Chapter 753: Lured by Capital

The cause and effect we’re talking about aren’t the same thing… Yu Dazhang silently replied in his mind.

Whenever the word “retribution” is mentioned, it gets tied to feudal superstition.

Yu Dazhang believed in the law of cause and effect, not the theory of karma.

Though they look similar, their essences are vastly different.

Clearly, Gu Dingwen was referring to the Buddhist framework—Buddhists not only believe in karmic retribution but also in reincarnation, all of which is unscientific.

“Who gave you the video footage?” Yu Dazhang asked.

This was the key point of the entire matter.

Since Gu Dingwen wasn’t the killer, someone else must have acted on his behalf, and that person who provided the video footage was the prime suspect.

“My boss gave it to me.”

Gu Dingwen replied:

“The person who funded me—I call him my boss.”

It’s disjointed… Yu Dazhang thought, exasperated.

Although this line of questioning quickly extracts a key detail, it has a clear flaw: it fails to capture the full sequence of events.

And the more you ask, the more questions arise.

For instance, why would this boss help Gu Dingwen seek revenge?

How did they originally meet?

If you keep asking like this, it’ll only get messier.

So, better to start from the beginning.

“Start from when you lost your job in China.”

Yu Dazhang brought the topic back:

“Take your time—you can speak slowly, be as detailed as possible. Anything related to this case, say it.”

Xia Bin needed at least three and a half hours to travel from Province S to Songhai, so he had plenty of time.

From the earlier conversation, Yu Dazhang could clearly sense that Gu Dingwen spoke with clarity and strong logic.

Someone like that usually narrates smoothly, without jumping around or omitting key details.

But Gu Dingwen’s next sentence left Yu Dazhang stunned.

“I left the hospital ten years ago—what does that have to do with this case?”

From his tone, it seemed he thought the timeline was too far back.

Indeed, this current case didn’t require going back ten years, but Yu Dazhang felt that without the false accusation back then, none of what followed would have happened.

“If you hadn’t lost your job, you wouldn’t have gone abroad to work.”

Yu Dazhang reminded him:

“If you’d stayed in China, none of this would’ve happened.”

You could also start from when Gu Dingwen went abroad—all the changes began with his departure.

“I found the job abroad myself,” Gu Dingwen said, looking at him in confusion:

“Besides, it was a legitimate job, with no connection to what I did later.”

Did I guess wrong? Yu Dazhang had assumed he was deliberately sent abroad.

All this time, it turned out Gu Dingwen hadn’t been invited by the overseas medical service provider—he’d applied on his own.

The records were wrong.

Yu Dazhang remembered clearly: according to the files, Gu Dingwen had been invited abroad for work.

This small error alone could throw off the entire line of reasoning.

If he’d known Gu Dingwen applied himself, Yu Dazhang wouldn’t have interpreted later events through a conspiracy lens.

Still, he could understand this kind of thing.

After all, it was eight years ago—some inaccuracies were inevitable.