God's Imitator

Lin Sizhi paused briefly and continued, ”So what qualifications are required to obtain this card?

”The applicant’s personal net assets must reach nine figures, but this is merely the minimum threshold, and most applications at that level would be rejected.

”Those who actually receive this card generally hold assets in excess of four hundred million.

”These assets must include a combination of property in major cities, cash, and blue-chip equities. The asset portfolio must be diversified and verifiably documented.

”The applicant must also provide bank statements from the past six months, with daily transaction volumes consistently in the millions.

”Obtaining this card requires passing a review process lasting several months. The background investigation is rigorous in the extreme. Any anomalous funds, or any inconsistency between account activity and stated income, results in immediate rejection.

”A card of this nature: could it possibly belong to the husband?

”If it genuinely were his, it would mean his personal assets once exceeded nine figures. Even if he has since gone bankrupt, would someone like that take on such enormous personal risk to pursue a mere ten million through a crude insurance fraud?”

Tang Qing’s brow furrowed. He appeared to realise something immediately and glanced toward Wang Yongxin.

Wang Yongxin’s expression, however, remained entirely calm. He simply looked straight ahead in silence.Tang Qing gave a slight bow toward the audience, ”I respectfully ask the esteemed members of the jury to verify this testimony.”

[The ’Lawyer’s Testimony on the Casino Card’ contains false information.]

[The minimum asset threshold to apply for the Lion King Card is eighty million. All other information in the testimony is accurate.]

Tang Qing’s expression grew noticeably more grave.

Because the false information identified by this verification was entirely inconsequential: the threshold was eighty million rather than a hundred million, but that difference only further confirmed the substance of what Lin Sizhi had said.

Lin Sizhi continued, ”Since this card has been confirmed as a piece of evidence, it must belong either to the husband or the wife.

”Based on what we currently know, it cannot belong to the husband.”

Bai Zhilan frowned and rose to speak, ”Are you suggesting it belongs to the wife?

”But the wife’s asset documentation has already been verified. Her assets amount to approximately twenty million. It would be equally impossible for the wife to have obtained such a card.”

Lin Sizhi nodded, ”Yes. Looking solely at the asset figures, the wife could not have obtained this card either.

”However, this card has been verified as genuine. It exists, and it was retrieved from the Evidence Room as evidence confirmed to be connected to this case.

”Once all other possibilities have been eliminated, whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the truth.

”The true owner of this card is a mysterious wealthy individual. For some particular reason, this card came into the wife’s possession.”

The moment these words were spoken, many jury members showed expressions of genuine shock.

The theory did sound somewhat improbable, starkly at odds with everything that had been argued up to this point.

And yet, Lin Sizhi’s testimony about the card had been verified.

Only the entry threshold was wrong: not a hundred million but eighty million. Everything else was accurate.

It was the highest-tier Lion King Card. In that case, it could only belong to someone of extraordinary wealth.

Lin Sizhi continued, ”Could this wealthy individual be Mr Wang?

”Mr Wang owns a yacht, which means his assets are certainly sufficient to meet this threshold. But if this card truly belonged to him, he would not have submitted it as evidence.

”So the card belongs to another wealthy individual who does not appear anywhere in the case materials: a regular patron of this particular casino, the actual owner of the Lion King Card.

”For some reason, this person gave the card to the wife.”

Bai Zhilan’s brow furrowed and she interrupted Lin Sizhi, ”Wait. I object to this.

”If this card is truly the highest-tier Lion King Card, how could it simply be handed over to someone else? This card potentially represents access to hundreds of millions in gambling credit.

”And on what basis do you claim it was given to the wife?”

Lin Sizhi remained unfazed, ”There’s no need to rush. I will explain everything in order.

”As the highest-tier casino card in existence, the Lion King Card indeed cannot be transferred or duplicated. There are no supplementary cards. However, under certain specific circumstances, it can end up in someone else’s hands.

”I ask the esteemed members of the jury to allow me a moment to build up to the explanation, as it requires connecting several other pieces of information.

”Among the evidence verified earlier, there is actually another obvious inconsistency: the wife’s bank statements and asset verification documents demonstrate that her income was indeed very high, reaching a pre-tax seven-figure annual level.

”Yet these materials never once mention what the wife’s actual profession was.

”Isn’t that rather unusual?

”An income at this level would typically belong to a senior executive at a major company, a successful business owner, or a high-value specialist professional.

”If she genuinely held one of these profiles, it should have appeared in the documentation as supporting evidence of her creditworthiness.

”But nothing of the sort appears anywhere.

”This tells us that the wife’s large bank transactions may not have come from a conventional profession at all. They came from a ’grey industry.’

”In casinos, there is a particular occupation known as a ’junket agent.’

”Junket agents generate income primarily by introducing gamblers, exchanging chips, and arranging short-term credit, functioning essentially as intermediaries for the casino.

”And female junket agents enjoy certain additional advantages.

”They can build a social media presence as affluent influencers, posting glamorous photographs to attract followers, and supplementing their income through paid companionship and similar services.

”This also explains why a woman of the wife’s income level would choose to marry someone like the husband, who had no stable employment. Clearly the wife’s wealth came from grey industry activities, placing her and the husband in fundamentally the same social category. It is hardly surprising that two people like this would end up together.

”If the wife’s true profession was that of a junket agent, everything else falls into place.

”Her bank activity comes from grey income as a junket agent.

”She and the husband met at the casino.

”And this Lion King Card is effectively a ’souvenir’ she was fortunate enough to hold onto during her time accompanying a mysterious wealthy patron.

”As a junket agent and social media influencer, the wife would need to periodically display wealth online to maintain her ’socialite’ persona, which would attract more gamblers and generate more income for her.

”The photographs she posted on social media confirm this.

”All of those photographs show obvious staging. The composition is more deliberate and considered than what you’d expect from an ordinary ’wealthy heiress who enjoys travelling.’ She was constructing an image through these photographs.

”And the Lion King Card would be an ideal prop. If she ever had access to one, she would certainly photograph it obsessively.

”But a single photograph would not have been enough.

”She would need photographs taken on multiple occasions in different settings to prove she genuinely possessed the card, rather than simply borrowing someone else’s to take a quick photo.

”Having access to an actual Lion King Card would be ideal.

”A Lion King Card cannot be forged. The deception would be exposed too easily.

”But as a junket agent, and particularly as a young and attractive one, there was another way.

”After accompanying a wealthy Lion King Card holder during a particularly lucrative session at the casino, the wife would have received a generous reward. At that moment, while the patron was in excellent spirits, she would have raised a perfectly timed request: could she keep a deactivated Lion King Card as a memento?

”All the patron needed to do was tell the casino that his existing card had been lost and request a replacement.

”The casino would issue a new Lion King Card.

”And the original card, now deactivated and useless for any practical purpose, could exist as a genuine, verifiable keepsake.

”That is how the wife came to have this card.

”When Mr Wang submitted this evidence, he noted that the card was found in the couple’s cabin on the ship, meaning they carried it with them at all times.

”If it were a genuine, active Lion King Card of such extraordinary value, why would it be carried around? There is no casino on this ship.

”The answer is clear: because this card was a working tool for the wife, a prop card she brought out at regular intervals to photograph during outings. Of course she would carry it with her.”