My orders from Mrs. Bao are that no hint of any scandal must ever reach his ears. He must never know about the dead girl. Do you understand?
-- Eddie (Prologue)

Importance: Because the Bao family is so wealthy, they have enough wealth to pay hush money to cover even the death of a girl in a drunken wreck. Carlton is never charged with any crime and his father would never have known about the death of the Chinese girl if Carlton had not told him.

There was no way it could be a coincidence. Bao Shaoyen’s injured son looked just like the woman who had caused the great estrangement between Eleanor and her son, Nicholas. / Yes, Carlton Bao was the spitting image of Rachel Chu.
-- Narrator (Prologue)

Importance: Eleanor is shocked to see that Carlton looks so much like Rachel Chu, the woman Eleanor’s son wanted to marry. The similarities are so striking that...