Qin Yimo graduated top of her class from the University of Political Science and Law. On her first day at the largest law firm in the capital, she is assigned to the firm’s most despised team: the “Public Opinion Defense Group.”
The group leader is a middle-aged man who has been drinking heavily for years. There are only three members, and every case they handle involves someone condemned by the entire internet.
Her fellow interns are waiting for her to cry, the prosecutors are waiting for her to lose, and the whole internet is ready to call her an “accomplice to evil.”
Her first case is a divorce suit involving a man who was condemned online for getting violent. Everyone wants him to leave the marriage with nothing, but Qin Yimo finds a fatal flaw in the evidence chain: the other side forged the medical report on the injuries.
In court, she calmly exposes every piece of falsified evidence. “My client is at fault in character, but legal proceedings are not a trial by internet. This report is fake. I request a new assessment.”
The judge grants her request. The internet explodes. Her client kneels to thank her. “Lawyer Qin, I really did wrong, but you saved my right to a fair hearing.”
Qin Yimo doesn’t even turn around. “Don’t thank me. Just pay your legal fees.”
From then on, she earns the title “Voice of Justice,” and her name resounds throughout the legal profession.
In a wealthy businessman’s murder case, she takes it on and discovers that the victim’s wife is the real killer. Her client is acquitted. The internet rages, accusing her of “money making the world go round.” She only replies, “We caught the real killer. What exactly are you all angry about?”
A year later, she sits on the top floor of the Bottom Line Law Firm she founded, looking out the window. Her assistant knocks. “Lawyer Qin, there’s a new client outside. They’re suspected of defection.”
She smiles faintly. “Send them in. My fee is still ten thousand an hour.”
