In the name of love

When I was alone, looking at the screening report, I would suddenly be so terrified that I didn't know what to do, that kind of fear that my whole body was broken and I didn't know when I would die suddenly. "

He lowered his head, "What's more unbearable than this is the people around you, especially those who once liked you...the speculation about what you will think."

Ricky put one hand on his arm.

"I want to know the other person's thoughts, I want to confirm the other person's feelings... For this reason, knowing that it is not possible, I will still involuntarily approach the other party and test the other party. Can I still be loved? Am I still loved? ...Ming Knowing that the answer is likely to be no, I still keep trying to prove it.”

Ricky's words echoed in the courtroom.Standing in front of the defense bench, Yulu felt that the floor of the courtroom disappeared from under his feet in an instant, and he was falling, unable to touch the bottom or see the light.It wasn't until Ricky on the witness stand took another breath that Yulu suddenly returned to the courtroom.

"So if you ask me why I know, I can only tell you that I just know. Because I used to be exactly the same person as that person."

The atmosphere in the courtroom remained in a strange silence, Ricky bowed his head after speaking, and did not make any further statements.

The old judge in the middle turned to Ai Ting, "Does the prosecutor have any questions for this witness?"

Seeing Ai Ting standing on the prosecutor's seat, Yulu seemed to want to say something, but in the end she curled her lower lip.Yulu always felt that there was an unreadable trace of loneliness on Ai Ting's face.

"There are no other questions." Ai Ting rarely said in a low-key manner: "Thank you, sir."

Accompanied by the bailiff, Ricky walked back to the witness preparation room. Yuli watched his back for a long time, but Ricky didn't look back at him at all, and disappeared at the other end of the door.

Yulu had no choice but to go back to the defense bench and sit down. The excitement from the courtroom just now was still in his body. He saw Ji Lan approaching him.

"As expected of a senior, it's so wonderful." He said in a deeply emotional voice, with a complicated expression on his face.

Yulu was still a little flustered. To be honest, the string of words he said in the 10 minutes just now was almost all said in a state of feverish head. Not quite up.

In short, his teenager didn't suffer too much torture, at least he didn't leave crying.

That would be all right, and Yulu would feel more at ease.

"Even if it is proved that the defendant's colleagues did have such a bad behavior, so what?"

Ai Ting stood up from the prosecutor's seat, replaced Ricky and walked to the center of the room.

"The defense shouldn't have forgotten it, right? Let me remind the court that the only person who had anything to do with the murdered boy in this case was the defendant. The surveillance video showed that at the time when the crime happened, only the two of them were waiting at the same time." In the toilet. The semen stained on the victim’s body also clearly showed the defendant’s DNA type, these two points are unshakable.”

He snorted, "As for Lu Xing, except for the insufficient evidence presented by the defense, the intersection point with that boy is almost zero. The defense has not yet been able to prove that they met or had contact. The toilet did not leave any trace of Lu Xing's visit, let alone prove that this person is the murderer in this case."

Ji Lan opened her mouth as if to say something, but Ai Ting interrupted before him.

"One more thing." He said firmly, "According to the circumstances of the crime at the scene this time, the murderer's sexual assault on the boy was a one-off, and it was motivated by some kind of impulsiveness. The nature of the improvisation is quite strong."

Ai Ting said sternly.

"This is completely different from what the defense is trying to prove, the kind of crime that is planned for the purpose of infecting diseases, and requires a long-term lay-out to be established. Even if Lu Xing really has what the defense said The bad behavior that he committed was only limited to those teenagers in the past, and it is completely inapplicable in this case. If the defense cannot effectively explain this point, everything just now is just empty talk."

The court fell silent, and several judges were discussing in low voices.Yulu watched Ji Lan stand up from the defense seat, and carefully adjusted the collar of his suit.

"At the beginning of this case, the prosecutor narrated a story and used that story as the basis for the prosecution to charge the defendant with guilt."

As usual, Ji Lan nodded politely and gracefully.After bandaging and resting, Yulu heard that Ji Lan's voice was much more stable.

"So here, my dear court, after examining so much evidence, the defense wants to present a very different story."

As Ji Lan spoke, she picked up the projection remote control and turned on the screen placed in the corner of the courtroom again. The toilet that Yulu had seen many times and which caused this series of events appeared in front of everyone.

"Everything in this case happened in the toilet on the second floor of the west building, and the toilet is a confined space, and this toilet is mysteriously not used by anyone. Therefore, in the absence of strong witnesses and the victim himself was unable to testify , we can only bet everything on the only eye at the toilet door, that is, the surveillance video recorder proposed by the prosecution. And this has become the biggest blind spot in this case.”

"So the defense now wants to try to get out of the shackles of this eye, and let us re-examine this incident from another pair of eyes and another angle."

He spoke slowly, and Ai Ting snorted dissatisfiedly, but he didn't interrupt after all.Ji Lan spoke in a tone like telling a story.

"The incident happened on Wednesday, July [-] this year. The primary school was on summer vacation. Mrs. Wu, who unfortunately got into a wheelchair due to an accident, took the boy who left school early at noon, and went to the Youth Activity Center to participate in Rotary Club activities."

"Ms. Wu is the host of the Women's Rotary Club, and she is very busy with her affairs. After the boy arrived at the activity center, he took the skipping rope with him and went to the atrium platform on the second floor that he is usually familiar with to practice."

Ji Lan's voice was gentle and magnetic. Most people in the court quieted down and listened to Ji Lan's description quietly.

"On the morning of the same day, the defendant in this case, Ye Chang, and his colleague Lu Xing, who had a good relationship with him, were in charge of duty on Wednesday morning. Lu Xing was on duty on the same day, so he deliberately switched shifts with Li Fu who was originally in charge of Wednesday morning."

"At twelve o'clock at noon, Ye Chang and Lu Xing finished their shifts. After the two of them had dinner and chatted, Lu Xing told Ye Chang that it was time to go and leave the guard room."

"And as if by fate, around two o'clock in the afternoon, heavy rain fell in the sky that made everyone unprepared."

Yulu was startled, and Ai Ting also said the same thing when he initially stated the content of the prosecution.Only now, as if the movie switched scenes, in the same rain, the hero of the movie changed.

"The reason why Lu Xing left the guard room is because he regularly patrols the courtyard at noon every day, which can be seen from his patrol record sheet."

"And the reason why Lu Xing insisted on going to the atrium every Wednesday was because he wanted to meet that boy, because he knew that every Wednesday, there would be a lonely, thin boy playing alone in the atrium, and their meeting began. According to the boy's mother, the boy has a lively personality and is easy to get acquainted with others, and Lu Xing is also the youngest and most energetic of the guards, and they quickly became friends."

Ji Lan began to walk around the court, pointing her buttocks with her fingertips, pretending to be thinking.

"No, rather than being a friend, in the boy's eyes, Lu Xing is like his father who died young."

"The boy's father passed away when he was in his infancy. His father was less than thirty when he died, which was exactly the same age as Lu Xing. The boy always relied on his father's photos to recall him. Therefore, the family portrait in the boy's heart Here, my father is always so young, handsome and tall."

Ji Lan changed the screen while talking, and the picture of the toilet disappeared, replaced by the graffiti of the family portrait in the corner of the atrium. The boy in the picture smiled happily. Seeing that smile, Yulu suddenly felt distressed. .

"The bond between Lu Xing and the boy is like the painting left in the corner. As the days get deeper and deeper, it reminds Lu Xing of the time when he was like a father and son brother after the incident. He put him in his pen, Sending a picture like this to the boy's home to apologize for the boy he has hurt so deeply."

Ji Lan picked up the painting from the defense table and handed it to the judge.Yulu watched the three judges circulate it for a long time, and Judge Zhang watched it carefully, staring at the figure on it for a long time, and then raised his head after a long while.

"Because of this intersection, Lu Xing also wanted to go to the atrium to attend his children's appointment as usual that day, but not long after he stepped out of the guard room, it started to rain heavily outside. He went to the terrace of the atrium and stood where they usually play. on the balcony, but the boy was nowhere to be found.”

"Lu Xing had no choice but to go back to the guard room first. He was drenched all over, so he had to change his soaked clothes in front of Ye Chang and wring out his underwear to dry."

"For Ye Chang, who loves the same sex, this scene is rather too exciting. He left the guard room and rushed into the heavy rain to avoid such exciting scenes."

There was a slight discussion in the courtroom, Yulu saw Ye Chang in the dock lowered his head slightly, his face turned pale again.Even after going through these harsh trials, the exposure of the most intimate thoughts in the heart is really not something that can be accepted by habit.

Ji Lan was not affected by these commotions at all.