On May 18, the Jiangzhou No. 1 Intermediate People's Court was full.

A huge trial is underway here, and this is also the first-instance verdict of Zong Haicheng's case, which shocked the national officialdom.

In the solemn and loud voice of the presiding judge, Zong Haicheng and the other 23 people involved in the case were sentenced one by one.

Zong Haicheng took advantage of his position as secretary of the Shicheng Prefectural Party Committee and secretary of the Shicheng District Party Committee to seek benefits for Long Shiming, Zong Haitao and others, and obtained illegal gains of more than 10 million yuan.

The Jiangzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zong Haicheng, former member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangzhou Municipal Party Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, to life imprisonment on charges of embezzlement and bribery, dereliction of duty, and other crimes.

Bai Qunyin, member of the Standing Committee of the Shicheng District Party Committee and deputy secretary of the Shicheng District Party Committee, Gao Yingjie, member of the Standing Committee of the Shicheng District Party Committee and executive deputy district head, Yuan Biaojiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Shicheng District Party Committee and head of the Organization Department of the Shicheng District Committee, and Zong Haiyang, deputy head of Shicheng District, were sentenced to life imprisonment on the same charges.

Long Shiming, Zong Haitao, and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than 10 years and not more than 20 years on charges of bribery, intentional injury, and organizing, coercing, enticing, and brokering prostitution.

In addition, there are more than 10 people who have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of less than 10 years, including Duan Yuehe, former head of Youbei County, Lin Kehong, former director of the Chengxi Police Station in Shicheng District, and Bai Ziyan, former head of the Youbei County Government Office.

Listening to the presiding judge's announcement of the verdict one by one, the reactions of the audience below were very rich, some high-fived each other, some shook their heads and sighed, some sobbed quietly, and some hid their faces and cried bitterly.

In a corner of the trial scene, a young woman wearing big sunglasses heard that Zong Haicheng was sentenced to life imprisonment, although she did not cry bitterly, but it can be seen from her slightly swaying fragrant shoulders that her heart is very uncalm at this time.

This woman wearing big sunglasses is one of the victims of this case, and she was also Zong Haicheng's mistress Xie Yufei.

Watching the man who brought her lifelong injuries to be judged, Concubine Xie Yu's wounded heart was comforted. Especially when she saw that several of Zong Haicheng's lovers were also tried as defendants, Concubine Xie Yu couldn't help but be deeply grateful to the young man.

Since agreeing to cooperate with the arrest of Zong Haicheng and agreeing to provide some evidence of Zong Haicheng's crimes, Concubine Xie Yu can be regarded as clearing his connection with Zong Haicheng. Moreover, at Jiang Feng's request, the court did not require Xie Yufei to appear in court to testify, taking into account Xie Yufei's situation and future life.

It is precisely because of this arrangement that she has preserved her dignity as a human being in front of the public, otherwise, she may not have the courage to live at this time. At least, she doesn't have the courage to live in front of everyone openly, so she can only go away and go to that unfamiliar place to survive.

After all, in this society, such a thing as being a mistress is definitely not a glorious thing, let alone a thing that can see the light.

Concubine Xie Yu can imagine that if it weren't for the fact that the court protected her and the matter between her and Zong Haicheng was not exposed, I am afraid that she would have become a lost dog at this time. She was very sure that once the news got out, there would be an uproar on campus! Her classmates saw her as a beast of prey, pointing fingers at her wherever she went. Under the weight of public opinion, she will definitely have a nervous breakdown. Maybe she'll die, or maybe she'll miss her sick mother and young sister at home and live in secret.

These days, whenever she dreams back at midnight, Concubine Xie Yu is trembling and sweating.

She remembered the mysterious fortune teller she had met yesterday afternoon as she passed the pedestrian bridge outside her neighborhood.

The fortune teller saw her full of worries, and even calculated a hexagram for her for free. He told her that she was overwhelmed and her family was weak. Bereavement, death, separation of brothers and sisters. Loneliness, unsatisfactory, boredom, distress, misfortune, ups and downs. For the sake of generosity, kindness and resentment, fruitless labor, miserable loneliness. If other fortunes are not suitable, it will hurt longevity. And pointed her out, saying that if she wants to change all this, she can only avoid bad luck and be happy by going to the southeast of her place.

Concubine Xie Yu didn't believe in fate, let alone the words of these fortune tellers, but this time, she actually remembered every word of the fortune teller deeply, and had a heart-pounding feeling, as if there was a voice in the dark telling her that what the fortune teller told her was true.

Concubine Xie Yu looked to the southeast and let out a long sigh.

At the trial scene, Concubine Xie was not the only one wearing big sunglasses, there was a person in another corner more than ten meters away from her, and coincidentally, this mysterious person wearing sunglasses was the same as Concubine Xie Yu, judging from her figure, she was also a young woman with a graceful demeanor.

Judging from the woman's behavior, she was in a very calm mood at this time, but her eyes were looking through her sunglasses, and she kept looking at Zong Haicheng in the front dock and Zong Haicheng's wife and son who were hugging and crying in the front row.

In fact, the woman's heart is not as calm as she seems, because he is Zong Haicheng's daughter Zong Luoyao.

Indeed, Zong Luoyao's mood at this time was very complicated.

Zong Haicheng has always been her idol and her pride, and she has been working hard to learn from her father in all aspects, hoping to become a successful person like her father.

However, an unexpected discovery destroyed the image of the perfect father in her heart. That time was when she was in high school in Stone City, she was partying with her classmates at the Crown Hotel, and found his father carrying a young and beautiful woman into a private room next to her. The woman she knew, was the general manager of the Crown Hotel.

It's just that Zong Haicheng, who was busy with women at the time, didn't notice that in a private room on the way he passed, his daughter saw his ugliness completely.

Since then, Zong Luoyao has seen Zong Haicheng fooling around with other women a few times, and since then, she has been extremely disappointed in this idol.

What made her even more puzzled was that her mother actually knew about her father's outside, but she didn't make any noise, which made Zong Luoyao very puzzled. Her mother is also an intellectual, and she is also a teacher, how can she tolerate such a thing?

What especially puzzled Zong Luoyao was that her mother not only did not go to Zong Haicheng to make noise, but also did not allow her to go to Zong Haicheng to theorize, and even threatened her with the determination to break away from the mother-daughter relationship.

Zong Haicheng, that is, her father's shuanggui, she is also clear. Because not long before that, she called him with her mother and brother and begged him to come home for the New Year. But he was indifferent, and used various excuses to push and shove the mother and son. Zong Luoyao knew what Zong Haicheng was doing at that time, because she heard a woman's voice in the phone, although the woman didn't speak, just coughed inadvertently, Zong Luoyao still heard it, it was a woman's voice, and it was a young woman's voice.

Not long after they made that call, they received a call from the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, informing them that the mother and son were under investigation by Shuanggui. Moreover, the people of the Commission for Discipline Inspection also told them that they could not go abroad in the near future, otherwise they would be punished by law.

Zong Haicheng not only failed to protect his family, but let his wife and children be affected by the trouble.

The heartbroken Zong Luoyao hurriedly said goodbye to her mother and younger brother on the third day of the Lunar New Year, that is, the third day when Zong Haicheng was shuanggui, and left the capital.

She was a senior at Peking University at the time.

Zong Luoyao thought that he could get some peace by going to the capital, but he didn't expect that the capital was a place of right and wrong, and the people in the capital paid special attention to the major events that happened in the political field. And her father used to be in a high position as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee of the municipality directly under the Central Government, and now that he has an accident, it is naturally something that those people in the capital who pay attention to politics talk about in Beijing.

In addition to talking about his father's corruption, she, Zong Haicheng's daughter, also became the object of everyone's discussion.

In desperation, Zong Luoyao had no choice but to move out of the school and rent a house outside the school to live alone, avoiding everyone's sight.

A few days ago, she received a call from her mother, saying that her father's case of Zong Haicheng was about to go to trial, and she hoped that she would come back. Zong Luoyao didn't agree, and now she has a grudge against both her father who committed a crime and her poor mother. If it weren't for my father's corruption and messing with the relationship between men and women, and if it weren't for my mother's unprincipled forbearance, none of this would have happened. She is still the daughter of a high-ranking official, and she is still a high-ranking princess, how can she hide in a corner silently in order to avoid everyone's discussion like now?

However, she eventually flew back to Jiangzhou quietly, although she resented the irresponsible father and lamented the poor mother's misfortune, but they were the parents who gave birth to her.

It's just that after she returned to Jiangzhou, she didn't go to see her mother and younger brother, but just disguised herself as a stranger and stayed quietly in a corner of the courtroom.

The other night, her cousin Zong Fei told her some inside stories about Zong Haicheng's arrest, and hoped that she would be able to take revenge on those who framed their Zong family with her.

Zong Luoyao did not immediately agree to her cousin's proposal, and she was at a loss at this time.

Zong Luoyao is not a person who can't distinguish between right and wrong, she knows that the reason why her father Zong Haicheng and the rest of the Zong family have today's tragic end is because they have created too many evils and are to blame. However, those people sent her father and several uncles to prison, and as a daughter and junior, she could not completely turn a blind eye to such hatred.

She Zong Luoyao is not a saint, and she can't do such a thing as killing her relatives in righteousness.

Looking at her decadent and lonely father in the dock, Zong Luoyao's heart twitched fiercely, and the unforgettable years when she was a child came to her heart again.

Zong Luoyao's gaze turned to the southeast, and his eyes gradually became firm.