Meng De Lake only knew that he was finished.
The faces of Yan Kailong and Kang Guizhong beside him were also pale.
Yan Kailong thought to himself: "It shouldn’t have anything to do with me, it should have nothing to do with us. I might just get scolded a bit. It’s fine, it’s fine, I was just thinking about the students. It’s not like I pushed her down the stairs, what does it have to do with me? I just wanted them to get good grades, I just hope they can get good scores. I’m fine, I’m fine...."
Yan Kailong was still comforting himself in his heart.
And Kang Guizhong said: "It shouldn’t be related to me, right? I didn’t delete the monitoring, I didn’t scold anyone, I didn’t do anything... The rest was done by them, what does it have to do with me."
Both of them felt it had nothing to do with them...
Nothing happened.
When the time came, if Meng De Lake went in, then he went in, and if they didn’t, that was fine.
Both of them were already pale, bloodless.
At this moment, Gu Chen looked at Meng De Lake and said: "Meng De Lake, do you have anything else to justify yourself at this time?"
Meng De Lake: "..."
Meng De Lake had completely fallen silent.
Gu Chen had already brought out the videos.
All the evidence of what happened at that time had been brought out.
Now, how to explain?
No way to explain.
These are all evidence....
But if he didn’t speak, then no one could defend him.
Meng De Lake said: "Yes!"
Meng De Lake said: "I was the one who ordered the deleted monitoring, but that doesn’t mean I wanted to destroy any evidence. I just didn’t want negative news to spread out; I didn’t want the outside world to know about this incident; I didn’t want to affect the external evaluation of Yun City Third Middle School, so I chose to have the monitoring footage deleted."
Meng De Lake said: "I admit my mistake, but I don’t know anything about a suicide note, nor do I know of any evidence. Throughout, I only did one thing, which was to delete the monitoring footage. Honestly, I didn’t mean for 120 not to be called sooner, I just forgot. I thought someone would call 120. I really didn’t know it would be so serious. By the time I realized that 120 needed to be called, it was already late."
"And Tang Xinran was always suicidal; no one pushed her down the stairs. I just wanted to cover up this information, so I deleted the monitoring footage, but now you’ve also seen the monitoring footage, that it was Tang Xinran’s suicide. What does it have to do with me? I admit I have done some things for Yun City Third Middle School that weren’t good, but that doesn’t change the fact that I hope Yun City Third Middle School can become better!"
"Really, I regret not calling 120 immediately. I truly thought someone else would call 120. I didn’t prevent anyone from calling 120. I just forgot, and I apologize for that."
Meng De Lake quickly figured out how to explain.
In the video surveillance, only Tang Xinran committing suicide was seen.
But the suicide note? Meng De Lake didn’t care.
Although Tang Xinran did have a suicide note, what did it have to do with him?
The surveillance footage didn’t show a suicide note either.
Who knows?
As for destroying evidence, that didn’t exist either.
What destroying evidence?
All he did was delete some surveillance footage. Is that worthy of a death sentence?
Even without a lawyer, Meng De Lake decided he had to say something.
Especially when facing inevitable doom, the instinct to survive surges.
As for calling 120, Meng De Lake just said he forgot.
Must he call 120?
Is not calling a crime?
How does that relate to murder? It’s not like he’s the one who killed her.
The more Meng De Lake spoke, the more he felt what he was saying made sense, and his thoughts became clearer.
That way, forgetting to call 120 can just be seen as negligence, and he could defend himself by saying he thought someone else would call.
He could say he deleted the monitoring footage for the sake of their external evaluation.
So... it’s fine!
What does it have to do with him?
He didn’t push the person; he was merely strict in hopes of better rates of advancement.
He’s fine!!
As for imprisonment?
Nothing happened!!
Meng De Lake’s words directly stirred up more and more anger among many netizens.
[Damn, this bastard is shirking responsibility!!]
[Does he really think he’s fine?]
[Isn’t this obviously destroying evidence? Not calling 120 is intentional neglect in rescue, to buy time for destroying evidence.]
[Meng De Lake is disgusting!! He’s the killer, just won’t admit it!!]
At this point, Tang Jian Country looked angrily at Meng De Lake and said: "Meng De Lake, deleting the monitoring footage is destroying evidence!!! Not calling 120 is ignoring a dying person!!"
Tang Jian Country was already in an emotional upheaval.
Gu Chen patted Tang Jian Country on the shoulder.
Meng De Lake laughed: "Hahaha, Judge, I want to ask, I did delete the monitoring footage, but may I ask what evidence did I destroy? Tang Xinran committed suicide, right? Did someone push her? Did I push her? What evidence did I destroy? I don’t know, I am wrong, but what evidence did I destroy?"
"Why is not calling 120 considered ignoring a dying person, what crime do you want to charge me with? I am very sorry about Tang Xinran’s death, but what does it have to do with me? There are so many teachers, so many people... no one called the police, are you going to prosecute all one or two thousand of us, all for ignoring a dying person, right?"
"So what, my lawyers escaped, so what? What law have I broken? In this matter, I have nothing to explain, I can only say Tang Xinran was too psychologically fragile, she chose to jump and now wants to evade responsibility? Hahahahaha." Meng De Lake mocked.
Meng De Lake feared nothing now.
The worst was reassignment of his position, could he really get jailed?
He was almost scared by Gu Chen.
But now... he didn’t care!
Everyone present, looking at Meng De Lake, was extremely angry.
But they also couldn’t do anything to Meng De Lake.
Because what Meng De Lake said might have made a bit of sense.
Meanwhile... Fangda Law Firm.
Gao Yong said: "It’s not working, it’s still very tricky. Gu Chen has the surveillance footage and evidence of what happened then and knows the timing, but Meng De Lake is not committing any crime this way."
"If someone pushed Tang Xinran and Meng De Lake deleted the footage, then Meng De Lake would be committing a crime, but now since Tang Xinran committed suicide, he didn’t conceal any facts, so what Meng De Lake said holds ground, and he hasn’t broken the law."
"As for not calling 120, it indeed isn’t illegal, it can only be morally criticized, he just said he forgot. We can’t arrest everyone on site and sentence them, at most it’s the school’s responsibility, and let the school pay some compensation... and the compensation case is already closed, Gu Chen won’t have an easy time with this case either."
Young Master Xue beside said: "Gu Chen is still too impulsive, at this rate, this case is going to be lost... Is this Gu Chen’s proficiency in law? I haven’t seen anything special."