[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi":3,"chapter-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-753":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 2014: I Am the King of Criminal Investigation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2316609,4529,"Chapter 753: Lured by Capital","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-753",753,"\u003Cp>The cause and effect we’re talking about aren’t the same thing… Yu Dazhang silently replied in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever the word “retribution” is mentioned, it gets tied to feudal superstition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang believed in the law of cause and effect, not the theory of karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they look similar, their essences are vastly different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who gave you the video footage?” Yu Dazhang asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the key point of the entire matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My boss gave it to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Dingwen replied:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The person who funded me—I call him my boss.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s disjointed… Yu Dazhang thought, exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this line of questioning quickly extracts a key detail, it has a clear flaw: it fails to capture the full sequence of events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the more you ask, the more questions arise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, why would this boss help Gu Dingwen seek revenge?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did they originally meet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you keep asking like this, it’ll only get messier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, better to start from the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Start from when you lost your job in China.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang brought the topic back:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take your time—you can speak slowly, be as detailed as possible. Anything related to this case, say it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Bin needed at least three and a half hours to travel from Province S to Songhai, so he had plenty of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the earlier conversation, Yu Dazhang could clearly sense that Gu Dingwen spoke with clarity and strong logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone like that usually narrates smoothly, without jumping around or omitting key details.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gu Dingwen’s next sentence left Yu Dazhang stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I left the hospital ten years ago—what does that have to do with this case?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his tone, it seemed he thought the timeline was too far back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you hadn’t lost your job, you wouldn’t have gone abroad to work.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang reminded him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you’d stayed in China, none of this would’ve happened.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You could also start from when Gu Dingwen went abroad—all the changes began with his departure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I found the job abroad myself,” Gu Dingwen said, looking at him in confusion:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, it was a legitimate job, with no connection to what I did later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did I guess wrong? Yu Dazhang had assumed he was deliberately sent abroad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All this time, it turned out Gu Dingwen hadn’t been invited by the overseas medical service provider—he’d applied on his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The records were wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang remembered clearly: according to the files, Gu Dingwen had been invited abroad for work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This small error alone could throw off the entire line of reasoning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he’d known Gu Dingwen applied himself, Yu Dazhang wouldn’t have interpreted later events through a conspiracy lens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he could understand this kind of thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was eight years ago—some inaccuracies were inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>",537,"2026-06-20T14:22:48.157Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","03092d4ad70a76217cae2e06faa3f71aa59dbc8aae3c0d0ec8734938998ab437","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-754","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-752",763,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-cover.jpg"]