Not a movie, it's reality! He added poison to his coworker's water for months.

The incident that occurred in California resurfaced with footage from a hidden camera recorded at a workplace. Rong Yuan, who works as a materials engineer in the city of Berkeley, began experiencing unexplained health problems after starting work in 2017. Yuan, repeatedly taken to the hospital with complaints of severe nausea, vomiting, hair loss, and organ damage, spent months trying to find the cause of his illness.

He Searched the Cause of His Illness for Months

Yuan, believing his health problems could be cancer, began seeking treatment. As his condition worsened, he contacted his coworker David Xu. Xu reportedly told him that there might be mold in the building they worked in and advised Yuan not to rush and to work from home.

However, the truth behind the young woman's health problems emerged through a hidden camera placed in a water bottle.

Hidden Camera Revealed a Terrifying Truth

The incident took on a new dimension when, at the beginning of 2019, Yuan's mother drank from the water bottle on her daughter's desk. The mother, noticing the water had a strange and sour taste, suspected that a substance might have been mixed into it.

Following this, Yuan purchased a small hidden camera online and placed it on his desk. In footage recorded on February 11 and March 4, 2019, the company's senior engineer David Xu was seen pouring a white substance from a tube into Yuan's water bottle.

Analysis of the water samples handed over to the police revealed the highly toxic heavy metal cadmium. This raised serious doubts about the health problems Yuan had been experiencing for months.

Serious Charges Dropped, He Stayed in Prison for Only One Day

After the incident, David Xu was charged with attempted murder by design and two separate counts of serious poisoning. However, the prosecution agreement led to the removal of the most severe charges.

Xu chose to accept the conviction without contest, a plea known as no contest, under a single poisoning charge. Although the trial judge found the agreement extremely generous, Xu's supervised release period was set at two years.

The engineer was released after spending only one day in prison. This outcome drew Yuan's ire, who felt that justice had not been served following the incident.

When He Wanted to Delete His Criminal Record, He Shared the Footage

Having completed his supervised release, Xu petitioned the court in Alameda County to reduce his serious criminal conviction. This move revived Yuan's long-standing fight for justice.

Yuan, who said he suffers permanent health problems from the poisoning and cannot work full time, opposed Xu's attempt to erase his conviction record. The young woman shared the hidden camera footage with the press to draw public attention.

In recounting his experience, Yuan said the justice system could not protect him and that sharing the footage was a last resort. The incident reignited debates over whether the punishment for a person facing serious poisoning charges is sufficient and the victims' quest for justice.