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A week later, Leopoldo’s kidnapping case was officially opened.

Paula Rouco, as plaintiff, and Severo Laris, as her representative, were present at the opening of Leopoldo’s case.

Adam Rouco sat in the hearing without informing Paula Rouco and waited.

As Leopoldo was led into court in handcuffs, he looked at Severo Laris with pleading and bitter eyes, “Severo, at least I’m your father! How could you do this to me? You’re taking your own father to court over a woman! It’s not fair!”

Leopoldo continued to play the affinity card, and a small part of the audience in the auditorium on stage thought Severo Laris was exaggerating, and that his six relatives were too good to be true.

The case, which went to court in The Holy City, was a sensation throughout The Holy City.

One, because Severo Laris and Paula Rouco already had a special position, not as minor characters but as public figures, and two, because the two had a great relationship, and three, because the relationship between the plaintiff’s lawyer and the defendant was again quite adversarial.

So this case has had a great impact on public opinion.

Later, it was rumored in the corner of La Ciudad Santa that Paula Rouco was a redhead and that the wretch Severo Laris had no consideration even for his own father.

Leopoldo looked at Severo Laris with helplessness and despair and pleaded, “Severo, drop the lawsuit! I’ve really admitted my mistake! Papa, please!”

Severo Laris never accepted it.

The judge rattled his gavel: “Silence! Court is now in session.”

A jousting debate in which Severo Laris clearly had the upper hand.

The defendant’s counsel was pushed to the limit and forced to back down, even to the point of silence on several occasions.

Severo Laris stood at the lawyer’s table, dressed in formal attire, calmly and rightly: “The defendant Leopoldo has twice kidnapped my client, with greater or lesser severity, but both with a great psychological impact on the plaintiff Paula Rouco, an irreparable psychological trauma for the rest of her life. ”

Defendant’s counsel: “Judge, although defendant kidnapped plaintiff twice, the circumstances of defendant’s kidnapping were too small to justify a severe sentence, and kidnappers enjoy the right to be treated fairly.”

Severo Laris scoffed, “You mean any harm that can’t be seen doesn’t count as harm, don’t you?”

Defendant’s lawyer: “Of course it does. But now that the plaintiff is here, unharmed, and that my client is aware of the mistakes he has made and is going to reform, you would be overreacting and flouting the justice of the law if you persist.”

Severo Laris looked sharply and sharply at the defendant’s lawyer and said, “A psychological trauma is not a psychological trauma if it can be seen by you, and is it a psychological trauma that my client was afraid of the dark for a while after defendant Leopoldo kidnapped her?”

The defendant’s lawyer laughed, “Is fear of the dark considered psychologically traumatic? Attorney Severo, you’re kidding me…”

The courtroom went up in fireworks as the two sides clashed.

The judge banged his gavel again, “Silence! Defendant’s counsel will refrain from distorting and stifling the facts.”

The defendant’s attorney gritted his teeth and closed his mouth.

Severo Laris calmly said again, “The defendant has kidnapped the plaintiff twice, the serious thing about the law is that it only allows a person to make a mistake in a matter once, and the defendant carries it out a second time, does that mean that the defendant can also carry it out a third, a fourth time?”

Counsel for the Defendant: “Counsel for the Plaintiff you are speculating about something that has not happened in the future, it is a figment of your imagination, the Defendant has done nothing of the sort, please don’t lead.”

Severo Laris: “If the defendant’s attorney assures us that the defendant will not harm or kidnap our plaintiff for a third time, we can consider withdrawing the case.”

“…”

A silence ensued.

The defendant’s attorney was momentarily dumbfounded; he could not offer that assurance.

Severo Laris: “You can’t make a promise, that means you also don’t know if the defendant is going to perform a third or fourth injury and kidnapping of our plaintiff. Our request for a more severe disposition is also motivated by the fact that the defendant has committed kidnapping several times.”

…

Two long hours passed, bit by bit.

Adam Rouco, at the hearing table, looked at Severo Laris in the lawyer’s chair with a gleam of admiration in his eyes at last.

Finally, the judge banged the gavel and announced the final result.

“According to Article 239 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China, kidnapping another person for the purpose of extorting money from him or taking him hostage …”

“On the ground that defendant Leopoldo has committed several crimes, kidnapping plaintiff Paula Rouco and extorting money from her family. After careful consideration and decision on our part, defendant Leopoldo is hereby sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. The sentence is to be executed immediately.”

After the judge’s announcement, Adan Rouco, who was in the audience on the stage, curved his thin lips in satisfaction, stood up and lita withdrew from the audience.

The case was fought beautifully and almost flawlessly by Severo Laris.

For Leopoldo, now over fifty years old, a thirty-year prison sentence is tantamount to life imprisonment.

Whether Leopoldo will still be alive in this world thirty years from now is an open question.

…

After the court hearing.

The police took Leopoldo away.

Leopoldo scolded Severo Laris in agitation: “Severo Laris, you rebellious son! I am your old man! You have done this to your father for a woman! You will get what you deserve!”

At this point, the audience had not quite left and was drawn in by the sound of Leopold’s curse.

The world has a tendency to take notice of jokes, least of all in cases that have nothing to do with them.

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Although Severo Laris had done nothing wrong, it was already Severo Laris’ original sin that the accused was his father.

All people could see was the handsome man in the white shirt and black suit, calm and composed, smiling faintly, “The fact that you are my father is already the greatest payback of my life, even this no longer scares me, what else am I afraid of?”

Severo Laris’ smile is noble and cold to the bone.

Leopoldo’s face turned red with anger and his fingers crackled with rage, “You! Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch!”

The police held Leopoldo and dragged him away.

Severo Laris approached the plaintiff’s table and extended a big, clean, thin hand toward Paula Rouco, “Go home.”

Paula Rouco just looked at him like that, frowned slightly, and asked, “He’s your father, and you really don’t regret it?”

“He and I are but strangers who share the same blood, and for him I have given too much, and I can lose no more for him.”

Paula Rouco asks, “Even if I don’t end up with you, don’t you regret it?”.

Severo Laris answered, “Seven years ago, I could have given up my degree to study in America for you, then I didn’t think about the future, because when you were with me, you were my world, the rest, it didn’t matter, it was like that before, it is like that now and it will never change.”

Deep emotions floated in her deep gaze, dotted with stars, like a whirlpool that sucked her in.

Paula Rouco positioned herself at the plaintiff’s table, the corners of her lips lifted slightly, and when her small hand fell into his, Severo Laris followed her arm, wrapped it around her waist and pulled her away from the plaintiff’s table.

Ignore the crowd.

…

After leaving the courthouse, Severo Laris drove Paula Rouco home.

When the car pulled away a bit, Severo Laris wanted to take her out to eat.

Paula Rouco’s cell phone rang.

She smiled when she saw the caller ID and quickly picked it up.

Severo Laris did not see the caller ID and did not know which of his friends it was.

Paula Rouco asked, “Aracely, why are you calling me all of a sudden?”

Aracely Belmonte smiled and said, “I’m back home in La Ciudad Santa, I’m dating my boyfriend in La Ciudad Santa, do you want to come meet me?”

Paula Rouco froze, “You have a boyfriend?”.

“Yes, he has been good to me, I like him a lot and I feel that now life makes sense, come here and I will ask him to invite you to dinner.”

Aracely Belmonte’s voice was pleasant and good-humored, and Paula Rouco, infected by her, said, “Yes, send me your address and I’ll see you there later.”

“Okay, I’ll wait for you.”

After hanging up the phone, Paula Rouco looked at her and smiled softly.

Severo Laris, who had not seen her so happy in a long time, was curious and asked her, “Which of your friends makes you so happy?”

Paula Rouco merely blurted out, “You don’t know.”

Severo Laris was a little torn inside, but for the moment, because of what appeared to be a woman, he let it go.

Severo Laris asks, “What do you want to eat?”

Paula Rouco said, “I can’t join you for lunch, you can drop me off at the intersection in front, I have something to do.”

“Where are you going, I’ll take you.”

“I don’t want it.”

Severo Laris: “…”

Aracely Belmonte, whom Paula Rouco met in the United States and who also suffers from severe depression, has been friends since they met and they confide in each other often. Paula Rouco is very happy for her.

Once, Aracely Belmonte also committed suicide.

Luckily, she arrived just in time to stop Aracely Belmonte.

Consoling Aracely Belmonte is like consoling herself, and that comforts her.

She wanted to see what kind of boyfriend Aracely Belmonte had that could save Aracely Belmonte.