Chapter 38.1 First dig a pit for Du Xinyi, then fill her with soil and lay her to rest.

Unfortunately, weekends always fly by, and in the blink of an eye, it was time to go back to work on Monday. Bai Duanduan had finally informed Ji Lin of the time when Guifeng Communications would be negotiating with Dai Qin, so on Monday afternoon, Bai Duanduan and Ji Lin arrived at Guifeng Communications’ headquarters.

Dai Qin reached early and waited in the reception area of the office building. Compared to her anxiety and apprehension, Bai Duanduan was much calmer. She was well prepared for the negotiation. In fact she thought that these kinds of negotiations didn’t even need Ji Lin’s presence. When she informed him of the Monday afternoon negotiation time, she thought that Ji Lin wouldn’t be interested in these petty negotiations. However, to her surprise, Ji Lin only pursed his lips and then adjusted his schedule for the afternoon and came along with her.

In terms of the size of the case, legal fees, cost – effectiveness and other aspects, this case was not worth the trouble of a lawyer of Ji Lin’s calibre. Yet in order to be involved in this case, Ji Lin had not only agreed to lose his lion’s share of the money but also represent an employee side that he did not agree with at all in his heart and now he was even doing everything himself.

“I always feel as if he has a grudge against us at ZhaoHui. As long as we take up a case at ZhaoHui, he will definitely go and represent the other party, even if the bid amount is small, hardly making any money.”

Looking at the cold-looking man beside her, the words that Zhang Junda had said earlier were still ringing in her ears.

Did Ji Lin really have a grudge against ZhaoHui? Was it a business rivalry feud? Or was it something else? A personal vendetta? Why did he suddenly take a 180 degree turn in his attitude to interfere with her case at the expense of punching himself in the face?

The fact that he would want to join such a case so desperately, there must be something wrong.

There must be other reasons here but Ji Lin doesn’t want to talk about it. But what’s the reason?

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Luckily, Bai Duanduan soon ran out of time to think of such nonsense as a team of people came from the office area of Guifeng Communications. Bai Duanduan was sharp-eyed and recognized at glance the person at the head of the team as the head of the HR department who had been interviewed in the video earlier. She had a nameplate pinned to her chest, and her full name was Li Wanjun, and beside her stood Du Xinyi. But she was not accompanied by Lin Hui, who in the end seemed to be just a titular person, not so much that he would really stoop to the level of doing such a small case for Du Xinyi.

This time, Du Xinyi was wearing a high-class suit, her makeup was exquisite, and her bag had been changed from a light luxury to a first-line brand. So it seems that after Bai Duanduan left, the bird shotgun was replaced by cannon 1 idiom which means equipment improved enormously and she has been living in ZhaoHui with great style and ease.

Huh.

Du Xinyi obviously also saw Bai Duanduan. She froze, probably remembering the slap she had received. Her face flashed sinister and gnashing her teeth she said in a sarcastic tone, “I can’t believe it’s lawyer Bai. I thought you couldn’t find your next job after you were fired from our ZhaoHui.” ;

She said while giving a meaningful glance at Ji Lin, “Oh, so it turns out that you went to Sheng Lin ah just as I said. You guys must have seen each other when you were enemies of each other before. However, lawyer Ji really has a good appetite as he can just accept anyone. Do you know why our lawyer Bai was fired in the first place?”

Her words obviously made several people from Guifeng Communications look at Bai Duanduan with curiosity, and because of Bai Duanduan’s face, these people looked at Bai Duanduan with a playful and subtle look, almost as if they were displaying their own thoughts on their faces — Dai Qin was a small employee with little money, what kind of good lawyer could she hire? It’s just some trivial people, how can she be as rich and powerful as a company to hire a law firm like ZhaoHui?

And not to mention the people of Guifeng Communications, Dai Qin was obviously also affected a bit as her face was shaken. Du Xinyi’s business ability was not good, but she was very good at giving hard times to other people.

When Du Xinyi said up to here, it was clear that she was not yet relieved, and relying on the fact that she and her agent had outnumbered the other party at the moment, she insisted on taunting Bai Duanduan some more, “Hasn’t lawyer Bai been working for several years too? How come you can’t even conduct such negotiations independently now? You have to drag Lawyer Ji along? Look at our lawyer Lin, he’s very comfortable with me coming over to negotiate alone.”

When he heard that Lin Hui would not show up and only sent Du Xinyi to fight, Ji Lin’s face sank. His face did not change significantly, but apparently Bai Duanduan felt that he was not in a good mood.

Bai Duanduan was not sure, but she thought it was probably because Ji Lin thought that the other side only sent a small lawyer for such a case, while he came with herself, a little too much attention to the point of being overly grand?

However, these words not only attacked Bai Duanduan, but also Ji Lin, and while Bai Duanduan was holding back her anger, Ji Lin opened his mouth first.

His voice was cold and he didn’t even raise his eyelids, as if he was looking at a clown the whole time, “You’re so full of nonsense, are you here to perform marketplace quarrels or to provide professional legal services to your clients?”

Ji Lin’s tone was calm and contemptuous, “No matter how you slander Bai Duanduan now, she won’t argue with you on the spot to refute. Because she is clear about her public and private duties and is responsible for her clients. This is work time, not time for personal vendettas. Even if we don’t talk about business ability, judging from just this bit of professionalism, you are no match to her.”

“As for your comment about why I came with Lawyer Bai, it’s because we at Sheng Lin are different from ZhaoHui. Unlike ZhaoHui, where Lin Hui uses his reputation to his heart’s content to go out and solicit cases by hanging sheep’s head to sell dog’s meat, ultimately not doing it by himself but instead subcontracting it to small lawyers or even novices with no minimum qualifications. We at Sheng Lin, as long as my name appears in the representing lawyer column, no matter what kind of case it is, I will be involved throughout.” This time Ji Lin finally looked up at Du Xinyi, “And you’ll soon regret that you didn’t let your lead lawyer, Lin Hui, come along.”

The eyes of Ji Lin were calm and indifferent, completely devoid of any emotional fluctuations, but his words were extremely imposing and intimidating, so in contrast, the high and low were immediately apparent. From Ji Lin’s indifferent gaze, it was as if Du Xinyi was not even worthy to carry his shoes.

A few words completely relieved Bai Duanduan’s embarrassment. After all, if Bai Duanduan directly refuted Du Xinyi herself, it would indeed seem that she was not professional at all and scene would have been like two women arguing at a market place, too ungraceful; but if she didn’t refute, it would have been really hard for her to suppress.

Du Xinyi threw a punch, but not only did it not hurt Bai Duanduan, instead it bounced back at full force to herself. She resented it inwardly, but if she continued to dwell on it, she would appear to be even more unprofessional, so she could only swallow her blood by gnashing out her teeth, and tried her best to bluff and explain to the personnel director of Guifeng Communications, “Lawyer Lin and I have sorted out this case a long time ago, and he was also the gatekeeper for the whole process. You can rest assured.”

Li Wanjun of Guifeng Communications obviously did not want to dwell on internal matters between the lawyers. She only nodded, glanced at Ji Lin again before taking everyone with her to the meeting room where the negotiations were to take place.

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Having lost face outside the meeting room, Du Xinyi couldn’t wait to get straight to the point as soon as she entered the meeting room in order to show her professionalism. She threw out the materials she had prepared earlier, “This is the personal information registration form that Miss Dai Qin filled out when she joined the company, and in the column of whether she was pregnant, she clearly ticked no.”

Du Xinyi’s hand moved to the end of the registration form and smiled, “And here, ‘I guarantee and promise that the above information is true, and if it is false, I am willing to bear all the consequences and responsibilities’, this sentence, which Miss Dai Qin personally transcribed and then signed turns out to be false on the entry registration form. According to the pregnancy ultrasound report that she used to call in sick afterwards, she was two months pregnant at the time she filled out this registration form.”

When confronted with the registration form, Dai Qin’s face turned pale and she only mumbled, “I….”

Bai Duanduan interrupted Dai Qin almost immediately, “Many women, because of carelessness or other reasons, do not even know they are pregnant long after they are pregnant. The back date of conceivement in the ultrasound report from the subsequent leave slips taken by Dai Qin does prove that Dai Qin was pregnant at the time of joining the company, but it does not prove that she knew she was pregnant and it doesn’t amount to subjective deception. This is all subjective conjecture and speculation on your part, and has had a considerable impact on my client’s reputation, but it simply does not prove that she provided incorrect information when writing the registration form, and to use this as an excuse to claim that the contract is void would be an illegal rescission.”

Dai Qin’s face was so ashamed and embarrassed that if Bai Duanduan hadn’t stopped her, she probably would have admitted her mistake and begged for mercy on the spot. But while it was true that Dai Qin had in fact concealed her flaws when she joined the company, in terms of negotiating tactics, a generous admission was a fool’s errand.