Disliked by everyone? She is clearly the most beloved one in the rich family!

After listening to the front desk's introduction, Yu Zhi subconsciously had an idea.

——This lawyer sounds very expensive.

Yu Zhi glanced at the price list on the front desk.

Legal consultation is charged by the hour, ranging from 300 to 5000.

Criminal cases are charged in batches according to different stages.

Review Stage-

Prosecution stage-

Trial Stage-

The note on the bottom line of the price list reads: Each case is different, and the above fee standards may fluctuate within a reasonable range, usually not exceeding 20%.

Yu Zhi finished reading it.

Yu Zhi was stunned.

Just a consultation costs 300... No, no, no, this boss's lawyer must charge more than 300. Maybe he is the one who charges the highest consultation fee.

A consultation costs five thousand, not to mention the follow-up costs...how could he afford it!

Yu Zhi was not unprepared to pay for the lawsuit.

But after looking at the price list, he found that he had not prepared enough.

The receptionist didn't know that Yu Zhi was short of money, and had already enthusiastically shown him the way.

"Huo Lu's office is over here."

Yu Zhi gritted his teeth and followed the front desk.

The office door was not closed tightly, leaving a crack open.

The sunlight shone through the crack in the door and fell on Yu Zhi's legs.

He stepped into the light.

The receptionist smiled and said, "We're here. Huo Lu is inside. Just go in."

"...Okay, thank you."

"You're welcome."

Yu Zhi sighed lightly, thinking, "Since I'm here, I'll just go ahead," so he opened the door and walked in.

Lawyer Huo was operating the coffee machine. When he heard footsteps, he asked without even looking up, "Can I have some coffee?"

Yu Zhi stood stiffly at the office door, not knowing where to start.

"Well, actually I..."

The lawyer conceded that he could drink, then asked, "Americano or latte?"

Yu Zhi paused, mustering the courage to speak frankly, "Mr. Huo, I'm sorry, I probably can't afford the consultation fee. I'm sorry for bothering you without doing my homework."

"Thank you very much for giving me your lunch break."

Lawyer Huo pressed the extraction button and took the mug next to him and placed it under the water outlet.

The coffee machine automatically began to extract, and Lawyer Huo turned to look at Yu Zhi.

He said nonchalantly, "Nothing, as expected."

Yu Zhi didn't understand: "What do you mean by expected?"

Lawyer Huo bluntly said: "You can't afford the consultation fee."

"..."

I've been frank myself, you don't need to be frank again.

Yu Zhi was so speechless that he didn't know what to say.

Lawyer Huo then asked, "Are you still in high school?"

Yu Zhi said "hmm".

Lawyer Huo raised his chin towards the sofa and said, "Sit down and tell me about your situation."

Yu Zhi was slightly startled.

"But I pay..."

“You don’t have to pay, just consider it legal aid.”

After the coffee was extracted, Lawyer Huo picked up the mug and asked Yu Zhi again, "American or latte?"

Yu Zhi replied after a few seconds: "...Latte, thank you."

Lawyer Huo opened the cabinet next to the coffee machine, took out a carton of milk and poured it into the coffee liquid, then put a few sugar cubes on the saucer, and finally put the saucer and cup on the coffee table.

"sit."

He took a bottle of soda water from the coffee table, unscrewed it and took a sip.

Sitting in a leisurely and nonchalant manner.

Yu Zhi sat down on the single sofa next to Lawyer Huo, put his hands on his thighs, and sat up straight.

The whole person was visibly cramped and nervous.

Lawyer Huo saw this and pushed the mug towards Yu Zhi. "I don't know how sweet you like it, so add some sugar yourself."

Yu Zhi's attention was drawn to the coffee.

He was so nervous that he ignored the aroma of coffee filling the room.

Now, when he smelled it carefully, Yu Zhi found that the smell was extremely familiar.

He picked up the mug in a daze and sniffed the rim.

"Is this... Gesha?"

Lawyer Huo was surprised for a moment. He didn't expect that this young high school student also knew about coffee.

"Yes."

Lawyer Huo asked back, "Do you like coffee too?"

Yu Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"I don't like it. I can only distinguish this type of coffee, Geisha."

Gesha coffee has a fragrant floral aroma, soft acidity, and a smooth honey-like taste.

Because of its low yield and difficulty in cultivation, it is an expensive coffee.

In the early years, the Yu family was still wealthy and my mother was not bedridden. She would often make Geisha coffee at home.

My mother's pheromone is also Gesha.

Yu Zhi also underwent genetic testing after he was born, and the report showed that he had a 50-50 chance of differentiating into an omega or a beta.

He could smell pheromones when he was a child, and therefore, Yu Chengkun was not completely disappointed in him in his early years.

For Yu Zhi, the taste of Gesha is the taste of childhood.

Unfortunately, as he grew older, his glands gradually stopped developing, and he became less and less sensitive to the smell of pheromones, and Yu Chengkun's attitude towards him became increasingly cold.

Six months before his mother died, he could no longer smell pheromones.

Later, his mother passed away and Yu Chengkun married Wang Jiamin.

Neither of them is a coffee lover, and the house is filled with the scent of Wang Jiamin's perfume.

In addition, the Yu family gradually declined, and no one bought Geisha coffee anymore.

As Yu Zhi smelled the familiar scent of Gesha in the air, his longing for his mother reached its peak.

He hadn't smelled this smell in years.

Yu Zhi took a sip of coffee and it tasted like what he remembered, yet it seemed a little different.

Seeing Yu Zhi take a second sip without adding sugar, Lawyer Huo couldn't help but ask, "Isn't it bitter?"

For some reason, Lawyer Huo always felt that Yu Zhi was looking at someone through this cup of coffee.

It was such an absurd idea that even he himself found it baffling.

Isn’t it bitter?

Yu Zhi also asked himself the same question.

When he was a child, his mother cooked Geisha for him to drink, but he always thought it was bitter and asked his mother to add more sugar and milk.

His mother would tease him: "If you add so much, our Zhizhi might as well just drink the sweet milk directly."

He would hug his mother's arm and act like a spoiled child: "No no no, Zhizhi wants to drink coffee, the coffee tastes like mom."

His mother laughed at him and said, "Nonsense! It's just that my pheromones taste like coffee."

"It's the same thing." He stuck out his tongue playfully, poked his finger into the coffee, and then licked it. He was still dissatisfied: "Mom, add some more sugar. Zhizhi doesn't like bitter taste."

My mother added two more sugar cubes to the coffee, saying, "Be careful of cavities if you eat something so sweet."

He said innocently, "No, Zhizhi is a good kid, and good kids don't get cavities."

"Who said that?"

"Good boy, say it!"

His mother laughed so hard that she poked his little face gently: "You, you are such a clever little ghost."

He laughed along with his mother.

At that time, he couldn't bear anything bitter, so his mother wouldn't let him eat it and always added sugar to his food.

When I think back on these heartwarming moments with my mother, they seem so distant that they seemed to have happened in my previous life.

When I was a child, I lived in a honeypot and never understood that compared to the bitterness of life, coffee without sugar is nothing.

"Fortunately."

Yu Zhi put down the mug, pulled his thoughts away from the past, and returned to the main topic.

"Lawyer Huo, I'd like to ask, if I want to sue an alpha for attempted rape, is that legally possible?"

Lawyer Huo also switched to work mode.

"That's too general a question. I can't answer you. Whether it's feasible needs to be determined based on the actual circumstances of the case."

"Tell me what happened in detail. Be objective. Don't lie to me or exaggerate." At this point, Lawyer Huo asked, "By the way, what's your name?"

"Yuzhi, the Yu of lush, the Zhi of knowledge."

"Okay, Yuzhi."

Lawyer Huo said seriously, "Honesty is the basic requirement for you to defend your rights through legal means. This is very important. I hope you can follow through with it."

Yu Zhi nodded seriously: "Okay, I will tell you the truth."

Next, Yu Zhi told Lawyer Huo everything that happened yesterday, from beginning to end, in detail.

"...This is what happened. Both police officers advised me to settle the matter privately. They said there was no surveillance, no criminal evidence existed, and the conditions for filing a case were not met. It would be futile for me to sue."

"I thought about it all night and still felt very unwilling, so I came here today to seek professional advice."

"Lawyer Huo, do I really have no chance of winning?"

Yu Zhi clutched his trouser legs and tried hard to control his emotions, but his shoulders still trembled slightly.

"I was lucky to escape, and this has nothing to do with the person who tried to rape me. But he was able to use this to easily erase the damage he had done to me without paying any price, and throw dirty water on my head. I cannot accept this result."

Lawyer Huo reached out and patted Yu Zhi on the shoulder.

The clear voice contains reassuring power.

"Who said you have no chance of winning?"

Yu Zhi looked at Lawyer Huo in disbelief: "Did I?"

"Without surveillance, it's certainly very disadvantageous to you, but it's far from a dead end."

Lawyer Huo withdrew his hand and asked Yu Zhi, "You just said that when he forced you yesterday, he left bruises on your body, right?"

"Yes." Yu Zhi rolled up his sleeves and showed him one of them.

Beta has fair skin, and the pinch marks on his wrists have turned purple after a night, looking particularly horrifying and obvious.

After being asked this question by Lawyer Huo, Yu Zhi recalled the criminal investigation dramas he had watched before.

It seems like the injury assessment needs to be done right away. Not only did he stay overnight, he also took a shower. This...

Yu Zhi was annoyed: "I was so stupid. I should have gone directly to the hospital yesterday. Lawyer Huo, I did something very stupid. I'm sorry..."

"Why are you blaming yourself?"

Lawyer Huo asked curiously, "Yu Zhi, don't you think you are amazing?"

"You were only sixteen years old, and you experienced such a horrific thing. Not only did you quickly calm yourself down and not be influenced by others, you also knew to call the police. Even after they told you that they couldn't file a case, you still held on to a last glimmer of hope and walked into my law firm to fight for justice for yourself."

“You have to understand that many people spend their entire lives without taking the first step, but you are still moving forward.”

"Yu Zhi, you have such a dazzling sixteen years. You should hold your head high and be proud of yourself."

These few words made Yu Zhi feel a strong warmth in his heart.

Even if there are thousands of difficulties and thorns ahead, he will still give it a try.

Yu Zhi smiled gratefully at Lawyer Huo: "Thank you, Lawyer Huo."

"No need to thank me, these are the facts."

Lawyer Huo glanced at his watch and stood up first: "In that case, let's go."

Yu Zhi asked blankly, "Where are you going?"

Lawyer Huo said, "First, go to the police station that responded yesterday and ask them to issue a letter of authorization for a forensic injury assessment. Then, go to a forensic medical assessment agency to get the assessment done."

"The incident happened yesterday evening, and it's only noon now. Twenty-four hours haven't passed yet. Secondly, hair and body fluids can be washed off, but scars can't. So, there's still time for everything."

Lawyer Huo looked at Yu Zhi, hinting, "You have even less reason to blame yourself."

"You've done everything you can for yourself so far."

The guilt in Yu Zhi's heart gradually dissipated.

He replied "OK".

next second.

Yu Zhi remembered that the front desk had said before that Lawyer Huo would go to court in the afternoon.

So, Yu Zhi took the initiative and said, "I'll go by myself. You have work to do in the afternoon, so I won't bother you."

Lawyer Huo hummed a sound after hearing this, and thought it made perfect sense. "That's right, I have work to do this afternoon."

Yu Zhi was about to get up and say goodbye when he heard, "So why don't you hurry up and come with me?"

Yu Zhi was stunned, but he still didn't want to delay others.

"I'm fine, you should..."

"Hey, high school student."

Lawyer Huo suddenly stopped calling him by his name.

After such a long conversation, Lawyer Huo, for the first time, put on the airs of a professional leader: "Haven't you heard the saying? Leave professional matters to professionals."

"If you, as a client, do everything yourself, what do you need an excellent lawyer like me for?"

Yu Zhi was speechless in rebuttal, and just smiled and did as he was told.

On the way to the police station.

Lawyer Huo handed Yu Zhi one of his business cards at the traffic light.

"Keep it."

"It has my mobile number and WeChat number. Please add it so that we can contact you later."

Yu Zhi took it and said, "Okay."

The business card has the law firm's logo printed on it.

Below the logo is the business card owner’s position in the law firm and his name.

[Partner of Yaoan Law Firm

Huo Yao]

Yu Zhi took out his cell phone, entered the phone number on Huo Yao's business card on WeChat, and added him as a friend.

When applying, Yu Zhi noted his own name.

Huo Yao accepted his friend request at the next traffic light.

Yu Zhi immediately changed Huo Yao's nickname.

He solemnly typed in the four words "Lawyer Huo Yao".

Huo Yao.

He will remember this name well.

This is the name of the benefactor.