There are fifteen days until Zhao Lele's second trial.

During these fifteen days, Zhao Lele has been in prison...

She tried to find a lawyer, but she had no money... she simply couldn't afford one.

She never thought she'd be sentenced to death.

The death penalty, a lifelong deprivation of political rights, and having to compensate the victims millions...

Zhao Lele simply didn't have that much money.

And Zhao Lele's biological parents found out about this.

The two traveled a long way by train to the police station in Guyuan City.

After arriving, they met with Zhao Lele once.

In prison, Zhao Lele cried and begged her parents to find her the best lawyer.

Zhao Lele's parents were busy running around, without proper rest, trying to find a lawyer for her.

The result was... not many lawyers were willing to take Zhao Lele's case.

If it were a normal case, even defending other death row inmates, there would be many lawyers willing to take it.

Regardless of whether they win or lose, lawyers generally are willing to help with the defense since they earn money and can ensure the fairness and objectivity of the trial proceedings.

But in this case... no lawyer wanted to take it.

Because Gu Chen has already handled this case!

Gu Chen was the lawyer for the first trial, so he wasn't needed for the second.

The second trial was to be represented in the Supreme People's Court... and Gu Chen had provided all the evidence.

The case had gained a lot of attention and was being live-streamed across the internet.

Any experienced lawyer understood... this case couldn't help Zhao Lele with her defense.

Furthermore, defending Zhao Lele might even affect their own reputation.

The most important reason was... many lawyers didn't want to defend Zhao Lele, because her actions and reputation were too bad.

It was precisely because this case was too high-profile, many lawyers knowing the whole story, wouldn't come to help with the defense.

Zhao Lele's parents ran around every day, looking for a lawyer, but the result was always the same.

No one wanted to help.

Zhao Lele was still very angry in prison.

"It's all Cai Qian's fault, it's all because of Cai Qian!"

"If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be in jail, I wouldn't be sentenced to death!"

"I still want to buy a Porsche, if he agreed to transfer the house to me, I could have bought a Porsche! I could have bought the latest LV handbag..." Zhao Lele was furious in prison.

But there was nothing she could do.

Now she couldn't even hire a lawyer.

Zhao Lele felt powerless.

Even without a lawyer, the national legal aid agency would still help her.

In the end, a state-appointed lawyer would still defend her.

...

The entire internet was waiting for the start of the second trial.

Meanwhile, Gu Chen had returned to Yun City during this time but hadn't had the chance to start live streaming.

Because Gu Chen was indeed too busy.

During this period, he had already earned quite a bit of money through live streaming...

Especially after helping ByteDance modify contract terms, he had earned a lot of money.

Moreover, his law firm should be getting bigger and bigger.

Because Gu Chen was incredibly popular during this time!

He was trending online nationwide!

After winning three cases, Gu Chen's Douyin followers had exceeded 1.5 million! His Weibo followers also surpassed 1.5 million!!

Every time he started live streaming, the popularity of the stream was astonishing, with easily over a hundred thousand viewers in the room!

Unless it was a big streamer, no one else could match Gu Chen's streaming traffic.

Gu Chen occasionally made videos, explaining some legal rules, and each video received over half a million likes!

The popularity was extremely high!!

Moreover, after Gu Chen returned, Cai Qian and Yan Guizhen also participated in media interviews.

The two of them took part in interviews, helping to promote Gu Chen in every way...

This made Gu Chen incredibly popular online!

As a result, there were many people looking to hire Gu Chen for lawsuits.

Running a law firm, the more clients, the better for Gu Chen...

However, with such a large firm, just having Gu Chen as a lawyer was overwhelming.

No matter how capable Gu Chen was, taking on one or two commissions at a time would be too much; he also had to stream and make videos, keeping him very busy.

Gu Chen decided to expand the firm!

Firstly, he needed to rent a much larger office building, buy the appropriate equipment, materials...

Expand the firm in all aspects!

In addition to expanding the company's size, he also needed to recruit staff.

Reception, administration, lawyers, finance, personnel from each department needed recruitment for the firm.

This way, the firm could gradually grow stronger.

Gu Chen required highly professional personnel for hiring.

After all, since he wanted to run the firm, he wanted to make it a top national law firm.

This was also the reason why Gu Chen refused when Fangda Law Firm tried to recruit him.

Why work for someone else when running your own firm is better?

Being the owner of the firm himself, paying salaries to his employees himself, wasn't that making a fortune?

So during this time, Gu Chen was busy every day selecting locations, purchasing equipment, too busy to manage everything.

Fortunately, the new office had already been chosen!

A huge office building, spread over two floors!!

This expanded the scale of the original firm by at least a hundred times!

Of course, with such a large firm, rent was very expensive.

Fortunately, Gu Chen had money now, having earned quite a bit through live streaming.

The key was, now, there were too many people online wanting to hire him for cases...

Gu Chen himself couldn't handle that many cases, so he had to recruit professional lawyers.

But recruitment was a long process, not that easy, as most star lawyers were essentially in various national Red Circle law firms.

Fortunately, after renting the office building, not much renovation was needed, and it was almost ready for use.

Gu Chen made a new Douyin video, showcasing the new firm...

The internet went crazy.

[Wow, this firm looks cool!]

[The Lawless Madman opened such a big firm? Haha, that's great, I can finally find someone for my lawsuit!!]

[Even if I can't get Lawyer Gu himself to handle the case, hiring someone from his firm is fine too!!]

[Indeed, when will the Lawless Madman start streaming again?]

[Will Zhao Lele face the death penalty in the second trial? Is the Lawless Madman going to the second trial?]

[Lawyer Gu doesn't need to go to the second trial, and whether it's the death penalty remains unknown.]

After posting the video, its likes exceeded 400,000 and were still rising.

The video received more than 100,000 comments.

Many advertising companies contacted Gu Chen, hoping for him to advertise, offering substantial fees!

Just one ad, and the advertising fee would be hundreds of thousands!

Gu Chen's current traffic was so large it tempted many advertisers.

Gu Chen responded, "I don't take ads, my Douyin account will never take ads. I mainly use my Douyin account to educate everyone about the law, and I'm grateful for viewers who like me, but I won't advertise, take ads, or do live-stream selling."

"Because my primary job is being a lawyer."

"And what a lawyer should do is handle every case well, uphold legal fairness and justice, and protect everyone's legitimate rights and interests!"

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