Seven years ago, they were the most hated "golden girls" in the law school - partners in the moot court, bitter rivals in the library, and the deepest marks in each other's youth.
Until a forged severance email ended the three-year relationship.
Seven years later, Lin Shenyu was a public interest lawyer specializing in women's rights, while Gu Xingzhi became the senior legal director of an Internet giant. An "algorithmic gender discrimination case" reunited them in court as plaintiff and defendant.
In court, his words were barbed and he used loopholes in her college thesis to make fun of her in public; out of court, he sent key evidence via anonymous emails and "happily" parked his car downstairs of her law firm in a heavy rain.
He said "It's not for you", but there was an old pen she gave him hidden in the inner pocket of his suit, her handwriting was engraved on the lighter, and the Weibo account only followed her.
Lin Shenyu knew him too well.
A venomous tongue is a disguise. "Don't know what you're talking about" is pretense. "Objection to invalidity" is also a pretense.
The real Gu Xingzhi, hidden beneath those insincere words, has never left him for seven years.
This is a story about the collision of ideals and reality, and about how two tough-talking people are gradually stripped of their armor by each other.
The law can dismiss the prosecution, but the objection is invalid.
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