Chapter 803: Chapter 257: Do You Think the Company is a Wishing Machine?
Chapter 803 -257: Do You Think the Company is a Wishing Machine?
Dongshan City Detention Center, President Liu’s eyes were somewhat vacant, having spent ten days previously, and this time it was going to be fifteen days!
Especially since he had just tasted the freedom of life outside only to come back in again, the stark contrast was so great that even a day in, he still hadn’t snapped out of it.
Right then, the supervising officer Lao Xu came in, looked around, and soon said, “Liu Dongshan, step out with me for a moment.”
However, President Liu still showed no reaction, and Lao Xu raised his voice again, finally eliciting a response.
“Ah, here!”
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President Liu hurriedly answered and stood up to follow him outside.
Inside the supervisory office, Lao Xu looked at President Liu and said, “Liu Dongshan, we just got a call from the court, and here’s the situation.”
“You indicated before that you wanted to negotiate with the other party, so now the Intermediate Court wants to ask if you are willing to accept mediation because the other side has expressed the same willingness.”
Hearing this, President Liu’s vacant gaze finally eased, but after thinking it over, he still said, “I was indeed willing to mediate before, but now…
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I’m already in here, how can we mediate, and what’s the use of it?”
He could guess without thinking that Tang Fangjing would surely demand an exorbitant sum.
“I’m already detained, and even with mediation, the amount of money that needs to be compensated won’t decrease; on the contrary, the other party will demand even more money.
What’s in it for me, it’s just fifteen days…”
Lao Xu then said, “Aren’t you going to hear the terms?”
“I won’t agree to mediate regardless of the terms!”
President Liu was once again showing his tough side, although he couldn’t stand a minute more in the detention center, but as a man, there’s always something that stays hard.
Lao Xu looked at him upon hearing this; he remembered how this man looked when he came in yesterday, feeling that if there was any way to avoid detention, he would agree to anything.
Yet now he was actually saying “It’s just fifteen days…”
So, Lao Xu said with a smile, “Oh, I see, it’s alright not to agree.
It’s your freedom.
You can go back; I’ll contact the court.”
Although President Liu very much wanted to hear the conditions, he still tried to maintain his own dignity and walked out slowly.
Then he heard the supervising officer seemed to be making a phone call.
“Hello, the other side doesn’t agree, terminating the detention early won’t work, I haven’t even had the chance to speak, and they’ve already said they won’t agree regardless of the terms, yes, that’s right, no mediation then…”
However, before Lao Xu could finish, he saw President Liu suddenly rush up to him, shouting, “I agree, I agree, I’ll agree to anything just to get out!”
This was all because he’d suffered for being legally ignorant; in the past, when he was administratively detained for fights, the police had told him that early release from detention was impossible, whatever the number of days set that’s how long it would be.
Because it was intended for cases where the behavior didn’t reach the level of crime but was quite bad, the maximum was never more than fifteen days.
If released earlier, it would defeat the purpose of punishment.
But President Liu didn’t know that though both were detentions and both were carried out in the detention center by the Public Security Authorities, judicial detention and administrative detention were two completely different concepts!
The purpose of judicial detention is usually to resolve issues!
Although it also has a punitive aspect, compared to administrative detention, it definitely is not as severe.
For example, the classic case of a deadbeat not paying back money, it’s rare to see refusals to enforce judgments as crimes, so it’s usually judicial detention twice a year.
The goal of detention is to urge the other party to pay back money, so even if a judicial detention order is issued, if the other party admits their mistake and is willing to pay back, the enforcement can still be stopped.
The same was true for President Liu, who had been detained for deliberately obstructing employees from verifying their labor relationship and work-related injury identifications through litigation and for intentionally withholding crucial evidence such as employment contracts.
If he now was willing to admit his errors and negotiate with the other party, early release was still an option, but the fine would not be waived…
As a result, hearing that he could be let out early got President Liu all excited.
He wished he could reach a successful negotiation the next second and get out to enjoy himself.
That’s just the nature of people; when there’s no hope, they are not so desperate, but as soon as a glimmer of hope appears, that’s when they become most anxious.
To give an analogy, a homebody who can only do manual work might seem desperate for certain pleasures, sure he’s desperate, but not desperately so, since he can satisfy his needs by himself, albeit at the expense of his kidneys.
But once he gets a girlfriend, and their relationship progresses to a certain stage, then he will be in a hurry, extremely in a hurry, even to the point of being willing to endure various manipulations…
That’s the state President Liu was in now.
Hearing this, Lao Xu put down the phone and said, “What’s the matter, you agree to mediate again, huh?
You’ll agree without hearing the terms?”
“What else could the conditions be; it’s just about money, right?
I agree to everything, as long as I can get out!” President Liu said hurriedly.
So, Lao Xu relayed the situation to the court, and soon the court began contacting both parties to prepare for mediation.
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It was already May, and Dongshan City was unbearably hot; Old Tang now only went out during the day if absolutely necessary.
When will the system give me a skill so I don’t care about the heat or the cold?
The Intermediate Court called, asking him to come for mediation tomorrow morning.