.
"Xiao Ru... I want you to do some things for me: go to that burned warehouse and dog it up all over the place, and add a few metres to the actual area of the warehouse. I need to confirm something." Lu Zi Zhen grimly spoke up as he nodded his head and disappeared