Valerie wrinkled her cute, upturned nose and huffed, "You call that a little lesson? You stripped me down and even hit me. Tell me, what woman could tolerate that kind of humiliation?"

Andrew hurried to give a guilty smile and said, "Alright, alright, I'm sorry. I was in the wrong back then."

Valerie smiled, her face full of sweetness. "No, you did the right thing at the time. If you hadn't been so rough with me and done something so outrageous, I wouldn't have spent days and nights afterward thinking about killing you! But the more I thought about it, the more my attempts failed.

"After all that back and forth, I ended up falling for you. It's true what they said about love coming unexpectedly and running deep. I can't remember exactly when I started liking you. At first, I just wanted revenge on Luna, to ruin your relationship and watch her suffer."

She continued, "But gradually, I played with fire and got burned myself. That time at the foot of the Advanced Medical Institute, I