What's wrong with this lawyer?!

There was a pause before he looked at the pale-faced Old Tang and said, "This must be Lawyer Tang Fangjing, correct?"

"Yes, it's me."

With that, Old Tang managed to chill the atmosphere, but fortunately, at this moment, Yu Erming's family finally arrived.

"Here you are, please take a seat, right over here. We always say, 'Better to reconcile than to persist in hostility.' We should aim to avoid escalating issues to a trial phase, right?"

"Mr. Yu, and Ms. Wu, how have you been deliberating? What's your stance?"

Wu Xiaozhen hurriedly said, "We're willing to mediate. That Mr. Ju Haiqing, we're willing to pay compensation. How much money would you need on your end?"

As her words fell, Hu Xinqin's expression changed—this was the result they had been discussing all day.

You came here to mediate, yet you're actively asking how much the other party wants?

Ju Haiqing remained silent, glancing towards Tang Fangjing.

Old Tang spoke up, "You shouldn't be asking us this. You should state how much you're willing to offer, and in addition, how you plan to apologize."

"Back then, this Yu Erming was quite arrogant, proclaiming his arrogance and questioning what my client could possibly do to him. Well now, how does he intend to apologize?"

Yu Erming's face slightly soured, and Wu Xiaozhen, upon seeing this, hastily said, "You probably spent a few thousand at the hospital right? How about we offer ten thousand, oh no, fifteen thousand should suffice?"

"And apologize quickly!"

Yu Erming really didn't want to apologize!

A young man's pride is worth everything, especially after bearing the lawyer's remark about how arrogant he was!

Still, he forced himself to say, "Well... I apologize, yeah, I'm sorry."

Old Tang just shrugged and didn't say anything. Ju Haiqing then spoke, "So this is the kind of apology you offer?"

He had thought that the other party would come with a much better attitude, eager to apologize and compensate, begging for forgiveness. But this was it?

Wu Xiaozhen quickly replied, "It's not that, Ming is still a child, give him some time..."

"He's bloody older than me, and you call him a child? What does that make me!" Ju Haiqing shouted, "Either give a proper apology, or we'll see each other in court!"

Old Tang glanced over, noticing that old Ju still had some temper, probably venting due to reader criticism.

"Also, fifteen thousand is too little. How about..."

Ju Haiqing clenched his teeth, unsure of a suitable amount, while Old Tang interjected, "Eighty thousand."

Medical expenses are just one part; another part is compensation for emotional distress.

Publicly abusing and assaulting someone over a car merging dispute caused severe emotional distress.

Mediation is like that, under official auspices you can ask for more, as long as it's not exorbitantly high.

Chi Yan, after an extortion case ruled by the court, had to pay seventy to eighty thousand in compensation, so asking for eighty thousand here is normal, even though the civil compensation claimed in the self-filed suit is sixty thousand.

But Old Tang thought it reasonable; mediation is like negotiation.

It's about getting things you can't obtain on the battlefield, that's why I'd agree to talk.

If it's something I could have obtained on the battlefield anyway, why would I step back and agree to mediation? What would that make me!

However, to the family opposite, this seemed unreasonable.

They thought before coming that two thousand at most would suffice, but now the figure had quadrupeled!

Seeing the discussion about to fall apart, Hu Xinqin urged, "Lawyer Tang, isn't eighty thousand a bit much? After all, we're here to mediate. Both sides should give a little."

Ju Haiqing, looking at Hu Xinqin, said, "I can mediate, but I won't budge. I'm in the right; why should I? You have no idea how he acted back then!"

"He acted like Jingzhou belonged to him, threatening to 'end me,' and saying he'd beat me every time he saw me. I'm sitting here right now; let him hit me!"

Hu Xinqin did not expect her words to make Ju Haiqing even angrier and quickly said, "Lawyer Tang, please persuade him too, not to be so adamant. It's unnecessary, the other side is sincere..."

Old Tang feigned surprise, "This? This is sincerity?"

Smack! Ju Haiqing turned and high-fived Old Tang, spot on!

Hu Xinqin: "???" You're a lawyer and you're stirring things up here?

As a lawyer, whether they mediate or not, you'll get paid, so now you should be supporting mediation, right? If they settle, you won't have to go to court, saving you the hassle.

Yet you're still here...

Wu Xiaoling bit her lip, uncertain what to say, when Yu Hangshang, who had been silent for a while, spoke up.

"Eighty thousand is indeed a bit steep. I see your self-filed suit claimed sixty thousand, we can do that."

Just as Wu Xiaoling was about to retort, Yu Hangshang scolded her directly, "Do you want your son to end up in jail!"

Yu Erming remained silent, continuously searching online for "success rates of criminal self-prosecution for minor injuries."

Ever since learning he was being self-prosecuted, he had been fixated on this. The results online showed that criminal self-prosecutions are almost always dismissed, with scarcely any success. Your next read awaits at m v|l-e'm,p| y- r

Having searched repeatedly today, Yu Erming felt relieved.

If there were hardly any successful cases, what did he have to fear!

Furthermore, the other side kept talking about money and demanding apologies, which was intolerable to him.

Old Tang spoke up, "Sixty thousand is not enough. If mediation only results in sixty thousand, then why should we mediate? Eighty thousand, not a penny less."

"And your son must give a sincere public apology. Look at how he just apologized; what was that? It was clearly with resentment in his heart."