CHAPTER 263: CHAPTER 258: THE MALE PROTAGONIST WITH X-RAY VISION

"Tong Li, you are suing me?" Ling Batian stood in the dock, gritting his teeth and glaring at Tong Li, his eyes brimming with flaming rage and hatred for her.

Tong Li ignored him and, accompanied by her lawyer, looked at the judge and jury with grief and seriousness.

"Order in the court!" The judge, a middle-aged uncle with a daughter of his own, detested morally bankrupt degenerates like Ling Batian.

Ling Batian was wealthy and had hired an expensive lawyer, but the evidence in today’s case was irrefutable, rendering even the best lawyer useless.

In the end, according to Article 237 of the Criminal Law (on the crimes of forced indecency, insulting women, and abusing children), Ling Batian was sentenced to five years in prison, not eligible for bail due to the severity of his actions.

After Ling Batian was imprisoned, the people most distressed were his women, Zhao Xiaoman along with Song Yu, and Lin Ying were okay; one was initially attracted by Ling Batian’s wealth, and now that Ling Batian was in prison, photos of him with them had leaked online, with Zhao Xiaoman quickly dissociating herself to avoid scandal.

Then there was Song Yu, who initially only approached Ling Batian because he was handsome and rich, and because he was originally Liu Zhilan’s boyfriend, her involvement was due solely to jealousy, with hardly any real feelings involved.

Lin Ying was even more straightforward. Apart from Tong Li, she had the least interaction with Ling Batian among all his women, and she mostly harbored ulterior motives for using him. With many senior employees in her company now leaning towards her brother, she was too busy with her career to bother about Ling Batian’s fate.

The ones left were Liu Zhilan and Chen Qing, the women who truly cared deeply for Ling Batian, they were gravely affected by his misfortune.

Liu Zhilan was his most devoted lover; she was Ling Batian’s first woman, and he was her only man. Even when she found out that Ling Batian was involved with other women, she did not leave him despite her heartbreak, because she loved him too much.

However, Ling Batian having other women was one thing, his abuse of a minor was completely another.

Liu Zhilan, who had always been an excellent student from a good family, had also nurtured a naive and kind-hearted nature. While she could tolerate him having other affairs out of love, she could not stand him violating the law and committing immoral acts.

Liu Zhilan eventually met Ling Batian in prison and broke up with him, then went home and submitted her application for a study leave, as the series of events had deeply impacted her, making her feel the need to calm down.

As for Chen Qing, although she was sad about Ling Batian’s plight, she was now preoccupied with herself as comparisons of her usual attire and the leaked photos had been made online.

The conclusion was reached that considering the clothes, shoes, body shape, and hairstyle, one of Ling Batian’s women was indeed her.

A student-teacher relationship, this news was simply explosive! Especially since the teacher was married.

Chen Qing’s husband was also a teacher at A University, and he had noticed his wife’s strange behavior for months but had no proof and had been unwilling to believe it, allowing Chen Qing to deceive him.

He lamented why his wife had grown colder recently, why she had repeatedly brought up divorce, only to find out she was involved with another man outside, and that man was her student!

This shameless b***h!

Unable to withstand the shock, Chen Qing’s husband immediately caused a huge scene at the school’s disciplinary committee, and within a day, the whole school knew.

Chen Qing and Ling Batian had engaged in numerous intimate acts at school, these matters could not withstand scrutiny, the more they investigated, the more chilling it became, not only for Chen Qing’s husband but also for the school’s authorities whose anger knew no bounds.

School is a place for education; how dare they commit such filthy acts there?

"No wonder Ling Batian was so agitated when he was caught that day! Turns out she was having an affair with Ling Batian!"

"Really didn’t see that coming. Always looks so ascetic and serious, but turns out to be such trash deep down."

"No wonder Mr. Wang is so furious. If it were my wife, I’d want to kill her."

"How can Mr. Wang even teach at school now? The whole school knows he’s been cuckolded."

"And this Teacher Chen Qing, why on earth would she fancy a scumbag like Ling Batian?"

"And you’re calling her a teacher! I heard she got fired."

"Good that she was fired, saves our school’s reputation. Imagine if people said her students turned out just like her?"

"Calling herself a political education teacher, pah! Does she even deserve that?"

Be it teachers or students, everyone looked down on Chen Qing. Her dismissal was a relief and widely approved. It’s said that not only did her husband divorce her, but he also made her pay a hefty compensation for deceit in marriage."

Despised by everyone, Chen Qing had nowhere to go after the divorce, but fortunately, Ling Batian’s numerous properties allowed her to quietly settle in a villa.

However, her good days didn’t last long. Not much later, the villa was burglarized, countless invaluable jades and antiques stored in the basement vanished without a trace. As there was no evidence, Ling Batian shifted his suspicion to her and stopped providing her shelter and money.

In the end, no one knew where Chen Qing ended up, nor did anyone know if she regretted getting involved with Ling Batian.

But Ye Qiu heard that Ling Batian was having a miserable time in prison, naturally the work of Tong Li and Lin Yuan.

Tong Li despised him and feared he might trouble her and her daughter after five years, so she preferred to have him killed in prison rather than facing problems later.

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan wanted to get hold of Ling Batian’s secret. He suspected something was amiss with Ling Batian’s eyes, but couldn’t overtly get him out for experiments.

So, he could only wait until Tong Li’s men crippled him and then, while Ling Batian was receiving treatment in the hospital, arranged his men to extract his corneas.

However, it turned out that just the corneas were useless. In frustration at not uncovering the secret, Lin Yuan ended up blinding Ling Batian.

Ye Qiu couldn’t believe how quickly things progressed; Ling Batian had even more women to appear, yet he was already finished.

He couldn’t help but recall all the events of this lifetime, which were not much different from the previous life, except he had slightly mentioned some things to Lin Yuan and Tong Li, resulting in so many changes.

After all, Ling Batian wasn’t smart even with his golden touch; he was even quite arrogant. If it hadn’t been for several capable women with strong backgrounds protecting him in his previous life, he wouldn’t have lasted till the end.

His downfall in this life was nothing but just retribution and reincarnation at play.