[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world":3,"chapter-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-192":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Super Detective in the Fictional World",{"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},1482243,1930,"Chapter 192 - Farewell, Message and Gift","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-192",192,"\u003Cp>Amused, Luke inserted another memory card into the camera and showed Elsa one of the pictures. “Does this look like a picture that was taken secretly?”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsa was surprised to see the picture. “Did you hire a professional photographer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t suspicious anymore, because Elena was naked in the picture, but her intimate parts weren’t exposed. It was clearly a carefully staged shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke chuckled. “This is her own work. All I needed to do was press the button. She’s very good with photos. As for me, check this one out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put the first memory card back into the camera and showed Elsa a picture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsa was rendered speechless when she saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke shook his head with a smile. “No, you don’t understand my marvelous photo-taking skills. That’s why you think that I took them secretly. But look at them...” He showed her a few more pictures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsa laughed out loud. “Haha... you... haha. Fine. I’ll never ever let you take a photo of me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke shrugged. “You know that everybody has flaws. It seems that mine is a lack of talent in photography.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsa couldn’t agree more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the pictures that Luke showed her, the girl either looked like a ghost in a white cloak or had her eyes closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she grimaced, it distorted her features; Elsa wouldn’t have recognized her if it wasn’t for her clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with that, the pictures of the girl when she was drowsy or blurry were Luke’s best work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke and Elsa fell into an easy camaraderie once more after making fun of each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Luke’s plane left Paris, Elena woke up in her apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She called out to Luke subconsciously, and suddenly remembered that he had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heater in the apartment was on, making her feel a little hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting on the bed with her legs crossed, Elena was at a loss. “In any case, he’s gone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long daze, she finally got up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naked, Elena made coffee in the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke had bought dozens of the best coffee bean varieties with the illegal money in his personal space as he traveled around Paris; he claimed that he liked coffee, and especially the coffee which Elena made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, a hundred bags or so of coffee beans worth two thousand euros were piled up in Luke’s apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elena felt that they might last her for the next two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could drink the coffee to remind her of Luke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the coffee was done, Elena returned to her room to take another look at the two contrasting sketches she had done of Luke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Placing the sketches on her easel, she lowered her head to pour the coffee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, she had put the coffee pot on the table without looking at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when she lowered her head now, she noticed a box, a note and a key on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Luke left them there?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key was for Luke’s apartment, which she had given to him earlier on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the box and the note were unfamiliar. After reading the note, Elena knew that it was definitely Luke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The note said: For the warmest sunshine in cold Paris!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was something Luke had said to her before. He said that it wasn’t freezing for him on the cold streets of Paris because she warmed him up like sunshine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elena thought that Luke was referring to her helping him find a place to stay, although Luke didn’t really seem to need it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she cherished Luke’s words to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Women always had a remarkable memory for the compliments that men gave them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at the note for a long time before she finally put it down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, she slowly opened the box that was the size of her palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elena was immediately shocked by the resplendent necklace that lay inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She murmured, “Is this glass or crystal?” A folded piece of paper then fell out of the box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She unfolded it in confusion, only to discover that it was a legitimate invoice with the amount €148,000 listed on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elena was stunned for a long while. “Diamond?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She searched the box and found a folded certificate in it that proved the authenticity and value of the diamond necklace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was she dreaming?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elena knew that she was pretty, but only in an average way. Born into an ordinary family, she wasn’t as eye-catching as girls from the upper-class families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had approached Luke only because she had been attracted to the conflicting vibe that he gave off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could a man who was willing to live in an illegally-constructed apartment be rich?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Elena knew that Luke wouldn’t fake a certificate and an invoice to make fun of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was the point of fooling her now, when he was returning to Los Angeles? Chances were that they would never meet again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elena was even more confused at this thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had he left such an expensive gift for her because he really liked her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting at the table naked, Elena held the necklace in one hand and the certificate in the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long time later, she took a deep breath. “It’s decided, then. I’ll try to graduate in two years, then go to Los Angeles. It’ll be easier to make money there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The necklace would probably be enough for her to cover the tuition fees for an Ivy League school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke was already asleep on the plane, without the faintest idea that his generosity before his departure had changed a girl’s future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had bought the expensive necklace in a jewelry store in Chinatown after his return for Marseilles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He bought the necklace as a farewell present for Elena, not wholly because she was beautiful, but because of what he said in the note, although Elena didn’t quite understand\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what he meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this trip to Paris, Luke had earned more than ten thousand experience and credit points from a few major purges. It was a major harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had also activated his inventory and expanded it to one cubic meter, which was an important achievement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the meantime, however, his mental state had deteriorated after his killing spree.\u003C\u002Fp>",1033,"2026-06-06T03:35:48.055Z",1,"novelbin.me","0685bce6e92912547b76516ff2313fb34d8b16e3451894e2c3d67dbb8c6f66ad","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-84","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-83",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]