Chapter 320

A month later, the police referred Scarlett’s case to the prosecutor’s office. With that, the prosecutor’s office was put in charge of examining and prosecuting the suspect.

Layla put in a great deal of effort and used many connections. Finally, a businessman whose surname was Dixon came forward and acted as an intermediary for her. He helped Layla contact a lawyer with the surname Dunn, and this lawyer had just come back from overseas a year ago.

Although David Dunn was not as well-known as the other lawyers Layla had contacted, nor did he have a perfect record of winning cases since returning to the country, he still managed to secure the best outcome for his clients in the cases he had taken up.

The evidence for Scarlett’s case had already formed a closed loop, so it was hard for David to clear Christopher’s name without new key evidence.

The trial commenced at the end of the year.

David asked the court to take into account that this was Christopher’s first offense and the fact that he took remedial measures, called an ambulance, and called the police on his own initiative after the murder. In addition, there was no trace of violence at the scene. Except for the wound that killed Scarlett, there were no other signs of trauma on her body. Therefore, David claimed that Scarlett had died due to Christopher’s negligence and that he should be given a lighter

sentence.

However, the prosecutor argued that Christopher did not call the emergency services immediately, so there was suspicion that he intentionally caused the death of the victim. It was voluntary manslaughter, so Christopher should be sentenced according to the said crime. Coupled with the fact that Christopher had a tendency to violence in the past, the prosecutor proposed that he should be severely sentenced.

The prosecutor and defense debated back and forth several times. Finally, the court found Christopher guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced him to four years.

By the time the case ended, it was already the end of the spring season of the following year.

After Yuliana and Christopher divorced, she settled all her affairs in Juxshire and went to Jeahron with Rowan.

On the day of the announcement of the trial verdict, Yuliana and Rowan were basking in the sun in their yard.

Rowan had just turned one. Perhaps it was due to his premature birth, compared to other one-year-old children, Rowan’s ability to speak developed much later.

Not only that, he learned to walk much slower than babies of the same age.

Other children could walk and utter some words when they were one year old.

He could only climb on the

even longer for Rowan to start to speak. Many babies could say some simple and common words in about ten months, while Rowan could only babble, and he could only do so when he was in

use his fingers or make gestures

to understand him. Whenever this happened, Rowan would either act cute to get his way

knew he was pretending, she couldn’t help but give in every time. This was the main reason why Rowan didn’t learn

All Souls’ Day, Yuliana

was born and raised in Yrinas. Even Damian was also born

also hired people to clean and maintain the house where Yuliana’s grandparents used to live all year round. When they went back to pay respects to the deceased, they would stay

back to pay her respects to her grandparents every All Souls’ Day. Last year, it was not convenient for her to return because she had just given birth to Rowan. This year, although Yuliana was in Jeahron, which was considerably further,

it was always Damian who brought them here. They usually went to her grandparents’ house first. Then, they would prepare the things they wanted to bring along to the graves

visit

around the house where

into an acquaintance as soon as

“Ms. Livingstone.”

hand. Obviously, he had just gotten off the plane too. Yuliana

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come to Yrinas?”

to take care of something.

here to visit my grandparents’ graves,” answered Yuliana.

Yuliana discreetly. She only carried a small bag with no other luggage in her hand. Evidently, she didn’t intend to stay in Yrinas for a long time. “Where are you headed? I’ve contacted

relatives here. I contacted them before I came over. My cousin will come to pick me up at

years than her. He

heard that Yuliana would be back on All Souls’ Day, he took the initiative to offer to pick

insist. He had something to do in Yrinas this time, and it would

they exited the airport

contacted arrived first.

getting in the car, Wesley asked, “When are you

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