Too Bad I Take Things Seriously-Chapter 488 - 205: Spent 1200 on a Cold?

One party, for eighteen yuan, couldn’t swallow their pride. They pursued relentlessly, traveling to another city to file a civil lawsuit.

The other party, also for eighteen yuan, resigned, divorced, transferred assets, and rendered themselves penniless. Yet, they still refused to pay back the money.

Normally, most people wouldn’t know how to deal with such deadbeat behavior.

Unfortunately for them, Qin Mu was guiding the process from behind the scenes. Precise and unerring. He initiated a private criminal prosecution and had the other party incarcerated.

This ultimately led to a "major case" where one person was sentenced to fourteen years and the other to twelve.

The "entire drama" was full of twists and turns, focusing from beginning to end on the phrase "borrow money."

The secondary male lead, the borrower, clawed his way up. Starting from nothing, he somehow managed to borrow enough for an apartment in the big city, married a beautiful wife, and reached the pinnacle of his life.

Meanwhile, the main male lead, the lender, wasn’t fighting for buns but for dignity; he tirelessly pursued the eighteen yuan, persistently upholding his rights. Fortunately, he encountered an expert. Under this expert’s guidance, he staged a comeback, ultimately sending both the secondary male lead and his wife to prison.

The entire drama highlighted the conflict between honest people and those who love to take advantage, profoundly revealing how, in the face of monetary interests, even a married couple couldn’t withstand the test. It carried a deep educational message.

And the mastermind behind it all was none other than the expert hidden behind the main male lead.

The UP is still the UP; whenever he makes a move, someone is bound to suffer. Thinking this, Qing Lan sighed deeply.

「Meanwhile. Qianzhou. A certain residential complex.」

Ma Ming, utterly exhausted, returned to the city where he worked.

The court’s enforcement division had also given him a response, stating that the loan repayment would be processed within three working days. The assets confiscated from Meng Lei and Tian Shulan would be gradually returned to the lenders.

"Has the UP updated?"

While resting, Ma Ming noticed an update on Qin Mu’s account. He couldn’t help but open Little Station.

He watched the entire video. In it, his name, as well as Meng Lei’s and Tian Shulan’s, had been altered. Aliases were used. Certain excerpts from the trial footage were also pixelated. Privacy was very well protected.

In just one hour, the video had amassed 500,000 views.

It seems I’m going to be busy again.

He gave a wry smile. Silently, he opened his computer, logged into the forum’s backend, and prepared to moderate the comments.

Whenever Qin Mu released a video, traffic on the Study Law Alliance Forum, his fan base, would surge. Ma Ming had to do his best to protect the entire forum and his own safety, preventing any reckless hotheads from appearing.

At this moment, traffic in the three major sections of the Study Law Alliance Forum was skyrocketing. Many lurkers began to surface, and a large number of newcomers poured in. Every minute, more than ten new threads and hundreds of comments appeared.

In the Soul Cleansing Zone, most posts were mood logs, weather records, modern poetry, and aphorisms. An air of artistic sensitivity permeated the entire section.

Meanwhile, in the Turn Over a New Leaf Zone, it was filled with irritable "big brothers" and jokesters.

"This video isn’t very helpful to me. Borrow money? Ever since word got out that the UP had me put away, no one in the village dares ask me to borrow money anymore."

"Any newcomers in the forum? If you haven’t served at least a few years, I suggest you go next door to the Soul Cleansing Zone. We only accept real hard cases here."

"You guys, praising the UP all day, what’s there to be scared of? I just repaid the 50 cents I owed a childhood friend ten years ago, and now I’m not worried in the slightest."

"Indeed, the UP is nothing special. I was just bored, so I repaid all the money I owed from the past. Purely out of boredom, definitely not fear!"

"..."

In this section, jokesters were abundant.

After watching this "Borrowing Money" video, everyone was impacted to varying degrees.

Borrowing money. They had all borrowed money at some point and had also lent it to others.

In their view, these were just ordinary lending practices.

But who would have thought that borrowing on a large scale without repayment, a completely disreputable act, could even be suspected of fraud!

Someone in this video had learned the hard way the meaning of "humans die for wealth, just as birds die for food!"

For a mere eighteen yuan, they had actually managed to get themselves imprisoned.

And in the Law Study Zone, an academic atmosphere prevailed, with numerous posts discussing fraud and the crime of illegally absorbing public deposits.

"If I borrowed money from someone, and it’s not that I won’t repay it, but I repay one cent every day, would that constitute fraud?"

"If a bank employee embezzles donated funds for personal use, does that count as the crime of illegally absorbing public deposits?"

"For the crime of illegally absorbing public deposits, a case can be filed if an individual borrows from at least thirty people. So, what if I borrow from twenty-nine people and repay one cent each day?"

"If I transfer my assets before the court’s verdict is issued, making myself penniless, does it mean others can’t get the money?"

"..."

These netizens analyzed these crimes from another perspective, even proposing many potentially non-criminal methods.

It had to be said, as they delved deeper into studying law, many were transforming into "law-defying fanatics."

Their discussions were either toeing the line of legality or heading straight for it.

Ma Ming looked at the posts in the Law Study Zone, with their "law-defying fanatic" bent, and couldn’t help but gulp.

Indeed. The UP was right. The more one understands the law, the more one is tempted to probe its loopholes, and the more one knows how to avoid breaking it.