companion ghost

"I can not sleep!"

Ning Yuan, who had already been lying on the bed and wrapped himself round with a quilt, suddenly opened his round eyes and let out a loud cry.

The warm orange lamp by the bed was turned on, and Shen Lie's gloomy face appeared in front of Ning Yuan: "Do you know what time it is?"

Ning Yuan flattened his mouth: "But when I think about the trial tomorrow, I'm really nervous!"

Shen Lie was helpless: "Are you the prosecutor or am I the prosecutor? The emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuch." He poked Ning Yuan's waist through the quilt, "You are so anxious to death."

Ning Yuan: "..."

You are the eunuch!

Ning Yuan moved to Shen Lie's side like a big bug: "Is there no problem with the trial tomorrow?"

Shen Lie looked into his shining eyes, but did not answer directly: "We have witnesses, victims, and corpses."

"and then?"

"Then the battle will start," Shen Lie said, "Anything can happen on the battlefield, even if you don't sleep all night tonight, you still can't predict it."

"I know," Ning Yuan ruffled his hair irritably, "I know, I just...do you feel panicked?"

Shen Lie's heart sank: "You also feel this way?"

Ning Yuan slipped into the quilt, covered his face, and said in a muffled voice, "It's hard to say, I'm just a little flustered."

Shen Lie patted his stomach through the quilt: "Go to sleep, the court will be held tomorrow morning."

Seeing Shen Lie yawn, Ning Yuan obediently said, "Mmm, turn off the lights, good night!"

Shen Lie reached out and turned off the small desk lamp, watching Ning Yuan close his eyes, he also lay down.

After a while, Shen Lie opened his eyes again.Taking advantage of the moonlight faintly coming in through the gap in the curtains, he turned his head and saw that Ning Yuan's eyes were closed, his eyelashes were long and curled up, and he looked more well-behaved, cleaner, and better-looking than when he was awake.

Shen Lie just watched it for a while, and the panic in his heart calmed down a lot.He leaned over, paused at the position above Ning Yuan's kitten's mouth, and still burned a light and shallow kiss on his forehead, without any scruples about the cold feeling at that moment.Shen Lie's thin lips parted into a smile, said goodnight softly, then lay back to his original position and closed his eyes to sleep.

After a while, Ning Yuan opened his eyes, and there was no sleepiness in the obsidian pupils.He stretched out his hand to touch his forehead in a daze, and smiled, but Tian Sisi said without making a sound: "Good night."

Trial Chamber No. 1

"Mr. Osterley," Klein said with a smile on his handsome face, stood up from the lawyer's seat next to the dock, and asked Vincent who was sitting in the witness box, "Can you tell the jury what you are sitting on today? Is there a reason for being here?"

Vincent was well-dressed and polite. He turned slightly to the twelve jurors and said, "The New York Police Department arrested me for murder, abuse, kidnapping, child trafficking, and rape. I was charged with homicide, two counts of statutory rape, one count of second-degree kidnapping, one count of voluntary assault, and one count of child trafficking, but," he shrugged, "I have no idea why I'd be charged with any of this No calamity."

Klein approached him, and said again: "You know that you have every right not to appear in court, why did you decide to sit here and accept the judgment of so many people?"

"Because I want to prove my innocence," Vincent said with a cold smile, "and also want to prove what a big mistake the New York Police Department and the District Attorney's Office made: False accusations can ruin a Human."

Casey, who was sitting in the judging booth, snorted and said angrily to Dino, "What a fucking face is that?"

However, he seemed to have forgotten to lower his voice——

"Order!" Judge Parker tapped his hammer and stared at Casey seriously, "Officer Barron, if you make any noise in my court again, I will ask you to go out."

Casey was taken aback, and quickly stood up to admit his mistake to Judge Parker: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, I promise there will be no next time."

Dino looked at him helplessly, but from the corner of his eye, Vincent, who was facing Casey on the witness stand, looked at Casey with an expression of interest.

Klein continued to cross-examine: "Mr. Osterley, what is your relationship with Linda Swift?"

Vincent looked away: "Linda is my assistant, and we are subordinates at work."

"So," Klein said, "you don't know anything about Ms. Swift's private life?"

"Absolutely." Vincent replied firmly.

"Thank you, there is no other question." Klein returned to his seat after speaking, and said to Shen Lie as he passed by, "It's your turn."

Shen Lie had been sitting on the seat playing with the pen, and when it was his turn, he didn't get up in a hurry, but asked the first question with a half-smile: "Mr. Osterley, are you straight or gay? "

"Objection!" Klein stood up, "It has nothing to do with the case!"

"Your Honor," Shen Lie explained, "The defendant's sexual orientation is the key to the case."

Judge Parker looked at him. "I don't see the point, Prosecutor, ask your questions as soon as possible."

Shen Lie continued to ask: "Did you flirt with Officer Casey Barron when you first went to the Homicide Squad's office?"

Casey in the jury: "..."

Do you have to sell me like this?

Vincent laughed: "This has something to do with the case—"

Shen Lie interrupted him: "Yes, or not."

Vincent shifted his gaze to Casey again: "Yes, Officer Barron is very cute."

Casey: "..."

Are you fucking sick? !

Dino's hand was already clenched into a fist and made a loud noise.

"Then can I understand that you like men?"

Vincent admitted straightforwardly: "You don't need to understand, I'm gay. I didn't expect my cheating place to be on the witness stand."

His humor made quite a few jurors laugh.

"Very good," Shen Lie nodded, and stood up with a recording pen on the table, "Evidence No. 3, Linda Swift's testimony."

"Objection!" Klein stood up again, "Your Excellency, the witness has died unexpectedly. If this physical evidence is used, the defense will not have the opportunity to cross-examine it. This is not fair."

"Your Excellency," Shen Lie said solemnly, "the witness testified before his death, and the evidence has been handed over to the District Prosecutor's Office according to the procedure. The most important thing is that the cause of death of the witness is disputed and is under investigation , the witness had a conflict of interest with the defendant, and the witness died while the defendant was on bail, and we have reasonable doubts that the defendant killed the witness."

"Your Excellency, this is outrageous!" Klein no longer had a gentle smile, "If the prosecution has evidence to prove that the witness' death was related to my client, then my client should now be charged with an additional charge of interference with witnesses! "

Judge Parker raised his hand to signal to stop the quarrel, pondered for a moment, and said, "Prosecutor, you know that the defendant is presumed innocent without being charged. Please don't act so unprofessional next time," he said. Turning to the jury, "Jury, please ignore the witness tampering charge that the prosecutor just said."

"But again," Judge Parker added, "given that the testimony of this witness has passed the grand jury, I allow the testimony to be used as evidence."

Klein had no choice but to sit down.

Ning Yuan stood nervously on the side, already a bit confused about the direction of the trial.

Shen Lie had no way to explain it to him now, so he could only play Linda's testimony for a while, and after the broadcast was over, he started to ask again: "You and Linda have more than a work relationship, right?"

Vincent didn't speak.

However, Shen Lie turned to the jury and said, "Mr. Osterley, as a complete homosexual, why do you have a personal relationship with your female subordinate? Does this prove that your relationship with her exists? The meaning is to cover up your crime!"

Vincent looked at him coldly: "I don't know what you are talking about. I have nothing to do with Linda."

"Oh? Then why did you give her a mansion? After three months, it was returned to you for your own use but it was still written in her name? Isn't this proof that you used her as a shield!" Shen Lie was aggressive, "Not to mention Linda's name written on the formalities for buying and selling victim Louise!"

Vincent was speechless.

Shen Lie continued: "Stephen, that poor bruised victim rescued by the New York police officers from the dark room of your so-called Linda's mansion, his body is full of your DNA, and there are even some things in his body that you haven't cleaned up. Semen! You have been torturing this boy since ten years ago, sexual intercourse, sexual abuse, he was seven years old ten years ago! Is it the same as Louis who you killed and dumped? Because Louis has mental retardation and does not meet your requirements You just finished him off and threw him out like a piece of trash, right?!"

"be opposed to!"

Before Klein could say the reason for his objection, Shen Lie said coldly: "Withdraw. There is no problem."

Shen Lie returned to his seat, Klein stood up, and said to Judge Parker, "Apply to ask the question again, Your Excellency."

Judge Parker nodded.

Klein only asked one question: "Mr. Osterley, how would you describe the relationship between you and Stephen Leiter?"

Vincent said in a deep voice, "It's completely voluntary."

Gloria and Jerry were outside to accompany Stephen who was picked up from the hospital. Stephen's expression was very bad, and he didn't talk to them.After a while, he swiped away from the screen, opened the chat interface, edited a few words but never sent them.

Until the door of the interrogation room opened, the bailiff signaled that he could go in, Stephen clicked the send button as if making up his mind, stood up, and walked in with his weak body.

Stephen walked slowly to the witness stand and sat on it, but his eyes were still dull.

Ning Yuan looked at him, suddenly feeling empty.

Shen Lie also had this feeling, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth.He walked up to Stephen and softened his voice: "Stephen, do you know why you came here to testify today?"

Stephen answered without fluctuation: "Know."

"Good boy," Shen Lie continued to ask, "Look at the dock, did Vincent Osterly hurt you?"

Stephen was silent.

The uneasy feeling in Shen Lie's heart beat more violently, and he repeated the question again.

Stephen responded.

"No, he didn't hurt me," Stephen raised his head, his pale face was devoid of blood, but his lips were exceptionally bright, "He loves me, and I love him too."

The whole court fell silent.

Ning Yuan saw Shen Lie's tablet on the table turned on, he didn't care much, and rushed to unlock it.

Angel: Everyone is lying to me and I'm tired.

Angel: I shouldn't have trusted you, and I shouldn't have trusted the officers.

Angel: I have nothing but him.

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Breaking three thousand breaking three thousand!

Heck, please spare my life after this case is over...

Don't give up either...

Lie down and whip QAQ