“Enough!” This time, John couldn't sit still any longer. He slammed his hand on the coffee table and stood up, shouting at Zuo Yan, "I don't need to sit here and listen to this!"

"No… you have to listen."

To John's shock, it was Doster who replied.

"Don't look at me like that, John." Doster held his glass, speaking in a half-drunken tone. "Now that things have come to this… I might as well be frank…" He pointed at Zuo Yan. "Right now, that kid is in charge here. He can go wherever he wants, do whatever he wants, and arrest whoever he wants."

"What?" John glared at Doster, his eyes seemingly saying, "I've given you so many benefits all this time, and now you're telling me this when I need you?"

"What's so surprising?" Feng Bujue said leisurely from the side, "He's blatantly holding important evidence related to the case without wearing gloves, chatting with you here… isn't that enough to explain the problem?"

He was right. Zuo Yan had done something that even Doster couldn't do, something that was obviously against the rules, which meant that… at this crime scene, there was nothing that Zuo Yan couldn't do.

In fact, Feng Bujue knew after the call between the Minister of Internal Affairs and Doster that… from this moment on, the case was entirely Zuo Yan's responsibility. It wouldn't matter if Doster left work and went home immediately. The only reason this police chief was still at the scene was because… the superiors wanted him to stay and put on a show, since there were still a lot of ordinary people watching outside.

"You… you…" John scanned the other four people in the room, each with different expressions, as if wanting to say something, but in the end, he didn't.

Helpless, he suppressed his anger again and sat down.

"Mr. Zuo Yan." After sitting down again and adjusting his breathing, John spoke again, "I hope you have enough ability… and courage, to be responsible for what you are about to say."

"You don't need to worry about that, Herbert… oh, no…" Zuo Yan replied, "I think I should just call you John. Now that we've laid everything out, whether you should be called 'Herbert' at all is something to be discussed."

Clearly, Zuo Yan wasn't falling for John's "demonstration" either. Even if he didn't have the ability and courage to feed someone shit like Feng Bujue did, he wouldn't be intimidated by this level of threat.

"Hmm… I keep getting interrupted, it's making me a little confused." After a few seconds, Zuo Yan said again, "Perfect, let's just rewind the topic a bit…"

He said these two sentences to buy time, because it wasn't him who was interrupted, but Weiduk, and Zuo Yan needed to give the Cat Detective some time to reorganize the narrative.

"Let's start with Miller…" Then, Zuo Yan continued unhurriedly, "Pat Miller is a greedy person. This greed has gradually turned him from a young man with a bright future into a criminal with a history of misdeeds."

"Years ago, when Miller was still working at 'John Herbert Investment Co., Ltd.', he was highly valued by John for his outstanding work ability and performance, and became John's right-hand man at a young age."

"In those two years, he and John did a lot of things that skirted the edge of the law, and even crossed the line… It was these shady dealings that made John a young and promising entrepreneur in the eyes of everyone."

"Of course, both of them were shrewd, and neither would leave a handle for the other to grab. The two made good use of each other and took what they needed."

"But good times don't last long, and Miller's greed eventually led him to break free of John's control…"

"In the second year of becoming John's assistant, Miller secretly registered a shell company in his own name. He embezzled funds from John's company into his own company account to do some short-term, high-risk investment projects in order to seek personal gain."

"At first, he succeeded a few times. While making money, he could also replenish the funds without anyone knowing. So… he became more and more daring."

"As the saying goes, if you walk by the river often, you're bound to get your shoes wet… Finally, Miller failed miserably once and lost a lot of money. Although he used John's trust in him to cover up his mistakes, this was only a temporary measure… Before long, John's company experienced a break in the capital chain."

"Of course, John didn't realize that the root of the problem was Miller at this time. I estimate that he didn't even think of the 'internal thief' theory, so… he once again made Miller his 'partner in crime' and carried out the conspiracy to seize old Herbert's family property."

"The things that happened after that… I've already talked about before."

"By the time the truth came out, it was after the final judgment of the inheritance dispute case. At that time… John already had the spare capacity to investigate some things. In the end… the truth couldn't be covered up, Miller's embezzlement was exposed, and he was kicked out by John as a matter of course."

"Although Miller knew a lot about John's crimes, as I just said… neither of them were the kind of people who would leave 'evidence'. Moreover… Miller himself had been John's accomplice in many incidents. Therefore, even if Miller wanted to extort John, he couldn't find a way."

"In the years that followed… Miller obviously didn't live very well, and his life became more and more dilapidated. It's not that he didn't have the ability to get rich, it's just… he no longer had the desire to get rich through 'righteous means'."

"To use an analogy, he was like a gambler who had lost his entire fortune. It's almost impossible for this kind of person to get rich by working again; because… once a person is used to acquiring or losing huge amounts of property through gambling, their concept of money becomes distorted. At this time, the small amount of money earned through labor… can no longer give him any sense of "reality"."

"Similarly… it is psychologically difficult for someone who has easily earned a large amount of money through illegal means to earn the same amount of money through legal means."

"That's how people are… It's okay if they haven't gone down the wrong path, but once they do, after experiencing the wealth and vanity that comes easily and absurdly, it's difficult to get them back on the right path…"

"In a few years, Miller spent all his savings and went further and further down the path of crime… Then, he was inevitably caught."

"With his first criminal record, he had nine less chances to find a good job. What's more, even a job that others considered decent could not satisfy his greed…"

"So, he had a second, a third… an nth criminal record; At first, they were all financial fraud cases, but later they became general, not very clever scams, and then even petty theft and other violent crimes were added…"