Difficult office romance

The scene was very embarrassing.

"Well, then let's...leave first, enjoy your meal, both of you." Mechanical language came out of Ke Ran's mouth automatically.

"Okay, goodbye." Cen Jing was not greatly affected.

"Let's go now. We haven't met another friend yet." The ex-boyfriend smiled, making it impossible to refuse.

"My name is Yuan Yuan. I am very happy today. Goodbye." Yuan Yuan's brain also stopped working.

"My name is Lu Qingyu, I'm very happy too, goodbye."

Ke Ran: "Who am I, where am I, and what just happened?"

Yuan Yuan: "You are Ke Ran, you are in City C, you just ran into your boss having dinner with his ex-boyfriend, um, fresh ex-boyfriend."

The two fled the restaurant quickly, sat in the rest area of ​​the shopping mall and finally came to their senses.

So, Cen Jing is crooked?

Yuan Yuan: "Cen Jing is not gay? Huh? I remember someone swearing at noon?"

Ke Ran: "I'm not me, don't talk nonsense without you."

Seeing that Ke Ran was still unable to communicate normally, Yuan Yuan patted his good friend on the shoulder, "But even if Cen Jing is crooked, it doesn't prevent you from admiring him, don't worry about it."

Ke Ran: "Yes."

Yuan Yuan: "Your boss's ability to work and lead will not be changed just because he likes men."

Ke Ran: "Yes."

Yuan Yuan: "He won't put on shoes for you just because you know about it."

Ke Ran: "Yes."

Yuan Yuan: "Even if he is crooked, he can make you a lot of money!"

Ke Ran: "Yes."

Yuan Yuan: "But he just broke up, so the efficiency may be lower."

Ke Ran: "Well, yes, he just broke up."

Yuan Yuan: "Understand, who hasn't broken up yet."

Ke Ran: "Then I have to comfort him."

Yuan Yuan: "It's good to understand, I don't think Cen Jing is the kind of person who needs external comfort."

Ke Ran: "How do you know my boss so well?!"

Yuan Yuan: "...I'll just say it casually, how do you want to comfort me?"

Ke Ran: "Use me to comfort you."

Yuan Yuan: "What did you say?!"

Ke Ran turned around, faced Yuan Yuan, and said seriously, "Use me to comfort him, heal him, and satisfy him."

Ke Ran, a newcomer to the firm, a trainee lawyer, and a senior partner assistant, suddenly had the ideal of becoming "the man behind the partner" today.

The ideal was shattered the next day.

Ke Ran found that his fear of heights could not be cured in the near future, and the snow lotus did not bloom at low altitudes. The reality was grim, and he could only have empty ambitions.

"Hahahahaha, Mrs. Gao, did you take the wrong medicine yesterday! I'm afraid you are stupid!! You are not afraid of being beheaded if you seek power and usurp the throne!" Yuan Yuan laughed at him all afternoon for this, and made a high-level conclusion: Bravery.

The summer in City C is full of humidity, and a walk outside can make you feel sticky all over your body. Lawyers go to and from filing cases, meeting, and holding court sessions, even driving to and fro.

It has been two weeks since I met Cen Jing and his ex-boyfriend for dinner, but since the incident, Ke Ran's "disharmony of body and mind" when facing Cen Jing has not been alleviated in the slightest.

Cen Jing was transparent, and seemed to be avoiding contact with Ke Ran alone as much as possible.

But Ke Ran, as Cen Jing's assistant, even though both parties tried their best to avoid it, the work contact is still beyond the cooperation between ordinary team lawyers.

It has become an unwritten rule among young lawyers to bring cold drinks to the team members when returning to the office at noon, but everyone quietly avoids the partners.

Ke Ran was still immersed in writing paperwork, when suddenly the table was knocked, and when he looked up, Cen Jing was standing in front of his desk with a briefcase under his arm and several glasses of iced Americano in both hands.

As the temperature rises, Cen Jing no longer wears a neat three-piece suit every day. It is often a dark shirt. He rolls up his cuffs when working and puts them down when he sees clients.

Ke Ran hurriedly stood up, helped Cen Jing carry the briefcase, and took the coffee from him, saying hello: "Cen Lu."

Cen Jing looked around, frowned slightly, and said, "Distribute the coffee to everyone, and then you come to my office, and I won't need mine." After speaking, he picked up his briefcase and turned into the own office.

When Cen Jing closed the office door and buried himself in work, everyone raised their heads.

"Say! Who revealed this rule to Cen Lu!" Ye Sa broke the eerie tranquility of the team.

Other colleagues echoed.

"Which strong man?"

"It's true that there are talents from generation to generation. Can the hero show his face?"

"I don't know if the other partners have seen it? Hahaha I hope I can learn from it."

"You can pull it down, Cen Lu is not stupid, he must have discovered it by himself."

"Cen Lu really has a pair of eyes that discover beauty!"

"I think Cen Lu is even more handsome."

Ke Ran didn't participate in their quiet discussion, and was silently distributing coffee to everyone, but when he turned around, he found that everyone's eyes were fixed on him.

"...It's not me thanking you."

After distributing the coffee, he found that there was one cup missing, but Ke Ran didn't care. It just happened that he had a bad stomach, so he drank one cup to keep safe.

Holding the notebook, Ke Ran knocked on the door and entered Cen Jing's office.

Cen Jing leaned against the desk, and was not in a hurry to start working. He signaled Ke Ran to sit down with his eyes, and said casually, "I owe you a cup of coffee, and you can charge it to the account."

Ke Ran was stunned for a moment before he realized that Cen Jing must have found that he had run out of coffee when he first entered the office, so he hurriedly said, "Cen Lu is fine, I have a bad stomach, and I don't drink coffee on weekdays. "

"Then what are you drinking? You're welcome. I miscalculated this time." Cen Jing asked.

"I really don't need Cen Lu, I'm not being polite." Ke Ran couldn't help sighing in his heart, Cen Jing really couldn't find fault with others.

Cen Jing: "Then shall I buy you milk next time?"

Ke Ran: "...milk?"

Cen Jing: "You look quite white."

Cen Jing raised his eyebrows and smiled.

Ke Ran's complexion is indeed fairer among boys, but this has nothing to do with milk.

Close the curtains and be an otaku, you can too.

Ke Ran only dared to mutter in his heart.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, you can find me when you want to drink, it is valid for three years."

Cen Jing smiled, sat across from Ke Ran, and said, "You are my assistant, can I treat you badly?"

Ke Ran nodded without answering, calm on the surface, panicking like a snow husky in his heart.

Is Cen Lu breaking up and letting himself go?

Is he trying to fuck me?

What did he see in me?

Could it be the skin color?

Or just want to use me to heal?

...It's kind of scumbag, but why do I still feel a little cool?

Cen Jing didn't know what was going on in Ke Ran's heart, so he ordered the work: "This is a new case, intentional murder, I'll give you all the materials, this time you read the materials first and then we can discuss the case, OK ?”

Ke Ran hurriedly returned to his senses: "OK Cen Lu, is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"The case is simple, but there is an autopsy report inside, can you...can you?"

Cen Jing was a little worried. Ke Ran had been working with him for more than a year, and this was the first time he asked him to analyze the autopsy report. It was always a bit disgusting for newcomers to come into contact with these.

"No problem, Cen Lu!" Ke Ran didn't feel worried at all, and was even a little excited.

"Okay, then go and see, we will discuss the case on Thursday afternoon." After finishing speaking, he still ordered: "Don't force it."

Ke Ran nodded, took the materials and left.

Ke Ran: Today's Cen Lu is also worthy of my being a bull or a horse for him!

Ke Ran did not expect this case to be like this.

The defendant is 73 years old and has been investigated for intentional homicide?

There are not many words in the column of "brief case or report record" on the case registration form, but this does not prevent Ke Ran from discovering the key words "surrender", "blunt weapon" and "death" in the first place.

and "wife".

One afternoon, the defendant had a quarrel with the victim. The victim wanted to attack the defendant in a fit of anger, but ignored the basic physical fitness gap between men and women. He made a pounding stick and hit the victim's face several times, eventually causing death.

The defendant protected the crime scene very well, the facts found and the description were correct, the information in the interrogation transcript was correct, the procedure was proper, and the supporting evidence was complete. In less than an hour, Ke Ran had already gone through it.

Cen Jing said that this case is simple, probably referring to the facts of the case.There are not many places to scrutinize, and even the materials involved are much less than other intentional homicide cases.

Ke Ranben was planning to spend this afternoon on the case, but he didn't expect to finish the materials so quickly.

In fact, there is still a gap. He once expected it, but now he dare not touch it.

It stands to reason that such expectations should not be expected, death is a heavy matter, the autopsy report is only one type of evidence, and the purpose of my own inspection can only be to find out the truth of the case, the attitude towards this document is the same as There should be no difference in the treatment of interrogation transcripts and interrogation transcripts.But young lawyers who choose criminal as their professional direction have no passion.

Who doesn't want to go calm and stand at the high point of professionalism to return the deceased's innocence.

So Ke Ran was a little excited when he heard Cen Jing say that the autopsy report needed to be analyzed for this intentional homicide case, but when he wanted to open the report after knowing the facts of the case, he felt that the left mouse button was heavy.

"What's the matter, Ke Ran?" Ye Sa, who loves to fish, was the first to find out that Ke Ran had stopped working.

Seeing that Ke Ran didn't respond to him, thinking that the other party had encountered a professional problem, Ye Sa slid the chair and moved to Ke Ran's side to see what question he had doubts about.

Ye Sa: "The autopsy report? Don't dare to read it?"

Only then did Ke Ran come back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "No, no, I dare not look at it."

Ye Sa thought he was afraid, and comforted him: "Don't feel embarrassed, this is the first time you've watched it, right?"

After finishing speaking, he looked up at Cen Jing's office, lowered his voice and said, "It's always a little psychologically uncomfortable to read it for the first time, but once you get used to it, you don't feel anything. Let me tell you quietly, Boss Cen still doesn't dare to read the autopsy report. , We helped him analyze the previous ones."

Ke Ran originally wanted to deny it, but was suddenly shocked by the last sentence.

Cen Jing, is there anything you dare not?

Obviously, he has a face that can still eat after witnessing the car accident, which is a bit of a contrast.

Ke Ran: "If you tell me this, aren't you afraid that Cen Lu will silence you?"

Ye Sa: "There's nothing to be afraid of, Cen Lu has handled so many intentional homicide cases, everyone knows it well, see through it without telling it~"

Ke Ran: "But I didn't know that before."

Ye Sa: "You will know one day. I just helped you exercise your right to know in advance. Besides, everyone is a lawyer. There are too many people who can't get over this hurdle. Why should Cen Lu stand up in front of you?" To save face, you are not his girlfriend. Come, Lawyer Ye will show you the report." After Ye Sa finished speaking, he reached out to help Ke Ran open the autopsy report.

Ke Ran was in a trance for a moment, it seemed that Cen Jing's sexual orientation was not made public, and suddenly an emoji floated in his mind, haha, unexpected.When he came back to his senses, Ye Sa had crossed over the basic situation, scanned the case brief, and seemed to understand the reason why Ke Ran refused to open the autopsy report just now.

Ye Sa spoke again with a more serious tone: "You know, Ke Ran, since you have chosen criminal defense, you will face all kinds of cases, such as those who murdered your mother and father, those who raped your children, and those who turned against each other. Yes, the facts of the case can always refresh our understanding of feelings, but I hope you can still believe in its good side."

Ye Sa suddenly became so serious and Ke Ran suddenly felt uncomfortable. In fact, who doesn't understand these truths?He wasn't very depressed either, just a little bit of psychological discomfort, but he still responded seriously: "I know, I understand."

Ye Sa flipped through the summary of the prosecution case, tapped Ke Ran on the head with his free hand, and continued: "What I'm going to say next is the key point, listen carefully. Human feelings will be felt as long as you are alive, but don't remember too much." Deep, forget it once you experience it. Do you know what I mean? You never know what the people walking in front of you are thinking, and holding flowers in your hand doesn’t mean your heart is soft.”

"You're a lawyer, you have to be neutral."

Ke Ran didn't answer the question. It is very difficult to remain neutral. Before he came into contact with practice, he thought he could be independent, but only after handling the case did he realize how difficult it is to make a free judgment.

Ye Sa didn't care, and took Ke Ran to read the autopsy report: "Professional autopsy reports are full of various physical and chemical indicators and anatomical descriptions, and only a very small number of lawyers with medical foundation can really understand. What we need to seriously examine is the identification Whether the opinion is consistent with the clinical data and the visual inspection."

As he spoke, Ye Sa began to slide the mouse to scroll down: "In this case, although the victim's head had multiple facial skin abrasions with an area of ​​more than 2.0 square centimeters, the fatal injury was above the center of the eyebrows, and the skull had suffered a depressed fracture. ..."