Chapter 2813 - 2875: The Persuader

How did I know your number? I know what I want to know, thought Zhang Bai, but he said, "Mr. Li, your number is recorded in the address book, so it’s easy to find!"

"Go ahead."

"Um... We better talk face to face. Where are you? I’ll come to see you now," said Zhang Bai.

Li Yifei said impatiently, "Are you never done?"

"No, I really have something important," answered Zhang Bai.

"I’m at the villa."

"Okay, I’ll be right there. Mr. Li, please wait a moment," Zhang Bai said as he quickly set off.

Li Yifei hung up the phone and turned around with a frown to Wu Shuwei, and spoke before she could ask, "Zhang Bai is insisting on coming over. Is he coming for you?"

"Bah, if he was coming for me, why didn’t he call me? Also, coming for me means what? I have no dealings with him, I didn’t even know this person before coming to school," Wu Shuwei retorted. Li Yifei chuckled and said, "That’s good, as long as he’s not here for you, everything is negotiable."

"Such nonsense, you go ahead with the hosting. I’m going upstairs to change the sheets!" Wu Shuwei clearly didn’t want to see Zhang Bai. Towards such social butterflies, especially those with no standards, Wu Shuwei always kept a respectful distance.

Look, Zhang Bai thinks he’s dignified and dashing, talented and successful, but his first impression with Wu Shuwei is very poor, avoiding him completely. So some things are really hard to say, it’s not always how you think about yourself that counts.

Li Yifei sat on the sofa, responded to a few messages, and Zhang Bai came over, standing at the door and knocked. Li Yifei looked up, "Come in."

"Hello, Student Li!" Zhang Bai walked in.

Li Yifei didn’t even get up, "Sit down!"

"Okay!" Zhang Bai sat down with a smile.

Li Yifei was pressing his phone screen, Zhang Bai ’patiently’ waited for a while, realizing Li Yifei didn’t stop, he was cursing inside but still kept a smile on his face.

"Something up?" Li Yifei finally spoke after a few minutes.

"Well...there’s indeed something!" Zhang Bai wanted to ask if Wu Shuwei was at home, but then thought they aren’t closely related, and what Wu Shuwei does is not something Li Yifei should meddle in.

"Five minutes, then I have work to do," Li Yifei said after checking the time.

Zhang Bai nodded, smiled, and said, "It actually won’t take that long!"

"That’s better."

"Here’s the thing, Student Li, did something happen the night before last...after our gathering when you and Student Wu returned?" Zhang Bai asked.

Li Yifei’s face didn’t change, but he suddenly understood a few things, no wonder Zhang Bai was so humbled, seems the case is related to him? Of course, it was only Li Yifei’s temporary guess as he hadn’t checked the culprit’s identity, otherwise, he would know more.

"Yes, something did happen," Li Yifei responded.

Zhang Bai nodded and immediately said, "First, I feel very sorry, the perpetrator in this case... that child, I know, so please allow me to apologize first."

"No, continue, so how, is that murderer your relative?" Li Yifei asked with a displeased tone, raising his hand to stop Zhang Bai’s gesture.

"No, it’s his father whom I know, he originally planned to come and apologize himself, but now is handling the matter and will come later!" Zhang Bai said.

"A drunken speeding killer, why, trying to seek leniency?" Li Yifei’s tone became even more impatient.

"Well... Mr. Li, it’s not that serious, of course, I don’t know the specifics, but...that child has his reasons too."

Li Yifei raised his hand, pointed outside the door, and said to Zhang Bai, "I’m a witness to the incident, I saw and experienced the entire process. If you’re here to persuade me not to pursue it, there is the door. You can leave now, I don’t care what hidden truth he has, whether he broke up or overdosed, who attends to those two lives lost? Who attends to the injured? If I wasn’t there stopping the car, fear not just two people would have died!"

Wu Shuwei was in the hallway, she naturally heard Li Yifei’s words, seeing that Zhang Bai came to speak for the matter also couldn’t help but frown, thinking Zhang Bai is even more deplorable.

Zhang Bai’s face changed multiple hues before finally speaking, "Student Li, hold please, I’m not saying the child is innocent. Regardless, he killed people, that’s a crime, but the deceased are gone, reparative matters need handling. The child’s father has decided to compensate three million per death, injured will have full coverage until discharged."

Li Yifei stared at Zhang Bai, the latter felt uncomfortable, like being stared at by a venomous snake, a fierce tiger, or an elephant; he moved slightly, and continued: "After all...he’s still just a child, we should give him a chance, you agree? Also, he has decades of life ahead. Not saying he shouldn’t be punished!"

"Seems you didn’t understand my words, well, ignorance of law isn’t entirely your fault, per the National Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Bureau’s ’Regulations on Motor Vehicle Driver’s Breath, Blood Alcohol Content Thresholds’

to 80 mg alcohol per 100 ml blood, is considered drunk driving, above 80 mg alcohol is considered drunken driving, per the ’Supreme People’s Court’s Interpretation on Laws Applicable to Criminal Cases of Traffic Accidents’, traffic accidents, if one falls within any of the following conditions, are punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment or detention, resulting in one death or severe injury to three, primarily or fully responsible, post breath or blood tests by police, 20 to 80 mg alcohol is drunk driving, above 80 mg is drunken driving. The child you mentioned, his blood alcohol content exceeds two hundred, indicating severe drunken driving, subsequent police investigation showed that when passing through nearby areas the car was speeding at 140 km/h on a bustling road!" Li Yifei paused, eyes mocking Zhang Bai.

Continued: "Do you know how congested, how bustling the nearby road is? How many pedestrians and tourists? So, because of having a good car, racing is permissible? Killing people causing a major incident, then saying still a kid? What, calling oneself a child at twenty? Do you think he knows nothing? When he even attempted to flee, If I wasn’t there, he would have escaped!"

"You!" Zhang Bai couldn’t hold back, stood and pointed at Li Yifei, "Li Yifei, why do this? It’s just two people killed..."

Hearing Zhang Bai speak this way, Li Yifei also stood up, but before he could say a word, Wu Shuwei couldn’t help but come downstairs, speaking as she walked, "Zhang Bai, can you be any more shameless? What do you mean ’just two people killed’? If you died, your family would laugh? If it were your relatives, could you speak this way?"

Zhang Bai immediately turned upon hearing Wu Shuwei’s voice, being reprimanded by her, Zhang Bai got heated yet couldn’t retort, he argued, "I didn’t mean that, I’m saying the other side is offering compensation!"

"Zhang Bai, listen, I’m a direct witness from last night, If Yifei hadn’t stopped that out-of-control car racing towards us, the mother beside me and her twin children would have died too, if not dead, then disabled. We had people behind us as well, and I ask you, what right do you have for us to forgive a drunk driving criminal, what qualification do you have?" Wu Shuwei spoke icily.

Zhang Bai didn’t anticipate being countered like this, he couldn’t help but say urgently, "Student Wu, don’t be upset, I understand this is very excessive, the impact is very bad, I’m not here to absolve him..."

"Yet your words just now, sentence after sentence, were absolving him!"

"Well...alright, truthfully speaking, I’m for others to plead, this person isn’t a stranger, it’s Yue Ming, our class leader, the one driving last night is his son, his only child, so class leader is helpless too!" Zhang Bai seeing himself unable to hold on, had no choice but to say, "I’m also helpless, class leader asked me to apologize to you, discuss compensation, that child just started university, life barely begun, to be sentenced would mark his life with a stain, wouldn’t his life be ruined?"

Li Yifei and Wu Shuwei were both taken aback, the perpetrator turned out to be Yue Ming’s son? That was unexpected for both, completely not tying it to this. At this moment, hearing it, Li Yifei snorted heavily, "I don’t care whose child it is, not educating well is not anyone else’s fault, drunken disorder racing, killing and escaping, it’s unreasonable even to turn the world upside down."

"When did he flee? Li Yifei, don’t speak falsely!" Zhang Bai sounded like a stepped-on toe.

"If I didn’t stop him, wouldn’t he have fled." Li Yifei responded calmly.

"That’s slander! That child wouldn’t flee!" Zhang Bai argued.

Wu Shuwei couldn’t bear it any longer, "Zhang Bai, enough, I don’t care whose child it is, breaking the law is breaking the law, also, why are you here? Trying to get us to commit perjury?"

"That... Yue Ming is our class leader, being classmates, and it’s his own son, so both of you give a break, don’t be too difficult on our class leader, can’t you say? The child already realized the mistake, pitifully crying, promising to wake up henceforth, so..."

"Get out!" Li Yifei finally couldn’t hold back, pointed towards the door and said to Zhang Bai.

The voice wasn’t loud but clear enough, Zhang Bai’s word was interrupted again, he looked at Li Yifei somewhat stunned.