The assistant pulled up a chair and sat down beside the bed. He looked at Huo Tingrui as the latter lay in bed quietly. Huo Tingrui's face was bereft of color.
Although the law was not considered a dangerous profession, if money or power was involved, things could get tricky.
The assistant had been in the trade for almost 10 years. However, this was the first time he had seen someone blatantly abducting a lawyer, at gunpoint no less.
The assistant muttered. "I told your brother not to take the case, but he insisted. Even though he knew it would spell trouble, he took it up anyway."
"How could commoners like us stand against powerful men like them?"
"Someone else is bound to help them. Why did he have to volunteer himself?"
The assistant bent over and buried his head in his knees. The incident had genuinely given him quite a scare. He would never forget the taste of having a gun trained to his temple.
