He Saved the Heir, Then Won His Heart novel · Chapter 21 of 56

Chapter 21: Verdict

The driver was a thin man with a bandaged hand and a three-day beard.

He sat across the steel table in the interview room and would not look at anybody but Xiao Chen.

"You're the one who walked away from the first one," he said hoarsely. "Six months ago. You were meant to die."

"I didn't."

"I know. I read it in the paper. I thought, that man is going to come for me."

"I'm not here for you," said Xiao Chen. "I'm here for whoever paid you."

The driver licked his lips.

"Cash. Twice. An envelope left under a bridge pillar, each time. But the first time, I saw the man hand it to the boy who gave it to me." He swallowed. "A tall man in a blue tie. He had a ring with a green stone."

Xiao Chen thought of a hand on a gearstick, and a ring catching the dashboard light.

"Will you say that in court on Friday?"

"If you keep me alive."

"The captain will," said Xiao Chen, and left.

On Friday the courtroom was so full that people stood along the walls.

The judge took her seat without a word.

Mrs. Shen had come in black, with her hair loose and her hands folded.

She was pale, and somehow more lovely than before.

When the clerk called the first witness, Chi Feng stood up from the second row and walked to the stand without a glance at anyone.

He put his hand on the book.

He wore the charcoal coat and the blue tie, and on his left hand was a ring with a green stone.

Shen Yan's hand closed around Xiao Chen's wrist, below the table, and held it.

"Mr. Chi," said Xiao Chen, standing. "Thank you for coming."

"Of course."

"On the seventeenth of April, you received three million two hundred thousand into a personal account. From whom?"

"A client. For legal work."

"What legal work?"

"That's privileged."

"It was paid into your personal account, not the firm's. On the same day as a collision on Bridge Road, in which a lawyer who worked for you was left for dead."

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