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“This is quite a mess, but if you peel the threads away one by one, it becomes clear that the crux of it all lies with Wu Kai.” He Lingchuan then added slowly, “And it’s not just us who see this, but even Cen Boqing himself.”
Before the eyeball spider died, it had heard Cen Boqing’s words with perfect clarity.
Though He Lingchuan already knew that Cen Boqing was the man behind everything, the difficulty in handling this case was that he still had no direct evidence linking the crimes to Cen Boqing himself.
Fu Songhua’s testimony, the guards’ confessions, even Mai Xuewen’s actions, Cen Boqing could deny every last bit of it.
In other words, what they lacked was that one crucial piece of evidence.
Only when He Lingchuan found ironclad proof that Cen Boqing could not wriggle out of denying would he truly have won.
And that was why his eyes had settled on Wu Kai.
That old man seemed to have little presence of his own, always just following behind Cen Boqing and attending to him completely, but the guards had already identified him as Cen Boqing’s trusted confidant, the man who handled Cen Boqing’s more important business.
Most importantly, the upper circles of power in all of Baishajue knew this too.
If they could find headway through Wu Kai, then he would become...
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