No matter how much she felt that she could not hold on, the next second, she was still holding on, thinking, body, memory, and every tiny pain was so clear.

The light of the desk lamp hit Ju Nian's face, and the strong brightness made her unable to open her eyes. After she said the sweet address and the appearance of the hotel owner who had met, several police officers, including Officer Huang, started a low discussion in the other corner. She couldn't hear it, and she was unable to listen, and she was almost exhausted. She thought that she would either die now or collapse and go crazy directly, which would be a good way to relieve herself. The worst thing would be, then faint. But no matter how much she felt that she could not hold on, the next second, she was still holding on, thinking, body, memory, and every tiny pain was so clear.

She felt someone walking to her side, slightly turned off the angle of the lamp, and then there was another whisper, someone walked out and some stayed.

She spent a long time letting her painful eyes adapt to the light, and there were no longer uniformed policemen in the room, but instead, a woman sitting quietly beside her.

That's Prosecutor Cai.

"If you are tired, it's good to eat something first and drink some water."

Only then did Ju Nian realize that she had a piece of cake and a bottle of milk on her hand. She almost drank the milk in one breath and chewed the sweet cake. However, when the food was swallowing down her throat, the feeling of being alive came back little by little.

She felt desolate about this, and the deep despair and extreme sorrow could not stop the feeling of hunger.

She is alive, who keeps her alive?

"Ji Nian, can I call you Ju Nian." Prosecutor Cai's voice was so gentle. Is this the person in the courtyard who is known as the decisive woman?

Ju Nian didn’t answer, it didn’t matter what he called.

"They are all out. I want to talk to you alone, not as a position, but as an elder, are you willing?"

Ju Nian swallowed her last bite, and her face turned red and began to cough violently. Prosecutor Cai gently stroked her back.

"Ju Nian, he told me about what you and Han Shu were doing. Han Shu's stupid child has never suffered since he was a child and has been spoiled by us. I am also a woman, and I hate the things he did to you. But after all, Han Shu's love for you is true. I watched him grow up. He has always been a good child. Even if he is occasionally confused, he is definitely not a person who plays with feelings. He is used to being happy. I have never seen him care so much for someone..."

"Prosecutor Cai, just say it just right, those... those words just now don't need to be said."

"Do you know me? When you left the compound, you were still young and became so beautiful when you grew up. Your dad and I were colleagues, so you can call me Aunt Cai. What I want to say is that things have happened. Although they are not satisfactory, there must be a solution, especially now you are facing such a thing... Han Shu insists on being a witness to you. I looked at your transcript just now, and you haven't said that you were with him last night. At this point, I really appreciate you. I also know that it is very painful for a girl like you to reveal those things. Besides, your parents are decent people. If they knew, what would they think?"

Prosecutor Cai mentioned Ju Nian's parents, and Ju Nian felt hard to tell. Prosecutor Cai sat opposite her, with a kind face and soft voice, and looked like a mother. Unfortunately, her mother was not like this. The person sitting opposite was someone else's caring elder. Ju Nian was reluctant to let her parents be ashamed. She knew that her parents wanted face and were most afraid of being stabbed by others. She caused such a disaster and was destined to be their good daughter. However, the police had called her family a few hours ago, and they had not appeared until now.

Even if you come here and slap her, it would be fine, but no one came.

"Ji Nian, I think you are the same. I hope to pay the smallest price to get rid of this predicament. Han Shu testified is not a good idea, whether it is for you or for him. I will find someone to contact him as soon as possible. I have many acquaintances in this regard. You can rest assured that I know you are innocent and will try my best to find a way to get rid of you."

Seeing that Ju Nian was silent, Prosecutor Cai took out a set of girls' clothes he bought from the nearest department store from the bag, including underwear, shoes and socks.

"It looks bad enough, how can you feel comfortable when you wear it? This matter cannot be resolved for a while. I told them to change your clothes and take a break. After all, they are a girl, not a bad thing. They have to use some clothes as evidence to test... Go, Ju Nian, don't be unable to get along with yourself. The place where you change clothes is the temporary bathroom of the female police officer, and wash your body by the way..." Prosecutor Cai finished speaking softly, gently putting the thing in Ju Nian's arms.

Ju Nian curled her lips in a difficult way: "Are you afraid I will sue him?"

Her voice was too low, and Prosecutor Cai did not listen carefully at first.

"What?"

"You have said so much and asked me to change the bath. I'm just afraid that I will sue Han Shu for rape."

Han Shu is happy, and there are always people running for him. Some things, some people have, some people don’t. Some people ask for it but cannot get it, and some people abandon it if they are ruined. If you have to give an explanation, it is fate.

"Do you want to sue him?" After all, he was used to the storm. Prosecutor Cai was surprised but calmly asked.

Ju Nian said word by word: "Don't I sue him?"

Prosecutor Cai was silent for a moment and smiled: "You are a smart girl, and it's not in vain that Han Shu likes you. Since that's the case, I'm not afraid to tell you clearly that there are many embarrassment and blind spots in the sex crime laws in our country. Even if you deliberately sue, how to provide evidence? You said that you had a relationship with Han Shu involuntarily, but who knows that you have scars on your body? As for drinking wine and being unconscious, did you drink the wine voluntarily? Have you ever struggled with Han Shu in the car and into the hotel? Are you sober and resisting in the middle of the relationship? Can Han Shu understand that you were willing? If not, how do you prove it?"

"Prosecutor Cai, if you want to tell me, the law can't help me, right?" Ju Nian smiled slightly.

"Child, the law is a criterion, but it is not God. If you can't win, you know that Han Shu's family's situation is not good, except for ruining you, making your parents even more uncomfortable, and making you lift your scars again and again. Because he regrets, and because of his sincerity to you, Ju Nian, let him go and yourself."

Ju Nian looked at Prosecutor Cai with empty eyes. When they looked at him, Prosecutor Cai felt that those eyes were passing through him and looking at another world.

After a long time, Ju Nian did not push away the clothes in her hand. Prosecutor Cai felt relieved. She knew that she had convinced the girl.

"You are drunk and afraid that your parents will scold you and dare not go home. You forced yourself into the taxi and moved into the Sweet Mimi Hostel. You left at nearly seven o'clock. Because you were worried about Wu Yu, you found Lin Henggui's small shop, called to save him, and then found Wu Yu in the Martyrs Cemetery. You advised him to surrender, but he refused. The two of you started arguing. Han Shu, who had played all night games in the Internet cafe, went to the suburbs to get some breath. When she saw her classmates, she was worried that something would happen to you, a girl, and followed her behind to the Martyrs Cemetery. She found Wu Yu who was about to escape, so she stepped forward to stop him. Wu Yu fell ill and rolled down the stairs. This is the whole fact."

Perhaps it was destined to be like this. The sweet boss disappeared on the day of the incident. It is said that he was a gambling person. He had an addiction to gambling and went to a certain stronghold for ten days. He would not come back if he didn't lose the last penny.

Before the key witness of the case was found, Wu Yu was dead, as the only suspect in Lin Henggui's robbery case in the early morning of August 14, Ju Nian was arrested by the public security organs on suspicion of robbery. After investigation and comparison, her fingerprints, footprints and socks stained with Lin Henggui's blood were consistent with the collected ones at the crime scene. In addition, nearby vegetable farmers easily identified Ju Nian's back from a group of girls of the same age during the criminal identification procedure, and Lin Henggui's statements were also confirmed on the hospital bed. Ju Nian's situation was not optimistic. At the same time, Prosecutor Cai spared no effort to use his connections to assist the police in finding the hostel owner. Except for Han Shu and Ju Nian, no one knew why she was so dedicated to a girl who was not familiar with.

During the detention period, Han Shu asked several times to visit Ju Nian, but was rejected. The clothes, daily necessities, books, letters he sent to it were all returned intact. Except for a photo taken by Fang Zhihe during the badminton competition, the photos included Han Shu, Ju Nian, Wu Yu and Chen Jiejie.

Han Shu indirectly heard that Chen Jiejie ran away from home again and was caught by her family before she could leave City G. For a long time, no one had seen her again, and no one had any news about her. She evaporated from people's sight like a drop of water.

A month later, Prosecutor Cai and the hotel owner who failed to find the police unexpectedly took the initiative to find the police. He said that he heard his family mention this matter and agreed to be a witness for the case. At this time, the evidence collection work for the case was basically over and it was formally tried in the Chengxi District Court of the City.

Before the trial, Han Shu could not let go of the big stone in his heart and repeatedly asked Prosecutor General Cai: "Godmother, is he reliable?"

Prosecutor Cai said: "That guy is a ruthless guy, he only has money in his eyes. But don't worry, I have prepared everything I should give. He also initially admitted that he did say hello to Ju Nian that morning, and he still left an impression."

On the day of the trial, not many people came. Even Ju Nian's parents were not present. From the day when Ju Nian had the accident, they claimed to have severed relations with this daughter from now on and thought she was dead. This was just an ordinary case of a teenager with nothing on the side robbing a mediocre shop owner, stabbing someone, and then falling to death during the escape. It was not eye-catching and did not occupy much place in the tabloids that reported news about rooster eggs every day. The remaining Ju Nian lived in a forgotten corner. Except for her new identity as a Renmin University student, which had briefly attracted discussion, people quickly forgot about this matter, or never remembered it.

How insignificant the love, hate, disputes, reluctance, desire, blood and tears are in the big world.

After a month of detention, Ju Nian stood alone in the dock, giving people the only feeling of "light", light eyebrows, light expression, and light body. You look at her, and clearly at the most focus of the entire court, it is more like a gray and blurry shadow, as if a gust of wind is about to turn into smoke.

All the cumbersome procedures before were like a revolving lantern. The presiding judge announced the list of members of the collegial panel, clerks, prosecutors, defense lawyers, appraisers and powers of all parties, and the prosecution and defense parties made a statement.

Ju Nian did not hire a lawyer. Her defense lawyer was a young man arranged for her by Prosecutor Cai. The defense lawyer and the prosecutor debated whether Ju Nian had exact evidence of absence during the period of around 5 a.m. on August 14. Then, with the permission of the court, the owner of Sweet Mimi Hostel appeared on the witness stand.

"Zhang Jinmin, at around 7 a.m. on August 14, 1997, did you see with your own eyes the defendant Xie Juinian in this case walk out of the door of the Sweet Hostel you run, and confirm that she had never left after checking in the hostel the night before."

The hostel owner named Zhang Jinmin squinted his eyes and looked at Ju Nian for a long time: "It looks a bit like."

A silly whisper came from the few auditoriums.

"What's going on? What does it mean? "Han Shu grabbed his godmother's arm nervously and confusedly.

Prosecutor Cai also showed some confusion.

"It's a bit like? In your confession to the public security organs before, did you confirm that you did say hello to the defendant and said good morning to each other?"

The hostel owner laughed dryly: "Anyone who walks out of my hotel before 12 am will say 'morning'."

"I'll ask again, can you be sure that she had walked past you at that time?" asked the prosecutor.

Han Shu held his breath.

"There are not a hundred or dozens of people living in sweet honey every day. There are colleges nearby, and there are many girls of this age. How can I remember each one clearly? I dare not call 100% of the 100% discount."

Ju Nian in the dock also slowly straightened her waist and looked at the man named Zhang Jinmin intently.

“So do your hostel have relevant accommodation records?”

Zhang Jinmin smiled again: "Haha, I don't need to record my place. But I didn't have to remember it. I looked at it that night and there was no girl who stayed alone. The policeman also knew about it."

"Do you mean that you can't prove that the person who walked past you at 7 a.m. on August 14 was Xie Juinian himself in the dock."

It seemed like a century later, Zhang Jinmin replied: "There is really no guarantee."

Ju Nian seemed to hear a whimper in her throat, and she died in her heart before she could even make it happen, and her tightly wrapped fingers loosened one by one.

In the corner of the auditorium, there were two middle-aged men and women dressed in bright clothes. Ju Nian had a very good memory. She could still recall the madness and anxiety of the parents who had lost their beloved daughter running down the stairs at a birthday party.

Ju Nian understood that it was either her or her.

This fateful multiple-choice question never ends.

So Zhang Jinmin suddenly had no way to prove it.

...

Han Shu was about to stand up almost immediately. Prosecutor Cai, who was beside him, pressed him tightly.

"What are you doing?" She squeezed out a few words from her teeth.

"She is innocent, I shouldn't have listened to you!" Han Shu was sweating all over his face.

"It's too late. Can the court accept your words now?"

"She will go to jail..." Han Shu's tears rolled down without warning.

"Han Shu, be rational, control yourself, don't be impulsive. Think about your father, think about your future, your future..."

Han Shu's sister Han Lin graduated from Belgium and married the locals without saying a word. She quickly got pregnant and claimed to be a housewife from now on. This added a lot of white hair to Dean Han, who has always been proud of his daughter. He once thought that his daughter had inherited all his strengths and was the best to take over his legacy, but Han Lin, who had been extremely outstanding since childhood, accidentally broke his heart and actually got pregnant, so that his parents could learn that she was married. On the morning of the court day, Han Shu went out before he went out and heard his parents talking in the room. The mother comforted Dean Han not to get angry. Dean Han's voice seemed to have been several years old. He said: "Fortunately we have a waiter, and the child has become more and more like me in recent years."

Han Shu never heard such words from his father. It was the first time he received recognition from his father's pressure and his sister's halo in 18 years. He felt that since childhood, he tried his best to be an outstanding person, and all the costs he paid were not bitter. As long as Ju Nian was fine, his life would be a perfect small universe.

"Han Shu, don't move, don't do things that make you regret..."

My godmother said something else, and seemed to have said a lot, and she never spoke again.

In such a huge court, all the people and props are like the blurry background in the photo, only one of them is vivid - Ju Nian.

At this moment, Han Shu suddenly felt extremely eager to look at Ju Nian at him. With just one glance, a look, or even no dialogue, he had the power to subvert everything and the reason to abandon everything.

But she didn't, he knew, not for a second.

Although she knew he was there.

The defense lawyer is especially persisting in his duty to excuse Ju Nian.

"In a hotel like Sweet Mimi, very few girls would stay alone. Is there really no one else who can prove that you stay there that night? Xie Juinian, think about it carefully."

There was a silence in the court.

The empty and clear sound of the Orange Year echoes in it.

"I don't remember."

Han Shu leaned dejectedly on the back of the chair and closed his eyes for a long time.

A week later, the court formally pronounced a sentence that Xie Junian threatened to be convicted of robbery and shelter, sentenced to five years in prison and deprived of political power for one year.
To be continued...