What's wrong with this lawyer?!

It really irked him in so many ways, but there was nothing he could do about it.

He was indeed rich, capable of dumping hundreds of thousands into a mobile game, but compared to the Meitian Company, he fell far short, so now he could only seethe with impotent rage.

Just then, he saw a new private message appear in his message list.

Fuck, it's not enough that they mock me in the comments section, now they have to send private messages?

Caught in a bout of anger, Du Junfeng clicked on the private message; he was going to give the sender a piece of his mind... Huh, Tang Fangjing?

But upon opening the private message, Du Junfeng froze, the sender of the new message was actually Tang Fangjing!

Du Junfeng became instantly excited and began to read the message eagerly.

The content of the message was very short, just one sentence: "Hello, if you wish to pursue rights protection, you can add my WeChat to discuss in detail."

Fuck, of course I'm adding him, Lawyer Tang's WeChat? That's way better than those female streamers' WeChat!

He quickly added Tang Fangjing and was eager to start messaging, and soon he learned the situation from Tang Fangjing's own mouth.

"Only eight thousand for the lawyer's fee? That's no problem for me, Lawyer Tang, when can we sign the contract?"

Actually, this eight thousand was based on previous government-guided pricing: For disputes under one hundred thousand, fees were eight to ten percent of the subject matter value.

Even though it's now a market-adjusted price, using the previous guide price, no one could have any complaints.

For Du Junfeng, the case could yield a win of eighty or ninety thousand, so he was willing to spend that much for rights protection, and he could accept even more if necessary.

The result was that now he only needed to pay eight thousand, which was definitely no problem!

When Tang Fangjing mentioned the need for others, Du Junfeng immediately began to introduce some people he knew who were big spenders.

Aside from one who had already transferred his assets, several others agreed.

Having money did not mean they were mindless. After all, this was personally handled by Tang Fangjing; even if they had to pay more, it would give them bragging rights in future gatherings—definitely a matter of prestige.

Not to mention Lawyer Tang was only charging such a small fee, there was no need to hesitate.

According to the "Supreme People's Court interpretation of the application of the Civil Procedure Law" Article 59, a class action lawsuit refers to cases where one party has more than ten members, and if one party does not exceed ten members, a representative action cannot be filed.

The other requirement is that the subject matter of the litigation must be of the same type, which wasn't a problem either: it all related to infringed virtual property rights, and the defendant was the same.

And most crucially, there were precedents...

Through word of mouth among the people, soon twelve plaintiffs were gathered, with several of the big spenders being elected as representatives.

For now, Old Tang didn't plan to release any news; he planned to wait until the result of the second instance was in, file the lawsuit, wait for the court to establish the case, then make it public and let others begin registering.

This is where the advantage of the Internet court became apparent: no need to run around everywhere, everything could be settled online.

Meitian Company had no clue about these actions, or rather, they would never imagine that someone would be crazy enough to do this. By normal logic, even in a representative action, other people would need to pay.

The gamers weren't insane; in fact, the amount most people recharged wasn't very large.

In such an atmosphere, the second-instance court proceedings began, without a live broadcast this time.

Old Tang and Ju Haiqing sat in the respondent's seat and said only one sentence throughout, which was to request the intermediate court to uphold the original judgment.

Zhou Xianying had no new evidence to present on her side and repeated the same things as in the first instance, naturally unable to sway the second-instance court to overturn the decision.

The second-instance court ruled that the first-instance court's judgment took into consideration Meitian Company's compensation plan, fully considered Meitian Company's assessment and expectations of the value of virtual property on its platform, and justly determined the loss amount for Ju Haiqing, which was within the reasonable scope of the judge's discretion and also relatively balanced the interests of all parties.

Therefore, the court confirmed the first-instance judgment, dismissed the appeal, and upheld the original judgment!

The judgment was handed down, and Zhou Xianying, looking at Tang Fangjing and the others, finally couldn't help but ask, "Now that the case is judged, may I ask, Lawyer Tang, what's the point of you taking this case?"

"He surely spent more than just this five hundred on legal fees. Do you expect Meitian to change something because of these five hundred?"

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Opposite her, Old Tang and Ju Haiqing exchanged a glance, then smiled and said, "You will see the effect of these five hundred."

With that, the two left the courthouse, leaving Zhou Xianying speechless. But perhaps this could be considered a victory over Tang Fangjing?

Meanwhile, Old Tang had already submitted the materials for a representative lawsuit to the case-filing system of the Internet court.

At The Capital's Internet court's case-filing office, it was nearly the end of the working day when Ren Xiaopei planned to finish reviewing the materials and call it a day.

It was the off-season for case filings, and although there were still many cases, there were quite a few less compared to other times, making their workload significantly easier.

But just at that moment, a dozen or so materials appeared all at once.

Ren Xiaopei's face changed, and she quickly opened the materials to take a look, only to feel darkness looming in front of her eyes.

That Tang Fangjing had actually submitted twelve sets of litigation materials, and he was actually initiating a representative lawsuit!

If it were any other lawyer, Ren Xiaopei wouldn't think much of it, but this was Tang Fangjing!

Every move of his seemed to have a purpose, as Ren Xiaopei instantly recalled the video of Lawyer Tang from a while back, where he had managed to trigger a large-scale representative lawsuit in a small county in Jingzhou.

This time couldn't be the same... Ren Xiaopei's vision had only two words left: Overtime.