So Tang Tu told Liu Man, “My confession was very impulsive; I didn’t think clearly. Now that I’ve calmed down, I feel like we are great as friends. Forget my confession.”

“We, of course, need to keep a clear account as friends. I helped you, and you now owe me a favor. Keep it in mind. In the future, when I need a favor from you, I will let you know.”

“Li Shuhua is an attorney, and he receives payment by the hour. He requires a high payment, and you will need to pay that as well.”

Liu Man loved talking about money, for it never harmed a relationship. She nodded, “No problem. I’m willing to pay any amount of money.”

Tang Tu, seeing how much she admired money, wanted to laugh but also felt sour inside. He asked her, “Oh, right. Are you planning on suing Zhang Daqiang and Qiao Xin so they can compensate your losses due to your blemished reputation?”

Liu Man did think about pursuing the legal responsibility of the two people, but because of Liu Chenyu’s incident, she had a bad impression on the court of the law. She thought these people didn’t seem to have ways to help her solve actual problems and wasted her time.

Since Tang Tu was now reminding her, she said, “After I finish my end-of-semester exams, I will find time to have an attorney sue them.”

Venting out her anger was only the second reason.

She wanted them to compensate her!

“Then sue with me,” Tang Tu said. “It’s a simple matter. I just ask Lawyer Li to add your name to the complaint. It saves time and effort. If you find another lawyer, all the procedures have to be reported, and things will be delayed. I think no lawyer in the capital can be compared to Li Shuhua. He can get you the most compensation.”

Liu Man thought Tang Tu was being reasonable, “Then how much do I have to pay Lawyer Li?”

“Don’t worry. Lawyer Li will calculate everything for you; he’s not someone who will do a business that makes him be at a disadvantage.”

As she left Tang Tu’s practice room, Liu Man took out her phone, opened Wei Bo, and released Tang Tu’s name from her black list.

In just an instant, all the messages related to Tang Tu on Wei Bo flooded in.

Liu Man finally saw Tang Tu’s two critical Wei Bo posts. By now, these two posts had received 7 million and 10 million likes respectively. They also each had a few million comments.

Liu Man saw Shen Mozhen comment “apology accepted” under Tang Tu’s apology post. This “apology accepted” was stickied on top and commented on by more than 10k users.

Starting from one comment, everyone started pinging Princess Man and added on: “Begging for your forgiving.”

Liu Man understood Tang Tu’s apology. Because of him being uncareful, Qiao Xin saw the opportunity to expose the WeChat chat history onto the internet, causing her to get involved. It was why she got blamed and slandered by everyone on the internet.

There was no reason for Liu Man to be angry at Tang Tu for this. His privacy was pried on; he was a victim, too.

Because of that, she replied two words under this Wei Bo, too: “Apology accepted.”

As soon as she replied, people liked and replied within a second.

“After waiting for so many days, Hanfu Goddess finally appears!”

“Like Shen Mozhen, she personally responded to Tang Tu.”

“Is she forgiving Tang Tu, then?”

“Are they still friends?”

…

Everyone made many guesses, but Princess man did not say another word, and Tang Tu did not respond either.

Liu Man went home that day, and Zhang Pei told her excitedly, “Your dad can come out now!”

She continued to say, “This afternoon, your Uncle Sun called me. He said he found a very impressive lawyer to resubmit the files in defense. The court read through it and told us they will close the case within a month. Your dad will be able to come out by the latest, July 1st.”

Liu Man didn’t expect Tang Tu’s lawyer to be so efficient and powerful. Such a hard problem that didn’t progress at all for half a year was solved instantly with his involvement.

No wonder Lawyer Sun took the initiative to call him and request for his help.

So if one had social connections, nothing would be a problem.

At the same time, Lawyer Sun told Zhang Pei that Lawyer Li wasn’t working for free. They had to pay him 300k RMB as attorney fee.

They had just paid Lawyer Sun 100k RMB, and now they only had a little more than 100k RMB in their hands. They couldn’t take out 300k RMB at once.

Luckily, Lawyer Sun left them with Lawyer Li’s phone number. Liu Man called him to ask if they didn’t have to pay the 300k RMB all at once.

She didn’t expect Lawyer Li to say “yes” resolutely. However, he said that they could only delay the payment day for two months. They had to pay the money when Liu Chenyu got out.

Lawyer Li was a lawyer who put benefits in front of everything else. He was never a benefactor; no one should expect him to do anything if they didn’t have the money to pay him.

He only helped Liu Man and allowed her to delay the payment date only because of his respect towards Tang Tu’s.

At the same time, Lawyer Li told Liu Man that he still needed a 200k attorney fee if she wanted him to surrogate for her internet reputation blemish case. She could pay him this money after Qiao Xin and Zhang Daqiang compensated her.

Tang Tu came back to school because of his graduation performance. He, like Shen Mozhen, was also a representative of outstanding graduates.

The interaction with guests was the tradition for outstanding graduates concerts. Shen Mozhen needed to invite guests, and so did Tang Tu.

Because he got famous at such an early age, had such supreme talents, and had so many female fans, Tang Tu was very bad at making friends of the same gender at school. He didn’t have any close male friends, and like Yu Zhan, his friends were all ones he made when he was just a child. These friends had about the same background as him, but, unfortunately, they did not have music talents like he did.

According to the school protocols, in outstanding graduates concerts, there must be at least three guests.

Tang Tu invited Shen Mozhen as the first guest. After he and Shen Mozhen broke up with each other, they did not completely break all social connections with each other.

Because of that, Shen Mozhen finally realized he had been single all along. Their two months long relationship seemed to be a trial, and it made both Tang Tu and Shen Mozhen clearly realize they were not fitting as a couple. It was better if they just be friends; maybe this was proving the saying: “Sometimes, two people have more than just friendship, but this relationship isn’t enough for them to become lovers.”

Tang Tu was still contacting the second guest. That person had a busy schedule, so they couldn’t give a clear response.

Tang Tu still hadn’t chosen the third guest.

At this time, Qiu Jing called him.

“The Sound of the Wind” had already entered the production and editing stage, and they were planning on releasing the film at the end of the summer. Different from the low-profile Ye Zian who hated advertising, as an investor, Qiu Jing had already started preparing for the film’s marketing work in order to get it popular before it gets into cinemas.

Her actions were so quick because she was also worried that all of the previous scandals would influence the film’s reputation, and she didn’t want the money she invested into this project to get wasted.

Qiu Jing graduated from Capital Music University, so she naturally knew a lot about the school graduation concert’s traditions. She told Tang Tu, “I hope you can invite Liu Man to perform ‘Sound of the Wind’ with you on stage in your graduation concert to advertise the movie.”

“Eh…” Tang Tu, naturally, wanted to invite Liu Man, but he felt like Liu Man would decline his invite, “I, of course, have no problem with that. I’m just afraid Liu Man will be reluctant.”

Translated by: Sydney

Edited by: Puppxteer/Yutong