I scoffed and used my foot to make Valerian look at me. "Someone like you shouldn't be outsmarted so easily. Even if Papa mentioned my name to lure you while I threatened you the last time we saw each other, you wouldn't fall for that so easily," I said while watching his handsome face, still having this smile as if he knew everything. "Shouldn't you put your guard up?"

Valerian was a quick-witted man. I was the only one who could outsmart him. I had done it in my previous life and could do it again.

But it would deem impossible that one simple name would be enough to drop...