She Outshines 98
Chapter 98
Daniel widened his eyes. He stared at Athena for several seconds before falling back and smacking
the ground with his hands,ughing until his stomach hurt. “You’re Lockwood? What a joke! If you’re
Lockwood, I’m Sherlock.
Athena did not argue with Daniel and said, “In thest case serialized online in “The Case
Chronicles of Detective Lockwood Holmes, the murderer is Keith Jenson, the waiter of the soup
house.”
Daniel was stillughing. He did not take Athena seriously at all
Athena continued. “When Keith cleaned up the private room, he put the poison on the chandelier
above the dining table. When the victims are broth, the heat from the broth rose. Coupled with the
heat produced when the chandelier is lit, the poison melted and dripped into the broth
“The victims were poisoned after eating the broth. However, because the poison was not strong
enough, it did not act up in the restaurant. Instead, itacted up on the drive back, causing a car
ident. One person died, one was seriously injured, and Two were slightly injured.
“The murderer Keith cleaned up the private room immediately after the victims left. He cleaned the
remaining poison on the chandelier and didn’t leave any traces behind.
“Because Keith was only in charge of cleaning up the private room and was not in charge of
delivering the food, he did not enter the private room during the victims meal. Thus, he was not
listed as a suspect by the police at first.
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“Keith wanted to avenge his girlfriend. His girlfriend used to be the manager of the restaurant. She
was harassed and framed by the victims many times. In the end, she lost her job and tried to
commit suicide.”
At this moment, Daniel had stoppedughing He looked at Athena with his mouth agape. “Y-Your
deduction is quite
reasonable.”
The writer had been despicable and did not make it clear or hint at the identity of the murderer. It
drove tens of millions of readers crazy. To this day, readers still argued over who the murderer was.
Athena calmly tapped on her phone. “This is the author’s page of the website where I published
“The Case Chronicles of Detective Lockwood Holmes. I’ll make an update now.”
Then, Athena clicked on the “Create Chapter and posted: [Lockwood is writing again. The real
culprit will be announced in three days.]
After sending it, she showed her phone screen to Daniel. “Do you yield?”
to
Daniel got up and leaned over. He opened his eyes wide and went as close as he could to the
screen. “Oh my god, is this really the author’s page? There’s even a new update?”
Athena put away her phone. “What else do you have to say?”
Daniels gaze shifted to Athena’s face. He was no longer arrogant “If you really Lockwood, why don’t
you continue to write online? Do you know how traumatic it is for readers to be left hanging without
knowing who the murderer was!”
Athena said righteously, “I was busy and forgot.”
Daniel replied, “The author said these cases are all real-life experiences but slightly modified. Is that
true?”
“It’s true
Daniel was shocked. “Who are you? Why are you involved in their strange cases?”
Athena snorted. Tm not familiar with you. Why should I tell you
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Daniel was speechless
Athena said, “I’ve already revealed my identity. I’ll ask you onest time. Will you be good from now
on!”
“I-FI ask onest question” Daniel struggled to get up. He asked carefully, “Why didn’t you publish
this novel? Do you know how popr this novel is online? It was the most popr online povel back
then.
“Because the author did not sign a contract with the website for this novel and did not charge any
fees, the readers could only tip the author. To date, it has already umted over 2 million dors
in tips. The website was afraid the fans would scold them so it did not dare to take the money for
themselves. The money was just kept there, waiting for the author toe and collect it.”
The more Daniel spoke, the more agitated and angrier he grew. le felt indignant for himself and the
readers. “Some people asked why the publisher didn’t publish such a popr novel. The publisher
said the author imed to be under 18 years old and refused to let her guardian sign the publication
agreement on her behalf. That’s why they couldn’t publish it. Isn’t that richculous?
“Not only are you mean when you left your readers hanging, you even use such a lousy reason to
deceive the readers…
Athena took off her mask. The publisher is right. I was only a junior high school student back then. I
didn’t want my family to know about it, so I didn’t sign any contracts”
When Daniel saw Athena’s face, he was so shocked that he almost fainted. “A-Athena Donovan? Y-
you are Lockwood? Lockwood is a woman? She’s a high school student?”
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Athena said calmly, “Why can’t I be?”
Daniel stared straight at Athena and did not speak for a long time.
Athena was toozy to talk nonsense with Daniel. She stood up and said, “It’s gettingte. I’m going
to-
Daniel suddenly knelt with a loud thud and said with admiration, “Miss Donovan, I yield. Please let
me be your student.”
Although men seldom got down on their knees, the woman standing in front of Daniel was West
End’s first perfect scorer in SAT, and his only idol Lockwood. It was not embarrassing for him to
kneel before her.
Athena was speechless
Then, she waved her hand and said seriously, “It’s fine if you want me to take you in as my student,
but you must swear you’d never hurt the innocent or harm anyone. Otherwise, I’ll enforce justice
and deal with you myself.”
Daniel solemnly swore, “1, Daniel Coast, hereby swear to Miss Athena Donovan that I’ll never hurt
the innocent or harm anyone.”
Athena nodded. “Get up”
After that, Daniel confessed everything. However, he was not sure who his client was. After all, they
had never met or spoken on the phone. They relied on encrypted emails to contact each other.
Considering that everything Daniel had photographed had fallen into the hands of Zoe, Daniel
thought the chances of Zoe being his client were very high.
In addition, Daniel exined that in the middle ofst month, the client had asked him to pick up a
letter from different locations. There were two letters in total, and he had to send them anonymously
to Isaac and his wife.
When Athena heard this, she was almost certain Zoe was the anonymous sender. Zoe had
discovered that Athena was not the Kennedy family’s biological daughter and led Andrew and Ga to
find out about it.
But Athena had a lot of important things to do and was in no hurry to confirm it. She instructed
Daniel, “Continue to keep
ti BU.
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in touch with Zoe. Don’t let her know you’ve turned on her. Get
Daniel was experienced at this, so he understood what Athena meant. His eyes lit up as he said, “I
know. I’ll be a spy.”
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Athena nodded and yawned. “Tm going back to rest. Rufus will handle the rest. Tomorrow
afternoon, I’ll be investigating an unsolved case from five years ago. We might have to work all
night. You and Rufus areing with me. I’ll send you the specifics tomorrow morning. Have a
good rest and be prepared,
“Wow, there’s a big case so soon?” Daniel was so excited that he felt very energized. “How many
people died in this case? Did the murderer leave no traces again…”
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