QT: Grace To Grass Counterattack System

The family head silently walked in after them as they entered the courtroom. The alpha seemed to have aged a hundred years these past fifteen days, how could he not?

In order to bribe some higher ups, he had to sell over half of the Zhang conglomerate shares that the Zhang family owned. Not just that, he had to sell off almost all their properties; vacation houses, expensive cars, mansions, lands and even the shares owned by the Zhang family in a lot of other companies.

The Zhang madam even had to sell a lot of her expensive jewelry. Plus the money they had gotten from Li Shiyu, hundreds of millions had gone into reducing Zhang Jun's sentence.

They had no choice as the amount of money laundered was enough to keep Zhang Jun in jail for, at least, 15 years with a massive amount of fines.

"ALL RISE!!" The bailiff said immediately the judge walked in. "The Court of General Sessions. The tenth Judicial Circuit is now in session. The Honourable Lu Bai is presiding."

Everyone rose, including the Zhangs, acquaintances and members of the public all seated in the gallery. They all took their seats once the judge was seated and then Zhang Jun was brought in.

Zhang Jun's preliminary hearing had been conducted in private five days ago, the rest of the days had been used for the grand jury investigation and now, they were all here for the trial by the jury.

Since it was a case of money laundering, the prosecution and trial was made public by the government so the Zhangs spotted some family faces amongst the crowd. Zhang Jun was a prominent figure so the amount of people, elites and lower class alike, that came here to watch the show was not small.

Zhang Jun locked eyes with Li Shiyu. The omega let out silent tears when he took in Zhang Jun's slightly disheveled state. The alpha gave Li Shiyu a wry smile as the trial finally began.

With an availability of concrete evidence, the entire trial took eight hours with an hour of adjournment in between. In the end, Zhang Jun was sentenced to eight months in prison with a fine of twice the amount of money laundered.

"What?!" The family head shouted immediately he heard the sentence and then fainted. The Zhang madam's eyes widened as she held up her husband. She was also a little weak in the knees but she bit the inside of her cheek to keep herself conscious.

An ambulance was arranged and the family head was carried out of the courtroom on a stretcher. The Zhang madam rushed out after her husband but Li Shiyu ignored them and kept staring as Zhang Jun was led out of the courtroom.

The judge had left the courtroom and the murmurings of the audience filled the courtroom as they filed their way out. Some reporters were also furiously snapping photos of the Zhang family members so He Yuan made sure to avoid them and sneak out of the courtroom.

He walked to the back of the court. It was early evening and the breeze was cool on his flesh as he looked to the skies.

"You don't look too sad at your husband's sentencing," A calm voice said.

He Yuan looked in the direction of the voice to find Pei Jing leaning against the wall with his head cocked to the side and a cigarette between his lips. He stared at the alpha for a while before shrugging and looking back to the skies.

The alpha pushed himself off the wall and walked over to stand next to He Yuan. "Do you need a ride?"

He Yuan shook his head, he already had a ride. As if on cue, Li Shu drove over and parked right in front of them. "Yexi, I'm here."

He Yuan nodded and got into the passenger side of the sports car. He looked back to Pei Jing as Li Shu drove off, the alpha was waving at him with a thin smile.

"888?" The system was silent so He Yuan called out again, "888?" It wasn't until the third call that the system finally replied.

[Yes?]

He Yuan frowned. 888's voice sounded off. "Are you okay?"

888 cleared his throat. [I'm okay. It's just-]

"Just what?"

[That Pei Jing gives me a very odd feeling. Something seems off about him.]

He Yuan quickly looked back to see the alpha walking towards the front of the court building. "What do you mean?"

[I'm not too sure, myself.]

He Yuan went silent and an uneasy feeling settled in his stomach. The last time 888 felt weird about something, the thing turned out to contain an evil cultivator inside. This couldn't possibly be another case of possession... Right? He shuddered.

After the family head was released from the hospital, he sold off the remaining Zhang conglomerate shares, the remaining of their properties, lands and even the last two minor companies belonging to the Zhang family.

The Zhang madam sold off all her jewelry, branded bags and clothes before they were able to gathered the enough money to pay off the fine issued by the court.

The family head was going to give the money to the court in five days and after that, all that would be left in the Zhang family's possession would be the Zhang mansion and a single white sedan car.

As they dismissed the last of their servants, the Zhang madam was hunched over in misery but Li Shiyu went over to hold her hands.

"Mother... There's no need to be so sad. Zhang Jun is so talented and has lots of connections, once he gets out of prison, everything would go back to normal and all those socialites laughing at us now would have no choice but to swallow their tongues in regret."

Li Shiyu truly believed this in his heart and that was why he wasted no time in offering up every single dime and property he owned. This way, once Zhang Jun was at the top again, he would receive the most praise for giving his all for his sweetheart.

Unlike Li Yexi, the supposed partner of Zhang Jun, who did nothing but watch from afar and treated them like strangers. Li Shiyu felt that he would also receive the well deserved blessings and goodwill of everyone once he got married to Zhang Jun.

After all, where would you be able to find someone who could selflessly give their all for their love? Li Shiyu was quite satisfied and proud of himself. He felt Li Yexi was mocking him for his actions secretly but he was also gloating at his cousin for his foolishness.

This was a crucial time period in Zhang Jun's life and the one who would be qualified to spend the rest of their lives with the alpha was of course the one who was with the alpha through his time of need.

Li Yexi should just wait. Once Zhang Jun was out and steady on his feet, Li Yexi would lose everything and even his brother would not be able to keep the Li corporation. Himself, on the other hand, would become Zhang Jun's partner and would receive the envious gazes of everyone, Li Yexi included.

Zhang Jun was still the heart throb of many and even if he was convicted, a lot of people were convinced it was a setup. Li Shiyu could still remember the numerous omegas who were still sending Zhang Jun coquettish looks in the courtroom.

The alpha might have looked a bit haggard but being the charismatic man who had spent all his life as a figure with high authority, he was able to give off a form of rugged charm that had the omegas, and even some alphas, swooning.

Li Shiyu's words gave her hope so the Zhang madam nodded and smiled as she caressed Li Shiyu's face. "My son is so lucky to have you."

He Yuan was busy upstairs, packing up all of Li Yexi's belongings. At first, he had planned to remain in the Zhang mansion but after thinking it through, it seemed like an unnecessary course of action to take. Even if leaving now would make Li Yexi the subject of public condemnation, he still planned to go through with it.

He did not plan to remain here and go through unnecessary hardships with the Zhangs and besides, it wouldn't be too late for a reversal once Zhang Jun gets out of jail.

He'd done his fair share of research on divorce proceedings.

The requirement for mutual annulment of a marriage was two years of separation. This was what Zhang Jun had been hoping for when he presented the divorce papers before. The alpha wanted to cut clean with Li Yexi in a way that preserved his and Li Shiyu's reputations.

So even if they hadn't really been separated for two years, the alpha had the connections to make it happen. Now, it was impossible to make that happen. He Yuan didn't want to be tied to Zhang Jun, in any way, for two years and even if he was patient enough to wait, he still wouldn't use the option of separation.

Another method was divorce on the grounds of incarceration but that would require Zhang Jun to be in jail for over a year and even if that was possible, He Yuan still wouldn't use that method.

He wanted to use a method that crushed all of Zhang Jun's hope. Just like the alpha did to Li Yexi time and time again. The list of damage Zhang Jun had done to Li Yexi's hopeful heart was quite long, so He Yuan wanted the alpha to feel the same pain just like he;

Led Li Yexi to believe that there was a chance that he would love him back only to crush that hope when Li Shiyu appeared.

Slept with Li Yexi, got him pregnant, gave him hope that there was still a chance that he cared only to crush that hope when he instructed that servant to drug Li Yexi and cause him to miscarry.

Gave Li Yexi the impression that he was going to get Li Anjing out of prison and have the Li family established once more only to crush that hope by getting Li Shu addicted to drugs and sending him to prison, setting Li Yexi up to be raped and then framing him into a divorce.

Li Yexi had finally left and managed to remain hopeful enough to want to start a business but Zhang Jun was there once again to support Zhang Di and Zhang Ye as they conned Li Yexi.

The final straw was when Li Yexi had hoped for justice. What did he get in return? Being trafficked and sold to a whorehouse. Zhang Jun had thoroughly crushed Li Yexi.

So He Yuan was going to teach the alpha what it meant to have hope right at the tip of your fingers only to have it crushed with a sledge hammer.