The courtroom was silent, and even the comment section was momentarily empty.
Everyone was listening intently to the solemn and powerful voice coming from the judge's bench: "...Now, for Bai Shengyu, the following verdict is pronounced. According to... sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment... the judgment is concluded!"
The sound of the gavel fell, and the dust settled.
Only then did the comment section become active again.
[Such a relief!]
[I thought it would be the death penalty directly. Less than thirty years isn't much. He's getting off easy.]
[Bai Shengyu is just over thirty now. He'll be almost sixty when he gets out, an old man. If you ask me, a death penalty would be better—one clean cut, over and done with.]
