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It was a true shame that she could not just let herself be seduced by his charms. Nolan Chen by all accounts was a very beautiful man. He would have been a very apt learner if she had decided to teach him how to love her. His enthusiasm would have been intoxicating. But his idea of her, she knew, was an imagined one. She was not as good in any respect as he thought she was. She had her vices and her vengeance yet to rain down. Her truth was cold and calculated, would he ever look at her the same?  "I've always been alone, Nolan, even when I was surrounded by people. Just because I was of a noble house, I could get anything I wanted. You know that I paid people off to get my medical acceptance in America? I didn't want to have anything less than the best. Harvard Medical School promised me that. I really don't deserve anything I have. If I had been poor . . . none of this would have been mine."