The little girl stared eagerly at Lawyer Liao. Of course he noticed.
Lawyer Liao looked up at Wen Ying. He repeated his earlier thought. This was prime material for studying law.
Of course, Wen Ying had already enrolled in Fudan University to study finance. With school about to start, suggesting she switch to law would be inappropriate.
However, Lawyer Liao always believed that even if one did not become a lawyer or work in a related field, ordinary people knowing more legal常识 would never be wrong.
Know the law without breaking it. Know the law to restrain oneself. Know the law to feel reverence.
Boss Pang was the counterexample.
Boss Pang probably did not even know there was a “crime of bigamy”.
Even if he knew, many of Boss Pang’s friends kept mistresses and had illegitimate children. He had never seen anyone go to prison for “bigamy”. Naturally, Boss Pang thought it was nothing.
Boss Pang might even think, I never got marriage certificates with two women at the same time. How is that bigamy!
Boss Pang also had no concept of joint marital property.
Whoever earns the money calls the shots.
Boss Pang’s thinking was that simple and outdated.
What is joint marital property?
A housewife who does not work outside has relied entirely on Boss Pang for support all these years. Now that Boss Pang wants to marry someone else, giving the old hag at home a small house and 1 million in cash would already be generous enough.
If he angered Boss Pang, he could cut off the old hag’s living expenses. See who lasts longer.
Lawyer Liao roughly reconstructed Boss Pang’s mindset and closed the file in his hand. “This Boss Pang is quite interesting. He lives in the new era but acts like an old landlord. Do not think he treats his wife and son poorly while treating his mistress and illegitimate children well. I checked carefully. Boss Pang never gives particularly large sums to his mistress and illegitimate children either.”
He never gifted especially valuable real estate.
He never gave shares.
The mistress indeed enjoyed good food, clothing, and daily expenses, but that was all.
The largest expenditure was probably the costs for the illegitimate children’s studies abroad. It was said they lived in luxury houses and drove luxury cars abroad. Cars are not worth much abroad. The luxury house was indeed purchased, but registered under Boss Pang’s name.
Wen Ying listened wide-eyed in shock. After a while, she laughed. “Boss Pang is truly a good person!”
Lawyer Liao could not help laughing too.
“Yes, Boss Pang is a good person.”
As a husband, Boss Pang was scum.
As the proxy lawyer for the original wife, Lawyer Liao could not justify not awarding Boss Pang a “good person prize”.
If every defendant cooperated like Boss Pang, how much effort would lawyers save?
Indeed, even Wen Ying now viewed Boss Pang in a higher light. She had thought he would hide or transfer joint marital property. Unexpectedly, Boss Pang was a genuine miser. He openly kept all family assets in his own name. He was reluctant to give to his wife and Pang Jinglong, and equally unwilling to give to his mistress and illegitimate children.
Yes.
In her previous life, Pang Jinglong killed the stepmother. Boss Pang then married a third wife.
For Boss Pang, no woman was his true love. Money was his true love.
As long as he tightly controlled his money, Boss Pang would never lack women.
Wen Ying murmured, “Does he really not understand the law? He is arrogant and overbearing. He is too lazy to learn about the Marriage Law. His company operates well. He has numerous properties and investments under his name. Yet when cheating and proposing divorce, he is only willing to give Mrs Pang a small house plus 1 million in cash… If he had consulted a lawyer, no, even if he had chatted with his company’s legal staff, he would not propose such laughable divorce terms. Not consulting is one thing. He was even certain Mrs Pang would not consult one!”
A woman habitually bullied. A woman who slaved like an ox or horse for over twenty years. A woman who tolerated her husband keeping a long-term mistress. Whether Boss Pang or others, they were all certain Mrs Pang would not resist.
A slave, even with shackles removed, would not run.
Obedience to the master had been ingrained in the bones through years of training.
Wen Ying felt it was unfair for Mrs Pang and for Pang Jinglong.
She had thought Boss Pang was so formidable.
It turned out to be nothing more than this!
So Pang Jinglong killing and going to prison in her previous life was even less worth it.
Seeing Wen Ying’s cheeks flushed with anger, Lawyer Liao smiled and comforted her. “It is alright. Boss Pang may not understand the law before. After this divorce case, he will certainly learn many new things.”
Wen Ying said she looked forward to it.
After all, once Boss Pang understood the law, it would not be Mrs Pang and Pang Jinglong who continued to suffer. A Boss Pang who mastered the Marriage Law would still live with his mistress and illegitimate children.
From Boss Pang’s standpoint, having already lost so much money to his ex-wife, he must doubly guard against the next wife he marries!
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Wen Ying and Lawyer Liao analysed correctly. Boss Pang never took his wife Mrs Pang seriously.
Boss Pang knew too well what little ability Mrs Pang had.
His son Pang Jinglong had a rebellious streak, but so what?
Pang Jinglong had no company shares or large allowances. His so-called rich second-generation friends were all fair-weather and had long stopped playing with him. Boss Pang did not see Pang Jinglong as a threat at all.
However, these past few days, Boss Pang had personally called several times. Mrs Pang still refused divorce. Boss Pang grew annoyed.
Boss Pang was annoyed. The female secretary was annoyed too.
After enduring so many years, she was finally about to become legitimate. The female secretary wanted to joyfully become a bride.
A relative working at Boss Pang’s company was someone Pang Jinglong called uncle.
This uncle of Pang Jinglong had no real ability but married a wife who was exceptionally good at flattery.
Clearly from the same village as Mrs Pang, even without marrying Pang Jinglong’s uncle, they were distantly related to Mrs Pang. She should have sided with Mrs Pang. After all, in early years, this uncle idled in the village. It was his wife who came begging Mrs Pang to arrange a job at Boss Pang’s factory. Mrs Pang did not even dare scheme jobs for her own family. Only for in-laws did she dare mention it. The person got the job, but Boss Pang scolded Mrs Pang harshly.
First the uncle entered the factory, then his wife got in too.
The uncle had no ability. His wife was exceptionally good at flattery. Once in the factory, she quickly identified whose thigh to hug.
Yes. Pang Jinglong’s aunt paid no heed to the favour Mrs Pang had done. She turned and clung to the female secretary’s thigh.
She clung for over a decade without letting go.
As Boss Pang’s business grew, this couple rose with the tide.
When the female secretary squeezed Mrs Pang, the aunt often acted as accomplice.
This day, the aunt accompanied the female secretary to try wedding dresses. The female secretary complained a couple of times about Mrs Pang not knowing her place. The aunt grew angrier than the female secretary.
“Really no sense. What can she do by dragging it out? She has already been kicked out of the home!”
The female secretary smiled. “What else? Trying to make things difficult for me. Actually, I have been quite tolerant of her. If it were someone else, who would allow her to occupy the title ‘Mrs Pang’ for so many years! And that good son she raised. If not for old Pang persuading me, four years ago I would have sent him to prison!”
This marriage should have ended four years ago.
Why did it not?
Some old folks from old Pang’s hometown acted self-important, saying something about not abandoning the wife who shared hardships. They persuaded old Pang to stay.
But those decayed, outdated old things would not live forever. Now the old things were gone. When old Pang proposed divorce again, who would stop him?
No one would meddle anymore!
The female secretary was confident. The aunt never doubted the truth of her words. To please her master, the aunt proactively called Mrs Pang, pretending to ask if she was dissatisfied with the divorce terms.
If dissatisfied, the aunt was willing to be the good person and say some nice words to Boss Pang.
“Add another 500,000. Is that enough? I am telling you to know when to stop. Do not be too greedy and end up with nothing. That woman from our village, you know her too. Last year she divorced and was sent back to her parents’ home. She got no money at all. Now her family despises her…”
On the other end, Mrs Pang remained silent for a long time. The aunt grew more excited.
“A house plus 1.5 million is not enough? Then exactly how much do you want!”
This time, Mrs Pang responded.
The aunt thought she had misheard.
“What?!”
The aunt fed several times but found Mrs Pang had hung up.
Oh my, the doormat has grown a temper. She even dared to hang up on someone!
The female secretary had tried on the third wedding dress.
“She disagrees? Fine. I will tell old Pang. She should not even get a small house and 1 million in cash!”
The lackey aunt swallowed, her face full of shock. “She disagrees. She, she said… she wants half the property!”
The female secretary turned abruptly. The long train of the wedding dress caught on hair accessories on the table, tearing a large rip.
So inauspicious.
The female secretary gritted her teeth. “I think she has truly gone mad!”
