The premise of breaking up in Tokyo

Mr. Kudo was detained by the police at the Shinjuku Ward Police Station.

Katsuhiko is unaware that his father-in-law broke Sato Hiroji's leg.

Before going with his legal wife, Sayuri, and his mother-in-law, he made a special trip back to the home of his other legal wife, Mikoto, and drove his silver-gray Mazda there, also inviting his girlfriend, Eiyo, along.

Yingdai is a law student and has a lawyer's license that she has never used.

Mr. Kudo has just been arrested and is not allowed to see anyone who is not a lawyer.

Katsuhiko wasn't worried that Mr. Kudo would suffer any severe punishment. Although Mrs. Kudo didn't explain the details, Katsuhiko could roughly guess the reason: they simply couldn't withdraw the money.

There have been many news reports of bank employees committing suicide recently, and theft by misappropriating depositors' fixed deposits has become almost public knowledge, causing the country to lose its credibility.

Mr. Kudo has no criminal record and has always been a law-abiding citizen. He is a truck driver and a very law-abiding citizen.

According to Mrs. Kudo's assessment of her husband: He works very hard, doesn't spend money recklessly, and apart from flirting with other women behind my back, he has never done anything wrong...

Katsuhiko's current plan is to have his girlfriend, Eiyo, go to the police station to talk to her father, Mr. Kudo, and ask her for the details.

As for Katsuhiko himself, after getting the details, he went to find the section chief whose leg had been broken and who had been sent to the hospital, and talked to him about paying less compensation.

But with a broken leg, the starting price would be eight million yen, right? My father-in-law acted rashly and impulsively…

From the moment he got into the car, Yingdai clutched a small handbook about criminal procedure law.

Her mind went blank.

Aside from legal issues, she also felt guilty towards Sayuri's family. She didn't want to meet Sayuri unless necessary, let alone her parents... If her relationship with Katsuhiko were discovered, her whole family would probably tear her apart.

Her father even broke someone's leg; how brutal...

In recent days, Yingdai has been terrified by the violent gangs that are chasing him for debts.

"Mother-in-law, don't worry," Katsuhiko said, one hand on the steering wheel, the other holding Sayuri's hand in the passenger seat, glancing at the rearview mirror.

"Eiyo is a very professional lawyer. She studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo, ranked first in her class, graduated a year early, and was awarded a major prize by the president himself. Last year, she also studied at the Judicial Research Institute of the Supreme Court... Letting Eiyo handle this matter is as easy as eating and drinking. My father-in-law will not have any responsibility at all, and he will not even have a criminal record."

Mrs. Kudo suppressed her tension, which seemed to ease her mind. Then, in a humble manner, she grasped Eiyo's hand. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes were full of pleading.

Yingdai didn't say anything, but nodded stiffly.

Eiyo was completely at a loss for words; Katsuhiko's boasting was simply too much...

What about the University of Tokyo? That's just an ideal... I'm just a graduate of a bottom-tier, third-rate university. Getting my lawyer's license is already a remarkable achievement.

After failing the bar exam five times in a row, he took it for the sixth time and scored 81 out of 100, barely passing... He still can't find a job, and is working in a factory while living off his parents, pretending to be a lawyer...

"Don't be nervous, drink a bottle of water to calm down."

After getting off the bus, Sheng Yan unscrewed the cap of a bottle of mineral water mixed with [Focus Potion] and handed it to Ying Dai.

Eiyo wanted to grab Katsuhiko's hair and ask him, "What are you up to by letting me meet Sayuri's family? And you've put such a big label on me. Do you know how panicked I am right now?"

However, after seeing the expectant looks in Xiaobaihe and her mother's eyes, she didn't dare to act recklessly in front of them. She just silently grabbed the mineral water bottle, tilted her head back, and drank it down.

She wanted to quickly review the legal knowledge she had painstakingly crammed into her brain during those late nights of studying, knowledge that had now become hazy...

pat!

The mineral water bottle that Yingdai had just finished drinking from fell to the ground.

The tension she had been hiding in her eyes vanished instantly, replaced by calmness, confidence, and detachment...

"What's wrong?" Sheng Yan picked up the water bottle, then tilted his head to glance at her face.

Yingdai didn't speak, but glanced at Shengyan with a "looking down" attitude, then suddenly tossed her chin up into the air, creating a gust of wind, and strode towards the detention cell.

After Eiyo went inside, Mrs. Kudo and Sayuri held hands and sat down in the waiting room, while Katsuhiko stood by the glass window, peering inside through the glass.

In the detention cell, Mr. Kudo looked to be around forty-five or forty-six years old. He was wearing a simple gray work uniform, had dark skin, a short buzz cut that revealed his scalp, a square face, thick eyebrows, and a rather honest appearance.

Look at the thickness of his muscular forearms; they're almost as thick as Yingdai's neck.

He is now holding his head in his hands, looking very annoyed and regretful.

Yingdai appeared very calm, even crossing his legs with a smile on his lips.

They couldn't hear what was being said inside, but when Eiyo got up to say goodbye, Mr. Kudo's anxious face was filled with gratitude. He nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and kept bowing to Eiyo...

When the detention cell door opened, Yingdai walked out with her chin held high.

Little Lily, supporting her mother, quickly went to meet them.

Eiyo glanced at Katsuhiko, a smile appearing on her lips before quickly concealing it. She then turned to Sayuri and Mrs. Kudo and gave them a few instructions.

The gist of the instruction was to have them go home immediately to prepare their household registration transcripts, employment certificates, and personal details.

It is mainly used to deal with possible detention orders issued by prosecutors, and then after they receive the materials, they go directly to the gate of the prosecutor's office to wait.

Eiyo said that after she takes Katsuhiko to the hospital, finds the guy who was beaten and gets a letter of forgiveness, she will also go directly to the prosecutor's office...

If everything goes smoothly and the lightest penalty is imposed, he could be released in as little as 5 days.

The hospital was quite far away, so Sheng Yan drove Ying Dai there, while Xiao Bai He and her mother took a taxi home.

"Just five days," Yingdai said, sitting in the passenger seat. She placed her five long, slender fingers on Shengyan's face, her little finger tapping his ear canal. "If he doesn't come out in five days, I'll go in."

Yingdai smiled, revealing a set of pearly white teeth. The morning sunlight shone into her smiling eyes... Red lips, white teeth, and delicate features, right?

"So confident?" Since he was driving, Sheng Yan let her scratch his face and continued, "Then let's interview you, this great lawyer, about your thoughts on helping your boyfriend's wife's father."

Yingdai's smile suddenly froze, then she frowned, closed her eyes, and leaned back in her seat with a thud, saying, "I now have the means to make a comeback, so you'd better treat me well from now on, or I'll... I'll dump you..."

Yingdai was almost blindly confident, his mind was incredibly clear.

She didn't know why, maybe she suddenly had an epiphany...

The legal knowledge I had previously studied, all the cases, and various defense arguments were frantically growing in my mind, giving me a sense of dominance, like I could "turn black into white and white into black."

She even had an irresistible urge to learn; she wanted to learn all the legal knowledge and become an "all-around lawyer," handling civil, criminal, administrative, family, labor, corporate, and even international cases...

As for her current relationship with Katsuhiko, she suddenly felt that it wasn't so unfair after all.

Because even if I leave him, I can survive on my own. I can just find a law firm that's about to go bankrupt and become its pillar.

That means our relationship is no longer one of dependence. I could have left, but I chose not to; I stayed on my own initiative… I can't wait to ask him to go to the movies with me…

"Hey, why aren't you saying anything?" Eiyo Teruhiko punched his thigh. "Don't you want to know who the victim is? How badly was he beaten? Will he try to extort money? Will you be able to get a letter of forgiveness from him? Don't you care at all?"

"With a great lawyer like you here, what do I have to worry about? I'll leave everything to you."

Katsuhiko gave a perfunctory reply, then continued, "After I take you to the hospital, I need to take Kotoha to the medical center for a checkup, retrieve Kenta's death certificate and body, and prepare for the funeral."

Yingdai's mysterious smile froze once again. He slapped his forehead, shook his head, and, as if to perk himself up, said:

"Then I'll go see him myself. It was Sato Hiroji who got beaten up. Even if I cripple him, I can still get a letter of forgiveness from him. After all, he's always suspected I have evidence of his murder..."

Eiyo was also somewhat annoyed. She had only overheard the phone call, but had no concrete evidence and only a clue about "Yamagishi-kun". Now that three years had passed, it was probably useless.

After all, they had no idea who the deceased was, given the sheer number of suicides in recent years…

When Katsuhiko heard that it was Sato Hiroji who had his leg broken, he was surprised but also pleasantly surprised, it was really fate.

Originally, Hiroji Sato had conflicts with Eiyo, Kotoha, and Mikoto, and now Sayuri's father has been added to the list.

Now that his leg has been broken, he shouldn't have a chance to cause me any more trouble, right?

Of course, we can't let our guard down. So let's take advantage of this time to quickly integrate our resources and collect as much evidence of his crimes as possible... Yamagishi-kun?

Katsuhiko dropped Eiyo off at the hospital entrance and drove away.

Yingdai went to a printing shop, bought a voice recorder, hid it in her pocket, and then, based on the information given by the police, coldly knocked on Sato Hiroji's hospital room door.

Hiroji Sato was admitted to a VIP ward, his left leg in a cast, hanging high above the headboard.

At that moment, he was tilting his head, mouth open, biting the apple slices that the nurse was handing him with a toothpick.

The moment Eiyo stepped into the room, Hiroji Sato froze, opened his mouth to look at Eiyo, a fleeting look of joy flashing in his eyes, before tilting his head again and biting into the apple slice.

"Yo, long time no see." Sato Hiroji chewed on an apple, trying hard to suppress his excitement, and continued, "I really didn't expect that you would be the first to visit me. How did you know I broke my leg?"

"I am Mr. Kudo's lawyer, Hideyo Watanabe."

With a cold expression, Yingdai quietly turned on the recorder.

Sato Hiroji's expression clearly froze for a moment. He waved the nurse away, had her close the ward door, then laughed and said, "You found a job? Congratulations! Are you going to get a letter of leniency?"

Yingdai didn't speak, but stared at him coldly.

Sato Hiroji said smugly, "If you agree to remarry me, I might consider it."

I have a boyfriend.

Sato Hiroji's face suddenly stiffened, and he blurted out, "Who is it?!"

"My boyfriend and I have a very good relationship."

With a cold smile, Eiyo placed the letter of understanding and a ballpoint pen on the bedside table, then glanced at Sato Hiroji and said, "We've reached the point where we can talk about anything."

The main objective now is to obtain a letter of understanding. If we directly use the claim that we "have evidence of his crimes" to blackmail him, the letter of understanding will be invalid. We should try to avoid creating unnecessary complications. Of course, if he talks about it voluntarily, then we can't blame anyone else.

Sato Hiroji suddenly blushed, his eyes turning red, his teeth grinding together, and stared at Eiyo, asking, "Who...who is your boyfriend?"

There was a heart-wrenching sense of oppression...

With a cold smile, Yingdai pushed the letter of understanding toward him and said, "This is my personal privacy."

"Is it Katsuhiko Takenaka?!" Hiroji Sato slammed his fist on the bedside table and yelled, "He's a gigolo! You'll be fooled by him! They only care about money!"

"I'm only here today for this one thing. I'll leave after we've talked." Yingdai paused for a moment, tapped the letter of understanding lightly with her index finger, and continued, "If you have no objections..."

"You heartless woman, I can't sign this!" Sato Hiroji swept the letter of understanding to the ground, shouting in a tearful voice, "Unless you break up with him!"

Eiyo also wanted to yell at Sato Hiroji, "No wonder he's so good, he's a professional, much better than you!" Of course, she couldn't forget the purpose of her visit today...

He immediately picked up the letter of understanding and said, "Although I only just found out he's a gigolo, I still need to verify it myself. I can't just believe what you say. Also, don't use my personal feelings as a bargaining chip. If you're sure you won't sign, then I'll take my leave."

Eiyo's ambiguous words seemed to give Sato Hiroji a glimmer of hope.

The Yingdai he knew was someone who hated evil as if it were her enemy. She couldn't tolerate anything related to illegality or crime, after all, she had been preparing for the bar exam for several years... Otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten a divorce, right?

As for the issue of male prostitutes, it naturally involves fraud, loan sharking, and forcing women into prostitution... Such illegal and criminal acts would definitely lead Yingdai, with her strong sense of justice, to break up with the man and report him... As for why he didn't report her, that must be true love!

"Do you want a private investigator?"

Hiroji Sato took out a business card from his pocket, handed it over, and said, "Mr. Oshima is the private investigator I trust the most. He is not only professional, but also very ethical."

Ying raised an eyebrow, took the business card, and put it in the folder. Then she placed the letter of understanding on the bedside table, tapped it lightly, and gestured for him to sign it.

"I agree to sign," Sato Hiroji said, his eyes gleaming with elation and excitement. He picked up a pen and began writing as he spoke.

"I'm not that weak. I let him break my leg on purpose, just to make things bigger. Do you know why? He's a client of our department head, and if he gets punished, I'll get promoted... That idiot who hit me, when the police handcuffed him, he peed his pants in fear, filling the whole hall with the stench of urine. I almost died laughing, but thankfully I held it in... Why aren't you laughing? It must be hilarious!"

Suppressing her disgust, Yingdai chuckled inwardly: The recorder is recording, great... idiot!

She had no good feelings towards Sato Hiroji: he had killed her younger brother Kenta, and he had also misled her father into incurring huge gambling debts. Just a few days ago, he had even sent people into her house, intending to kidnap her and Kotoha... She could be described as extremely disgusted and a mortal enemy.