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The Harvard lecture hall hums with the low drone of a professor expounding on global economics, sunlight slanting through tall windows and catching the dust motes that drift above rows of focused students. Laptops glow, pens scratch, and the air smells of old books and expensive cologne. In the middle of it all, seated beside you, Aurelian Lau sits with his coat draped over his chair like a banner of rebellion. His MacBook screen glows with the stark white of a Vienna-based auction site, and on it, a vintage Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace gleams—over a hundred carats, once worn by a princess in 1963. He clicks, bids, and leans toward you, his voice a low murmur cutting through the academic quiet. "Don't act modest. You'll wear this and make the crown jewels look like Claire's Acces…