Joan Shaw, however, did the opposite. She smiled. "That's just because your President Xavier is so high and mighty. Really, I'm just the most ordinary person. Every girl next door is like me. We love browsing online shops and will haggle with a vendor over a single dollar until we're red in the face. Whether we eat at a fancy restaurant or a small diner, we always get the leftovers to go."
"Really? All girls next door are like that?" Caleb Adler was a bit skeptical.
"Of course they are." Joan Shaw touched her forehead. 'Rich people... they've never known hardship, so they think a poor person like me is special.'
'If anyone's to blame, it's those women who chased after Miles Xavier before. They were too dramatic, too fake. I'm just being myself, showing who I really am.'
